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Nigerian flag at the Nigerian embassy in Washington, DC. The flag of Nigeria was designed by Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi and was officially adopted to represent Nigeria at midnight on 1 October 1960, the day the country gained independence. The flag was chosen as part of a nationwide open contest held by the government, with Akinkunmi's design ...
As Prime Minister of Nigeria, Balewa, from 1960 to 1961, doubled as Foreign Affairs advocate of Nigeria. In 1961, the Balewa government created an official Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations ministerial position in favour of Jaja Wachuku who became, from 1961 to 1965, the first substantive Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and ...
An all-Nigerian Executive Council was headed by the prime minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. On 16 November 1960, Nnamdi Azikiwe became the first governor-general of a federation of three regions of the north, east and west, with Lagos as the Federal Capital.
former Prime Minister of Sweden: 9 December 1936 Croydon, Surrey United Kingdom: Airplane accident: Douglas DC-2 (1881–1943) Władysław Sikorski [3] Prime Minister of Poland 4 July 1943 Gibraltar United Kingdom: Airplane accident: Consolidated B-24 Liberator (1910–1959) Barthélemy Boganda [3] [1] Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
The head of state was the president, while the prime minister served as the head of government. In 1966, the office of prime minister was abolished (as the inaugural holder of the office, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , had been assassinated) and since then, Nigeria has been a presidential republic with the president as the head of state and head of ...
Local media reported that the Nigerian Exchange Group's former Chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo also died in the crash. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said the scene of the crash was ...
Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, was assassinated along with the premier of Northern Nigeria, strong-man Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto; [5] Samuel Akintola, premier of the West; [6] and Festus Okotie-Eboh, the finance minister. It is not clear whether President Azikiwe's life was spared because he was out of the country at the time, or ...
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 ...