Nigerian Tribune resigned, and a few days later the editor, Rauf Abiodun, also resigned as part of a series of staff changes. Mrs. HID Awolowo, who is chairman of the Nigerian Tribune's publisher African Newspapers of Nigeria Ltd, appointed Sam Adesua as the new managing director/editor-in-chief. Edward Dickson was appointed editor of the daily paper. The changes were said to be part of a move to modernize the paper and expand beyond narrow Yoruba partisan politics in the face of competition from "The Westerner", "The Nation" and "Nigerian Compass". In January 2011 the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) reacted angrily to an
Nigerian Heresy Nigerian Heresy Nigerian Heresy is a term introduced by the U.S. Episcopal equal rights activist Maury Johnston in his article, "Facing the Spectre of Schism" (2006), to describe the theology articulated by many Anglican bishops outside of North America, and especially in Africa, who do not hold to a widespread Anglican understanding of the basis for Protestant faith as being scripture, tradition, and reason. Those claimed to be guilty of the Nigerian Heresy espouse "sola scriptura", or scripture alone, as the basis of Christian faith. Another element in identifying Nigerian Heresy is the innovative practice of overlapping dioceses and annexing