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1st Republic / MilitaryGovernor, Central Bank of Nigeria· 25 July 1963 — 22 June 1967

Aliyu Mai-Bornu

First Nigerian Governor of the Central Bank. Pictured on the ₦1,000 note.

The record

Aliyu Mai-Bornu (1919–1970), a Kanuri economist from Borno, was the first Nigerian Governor of the CBN, taking office on 25 July 1963.

His tenure included the 1 January 1968 currency-conversion exercise that exchanged Nigerian Pounds for new notes — designed to render Biafran-held pre-war currency worthless.

Sources

  • CBN — Past Governors archive
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.