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
Daily Herald (UK newspaper) commissioned from market researcher Mark Abrams, whose conclusions suggested reasons why the "Herald" was in decline, it was reborn as "The Sun" in 1964 under editor Sydney Jacobson. Roy Greenslade, though, has suggested that the "Daily Herald" was, in fact, losing readers to its own stable mate, the "Daily Mirror", rather than because of social changes. By 1969 the original "Sun" had fewer readers than the "Herald" at the end of its existence. The newspaper was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited (the holding group for all of his interests at the time), and its format and (eventually) its politics