Pa. Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi designed the Nigerian Green White Green flag in 1959 at age 23.
The Flags was first hoisted on October 1st, 1960.
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. The original submission had a red radiating sun badge in the central white vertical band with a green vertical band on each side.