Herbert Macaulay Memorial Statue

Looking at him on the one naira coin, HERBERT SAMUEL HEELAS MACAULAY kinda looks like a white man to me. Or let me say his moustache and names kind of sound foreign to me. As a youngster, I always wondered why someone with such a ‘strange and unNigerian’ name will be glorified as a Nigerian hero,now i know . Did you know that Herbert Macaulay could have actually been Nigeria’s first President, instead of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe? Herbert Macaulay was a man of towering intelligence. In Nigeria of today where many men struggle to keep and cope with one job, Herbert Macaulay was a clerk, civil engineer, architect, surveyor, land inspector, journalist, musician, nationalist and politician.