51st Independence Day Celebration @ The Aso Rock Villa.

State House Marina (1910s).

William Jefferson Clinton and Olusegun Mathew Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo address a media conference on the grounds of the Aso Rock Villa (car park in front of the Council Chambers).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AZSZywZCGc

State House Marina: The pink and white mansion is State House, while the grey and yellow building is an administrative building. The rest of the compound consists of a large garden with beautiful sculptures. The church pictured here is Our Saviour's (Anglican Church) which is directly behind State House. It used to be the State House chapel.

They're adding barbed wire to the fence. It seems GEJ prefers Marina to Dodan Barracks.

Dodan Barracks has this exact same type of gate except for the Ribadu Road entrance. The Obasanjo Administration replaced the gate at Ribadu Road with a white piece of junk.

At Dodan Barracks the coat of arms is attached to the (red) mast above the gate. Here at Marina the mast is bare, but the coat of arms is carved into the front wall of the building.

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Pictures taken Aug 4th 2012.

I hope and pray that they don't ruin the beauty of this building/compound with all the security measures they are putting in place.

The 1950 pictures was beautiful

Council Chamber, State House Dodan Barracks (January 1984). Members of the SMC & governors were being sworn in.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JjYG-ef8M

Queen Elizabeth @ State House Marina in 1956


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e75cgmKEF0

Check out this thread for a pic of the president's office (taken from another angle) https://www.nairaland.com/1054092/president-jonathans-office-what-u

I'm not absolutely certain about this, but this looks very much like the lobby @ the Council Chambers, Aso Rock Villa.

Former heads of state (l-r) Ernest Shonekan, Muhamadu Buhari, Yakubu Gowon, Olusegun Obasanjo, Shehu Shagari, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar.

Interior of Lagos House Marina

Interior of Lagos House Ikeja.

naptu2: Interior of Lagos House Ikeja.

Nice job you doing here

I'm looking for pictures of the "Round House" at Ikeja (can't seem to find my copies). It was the governors office, but since 2007 it has served as the deputy governor's office. Anybody that has a copy should please post it.

It would also be nice to see pictures of state Government House in each of the 36 states.

blink182: Nice job you doing here

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Entrance to State House Dodan Barracks (Ribadu Road).

(L-R) John Pepper Clark, Chinua Achebe & Wole Soyinka @ Dodan Barracks to plead for the life of (soldier & poet) Major General Mamman Vatsa.

You'll notice the burglar proof features at the top of the wall. They are currently adding those features to the wall of State House Marina, thereby ruining its aesthetic beauty.

naptu2: Presiden :Dt's office, State House, The Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.

imaging the Behind the scene of this photo shoot.all you could see is a typical bayelsa fisherman adjusting to demonstrations while posing.

The picture from this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1054077/picture-president-jonathan-office

Picture from another angle - The President's Office.

1) President Jonathan with Christine Lagarde (IMF Managing Director) @ the lobby of the Council Chamber, State House, The Aso Rock Villa.

2) President Jonathan with Bill Gates (Microsoft founder) @ the lobby of the Council Chamber, State House, The Aso Rock Villa.

Oops! The Bill Gates pic is too large. I'll re-size it later.

President Jonathan and labour leaders at the Aso Rock Press Centre.

1)Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, inspects the guard of honour at the car park, State House, The Aso Rock Villa.

2) President Yar'Adua, Prime Minister Singh and their wives at the entrance to the Council Chamber.

Ministers are sworn in @ the Council Chamber, State House, The Aso Rock Villa.

President Jonathan receives John Mikel Obi @ the president's residence, State House, The Aso Rock Villa.

Birthday @ State House, The Aso Rock Villa

Aso Rock Banquet Hall. The banquet hall was built in 2002/2003 in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2003.

General Yakubu Gowon (Head of State & Commander in Chief) @ Dodan Barracks with the Green Eagles team that took first position in the football event of the 1973 All Africa Games, held in Lagos.

(I'm sorry I ruined this pic. It was originally a colour pic. Now I can't find the original).

Tony Elumelu and Tony Blair walking down the walk way at State House, The Aso Rock Villa.

Lieutenant General Olusegun Obasanjo (Head of State of Nigeria), Mr Andrew Young (American ambassador @ the UN) and Major General Joseph Nanven Garba (foreign minister of Nigeria) walk down the walkway @ Dodan Barracks.

General Gowon gave Joe Garba the task of finding a new residence for the Head of State in 1967 (the Head of State lived at State House Marina at the time, but with the recent coups and the tension leading up to the civil war, it was decided that Marina did not provide enough protection for the Head of State). Garba, who was the commander of the Brigade of Guards at the time, chose State House Ribadu Road (Dodan Barracks).

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OBJ is handsome in that pix tho. *no frank ocean*

Murtala Muhammed swears in members of the Supreme Military Council and delivers his first speech from the Council Chambers, State House Dodan Barracks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKWGJOGgM