Flag of Nigeria

Nigeria
Use National flag
Proportion 1:2
Adopted 1 October 1960
Design A vertical bicolour triband of green, white and green
Designed by Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi

Variant flag of Nigeria
Use State flag
Proportion 1:2
Design A vertical bicolour triband of green, white and green; charged with the Coat of arms in the centre

Variant flag of Nigeria
Use Civil ensign
Proportion 1:2
Design A red field with the national flag, in the canton

Variant flag of Nigeria
Use State ensign
Proportion 1:2
Design A blue field with the national flag, in the canton

Variant flag of Nigeria
Use Naval ensign
Proportion 1:2
Design A white field with the national flag in the canton, with the Naval seal in the fly.

Variant flag of Nigeria
Use Air force ensign
Proportion 1:2
Design A sky-blue field with the national flag in the canton, with the air force roundel in the fly.

The Flag of Nigeria was designed in 1959 and first officially hoisted on 1 October 1960. The flag is a vertical 1:2 triband of green, white, green. The two green stripes represent Nigeria's natural wealth, while the white band represents peace.

Design

The national flag is an adaptation of the winning entry from Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi in a competition held in 1959. The original submission had a red radiating sun badge in the centre triptych of one white vertical with a green vertical on each side. After the badge was removed by the judges, the flag has remained unchanged. Like other countries, Nigeria has special ensigns for civil and naval vessels. Some of its states also have flags.[1]

Akinkunmi was a twenty-three year-old student at the time he designed the flag. He was studying at Norwich Technical College in London, England, when he saw an advertisement in a newspaper that submissions were being accepted for the design of a new national flag of Nigeria. In 1959 Akinkunmi's design was chosen as the winner and, with adaptations, was first officially used on 1 October 1960, Nigeria's Independence Day.[2]

Flag specifications

Colour specifications

Colour scheme Green White
RAL
None		 9003
Signal white
CMYK 100.0.39.47 0.0.0.0
Hexadecimals #008753 #FFFFFF
Decimals 0,135,83 255,255,255

Government flags

Flag of the President of Nigeria
Flag of the President as Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces
Former flag of the President, adopted in 1963
Flag of the Nigerian Defence Forces
Naval ensign of Nigeria (1960-1998)
Akinkunmi's original proposal

Historical flags

Flag of the Royal Niger Company (1887-1888)
Flag of the Royal Niger Company (1888-1899)
Flag of the British West African Settlements
Flag of the Lagos Colony (1886-1906)
Flag of the Oil Rivers Protectorate
Flag of the Niger Coast Protectorate
Flag of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate (1900-1914)
Flag of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate (1900-1914)
Flag of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria (1914-1960)

Subnational flags

Flag of Osun State

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nigeria: One Nation, Many Flags
  2. ↑ http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/60-minutes-with-the-man-who-designed-nigerian-flag/160096/
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