NegroNtns:


 I thought you were talking about 1950 Lagos.  People in 1950 Lagos had ownership and jobs or trade or craft. . . .they had safety and nourishment. They received quality education.



I don't know where you lived before moving to Lagos. . . but the old ECN power plant in Ijora did not fail the Lagos population.  

Here's a quote - "The history of electricity in Nigeria dates back to 1896 when electricity was first produced in Lagos, fifteen years after its introduction in England."

Here's the source -  http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/newsletterdl.aspx?id=56



Almost every picture you saw of old Lagos had cars parked on the streets and some on the road.  There was not one picture that did not have a paved road. . . even if there was no car in picture, the road itself attest to the network of transportation.  There is a picture of Herbert Macauley rd in Yaba where they showed cabriolet cars that the aristocrats rode around in.  Beside cars. . . there were as well bicyclists.  There were sidewalks for pedestrians.  So the government did not abandon the people as they do nowadays.


Lagos had Yaba College of Tech, founded 1947. It had University of Lagos 1962/

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Onikan health center; Island General hos[yl; Island Maternity hosptl; Massey strts health center.  

Rossik, you must be one of those people that came to Lagos and was enamored by the new awareness of landscape architecture and beauty and the appeal of urban  hippyness.

Give me a break~  The new structures and their beauty is okay and the pictures you have are adoring. . . . but to criticize the Old scenery as backward and a failure is outright insensitive of you.


. . . . and if you think what you see here in terms of aesthetic and well being is outstanding. . . wait to hear about Ibadan.   Were the whites all over Ibadan as well?  

stop acting like someone that has never seen opulence before. . . dont let the skyscrapers all get in your head.

TonySpike:
The eviction of our white colonial masters in 1960 was really ill-timed in a way. It appears their departure created a vacuum which led to a massive deterioration in our societal, economic and evidently, our thought process. There is no better way to say this,

NegroNtns:


 I thought you were talking about 1950 Lagos.  People in 1950 Lagos had ownership and jobs or trade or craft. . . .they had safety and nourishment. They received quality education.



I don't know where you lived before moving to Lagos. . . but the old ECN power plant in Ijora did not fail the Lagos population.  

Here's a quote - "The history of electricity in Nigeria dates back to 1896 when electricity was first produced in Lagos, fifteen years after its introduction in England."

Here's the source -  http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/newsletterdl.aspx?id=56



Almost every picture you saw of old Lagos had cars parked on the streets and some on the road.  There was not one picture that did not have a paved road. . . even if there was no car in picture, the road itself attest to the network of transportation.  There is a picture of Herbert Macauley rd in Yaba where they showed cabriolet cars that the aristocrats rode around in.  Beside cars. . . there were as well bicyclists.  There were sidewalks for pedestrians.  So the government did not abandon the people as they do nowadays.


Lagos had Yaba College of Tech, founded 1947. It had University of Lagos 1962/

.
Onikan health center; Island General hos[yl; Island Maternity hosptl; Massey strts health center.  

Rossik, you must be one of those people that came to Lagos and was enamored by the new awareness of landscape architecture and beauty and the appeal of urban  hippyness.

Give me a break~  The new structures and their beauty is okay and the pictures you have are adoring. . . . but to criticize the Old scenery as backward and a failure is outright insensitive of you.


. . . . and if you think what you see here in terms of aesthetic and well being is outstanding. . . wait to hear about Ibadan.   Were the whites all over Ibadan as well?  

stop acting like someone that has never seen opulence before. . . dont let the skyscrapers all get in your head.

TonySpike:
I have three more rare and amazing pictures of Lagos from the earliest time:

1. This is an aerial view of Lagos in 1929, note the open field, that is the modern site of TBS (or former race course) and again note the truncated land mass at the bottom of the picture, that should be undeveloped Victoria Island of 1929.

2. Another view of Lagos around the same time

3. This is the Marina, Lagos-Island (I can't place the year since there are no cars in the background)

Sholaf:


The 3rd pic, Onikan-Marina end, where my granny and her friends take strolls on week ends in the late 20s.

The place gave way to The motherless babies home Onikan. Nig Army Officers Mess took over, next door, is The Lagos Yacht Club.

4teelaw:
Old Lagos resembles Modern day London, Modern day Lagos resembles a shadow of its former glory, thank God for Fashola sef, it could have been worse!

Rossikk:
More from Walter Rodney:

''In predominantly black countries, it was also true that the bulk of the social services went to whites. The southern part of Nigeria was one of the colonial areas that was supposed to have received the most from a benevolent ‘mother country’. Ibadan, one of the most heavily populated cities in Africa, had only about 50 Europeans before the last war [WW2]. For those chosen few, the British colonial government maintained a segregated hospital service of 11 beds in well-furnished surroundings. There were 34 beds for the half-a-million blacks. The situation was repeated in other areas [of Nigeria], so that altogether the 4,000 Europeans in the country in the 1930s had 12 modern hospitals, while the African population of at least 40 million had 52 hospitals.''

http://www.marxistsfr.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/how-europe/ch06.htm

Kx:
What better way to show how Nigeria has retrogressed than with this pix?

Lagos and Ibadan of 1960 is 100 million times better than the VI. of today.

OnlyRebel:
The military incursion through the coup of 1966 distroy the nation. And the ill-conceived and ill-fated Biafra war.

faithin9ja:
I finished primary school in 1974, I have fond memories as an 'ajebutter' kid of Leventis, Kingsway and UTC. There was Kingsway stores in Sapele, Wari and Benin even in those days. But let's not kid ourselves majority of Nigerians lived in rural areas in the 50s, 60s and 70s.