lawanson44:

Pictures of the 16 gold carriages and the wedding or it is another ofe...nu chest-beating lie!

iamord:

Oga! Go and sleep

Btw

Happy independence day nigeria!

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

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..

EroZA: 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....

NellyGhenghen: Original caption: World war II- African recruits learning to speak english at the Engineer training centre, Bukuru Northern Nigeria.

NellyGhenghen: Nigerian soldiers leaving Kaduna for a second tour of service with the United Nations in Congo.

NellyGhenghen: Some of the prominent Nigerian leaders in their youth (Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ismail, Ibrahim Babangida, Mohammed Magoro and AB Ahmed) with their names written at the bottom.

Jazzmyne: We could have let the white man stay

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

NellyGhenghen: Cathedral Church of Christ Lagos, 1974.

judedwriter:
And our nation wuld have been developed like south africa plus the apartheid

NellyGhenghen: The first Nigerian to declare that 20 man shall fall that day if you cross his lane, he declared it before wizkid. 19 year old Victor uwaifo training and posing at Obalende, near st Gregory's college, Lagos 1960.

NellyGhenghen: The first Nigerian to declare that 20 man shall fall that day if you cross his lane, he declared it before wizkid. 19 year old Victor uwaifo training and posing at Obalende, near st Gregory's college, Lagos 1960.

NellyGhenghen: Captain James Labulo Davies. A London based yoruba millionaire who arrived in (1861) with 16 gold carriages for his wedding to Sarah Forbes Bonetta (The black adopted daughter of Queen Victoria)

NellyGhenghen: Nigeria Airways.

NellyGhenghen: The Biafa war- General Yakubu Gowon can be seen in the first pic standing before a map as he tells reporters at a press conference that the war will be over in 4 to 8 weeks- Sept 13 1968. He was however wrong as the war finished apprx 2 years after. 2nd image shows genocide during the Biafran war, whilst the 3rd shows celebrations after the end of the war with a placard saying "Hail one Nigeria Ibos welcome".

Sunnybobo3:

If you do not know who Sir Victor Uwaifo is why not do a simple Google search. In case you don't know, He is still very much active and was commissioner in Edo state under Lucky Igbinedion.

ChukwuCantDie: Shut up white boy..i cant wait till Malema becomes president of SA and wipes you out for good.

EroZA:
even if malema becomes the president...nothing will change,south Africa is for both blacks and whites,if you are not happy about it,come and get your confiscated billions of nairas

Orikinla:

OP, please, I don't agree with this date.
CMS was not like this in the early 1970s.
This picture must be from the 1960s.

The foundation stone for the first cathedral building was laid on 29 March 1867 and the cathedral was established in 1869.

Construction of the current building to designs by architect Bagan Benjamin started on 1 November 1924. The foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) on 21 April 1925. It was completed in 1946.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Church_of_Christ,_Lagos

NellyGhenghen: British Troops showing off their precious loot after the Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897.

NellyGhenghen: Captain James Labulo Davies. A London based yoruba millionaire who arrived in (1861) with 16 gold carriages for his wedding to Sarah Forbes Bonetta (The black adopted daughter of Queen Victoria)

iamord:

Left to me he does not fit to be sas president.. The earlier blacks and whites in sa learn to forge ahead the better..cos if your carry the grudge into the next elections..and someone with such bitterness in heart comes into power.. It will throw all madibas efforts in the drain and make the apartheid look like a child's play

Ishilove: Very powerful pictures indeed. A people without a history are a blind people; lost and floundering because we need to know where we are coming from in order understand why we are where we are.

However, in the Nigerian case, the mind boggles. It defies rational discourse because I don't know anywhere else in the world where history has been taken out of school curriculum.


Mods, frontpage please so that people can learn.

NellyGhenghen: National stadium Surulere Lagos in the 70s.

NellyGhenghen: A colonial officer carried by servants in Lagos, 1910.

NellyGhenghen: Original caption: World war II- African recruits learning to speak english at the Engineer training centre, Bukuru Northern Nigeria.