Lagos Daily News Explained

Lagos Daily News
Type:	Daily newspaper
Foundation:	1925 in British West Africa
Language:	English

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.

Notes and References

1. Book: Toyin Falola. Culture and Customs of Nigeria. 2001. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-31338-7. 68–.
2. Web site: Global Mappings: Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay . 2014-01-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131210082307/http://diaspora.northwestern.edu/mbin/WebObjects/DiasporaX.woa/wa/displayArticle?atomid=902 . 2013-12-10 . dead .
3. Book: Gunilla L. Faringer. Press Freedom in Africa. 1 January 1991. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-275-93771-3. 7–.
4. Book: Bamidele A. Ojo. Nigeria's Third Republic: The Problems and Prospects of Political Transition to Civil Rule. 1998. Nova Publishers. 978-1-56072-580-0. 23–.