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Albert Hickman, Prime minister (1924) Walter Stanley Monroe, Prime minister (1924–1928) Richard Squires, Prime minister (1928–1932) Frederick C. Alderdice, Prime minister (1928, 1932–1934) Mexico. Mexico (complete list) – Porfirio Díaz, President (1884–1911) Francisco León de la Barra, President (1911) Francisco I. Madero, President ...
Nigeria gained independence from Britain under Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and President Nnamdi Azikiwe. 1961: 11 February A referendum is held in the British Cameroons, resulting in the Northern Cameroons joining Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons joining Cameroon. 1962: Tennessee Nigeria receives offshore oil license. 1963: 1 October
On 30 August 1957 the governor-general of Nigeria, Sir James Wilson Robertson, announced that Abubakar Tafawa Balewa had been appointed prime minister, with a broad-based National Government. [1] His first cabinet included ministers from all parties. [2] The cabinet was based on that appointed after the 1954 elections. [1] Cabinet ministers ...
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The NPC federal parliamentary leader, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, was appointed Prime Minister of Nigeria. Balewa formed a coalition government that included the Action Group as well as the NCNC to prepare the country for the final British withdrawal.
Under the 1963 Constitution, the first constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Nigeria ran the parliamentary system of government with a prime minister and the president replacing the monarch as ceremonial head of state. The prime minister was formed by the leader of the party that won the election.
Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was born into the family of Igbo people Ezeugo Aguiyi on 3 March 1924, in Ibeku, Umuahia, now in Abia State, Nigeria. [4] Aguiyi-Ironsi subsequently took the last name of his brother-in-law as his first name in admiration of Mr. Johnson for the father-figure role that he played in his life.