Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
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Other names: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Job / Known for: Prime minister of Nigeria
Left traces: Nigerian independence
Born
Date: 1912
Location: NG Bauchi
Died
Date: 1966-01-15 (aged 54)
Resting place: NG Tafawa Balewa's tomb, Bauchi, Bauchi State
Death Cause: Assassinated
Family
Spouse: Jummai Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Children: Yakubu, Umar, Sa'adu, Ahmed, Haruna, Aminu, Hafsatu, Aisha, Rabi'u, and Hajia Binta
Parent(s): Yakubu Dan Zala and Fatima Inna
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Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was a Nigerian politician who served as the first and only prime minister of Nigeria upon independence. A conservative Anglophile, he favoured maintaining close ties with the British. During his first few years in office as prime minister, Nigeria was a constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II reigning as Queen of Nigeria, until Nigeria became a republic in 1963. He was both a defender of Northern special interests and an advocate of Nigerian reform and unity. Balewa was a teacher by profession and was one of the first Northern Nigerians to be sent to London University Institute of Education in 1945. On his return in 1946 he was elected to the House of Assembly of the Northern Region and in 1947 was one of its five representatives to the Central Legislative Council in Lagos. He was reelected to the assembly in 1951 despite the hostility of some conservative emirs of the generally Muslim north. From 1952 until his death, Balewa served in the federal government. He was minister of works and of transport in the middle 1950s, and then, as leader of the NPC in the House of Representatives, he was made the first prime minister of Nigeria in 1957. After the preindependence elections of 1959, he again became prime minister in a coalition government of the NPC and Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, and he continued to hold that position after Nigeria was officially granted independence in 1960. As prime minister of Nigeria, he had his powers circumscribed by the federal structure of the government, which reserved more authority for the regions. Balewa proved unable to mitigate the growing tensions of 1964–66, manifested by a partial boycott of the election in 1964, army unrest, and outbreaks of violence in the Western Region. He was killed in the first of two Nigerian army coups in 1966.
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