A recent picture of 80-year-old Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi, the man who designed Nigeria’s flag has emerged with a passionate plea to save him before he dies.

In 1959, a year before Nigeria’s independence, a 23-year-old student, Mr. Akinkunmi, helped colour the country’s identity. Sixty-two years after a British journalist first suggested the name “Nigeria”, the Ibadan-born student gave the new country its national flag.

He is still alive but his present living condition is that of a forgotten hero.

A photographer shared the picture today with the caption: “R.T Our Hero mustn’t Die Before we Start celebrate Them. Here is Pa,Akinkunmi Akinwunmi @Akinkun33004060 The Brain Behind Nigeria Flag.

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Because he designed the most unfanciful flag in the whole off the universe, we should continue to feed spoon him. Op talk about something serious

myners007:
Because he designed the most unfanciful flag in the whole off the universe, we should continue to feed spoon him. Op talk about something serious

I wonder. Useless flag!!!

Sorry pa,
I won't be surprise if Op is The man son.
We all knows that Nigeria flag is confuse, where is the begin and the end of that flag self.
Nnamdi KANU will be looking at that flag with red eye.

Give him 1m and let us rest
DAT flag need to be redesigned cos e don cast.

Person dey age, dem say he need help... Help from not aging, abi wetin...make dem say maintainace money, because this help money don dey too much ooooo... Hmmmmmmm..