For this reason, Nigerian politicians enjoying immunity as parliamentarians in the regional legislatures created by the Macpherson Constitution called for the winding up of both the Public Relations Office and its newspapers. The body was accused of distorting the views of the people to the government and those of the latter to the former, thereby impeding mutual understanding between the government and the people. Besides, the Nigeria Review was notorious for publishing stale news, and for late circulation, which brought 'ridicule on the government, which sponsors it'. It was under these circumstances that the Public Relations Office became reorganized in 1954, to give way to the Nigerian Information Service, just as the Nigeria Review ceased publication the same year (Mordi, 1994). Indeed, the Macpherson Constitution (Olusanya, 1980), at conception a stratagem to circumvent Azikiwe and slow down the pace of Nigeria's advance to independence (Pearce, 198 I), achieved its objective in the 1951/2 elections. Azikiwe and the NCNC were ousted from the central legislature, and instead remained pigeonholed as the opposition in the western region (Sklar, 1963). The latter development triggered a series of crises, which further delayed Nigeria's attainment of independence, and ensured that power was handed over to a conservative, deeply pro-British elite. At independence, the latter would adopt a notoriously pro-British foreign policy, nurtured and strengthened 'Britain's heavy presence in Nigeria's international commercial and financial relations' (Ojedokun, 1971