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Nigerian nationalism asserts that Nigerians as a nation should promote the cultural unity of Nigerians. [1] [2] Nigerian nationalism is territorial nationalism and emphasizes a cultural connection of the people to the land, particularly the Niger and the Benue Rivers. [3] It first emerged in the 1920s under the influence of Herbert Macaulay ...
Nigeria became a republic within the Commonwealth under the Constitution of 1963 and the monarch and governor-general were replaced by a ceremonial president. Nnamdi Azikiwe served as the only indigenous governor-general of Nigeria. Since Nigeria became a republic in 1963, 14 individuals have served as head of state of Nigeria under different ...
General Murtala Mohammed (1938–1976) 29 July 1975 13 February 1976 (assassinated.) 199 days Federal Military Government No traditional title known (although General Mohammed's mother was a member of the Jobawa clan, a Kano dynasty that provides the Makama of Kano on a hereditary basis) [7] [8] 5 General Olusegun Obasanjo (born 1937) 13 ...
Herbert Macaulay was born on 14 November 1864 on Broad Street, Lagos, [4] [5] to the family of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowther. His parents were children of people captured from what is now Nigeria, resettled in Sierra Leone by the British West Africa Squadron, and eventual returnees to present day Nigeria. [6]
This is a list of full generals in the Nigerian Army.The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the highest rank currently achievable by serving officers in the Nigerian Army.
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Flag of the governor-general of Nigeria. This article contains a list of governors and governors-general of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, and later of the Federation of Nigeria; both as a British overseas possession and an independent monarchy. [4] [5] Flag of Nigeria (1914–1952)