Historical Nigerian figures

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Across
  1. 2. - served as President of the Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War (6)
  2. 3. famous female salve trader (6)
  3. 6. – Governor of Central Bank and then a State (6)
  4. 10. – flamboyant former Minister of Finance (10)
  5. 11. Nigeria’s richest woman (7)
  6. 13. – signed the surrender instrument on behalf of Biafra (7)
  7. 14. – was military Head of State and civilian president (8)
  8. 17. - First African Anglican Bishop (8)
  9. 18. – He moved the motion for Nigerian independence (7)
  10. 21. - First indigenous Governor-General (6)
  11. 23. – led the Nigerian coup in 1976 (5)
  12. 25. - elected President of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983 (7)
Down
  1. 1. often referred to as ‘the sage’ (7)
  2. 4. - first and only prime minister of Nigeria (6)
  3. 5. - first premier of Northern Nigeria in 1954 (5)
  4. 7. – First Governor of Lagos (7)
  5. 8. Nigerian figures
  6. 9. – Nigeria’s richest man (7)
  7. 11. first military head of state (12)
  8. 12. - third Commonwealth Secretary-General (7)
  9. 15. – famous female ruler of the city-state Zazzau (5)
  10. 16. - won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature(7)
  11. 19. - novelist, poet best known for his first novel, Fall Apart (6)
  12. 20. – winner of the ‘freest and fairest’ elections in Nigeria (6)
  13. 22. – fought and died for the Ogoni people (8)
  14. 24. – Military Head of State known as ‘Maradona’ (9)