Years after a British journalist first suggested the name “Nigeria”, a 23-year-old Ibadan-born student gave the new country its national flag. Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi was studying engineering at Norwood Technical College in London when he saw a newspaper advert calling on people to enter a competition to design the Nigerian flag.

He mailed his submission to Lagos a short time later, and in October of the following year received a letter inviting him to the London office of the Commissioner for Nigeria in the United Kingdom, where he was told that his green and white design had been selected. He had won 100 pounds ($281 in 1959) as well as a place in Nigeria’s history books.

It was October 1959, exactly a year before Nigeria’s independence.

Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi should not be forgotten... https://www.politicoscope.com/michael-taiwo-akinkunmi-the-forgotten-designer-of-nigerian-flag/