In convicting the editor, the trial judge, Justice Graham Callow, held that the editorial was seditious, calculated to excite people to attempt to procure the alteration otherwise than by lawful means of the established regime in the country, to raise discontent, ill-will and hostility between different classes ofthe population of Nigeria (Mordi, 1994). A case was also brought against the West African Pilot in 1951 and the paper was fined a total of £300 for its editorial of27 October 1951 titled 'Goodnight to colonial freedom'. The editorial had opined that Sir Winston Churchill's electoral victory in Britain was ominous for Anglophone Africa because Sir Winston 'is an incarnation of British imperialism'; and for Nigeria: