Nnamdi Azikiwe – 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?
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This video features: Nnamdi Azikiwe. Does he make the cut as one of the 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?
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This video features: Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in November 16, 1904 in Zungeru, northern Nigeria. He was one of the leading figures of modern Nigerian nationalism and the first President of Nigeria, holding the position throughout the Nigerian First Republic.
Azikiwe was born to Igbo parents. After studying at Hope Wadell Training Institution, Calabar, Azikiwe went to the United States. While there he attended Howard University, Washington DC before enrolling and graduating from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1930. He obtained a masters degree in 1933 from the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as an instructor at Lincoln before returning to Africa.
After teaching at Lincoln, Azikiwe, in November 1934, took the position of editor for the African Morning Post, a daily newspaper in Ghana. In that position he promoted a pro-African nationalist agenda. He also criticized those Africans who belonged to the ‘elite’ of colonial society and favored retaining the existing order, as they regarded it as the basis of their well being.
After a successful journalism enterprise, Azikiwe entered into politics, co-founding the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons. He became the secretary-general of the National Council in 1946, and was elected to Legislative Council of Nigeria the following year. In 1951, he became the leader of the Opposition to the government of Obafemi Awolowo in the Western Region’s House of Assembly. In 1952, he moved to the Eastern Region, and was elected to the position of Chief Minister and in 1954 became Premier of Nigeria’s Eastern Region. On November 16, 1960, he became the Governor General and on the same day became the first Nigerian named to the Queen’s Privy Council. With the proclamation of a republic in 1963, he became the first President of Nigeria, while Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Prime Minister.
History reveals Zik as the only individual whose name appeared in a democratic constitution. The Nigeria’s 1963 Republican Constitution which was an amendment of the 1960 Independent Constitution has the following: “Nnamdi Azikiwe shall be deemed to have been elected President and Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces”, as submitted by then Prime Minister Sir Abubarka Tafawa Belewa who posited that, “Nigeria can never adequately reward Dr. Azikiwe” for his nationalism.
He was inducted into the prestigious Agbalanze society as Nnayelugo in 1946, a customary recognition for men of significant accomplishment. Then, in 1962, he became a second-rank red cap nobleman, as Oziziani Obi. In 1970, he was installed as Owelle-Osowa-Anya, making him a first-rank red cap nobleman.
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This video series highlights the 50 GREATEST NIGERIANS OF ALL TIME.
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Our list of 50 Greatest Nigerians in History includes (but is not limited to:)
Abike Dabiri
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Agbani Darego
Ahmadu Bello
Bishop Ajayi Crowther
Alex Ekwueme
Aliko Dangote
Babatunde Olatunji
Bamanga Tukur
Ben Murray
Ben Okri
Bimbo Odukoya
Biship Francis Arinze
Bola Ige
Buchi Emecheta
Charles Soludo
Chief Osita Osadebe
Chinua Achebe
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Chioma Ajunwa
Chris Abani
Chris Anyawu
Dele Momodu
Dick Tiger
Dr Alban
Dora Akunyili
Ebenezer Obey
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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Gani Fawehinmi
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Grace Williams
Hakeem Olajuwon
Ibrahim Gambari
Ifueko Omoigui
Jimi Agbaje
JJ Okocha
King Sunny Ade (Sunday Adeniyi)
Michael Adenuga
Moshood Kashimawo (MKO) Abiola
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nuhu Ribadu
Nwankwo Kanu
Obafemi Awolowo (Awo!)
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Odemegwu Ojukwu
Okey Ndibe
Olusegun Obasanjo
Patrick Utomi
Philip Emeagwali
Sade Adu
Samuel Peter
Seal
Tunde Baiyewu
Wole Soyinka
Yakubu Gowon
Muhammadu Buhari
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