Taiwo Akinkunmi
Nigeria’s national flag designer, Pa Akinkunmi, dies at 87
The designer of the historic Nigerian Green, White, Green national flag, Pa. Taiwo Micheal Akinkunmi, is dead.
Aged 87, Pa Akinkunmi died in the early hours of Tuesday during a brief illness, one of his children confirmed on Facebook.
“Life is indeed transient; I can say boldly that you lived a life with a landmark. Continue to rest, my father! Pa Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi (O.F.R.): Great Man has gone”, he wrote.
Born on May 10, 1936, Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi was from Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He attended Baptist Day Secondary School, Ibadan, for his Primary education and Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, for his Secondary education.
Pa. Akinkunmi started his career as a Civil Servant at the Secretariat of Ibadan and later travelled overseas to study Agricultural Engineering at Norway Technical College.
In 1958, during his stay abroad, Akinkunmi stumbled upon an advertisement in a national daily calling for the submission of designs for Nigeria’s national flag in view of Nigeria’s imminent Independence from British governance.
His entry was adjudged the best among the roughly 2,000 entries submitted.
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