Unknown to most people, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (“Zik”) could with some justification claim to be an Area Boy from Lagos. He grew up and lived at 146 Bamgbose Street, Lagos (Popo Aguda Area) while attending Methodist Boys High School, before proceeding to Lincoln University/Storer College, Columbia University in the United States of America.
He spoke Yoruba fluently. He was actually born on 16th November, 1904, in Zungeru (now Niger State) but he was of Igbo origin, from Onitsha, Anambra State.
He was Nigeria’s first President and one of the most important figures in Nigeria’s independence movement.
Nationalist leader:
Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), commonly referred to as Zik of Africa, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who served as the first native governor-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966). He is
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