Kunle Ajibade is a co-founder of TheNEWS and PM NEWS. He has worked in Grant Advertising as a copywriter; in African Concord magazine as a correspondent; and The African Guardian as an assistant editor. In 1995 he was jailed for life by General Sani Abacha because of a story published in TheNEWS magazine.
He was released in 1998 when his jailer suddenly, and thankfully, died. While in jail, Kunle Ajibade won the Lillian Hellman---Dashiel Hammett award. Shortly after his release, he won the 1998/99 Feuchtwanger Fellowship of Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. He spent all the ten months of the Fellowship at the Getty Scholars apartment, Sunset Blvd, to write his prison memoir, Jailed for Life: A Reporter's Prison Notes, which was published in 2003 by Heinemann Educational Books.
The memoir won the Victor Nwankwo Book of the Year Award instituted by the Nigerian Book Trust in 2004. Kunle Ajibade is also the author of What a Country!