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Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician and statesman who served as the first Premier of the Western region of Nigeria. He was known as one of the key figures towards Nigeria's independence movement from 1957 to 1960. Awolowo founded the Yoruba nationalist group Egbe Omo Oduduwa as well as the Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system from 1952 to 1959.…
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Born 6 March 1909 · Died 9 May 1987 · Q960892
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The Obafemi Awolowo Foundation was founded as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organisation committed to furthering the symbiotic interaction of public policy and relevant scholarship with a view to promoting the
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Died 1987-05-09.
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And 1983, he contested under the Unity Party's platform as a presidential candidate, but lost to the northern-based National Party of Shehu Shagari
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Contested his loss in court, making a case for electoral college decision because the winning candidate couldn't have said to have won having not fulfilled the majority in 2/3 of states (then 19) which led to the land
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Career landmark: Minister of Finance of Nigeria (1967–1971).
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After which he was appointed the Minister of Finance
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Was tried and jailed for 10 years on charges of sedition
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And the Oduduwa Group, all of which were financed from the highly lucrative cocoa industry which was the mainstay of the regional economy
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Career landmark: prime minister (1954–1960).
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Awolowo founded the Nigerian Tribune, a private Nigerian newspaper, which he used to spread nationalist consciousness among Nigerians
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Attended the fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester as a representative of the Nigerian Youth Movement along with H
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To study law at the University of London and was called to the Bar by the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple on 19 November 1946
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They had five (5) children, Olusegun Awolowo (1938-1963), (father of Segun Awolowo), Omotola Oyediran (née Awolowo) (1940-2020), Oluwole Awolowo (1942-2013), Ayodele Soyode (née Awolowo) (1944-2011), mother of former Second Lady of Nigeria Dolapo Osinbajo, and Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu (1948).
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Enrolled at the University of London as an External Student and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Hons
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Born 1909-03-06.
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Awolowo's father became one of the first Ikenne natives to convert to Christianity
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