Lagos Daily News

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{{Short description|Nigerian daily English newspaper}}

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The Lagos Daily News is a Nigerian newspaper founded in 1925 that was the first daily newspaper in British West Africa.{{cite book|author=Toyin Falola|title=Culture and Customs of Nigeria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srupO5334OcC&pg=PA68|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31338-7|pages=68–}} It was bought by Herbert Macaulay and John Akinlade Caulcrick in 1927.{{Cite web |url=http://diaspora.northwestern.edu/mbin/WebObjects/DiasporaX.woa/wa/displayArticle?atomid=902 |title=Global Mappings: Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay |access-date=2014-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210082307/http://diaspora.northwestern.edu/mbin/WebObjects/DiasporaX.woa/wa/displayArticle?atomid=902 |archive-date=2013-12-10 |url-status=dead }} The paper was politically aligned with Macaulay's Nigerian National Democratic Party.{{cite book|author=Gunilla L. Faringer|title=Press Freedom in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZAAm-o47rQC&pg=PA7|date=1 January 1991|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-93771-3|pages=7–}}{{cite book|author=Bamidele A. Ojo|title=Nigeria's Third Republic: The Problems and Prospects of Political Transition to Civil Rule|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CcXAqV4Ho04C&pg=PA23|year=1998|publisher=Nova Publishers|isbn=978-1-56072-580-0|pages=23–}} 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.