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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 ...
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 ...
Prime minister Ref. No. Portrait Name (birth–death) Took office Left office Time in office 1 Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904–1996) 1 October 1963 16 January 1966: 2 years, 107 days National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912–1966)
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 ...
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 ...
October 1, 1960 - Nigerian Independence Day; October 1, 1960 - Tafawa Balewa became prime minister; October 1, 1960 - Sir James Robertson (1899 - 1983) became governor-general. November 16, 1960 - Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904–1996) became governor general
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