īy April 2011 the EFCC had Ibori on its 'most wanted' list, saying 'The suspect is wanted in connection with a N9.2 billion case of Criminal Conspiracy,Theft and Misappriopriation of Public funds belonging to Delta State of Nigeria'. He lost an appeal against a ruling that he should be extradited to Britain. Ibori was arrested in May 2010 in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The Daily Independent published an editorial that indignantly defended Ibori.

In March 2010 the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) asked that Ibori attend the Abuja headquarters of the Commission on 17 April 2010 'for interview'. In January 2010 James Akpadem, the new managing editor, said that Ibori was actively involved in efforts to restructure the paper, which was struggling with debt and unpaid salaries. The former managing editor, Ted Iwere, left the paper because of these problems. Owner James Ibori intervened, promising to pay the arrears and re-hire the workers, and the strike was called off. Reasons given were that the paper's management had refused to pay four months’ salary arrears and had sacked 21 workers for no just reason. In October 2009 the Nigerian Union of Journalists forced a closure of the newspaper. In June 2006 Rotimi Durojaiye, an Independent reporter, was arrested and charged with sedition after writing a report questioning the cost and airworthiness of Olusegun Obasanjo's new presidential jet. In 2001 the Daily Independent, largely owned by the same publisher, took the place of Diet. Ibori, who had been elected governor of Delta State in April 1999, relaunched the paper in a more colorful and attractive format, but without success. The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper brings you the latest headlines, opinions, political news, business reports and international news. By 1999 most of the Diet staff had left since they had not been paid for some months. 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. The company publishes the flagship Independent newspaper and two editions on weekends: the Saturday Independent and Sunday Independent. Independent Newspapers Limited was incorporated on 17 July 2001 and started operations in October 2001. The Independent Nigeria is a daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria. One of the victims, who was pregnant at the time, has since been delivered of a baby in captivity and our government is yet unable to rescue them, leaving their families and relatives to suffer untold emotional pains, just like the many before them.Newspaper in Nigeria Independent Newspapers The country is still grappling with the recent attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train, with the gunmen taking several passengers captive, after killing many, including a medical doctor, before officers of the Nigerian Army could save the situation. Last Saturday’s barbaric crime is yet another in the now very long string of a failure of intelligence by the nation’s military and security forces, the same way as Boko Haram and kidnappers have thrived across the country, following which Nigerians are constantly living in fear and afraid to move from one place to another. It is even much more shameful to the country’s national security forces that the Monday weekly sit-at-home has been enforced and continues to be enforced in that geo-political zone for all of 10 months since it was announced on July 30, 2021, by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to protest the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, its leader, by the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja, on treason charges. It is particularly sickening that the menace of unknown gunmen has continued in that particular area seemingly unhindered, despite the avalanche of military and security presence. There have been several barefaced attacks on military and police formations, especially in Imo State, with the government immediately issuing its usual statements that have not deterred the perpetrators, who Nigerians are being made to believe are invincible. READ ALSO: Dearth Of Medical Doctors In Nigeria

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