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    The prime minister of Nigeria was a political office in Nigeria. The Prime minister was the head of government in the country from 1960 to 1966, when...
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    Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (category Prime Ministers of Nigeria)
    (December 1912 – 15 January 1966) was a Nigerian politician who served as the first and only prime minister of Nigeria upon independence. A conservative Anglophile...
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  • in Nigeria on 15 January 1966, when rebellious soldiers led by Kaduna Nzeogwu and 4 others killed 22 people including the prime minister of Nigeria, many...
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    burial place of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the only Prime Minister of Nigeria, in Bauchi, Bauchi State, Nigeria. During the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état...
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    prime minister until his overthrow and assassination in the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état on 15 January 1966. Khawaja Nazimuddin was the incumbent prime minister...
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    state of Nigeria Nigerian presidential inauguration Prime Minister of Nigeria List of Nigerian heads of state by age Ibeh, Nnenna (30 May 2015). "Buhari...
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    awareness about Nigeria's economic potential. It is part of the government's executive branch. The ministry was created in 1961, with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa...
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    A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary...
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    Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its ministers of state. The prime minister also serves...
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    Abubakar Tafawa Balewa held office as prime minister (and head of government). The Federal Republic of Nigeria came into existence on 1 October 1963....
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  • Parliament of Nigeria, sometimes referred to as the Federal Parliament was the federal legislature of the Federation of Nigeria and the First Nigerian Republic...
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  • brown hue, features the prominent visage of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria's inaugural and sole prime minister within the federal government. This denomination...
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    advice of the Nigerian prime minister in consultation with the regional premiers. The Governor-General, in turn, was responsible for appointing the prime minister...
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  • Abiola Ajimobi Abubakar Olusola Saraki Abubakar Tafawa Balewa – prime minister of Nigeria Adebayo Alao Akala Adolphus Wabara Ahmadu Bello Ahmed Marafa Akanu...
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    governor-general of Nigeria from 16 November 1960 to 30 September 1963. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of the Northern People's Congress was the only prime minister during...
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    Barewa College (category Secondary schools in Nigeria)
    large number of elites from the region who attended and counts among its alumni include Tafawa Balewa who was Prime Minister of Nigeria from 1960 to 1966...
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    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...
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    the First Nigerian Republic, there was no National Council of State as the Premiers occasionally they met with the Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar...
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  • Philip (2018-03-09). "The downside of freedom". Defimedia. Le Defi. Retrieved 2018-03-09. "Nigeria's Boko Haram accused of killing MP Modu Bintube". BBC News...
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    boom. Nigeria gained independence on 1 October 1960, and the First Republic came to be on 1 October 1963. The first prime minister of Nigeria, Abubakar...
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    of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives, whilst the NNA held a total of 198 seats. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was re-elected Prime Minister of...
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    implementation of government policies and programmes in the hierarchy of Nigerian government. Until the abolition of the post of Prime Minister in 1966, the...
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    and Ascension Speeches of Nigerian Elected and Non-elected presidents and prime ministers from 1960-2010. University Press of America. pp. 66–68. ISBN 978-0-7618-5274-2...
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    Ernest Shonekan (category Prime Ministers of Nigeria)
    a Nigerian lawyer and statesman who served as the interim head of state of Nigeria from 26 August 1993 to 17 November 1993. He was titled Abese of Egbaland...
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  • (Gere/Fulani) – Nigerian Politician and the First Prime Minister of an Independent Nigeria. Shehu Shagari – Former President of Nigeria. General Murtala...
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    as the Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE). Nigerian news media have variously referred to him as "Prime Minister" or "self-acclaimed...
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    Katagum (category Use Nigerian English from January 2023)
    only prime minister of Nigeria. In 1946, Sule Katagum was one of the best pioneer students at Institute of Administration, Zaria, and was on top of his...
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    Shehu Shagari (category Finance ministers of Nigeria)
    construction firm Julius Berger in Nigeria, and the completion of the Niger Bridge which was commissioned in 1966 by Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa...
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  • some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, ‘premier’, ‘chief minister’, ‘chancellor’ or other title...
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    people including the Prime Minister of Nigeria and many senior politicians and Army officers. The General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Army, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi...
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