Nnamdi Azikiwe
He was born in 1904. He is the first president of Nigeria and the founder of Nigerian nationalism. He was popularly call zik of Africa, Motivated to get a university education, he traveled to U.S. and attended various colleges including Storer College, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Howard returning to Africa in 1934 to start work as a journalist in the Gold Coast.
Herbert Heelas Macaulay
He was born on 14 November 1864 in Lagos. He was the seventh child of his Sierra Leonean parents. Hiberty Macaulay, was the first principal of CMS Grammar School in Lagos. His mother’s father was Sam Ajayi Crowther.Herbert Macaulay was pivotal in Nigeria’s fight to gain independence although he didn’t live to see this become a reality. He also created the National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon in the 1940s along with Nnamdi Azikiwe.
Ahmadu Bello
He was born in Rabah in 1919, North West State, a descendant of Uthman don Fodio, the renowned 19th-century Moslem leader of Northern Nigeria. Bello received his education first at the Sokoto Provincial School, then at Katsina Teacher Training College,In 1938 he made an unsuccessful claim to the office of sultan of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello was another key figure in the country’s fight for independence.
Chief Anthony Enahoro, (22nd July 1923-15th December 2010)
He was one of Nigeria’s foremost anti-colonial and pro-democracy activists. He was born the eldest of twelve children in Uromi in the present Edo State of Nigeria,He’s popularly known as the “Father of the Nigerian State”.
Alhaja Kudirat Abiola
He was the beautiful wife of the late business mogul and respected politician, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. According to information she was very active and socially conscious during her days. The tireless support she gave to her husband, M.K.O Abiola, when he was incarcerated pulled the string of her death. On the 4th of June, 1996, Kudirat Abiola was assassinated in her car by some gunmen in Lagos allegedly on the orders of the Sani Abacha military junta.
Chinua Achebe
Hewas a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature, he wrote other books like "No longer at ease, arrow of God, a man of the people " this books listed are mostly use in our national and international universities.
Gen obasenjo
He is a former Nigerian army who became president in 1999 to 2007.
We have other heroes and heroins not mentioned but as a true Nigerian these people are worth the credits.
