JAMB - Government (2000 - No. 29)
Under the independence Constitution of Nigeria, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was
Head of state
Governor General
Prime Minister
Lieutenant Governor
Shpjegimi
Under Nigeria's Independence Constitution of 1960, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe became the Governor-General of Nigeria. He was the ceremonial head of state, representing the British monarch (Queen Elizabeth II), as Nigeria was still a constitutional monarchy at that time.
In 1963, after Nigeria became a republic, Dr. Azikiwe became the first President of Nigeria under the new republican constitution, which removed the monarchy and established the office of the president as the head of state.