Lagos Daily News

Lagos Daily News
TypeDaily newspaper
Founded1925 in British West Africa
LanguageEnglish

The Lagos Daily News is a Nigerian newspaper founded in 1925 that was the first daily newspaper in British West Africa.[1] It was bought by Herbert Macaulay and John Akinlade Caulcrick in 1927.[2] The paper was politically aligned with Macaulay's Nigerian National Democratic Party.[3][4] It was part of the internal factors that led to the rise and growth of nationalism in Nigeria during the colonial period which led to the decolonization process.

  1. ^ Toyin Falola (2001). Culture and Customs of Nigeria. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-0-313-31338-7.
  2. ^ "Global Mappings: Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay". Archived from the original on 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2014-01-12.
  3. ^ Gunilla L. Faringer (1 January 1991). Press Freedom in Africa. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-0-275-93771-3.
  4. ^ Bamidele A. Ojo (1998). Nigeria's Third Republic: The Problems and Prospects of Political Transition to Civil Rule. Nova Publishers. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-56072-580-0.