Some of the convictions, especially of newspaper editors, however, manifested government's intolerance both of criticism and of the idea of Nigeria's attainment of independence. Two examples will suffice. First, A YS Tinubu, editor of the Onitshabased Nigerian Spokesman, a member of the Zik Press, was convicted for the nationalist sentiments purveyed by his newspaper's editorial 000 May 1946. The editorial, which criticized British Empire Day, had declared