This article is about the particular significance of the year 1964 to Nigeria and its people.
Incumbents President: Nnamdi Azikiwe Prime Minister: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Senate President: Nwafor Orizu House Speaker: Ibrahim Jalo Waziri Chief Justice: Adetokunbo Ademola
Events February - Mid-West Region legislative election takes place with National Council of Nigerian Citizens winning the majority of seats October - Nigeria participates in the 1964 Summer Olympics and wins its first medal December - the Nigerian parliamentary election starts and continues into 1965 The National Library of Nigeria whose construction started in 1962 opens Construction of the Kanji Dam begins The Nigerian Defence Academy is established
Births 2 February - Goodluck Nanah Opiah, politician and former speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Nigeria. Tubal Rabbi Cain, writer
Deaths 20 January - Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, Roman Catholic priest who worked in Nnewi, Dunukofia, Akpu/Ajalli and Aguleri.Entirely for God: the life of Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, p. 37, Elizabeth Isichei (Cistercian Publications, 1980) and was later beatified by Pope John Paul II (born 1903)
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