The Sun Nigerian Newspaper is a Nigerian daily print newspaper founded and published in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.As of 2011 The Sun had a daily print run of 130,000 copies, and 135,000 for weekend titles, with an average of 80% sales. This made The Sun the highest selling newspaper in Nigeria.

The Daily Sun was incorporated on 29 March 2001. It started production as a weekly on 18 January 2003, and as a daily on 16 June 2003. The target audience is young adults in the 18 – 45 years age bracket and in the B and C social economic class.The paper is similar in format to the popular Sun newspaper of the United Kingdom.

The chairman of the publishing house is Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia State. The first Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief was Mike Awoyinfa. In January 2010 there was a shake-up in which Tony Onyima succeeding Awoyinfa, and the original deputy editor, Dimgba Igwe, was replaced by Femi Adesina.Awoyinfa and Igwe remained as directors on the company’s board.