{"id":6157,"date":"2016-11-09T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6157"},"modified":"2019-12-19T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:01:10","slug":"azikiwe-chief-dr-nnamdi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/azikiwe-chief-dr-nnamdi\/","title":{"rendered":"AZIKIWE Chief (Dr.) Nnamdi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>political scientist, author, journalist, educationist, orator, former Chancel lor of the University of Lagos; first President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and first indigenous GoverGeneral of Nigeria; Born at Zungeru, Niger State 16 November, 1904; Education: Church MissionarySocie ty Central School Onitsha, Hope Waddell Training Institute Calabar; Methodist Boys&#8217; High School Lagos; Storer College West Virginia (USA); Howard and Lincoln Universities where he read political science, did post-graduate course at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania; holds M.A., M.Sc, LL.D., D.Litt. etc., lectured at Lincoln University, 1931-34 before returning to West Africa to join in the struggle against colonial rule which was sweeping across that part of the continent; started career in journalism in 1934 as editor of Afri can Morning Post in Accra, Ghana (then the Gold Coast); founder and editor-in-chief of the West African Pilot 1934-40; became a member of the I e g i s I a t i v e Council in 1948 and in 1952, member of the Western House of Assembly; elected into the Eastern House of Assembly in 1954 and was the first Premier of Eastern Nigeria until his election into the House of Representatives in 1959; was Minister of Local Govern ment and Internal Affairs Eastern Region, 1955-57; sworn in as Presi dent of the Nigerian Senate January 1960, and as first indigenous Gover nor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, November 16 of the same year\u2014on thatsameday, was appointed Queen&#8217;s Privy Coun cillor (PC) by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain \u2014 the first Nigerian to receive such an honour;in 1963,became the President of the First Republic of Nigeria; was Chancellor and Chair man, Council of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, 1961-66;Chancellor, University of Lagos, January 1972 \u2014 October 1975;greatsportsenthusiast \u2014 former president Lagos and Dis trict Amateur Football Association, former president Nigerian Table Tennis Association, former vicechairman Nigerian Boxing Board of Control; was Managing Director Zik Enterprises Ltd., 1937-53; National President National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), 1944-59, founder and former governing direc tor African Continental Bank Ltd., belongs to many professional and international organisations and has received several awards has published many works including &#8220;Liberia in World Politics&#8221; (1938), &#8216;Renascent Africa&#8221;, &#8216;Political Blue-print of Nigeria&#8221; (1943), &#8220;Zik, A Selection of Speeches (1961), &#8220;My Odyssey&#8221; (1970), &#8220;Economic Reconstruction of Nigeria&#8221;, &#8216;Meditations&#8221; \u2014A col lection of poems and &#8220;Treasury of West African poetry&#8221;, initiated into the Ozo society of Onitsha and laterChieftaincy, becoming the Owelle of Onitsha. Married to Flora Ogoegbunam and has four children, three sons and a daughter. Address: Onuiyi Haven, Nsukka, Anambra State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6157","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}