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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 ...
Under the 1963 Constitution, the first constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Nigeria ran the parliamentary system of government with a prime minister and the president replacing the monarch as ceremonial head of state. The prime minister was formed by the leader of the party that won the election.
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa KBE PC (December 1912 – 15 January 1966) was a Nigerian politician who served as the first and only prime minister of Nigeria upon independence. [3] A conservative Anglophile , he favoured maintaining close ties with the British .
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 ...
On 1 October, the Princess presented Nigeria's instrument of independence, also known as the Freedom Charter, to Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who became the Prime Minister. [4] On 3 October, the Princess formally opened the first federal parliament of independent Nigeria, on behalf of the Queen, before an assembly of people and diplomats. [5]
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7 languages. العربية ... Pages in category "Prime ministers of Nigeria" ... Prime Minister of Nigeria; B. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; S. Ernest Shonekan