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    Partial general elections were held in Nigeria in 1943, with only two of the four elected seats available. The previous general elections had been held...
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    the Statute of Westminster 1931, the governor-general was appointed solely on the advice of the Nigerian cabinet without the involvement of the British...
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    General elections were held in Nigeria on 21 October 1938. The Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) won three of the four elected seats in the Legislative Council...
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    Sani Abacha GCFR ((listen); (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who ruled as the military head of state after...
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    Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So help me God. The executive functions of the Nigerian vice president includes participation in all...
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    officers of the Nigerian Corps came from Nigeria. (The first Nigerian officers received their licences at the end of the war). The Nigerian soldiers can...
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  • 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as President of the Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 during the Nigerian Civil War....
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    GCON ((listen); 5 March 1943 – 8 December 1997) was a Nigerian general and politician who was the de facto vice president of Nigeria as Chief of Staff, Supreme...
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  • Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (category Use Nigerian English from June 2023)
    Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (born 18 May 1943) is a Nigerian general and statesman. He has held several high level national security, military and intelligence...
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    the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966). He was widely regarded as the father of Nigerian nationalism as the driving...
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    Aminu Kano (category Candidates in the 1979 Nigerian presidential election)
    against Aminu's 1,776.: 328–329  The 1959 Nigerian general election marked a significant milestone as the first election featuring direct voting in every constituency...
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    Nations UN: List of UN General Assembly presidents UN General Assembly President Election Reform. UNelections.org. Elections and appointments (2020-2021)...
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    Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo III (category Nigerian traditional rulers)
    September 1943) is the current Alake of Egba, a clan in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He has ruled since 2 August 2005. Gbadebo was born on 14 September 1943, into the...
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  • Jeremiah Useni (category Use Nigerian English from January 2023)
    Jeremiah Timbut Useni (born 16 February 1943) is a retired Nigerian army lieutenant general, who served as minister responsible for the administration...
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  • Babatunji Olowofoyeku (category Attorneys General of Nigeria)
    2003), OFR, SAN, was a Nigerian politician, educationist, lawyer and leader, a Yoruba and native of Ilesha in Osun State of Nigeria, whose political career...
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    Amina J. Mohammed (category Nigerian women company founders)
    Chinese firms to import endangered Nigerian timber during her term as Nigeria's environment minister. The Nigerian government has denied the claims. In...
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    Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Nigerian politician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a member of the House of Representatives (Nigeria), representing Akoko...
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  • Roseline Ukeje (category Nigerian women judges)
    ruled that the Nigerian general election, 2007 could go ahead despite the death of candidate Adebayo Adefarati. Ukeje was married to Nigerian Air Force pilot...
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    Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. As a Nigerian state, Ogun is the second most industrialised state after Lagos, with a focus on metal processing...
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    the end of 1997. Amina J. Mohammed of Nigeria was named as deputy secretary-general by then secretary-general-designate António Guterres. Mohammed assumed...
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  • African general election 1993 Nigerian presidential election (won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola) April 1997 Malian parliamentary election 2000 Peruvian...
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    Plateau State is the twelfth largest Nigerian state. It is located near the centre of Nigeria and includes a range of hills surrounding the Jos Plateau...
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    Kano (city) (redirect from Kano, nigeria)
    denominations including : Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion); Roman Catholic Diocese of Kano (Catholic Church); Nigerian Baptist Convention (Baptist World...
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    Murtala Nyako (category Use Nigerian English from December 2023)
    Hamman-Yero Nyako, GCON CFR rcds, D.Agric. (H.C.) (born 27 August 1942) is a Nigerian politician and retired military officer who served as governor of Adamawa...
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  • 1943 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1943. 1943 (MCMXLIII)...
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    administrative bodies. Nigerian nationality is typically obtained under the principal of jus sanguinis, i.e. by birth to parents with Nigerian nationality. It...
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  • West African Pilot (category Newspapers published in Nigeria)
    Titles included the Eastern Nigerian Guardian launched in 1940 in Port Harcourt, the Nigerian Spokesman in Onitsha (1943) and the Southern Defender in...
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  • manager (d. 1906) 1865 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943) 1867 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize...
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    General elections were held in South Africa on 7 May 2014, to elect a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province. It was the...
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    to the Nigerian throne was the same as the succession to the British one. The Governor-General was the representative of the monarch in Nigeria and exercised...
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