P.M. News

P.M. News is a daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria, by the Independent Communications Network Limited (ICNL).

[1][2] The News was founded in 1993 by Bayo Onanuga, Babafemi Ojudu and other former staff from the African Concord who had resigned in protest over a request by M. K. O. Abiola, the publisher, to apologise to President Ibrahim Babangida over a critical story about the military regime.

[1] For example, in August 1996 Amnesty International reported that Editor-in-chief Bayo Onanuga was thought to be held by the State Security Service at their Lagos headquarters, and may have been ill-treated in custody.

Babafemi Ojudu had been released on 13 August 1996 and had required hospital treatment as a result of ill-treatment.

He returned home to resume work at ICNL in 1998, after the sudden death of Abacha and the start of the transition to democracy.