Taiwo Akinkunmi shares the lost detail about the Nigerian flag at 59
By Guardian Exclusive
02 October 2019 |
11:13 am
Taiwo Akinkunmi was a 23-year-old student at the time he designed the Nigerian flag in 1959. Now in his eighties, he sat with GuardianTV his modest house in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, to share one lost important detail about the Nigerian flag.
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