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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 4:53pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Photo from his book "Adventures in Power" Book One: My march through prison; Macmillan Nigeria Publishers The book is dedicated to all those who stood by him and his wife through their trials and tribulations from 1962 - 1966
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 4:55pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Chief Awolowo
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by tpia5: 4:57pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
geez what happened to nigeria? A 1973 picture of one of the roads leading to Ibadan. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:01pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
tpia@: More people with cars? |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:08pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
the Queen's College Yaba Class of 1965 -
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by dempeople(m): 5:14pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Nice pictures. Well done to Proudly9ja and Ezeuche. Is that Ozumba Mbadiwe standing behind the sitting white gentleman in the photo of post #41? Anyways, I wish it worked out for us as a country with strong unified ethnic groups. Rather sad it didn't. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:14pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION CARD.1964 "No money should be paid for this card"
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by proudly9ja(m): 5:16pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
^^ Thats REAL FREE education. Not what we have now where tuition is free but one has to pay over 100k for miscellaneous |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:21pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
1966 Pioneer Class 2 of UNILAG Staff School. The School was started to absorb those of us who were affected by the closure of Corona school Yaba, which was then in the compound of the Myhoung Barracks, Military Hospital. With the declaration of War on Biafra in 1966, the Army took back the Buildings it had given to the School 1 Like
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:21pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
'Being a Nigerian is abysmally frustrating and unbelievably exciting': Chinua Achebe in 1967. Photograph: Michael Neal 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:22pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
[img]http://www.africareview.com/image/view/-/1012778/highRes/195776/-/maxw/600/-/1177wo6z/-/Okigbo+image.jpg[/img] From left: Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo with Chinua Achebe and Alex Ajayi. Photo/FILE | |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:23pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
THE SWEET PERFUME IN A STICK (1972) Ad for Odorono deodorant stick We made our own perfumes.
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:24pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Rufus Ogundele from the catalogue "Oshogbo - Harvest from the Land of Culture", issued by Goethe Institut, Lagos, 2000
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:25pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:26pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Left: Major Muhammadu Buhari, Middle: Col. D. Bamigboye. Inspecting the front during the civil war. 1969
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:28pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
2nd from Left: Col. D. Bamigboye, 3rd from right: Major Muhammadu Buhari (standing akimbo). Inspecting the front during the civil war. 1969
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:28pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
[img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/187931_ojukwu3_jpgf53687f76fc45effd051cff0abdfb8de [/img] Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by aljharem3: 5:28pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Ileke-IdI:only if he was the president |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:29pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Biafran Soldier |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:30pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Famous Nigerian painter and drummer, Chief Muraina Oyelami at an early point of his career at a reception at Goethe Institute, Lagos, then Broad Street. We were in the company of German Embassy officials, discussing the impending show of the German jazz group “The Barrelhouse Jazzband” early Seventies.
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:30pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Company of Biafran soldiers leave their positions to advance on a Nigerian position 100 yards away during the Aba offensive, Aug. 1968. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:31pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Igwe Isaac Iweka (B.Eng Imperial College) one of the first Igbo Engineers, standing is his brother Dr Jonas Iweka, one of the first Igbo Medical Doctor's. This photograph was taken at the Iwaji (New Yam) Festival at the Igwe's palace- c.1976
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:32pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Ondo, Nigeria 1976.
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:32pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu at Nigerian-Biafran peace talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where the Emperor Haile Selassie is chairman of the committte Aug 5 1968. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:34pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Northern soldiers attacking Igbos in Northern Nigeria. circa 1966. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:34pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Mother Africa by Felix Idubor - it is Emotan easily recognizable that it stands in front of the National Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:34pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Federal Nigerian police push back crowds of demonstrators outside the French Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, Sept. 16, 1968 - They were demonstrating against French assistance to Biafra. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:35pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
Major General Yakubu Gowon at Dodan barracks, stands before a map of Nigeria as he tells reporters at a press conference that the war will be over in 4-8 weeks - Sept 13 1968. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by Nobody: 5:35pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
This is a pre-independence ID card used by the Nigerian contingent of the Commonwealth force hitherto known as Royal Nigerian Army. The holder of same as pictured on the overleaf hails from Umuahia south local government area of Abia state. He was educated at the Royal School of Signal Yorkshire-UK and subsequently saw action in Congo, the former Tanganyika and as a military attaché in Cameroon. He rose to the rank of Sergeant in the Nigerian Army prior to the civil war; he switched sides in the course of the civil war in order to exercise the right to self determination. At the end of the Biafran/Nigerian military campaign and cessation of hostilities, he got re- integrated into civil life and is presently pensioned and in his late 70s. 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:36pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
New head of state Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu in Enugu shortly after the declaration of independence and formation of the new state of Biafra, June 10 1967 takes the oath of office. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:37pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
16 Dec 1959, Lagos, Nigeria --- Cheer election results. Lagos, Nigeria: A forest of waving arms is created as a crowd applauds election results posted at the Lagos racetrack during the Nigerian general election. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was reappointed Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria, which will achieve independence from Great Britain next Oct. 1st. Abubakar's party, the Northern people's congress, emerged from the election with the largest number of seats in the New House of Representatives. Abubakar said that Nigeria would remain within the British Commonwealth after Oct. 1st, adding that he favored closer ties with Britain and the United States. He expressed hope that the United States would provide economic aid. |
Re: Nigeria In The 60s/70s. Sights And Sounds by EzeUche(m): 5:37pm On Jul 21, 2011 |
[img]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs795.ash1/168594_10150124478828488_119586108487_7901768_6286047_n.jpg [/img] OGUNDE AND HIS WIVES (1969) Theatre don Chief Hubert Ogunde and eight of his twelve wives in London during a tour of Britain with his Ogunde Dancers group. |
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