Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Search results
Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), commonly referred to as Zik, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who served as the 3rd and first black governor-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966).
May 9, 2024 · Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first president of independent Nigeria (1963–66) and a prominent nationalist figure. Azikiwe attended various primary and secondary mission schools in Onitsha, Calabar, and Lagos.
- www.encyclopedia.com
- › …
- › Historians, Miscellaneous: Biographies
Jun 11, 2018 · Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996) was one of the fore most Nigerian and West African nationalists and the first president of Nigeria. Nnamdi Azikiwe was born on Nov. 16, 1904, of Ibo parents in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria, where his father worked as a clerk in the Nigerian Regiment.
May 14, 1996 · Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria's first President and a vigorous champion of African independence from European colonial rule, died Saturday in a hospital in his native eastern Nigeria after a long...
Sep 27, 2020 · Nnamdi Azikiwe was a Nigerian nationalist, journalist, and politician who fought bravely for Nigeria’s independence. After Nigeria became a federal republic in 1963, Azikiwe wrote his name in the history books by becoming the first democratically elected president of Nigeria.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe (November 16, 1904 – May 11, 1996), usually referred to as Nnamdi Azikiwe, or, informally and popularly, as " Zik, " was the founder of modern Nigerian nationalism and the first President of Nigeria, holding the position throughout the Nigerian First Republic.
May 9, 2009 · Two years after the war ended in a Federal victory over the Biafra rebels, the central government in Lagos allowed Azikiwe to reenter public life. In 1972 he became the Chancellor of the University of Lagos, a post he held until 1976. Nnamdi Azikiwe died on May 11, 1996 in Enugu, Nigeria.
- www.encyclopedia.com
- › History
Azikiwe, Nnamdi. 1904–1996. Born of Igbo parents on November 16, 1904, in Zungeru, Nigeria, soothsayers had foretold a great future for Nnamdi Azikiwe. In a traditional African society where the gods saw all and knew all, one fortuneteller named the new babe Ibrahim after a local ruler who stoutly resisted British colonialism in northern Nigeria.
May 11, 2019 · Popularly known as “Zik” or “Zik of Africa”, Nnamdi Azikiwe, born in 1904 in Niger State made his name in the 1930s as a devoted figure in the nationalist movement after his return to...
Benjamin Nnamdi “Zik” Azikiwe, the Owelle-Osowa-Anya of Onitsha, was the first president of Nigeria and one of the leading figures of Nigerian nationalism. He is of one three National Heroes of the Nigerian nation (along with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Obafemi Awolowo ).
