Daily Times bụ akwụkwọ akụkọ nwere isi ụlọ ọrụ na Lagos . N'oge ọ kacha emeputa, n'afọ ndị 1970, ọ bụ otu n'ime azụmaahịa nwere mpaghara na-aga nke ọma na Africa. Ụlọ ọrụ Printing na Publishing Naịjirịa, a webetara ndị na-ebipụta Daily Times bụ Richard Barrow, Adeyemo Alakija, VR Osborne na ndị ọzọ na 6 June 1925. Ha bipụtara nke mbụ dị ka Nigerian Dailytimes na 1 June 1926. Alakija bụ onye ọka iwu Afrịka, ebe ndị ọzọ bu ndi nguzobe nọchitere anya otu mmasị ndị Europe na chamba nke commerce Lagos. Ụlọ ọrụ ahụ kpebisiri ike inweta African Messenger nke Ernest Ikoli bipụtara wee weghara mbipụta nke akwụkwọ akụkọ Reuters iji nyere ndị ahịa aka. Ernest Ikoli bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ mbụ na Alakija bụ onyeisi oche nke Board. Alakija na Ikoli tinyere aka na otu ndi ntorobia Naijiria na-akwado obodo . Ka emechara, Ikoli ghọrọ onye otu ọgbakọ omebe iwu n'afọ 1941, ebe a họpụtara Alakija ka ọ bụrụ onye isi ọchịchị Gọvanọ na 1943. N'afọ 1947, Otu Daily Mirror nke dị na London, nke Cecil King na-eduzi, zụtara Dailytimes, Gold Coast Daily Graphic, Accra Sunday Mirror na Sierra Leone Daily Mail.