The Daily Independent (Lagos newspaper) The Daily Independent (Lagos newspaper) The Independent is a newspaper published in Nigeria. It is based in Lagos. Independent Newspapers Limited was incorporated on 17 July 2001 and started operations in October 2001. The company publishes the flagship "Independent" newspaper, and the "Saturday Independent" and "Sunday Independent". The "Independent" is a successor to the "Diet" newspaper established in 1997 by James Ibori, a close friend of the military ruler General Sani Abacha. By 1999 most of the "Diet" staff had left since they had not been paid for some months. Ibori, who had been elected governor of Delta State in
The Daily Reveille titles such as Best Newspaper on both state and regional levels. Its community-focused efforts earned the paper a 2003 Associated Collegiate Press National Pacemaker Award, the highest award granted to student publications. The "Daily Reveille" won the "Editor & Publisher" award, or EPPY, in 2008 for best college newspaper website. "Princeton Review" named the "Daily Reveille" as the tenth-best college newspaper in the nation in its 2010 edition of the "Best 361 Colleges." The "Daily Reveille" is printed by Baton Rouge Press in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was formally printed by Signature Offset in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The paper is delivered