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Nigeria looked beautiful back then and every thing seemed so structured. Many times, I wish the British never left or that they stayed a bit longer like the dutch in south Africa. Yes south asfrivans suffered apartheid but look at them now. If the British stayed a bit longer, we would have ended up like south Africa. Things would be better for us right now. But seems like now, Nigeria of the past is better than the Nigeria of the present

Tonylyte:
The ghanaian deportation saga, the reason why those dudes' hate for us is so bold....they still cant hold us back.

It was a retaliation. They did the deportation first agitating that their economy problem was caused by immigrants most esp Nigerian.

Looking at these pictures, i can only ask "Nigeria what happened to thee"..wonderful architecture and landscapes, wonder what nigeria would have looked like if the colonial masters had stayed a little longer..imagine deporting Ghanaians..now we flog their country in search of greener pasture..Pity..

bjt:

Lagos -New York -Lagos
17,430naira

This should be in the 80's because in yhe 70's Lagos to New York is less than N1,000.00.

Numismatic: Looking at these pictures, i can only ask "Nigeria what happened to thee"..wonderful architecture and landscapes, wonder what nigeria would have looked like if the colonial masters had stayed a little longer..imagine deporting Ghanaians..now we flog their country in search of greener pasture..Pity..

Ghana is better than Nigeria because they implemented SAP properly. Nigeria on the other hand was playing with SAP....and STILL continuing our serious resource dependent ways.(Dutch disease).

If Nigeria is to be a better nation economically speaking...we have to stop relying on oil. Oil reliance is not good for any country.

Ten years from now, twenty years from now, you will see: oil will bring us ruin… Oil is the Devil's excrement....[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pablo_P%C3%A9rez_Alfonso]Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso,[/url]founding father of OPEC,and former Venezuelan petroleum minister.

Economists have long known about “Dutch disease,” which happens when a country becomes so dependent on exporting natural resources that its currency soars in value and, as a result, its domestic manufacturing gets crushed as cheap imports flood in and exports become too expensive. What the PISA team is revealing is a related disease: societies that get addicted to their natural resources seem to develop parents and young people who lose some of the instincts, habits and incentives for doing homework and honing skills.

By, contrast, says Schleicher, “in countries with little in the way of natural resources — Finland, Singapore or Japan — education has strong outcomes and a high status, at least in part because the public at large has understood that the country must live by its knowledge and skills and that these depend on the quality of education. ... Every parent and child in these countries knows that skills will decide the life chances of the child and nothing else is going to rescue them, so they build a whole culture and education system around it.”


Thomas Friedman....Pass the books, hold the oil

50calibre: These pics provides a glimpse into the past & what life in Nigeria could have been today if our colonial masters had stayed on.

I don't see the purpose of celebrating today, except in your opinion, 54 years of failure is worth celebrating. Independence was Nigeria's biggest mistake, we did not deserve independence, we still don't deserve independence.

Today calls for sober reflection not celebration, and if Nigerians are indeed concerned about the future, they should unite & forward a petition to the British government for wilful re-colonisation. This British government will gladly oblige, it is going to be of mutual benefit to both sides, and we might just have the same type of relationship they have with the Falklands & Gibralta.

Over a period of 54 years we've demonstrated a complete lack of ability to govern ourselves, how much longer before we acknowledge the fact, maybe we shouldn't be independent in the first place?

well said bro!we need to be re-colonised.we can't achieve anything with all those mofoz in power

Dick Tiger multiple world boxing champion 1963[/quote]

Hogan Bassey ( Calabar man) and Dick Tiger (If no man) light weight world boxing champs.

We hail thee. RIP

The Nigeria of then was far more better than Nigeria of now. I really love the pictures. kudos to the poster

» Rare Photos From Nigeria's History. «

ikwoche: Independence day match pass 1978.
My dad-1st colume, 12th man.
location- Tafawa Balawe Square

On this date, there was heavy rainfall. My dad was there.

babeline: Nigeria looked beautiful back then and every thing seemed so structured. Many times, I wish the British never left or that they stayed a bit longer like the dutch in south Africa. Yes south asfrivans suffered apartheid but look at them now. If the British stayed a bit longer, we would have ended up like south Africa. Things would be better for us right now. But seems like now, Nigeria of the past is better than the Nigeria of the present

South Africa was a British creation, and a British colony. The Afrikanners (descendants of the Dutch...and also French, German and even Malaysian and Black Africans!)..were already independent from the Dutch by the 19th century....and they have been in the country since the 17th century.

As for South Africa's development....that was because the whites focused heavily on industrial and technical development.Unfortunately, thanks to racism, they did not extend technical and scientific education to the mass of the Black South African population (that is why most of our African brethren who are natives of South Africa are unemployed) during the Apartheid era.

Nigeria's underdevelopment is due to our resource dependency.Because we have oil, we just use the oil money to import and import...and import.The imports stifle our local industries (even our biscuit manufacturers HAVE to compete with foreign imports).Whereas, South Africa does not have oil, it does have diamonds and platinum(but both are very expensive to mine...especially diamonds)..so it was forced to fall back on industrial development.

Another thing...South Africa has very limited arable land....so they were forced to use science and technology to develop their agriculture.(Nigeria has too much arable land....so we don't feel the need to develop it...meaning we continue using ancient,labor intensive, farming methods...and just import the difference with our oil money. Of course...South Africa is a net exporter of food, while Nigeria is a net importer).

[color=#006600][/color]Hail nigeria our fathers land I thank God for this LIBERTY unto us very happy to be independent of everything thanks be to d almighty God.Amen!!

Greatest thread ive seen on Nl. Thank you Nellyghengheng.

God bless Nigeria.

bushdoc9919:

South Africa was a British creation, and a British colony. The Afrikanners (descendants of the Dutch...and also French, German and even Malaysian and Black Africans!)..were already independent from the Dutch by the 19th century....and they have been in the country since the 17th century.

As for South Africa's development....that was because the whites focused heavily on industrial and technical development.Unfortunately, thanks to racism, they did not extend technical and scientific education to the mass of the Black South African population (that is why most of our African brethren who are natives of South Africa are unemployed) during the Apartheid era.

Nigeria's underdevelopment is due to our resource dependency.Because we have oil, we just use the oil money to import and import...and import.The imports stifle our local industries (even our biscuit manufacturers HAVE to compete with foreign imports).Whereas, South Africa does not have oil, it does have diamonds and platinum(but both are very expensive to mine...especially diamonds)..so it was forced to fall back on industrial development.

Another thing...South Africa has very limited arable land....so they were forced to use science and technology to develop their agriculture.(Nigeria has too much arable land....so we don't feel the need to develop it...meaning we continue using ancient,labor intensive, farming methods...and just import the difference with our oil money. Of course...South Africa is a net exporter of food, while Nigeria is a net importer).

Thanks for the correction. I get all you said but the main point ( you also agreed with me) that south Africans have gone way much further than nigeria

Fantastic thread. Loving the pictures / images.

eazzzy1: Nice pictures hail Nigeria, Ibos welcome, Gowon 12-Ojukwu 0 Away. Happy Independence day.

UR Anus dia...I.diot

Op nice one. Deep.

babeline: Nigeria looked beautiful back then and every thing seemed so structured. Many times, I wish the British never left or that they stayed a bit longer like the dutch in south Africa. Yes south africans suffered apartheid but look at them now. If the British stayed a bit longer, we would have ended up like south africa. Things would be better for us right now. But seems like now, Nigeria of the past is better than the Nigeria of the present

You mean the same South Africa that is the AIDS capital of the world? You mean the same south Africa that is the crime, r.ape & murder capital of the world? You mean the same South Africa is the worlds most unequal nation in the world with the whites still somehow in control of 90% of the wealth while most of the South African blacks live in shacks? You mean the same South Africa that ranks bottom of the yearly WEC education rankings every year? Is this the same thing you wanted for Nigeria? You want to be a slave? Mugu.

weyham: When there was nothing like North South West and East.

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/1748178_apes_jpegeaac1b42eacf0d9c2510f4fb78f25d14


Who took d pix then?


Nixon since BC000.5

Wow.. These pictures speaks volumes

FBS:
That was the plan. Not to teach them.

And what was black peoples plan
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Not to learn!

babeline: Nigeria looked beautiful back then and every thing seemed so structured. Many times, I wish the British never left or that they stayed a bit longer like the dutch in south Africa. Yes south asfrivans suffered apartheid but look at them now. If the British stayed a bit longer, we would have ended up like south Africa. Things would be better for us right now. But seems like now, Nigeria of the past is better than the Nigeria of the present

The plain sad truth is that black people are intellectually inferior!

History

Down the memory lane


once upon a time!

iamord:

The plain sad truth is that black people are intellectually inferior!

NAIRALAND'S GREATEST POST SINCE INCEPTION!

sexzskil:
NAIRALAND'S GREATEST POST SINCE INCEPTION!

Thank u. Its the plain truth.. But we have not sat down to think for once on how to reverse it.. Its all in the head.. No God will save africa till we start thinking. Am writhing something on it sef

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Nigeria we hail thee!

iamord:

The plain sad truth is that black people are intellectually inferior!

Actually we are not inferior....especially as the academic performances of Nigerians abroad shows otherwise(Nigerian children in the UK do better at the A-levels than Caribbean kids for example).

The problem is that we are so blessed with resources, that we prefer to take the easy way to ''economic development'' by selling said resources, and sharing the money, which we then use to import and import and award contracts.

Countries like China, South Korea and Japan that used to be behind African countries (Fact: China's per capita GDP in 1973 was behind that of Sierra Leone) are countries that have limited natural resources. So, they have to rely on industrial products, which forces them to develop their education systems well into problem solving educaiton systems. As a result , Asians do better on the educaiton scales than Africans and even Europeans and the US!. The reason being that education and industrial development are the only means of survival for these people.

Whereas in Africa we really do not ''need'' education as desperately as resource poor Asian and European(and even the US) does....we can just sell our oil/diamonds/copper/tin/etc....and use the money to import the things that we can manufacture. As a result , we have become so resource dependent...and by extension, ''intellectually dull'' because we refuse to use our education as it should be used.

And that is why, as a Southerner and an indigene of an oil producing state, I do not support resource control. Not because it is wrong, but because it is not good for our intellectual development....and by extension our self sufficiency as a nation(I would say the same if I were a Hausa Northerner...and against Hausa opposition to resource control).

Oil is not good for development...intellectual or industrial and ultimately economic.

Wow! One Nigeria!! God Bless Nigeria!!!

50calibre: These pics provides a glimpse into the past & what life in Nigeria could have been today if our colonial masters had stayed on.

I don't see the purpose of celebrating today, except in your opinion, 54 years of failure is worth celebrating. Independence was Nigeria's biggest mistake, we did not deserve independence, we still don't deserve independence.

Today calls for sober reflection not celebration, and if Nigerians are indeed concerned about the future, they should unite & forward a petition to the British government for wilful re-colonisation. This British government will gladly oblige, it is going to be of mutual benefit to both sides, and we might just have the same type of relationship they have with the Falklands & Gibralta.

Over a period of 54 years we've demonstrated a complete lack of ability to govern ourselves, how much longer before we acknowledge the fact, maybe we shouldn't be independent in the first place?

A gazillion likes for you bro!

The same SA that hosted the 2010 world cup
the Same SA that is with the brics countries
The same SA that is with the G20 countries
The same SA that is currently building a new power plant which will produce more than 4800MW
The same SA where generators are used only for picnic in the veld
The same SA that give its poor people social grants and build free houses for them
The same SA with world class infrastructure,from roads ,telecommunications,rail etc not forgetting world class universities that attract students world wide...Indeed SA is the aids capital of the world,who comes second?there is no equal society in the world,how many people are rich and how many are poor in your country?rich people are flying your oil money with private jets while your nation continues to inhale generators smoke....

ChukwuCantDie: You mean the same South Africa that is the AIDS capital of the world? You mean the same south Africa that is the crime, r.ape & murder capital of the world? You mean the same South Africa is the worlds most unequal nation in the world with the whites still somehow in control of 90% of the wealth while most of the South African blacks live in shacks? You mean the same South Africa that ranks bottom of the yearly WEC education rankings every year? Is this the same thing you wanted for Nigeria? You want to be a slave? Mugu.