Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi OFR (10 May 1936 – 29 August 2023) was a Nigerian civil servant who was best known for designing Nigeria's national flag.
[2] Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi was born in Ibadan, of Yoruba origin, the older of a set of twins.
Akinkunmi left IGS in 1955 and took an appointment as an agriculturist at the Western Region Secretariat in Ibadan as a civil servant.
He was honoured as an Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) and honorary life presidential adviser on 29 September 1994 at the Abuja Conference Centre.
"[7] In 2021, Akinkunmi unveiled the world’s largest national flag in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.