Colonial Era
Fredrick Lugard
Hugh Clifford
Graeme Thompson
Donald Cameron
Bernard Bourdillon
Arthur Richards
John Stuart Macpherson
First Republic
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Military Rule I
Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi
Yakubu Gowon
Murtala Muhammed
Olusegun Obasanjo
Second Republic
Shehu Shagari
Military Rule II
Muhammed Buhari
Ibrahim Babanginda
Third Republic
Ernest Shonekan
Miliary Rule III
Sani Abacha
Abdulsalam Abubakar
Fourth Republic
Olusegun Obasanjo
Umar Musa Yar Adua
Goodluck Jonathan