devindevin2000:
Nnamdi Kanu...watch as afonjas will be infuriated and start replying me. If you want to spoil afonjas day, just mention Nnamdi Kanu. You will spoil their day!

geoinvestor:
This question is very complicating because there are so many Nigerians who have done great things for this country and are very successful.

The greatest South-African is unarguably Nelson Mandela and the greatest Indian ever is Mahatma Ghandi. Who do you think is the greatest Nigerian ever?

Notable mention :

* Nnamdi Azikiwe
* Chinua Achebe
*Aliko Dangote
*Fela
*Wole Soyinka
*Olusegun Obasanjo
*Ojukwu
*Oba Esigie
*Obafemi Awolowo e.t.c

geoinvestor:
This question is very complicating because there are so many Nigerians who have done great things for this country and are very successful.

The greatest South-African is unarguably Nelson Mandela and the greatest Indian ever is Mahatma Ghandi. Who do you think is the greatest Nigerian ever?

Notable mention :

* Nnamdi Azikiwe
* Chinua Achebe
*Aliko Dangote
*Fela
*Wole Soyinka
*Olusegun Obasanjo
*Ojukwu
*Oba Esigie
*Obafemi Awolowo e.t.c

dontbothermuch:
Fela

He's the real "I belong to everybody and belong to nobody"

Not one imposter somewhere.

Harmored:
FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI

MasViews:
These are the greatest Nigerians weda you like it or not:

1.Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa


2. Nnamdi Azikwe


3. Obafemi Awolowo


4. Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardauna.

They're the founding fathers of Nigeria, they fought for our freedom

CSTR2:

Then what honour will you give Chinua Achebe who rejected well-deserved national honours on a number of occasions to protest decrepit state of governance in Nigeria.
The Highest selling African author in modern Literature.

Though ,Chinua Achebe was probably not a Nigerian at heart. So you may not be wrong.

emmykk:




zik is the greatest check your N500 note

devindevin2000:
Nnamdi Kanu...watch as afonjas will be infuriated and start replying me. If you want to spoil afonjas day, just mention Nnamdi Kanu. You will spoil their day!

CSTR2:

Then what honour will you give Chinua Achebe who rejected well-deserved national honours on a number of occasions to protest decrepit state of governance in Nigeria.
The Highest selling African author in modern Literature.

Though ,Chinua Achebe was probably not a Nigerian at heart. So you may not be wrong.

devindevin2000:
Nnamdi Kanu...watch as afonjas will be infuriated and start replying me. If you want to spoil afonjas day, just mention Nnamdi Kanu. You will spoil their day!

geoinvestor:
This question is very complicating because there are so many Nigerians who have done great things for this country and are very successful.

The greatest South-African is unarguably Nelson Mandela and the greatest Indian ever is Mahatma Ghandi. Who do you think is the greatest Nigerian ever?

Notable mention :

* Nnamdi Azikiwe
* Chinua Achebe
*Aliko Dangote
*Fela
*Wole Soyinka
*Olusegun Obasanjo
*Ojukwu
*Oba Esigie
*Obafemi Awolowo e.t.c

dontbothermuch:
Fela

He's the real "I belong to everybody and belong to nobody"

Not one imposter somewhere.

Deadlytruth:


If you base it on fighting for independence, then Herbert Macaulay has it unrivalled because his idea about an independent Nigeria were very visionary.
It is one thing to dream of freedom from external colonization but another thing to think about how to prevent internal recolonization of one another after the external one has ended.

In addition to hoping for independence, Herbert Macaulay was careful not to be in a hurry about it because he could decipher that Nigerians were not yet politically mature and civilized enough to successfully govern themselves democratically since they were still subjects of monarchism in the background. For this reason Macaulay's calculated date for independence was somewhere between 1980 and 1990 to allow them enough time to learn civility and maturity required for democratic governance. But unfortunately, all those so-called founding fathers (Ahmadu Bello, Awolowo, Azikiwe and Balewa) thwarted Macaulay's dream and hurried Nigeria into independence. And here we are today with regret over how too early the independence was as feared by Macaulay. The only early independence apostle who reasoned like Macaulay to some extent was Enahoro who equally feared that certain agreements should be reached in concrete terms before going into independence rather than just going into it blindly as Zik would prefer.

emmykk:

sit down ane read nigeria history properly

Deadlytruth:


You should have rather told us that your own "correct" version of Nigeria's history.

emmykk:


you are pain because i state the obvious that zik of africa is the most prominent national figure that dwarf other leaders in achievement.
he didnt support the civil war organise by his kindred,he even wanted to contest from Lagos,his influence on nationalist activity is beyond bound.



you are colouring it that he is not,if he is not then state the person

Deadlytruth:


I have already stated that It is Herbert Macaulay followed by Anthony Enahoro. How come you missed seeing it in my comment?
You see, Zik was not a nationalist in the real sense of the word unless according to the Nigerian meaning which has to do with sentiments and misconceptions here and there.
Who is a nationalist really?
A nationalist or nationalism hero is he who fights for the freedom in two ways:
1. He fights to free his fellow countrymen and women from external domination by imperial forces. Mandela is a good example here.
2. He more importantly fights for internal freedom of his people from one another's possible future domination after the imperialists may have gone. Abraham Lincoln is the world's best example here for fighting for the freedom of Americans from fellow Americans.

On these two standards Zik failed woefully.
First, he knew fully well that Nigerian was a British creation as a means to keep exploiting Africa of her material and human resources yet he openly pledged to pay the supreme price to keep Nigeria one at a time every other figure was asking for a de-amalgamation of the British fraud. He resisted the inclusion of secession clause in our constitution even though such a clause would have guaranteed good governance. Till today we are not really free from Britain's imperialism courtesy of Zik's One-Nigeria philosophy. Was such a person therefore a nationalist or a neo-colonialist?
Secondly, for a country like Nigeria with a very diverse ethnic mix, it is a principle in Anthropology that the best guarantee for genuine national peace and development is highly decentralized system which in our case should be federalism marked by resource control. Zik read Anthropology from a prestigious university in Pennsylvania and even lectured in it for sometime before returning home. But in the build up to independence Zik, despite being an Anthropologist began to champion unitary system (i.e. a government with a very powerful centre and very weak sub-national units which creates room for internal oppression of other tribes by the ruling tribe). This means he was deliberately seeking for a system of internal recolonization of Nigerians by fellow Nigerians, and that exactly is what we have today hence asking for restructuring. The effect of the internal recolonization also caused his own Igbo brothers to ask for secession in 1967 through Ojukwu and now through Nnamdi Kanu.

With all these, do you still believe Zik was a nationalist and national hero?
The system he advocates is what we have now practised for 52 years and the country has failed because of that.
Whoever calls such a figure a national hero is obviously blinded by tribal loyalty.