ADVENT OF NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS IV: EXPANSION OF NEWSPAPERS IN THE EAST AND NORTH
Historical records show that indigenous newspapers started from Western Nigeria, particularly Badagry, the headquarters of Iwe Irohin. Gradually, the nationalist consciousness spread to the East and North with the publication of many newspapers by easterners and northerners. Some of these newspapers contributed immensely to the actualisation of Nigeria as a nation. Gaskiya Tafi Kwabo and Citizen These two newspapers belonged to the northern-based political party the Northern Peoples’ Congress (NPC). They also emerged as rivals to the Party newspapers established by the NCNC and Action Group. Gaskiya Tafi kwabo an Hausa language newspaper was founded on 1st January, 1939 by the Gaskiya Corporation which later added to its stable, the Citizen, another weekly that (later) metamorphosed into the New Nigerian on 1st January, 1966. The New Nigerian was taken over by the Federal Government alongside the Daily Times in 1975. The Northern Nigerian gover...