LIST OF GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF NIGERIA

This page contains a list of Governors-General of Nigeria.
See also lists of incumbents, list of Presidents of Nigeria.

Contents

Governors-General of Nigeria, 1914-1919

Governors of Nigeria, 1919-1954

Governors-General of Nigeria, 1954-1963

Governors-General of Nigeria, 1914-1919

★ Sir Frederick Lugard: 1 January 1914 - 8 August 1919

Governors of Nigeria, 1919-1954

★ Sir Hugh Clifford: 8 August 1919 - 13 November 1925

★ Sir Graeme Thomson: 13 November 1925 - 17 June 1931

★ Sir Donald Cameron: 17 June 1931 - 1 November 1935

★ Sir Bernard Bourdillon: 1 November 1935 - 1 July 1940

★ Sir John Shuckburgh: 1 July 1940 - 1942

★ Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns: 1942 - 18 December 1943

★ Sir Arthur Richards: 18 December 1943 - 5 February 1948

★ Sir John Stuart Macpherson: 5 February 1948 - 1 October 1954

Governors-General of Nigeria, 1954-1963

★ Sir John Stuart Macpherson: 1 October 1954 - 15 June 1955

★ Sir James Robertson: 15 June 1955 - 16 November 1960

★ Nnamdi Azikiwe: 16 November 1960 - 1 October 1963