Till date, no President/Head of State has been born in or after 1960, the year Nigeria got her independence.

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is the only President whose exact date of birth is unknown. He was shoeless when he wooed his first wife, Remi. He is diabetic.

He’s the only president to lose his wife, Stella, while in power.

Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan are the only Vice Presidents to ever become President in the nation.

Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari are the only persons in the nation’s history to rule as Military Head of State and Civilian President.

The two Presidents who succeeded Obasanjo, first as Head of State in 1979 and as President in 2007 did not complete their tenures.

The two Presidents were North-Westerners; Presidents, Shehu Shagari (Sokoto State) and Umaru Yar’Adua (Katsina State).

While soldiers were dying at the battle front, Yakubu Gowon was getting married in Lagos. He is the youngest Head of State at 32 years and also the first to get married while in power. He also ruled the longest (uninterrupted) for 9 years.

Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello was killed with his wife in 1966 by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu. His great-grandfather was the great jihadist from Sokoto, Uthman Dan Fodio. The largest university in West-Africa and second largest in Africa is named after him.

Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was a smoker. His father died of small pox.

Alvan Ikoku (the man on the 10 naira note) and his son, Samuel were political enemies.

Alhaji (Sir) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was not supposed to be Prime Minister in 1957, but Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello (as the
leader of the NPC). He gave Balewa the position and referred to him as “my lieutenant in Lagos”.

Herbert Heelas Samuel Macauley (the man on the 1 naira note) was the first Nigerian civil engineer and the first to institute a political party in Nigeria. He was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi
Crowther.

Generals Murtala Mohammed and Sani Abacha were both born and buried in Kano.

Murtala Mohammed as Head of State had no convoy nor escorts.

General Sani Abacha had 9 children and the last child, a boy, was born in Aso Rock in 1994.

Sani Abacha was born on a Monday and died on a Monday.

Umar Musa Yar’Adua was the first
President to die while in Office.

During the civil war, Emeka Ojukwu sleeps everyday with his boots on.

Gen. Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi maintains the record as the tallest Head of State and ruled the shortest (194 days). He was the first Military Head of State.

Sani Abacha is the shortest at 5 foot 4 inches. He divided Nigeria into 6 geo-political zones.

On May 29, 2016, Christians would have ruled for 25 years and 9 months while Muslims would have ruled for 30 years
and 6 months.

Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan is the first civilian without a political party to rule Nigeria. Hence, the only unelected civilian to rule Nigeria.

Ernest Shonekan ruled the shortest for 2 months and 21 days while Olusegun Obasanjo ruled the longest (both military and civilian) for 11 years, 7 months and 18 days.

Both are the only South-Westerners ever to rule the country.

Both are from Abeokuta in Ogun State.

Both are Christians.

Every Nigerian Head of State with an Ogun State indigene as his deputy, whether removed or sustained, died in office.

All civilian presidents were once teachers, except Olusegun Obasanjo.

Niger, Katsina and Ogun States are the only states to have produced two leaders who had ruled the country.

Nigeria had no leader for 3 days (July 29-August 1, 1966).

The only president who had no executive power at all was Dr. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Goodluck Jonathan is the first President from a minority tribe (Ijaw) in Nigeria.

Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh founded the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1959.

Really interesting......

that born on Monday and dead on Monday gat me laughing

Information.

Wow so buhari is not the tallest president, but the aguiyi ironsi I use to see was not so tall