Mary Mitchell Slessor, (1848-1915) and family in calabar

So wasteful. See cloth in the floor. Why stress the boy if you're going to drag the cloth anyways?

Lilimax:
Okiotie Eboh the first Nigeria Minister of Finance with his wife

Demdem:


But i thought the buffon asked us to call him a bastard

Yes we have started calling him nah

Idunmota in Lagos island in early 70's. standing below in the side is lagos tower clock

Chief K.O. Mbadiwe posing with Italian businessmen in 1965.

KingTom:
You think thats hot, check out Ibrahim Babangida and his wife Maryam

Nah.IBB's nose is like pumping machine. I prefer the young Abacha

NaijirianKing:
The Original Dangote. It's crazy to think that Igbos have been hustling at this level since the 1800's. I'm amazed, respect.

i thought jaja of opobo was ijaw niger delta does that make him ibo...no offense and no insults just a question

These pictures bring me sadness, to just imagine where Nigeria would have been right now. Compared to the state of no fuel, no electricity across the nation today.

These pictures brings back memories......and a drop of tears to my eyes.

OP love this and that Lagos bus looking like funky molue (abole kaja tinz). Love that Enugu building.

What is so special about these pics? Nigeria was very underdeveloped when all those pics were taken. Most people were malnourished, lived in neglected villages with no electricity or running water. Cars were only for the super rich. Roads were virtually non existent. Illiteracy was the order of the day. Op please stop romanticising misery and deprivation. LIFE IS MUCH BETTER TODAY FOR NIGERIANS.

Lilimax:
Okiotie Eboh the first Nigeria Minister of Finance with his wife

Op, abeg wetin sup wit okiotie dress, is dat suppose to be a train. Y is it on the young 's man nick?

abbeymighty:
Idunmota in Lagos island in early 70's. standing below in the side is lagos tower clock

Is that clock still working

MzJackBaueress:
Asaba- Onitsha crossing in 1959.

This was before the famous Niger bridge was built se? That should have been a boundary between Nigeria and "Biafra".

robosky02:


so liberty square was change to tinubu square

hope would not change eagle square to .........

The Tinubu in that square is not Bola ooo, it refers to Madam Efuntoye Tinubu

President Yar'adua and his wife Turai at her graduation
Cc: Ishilove

ROSSIKE:
LIFE IS MUCH BETTER TODAY FOR NIGERIANS.

Speak for yourself....

May God bless you Op,ose aunty mi,i really enjoyed myself watching and saving These pics

Lagusta:


King jaja was not an Igbo man bruv.....

@mzjackbaueress nice thread, following, please more pics please

Sharrraaaaap.

Jaja was from Igbo extraction. He was believed to have been born in Amaigbo in the present day Imo state of Nigeria. He was later enslaved during the slave trade era and ended up in Bonny in the Niger Delta area. Although he was a slave, he became a member of the Anna Pepple House. Anna Pepple House was a political cum economic structure where some group of individuals within Bonny established a common understanding towards advancing their common business goals and interest. He was able to work up the ladder in the Anna Pepple House because of his well known and dynamic trading capability.
He later became the head of the House. Under Jaja, the Anna Pepple House became very wealthy. This growing prosperity became a thing of envy from the rivals. To avoid and conflict because of the envy, Jaja pulled out in of the Bonny area in 1869 taking with him more than half of the components of the Anna Pepple House. He found a new coastal settlement named Opobo not too far from Bonny.

http://www.africablast.com/2013/05/king-jaja-of-opobo-and-his-relationship.html?m=1

MzJackBaueress:
For those of us who used Lacombes text book.

I remember seeing this textbook with my father's sister;I was still small then.

Pataki:
These pictures bring me sadness, to just imagine where Nigeria would have been right now. Compared to the state of no fuel, no electricity across the nation today.

These pictures brings back memories......and a drop of tears to my eyes.

You are ignorant. What fuel? What electricity? It is actually today you have those things in far greater abundance. In the 1950s power generation stood at 270mw. Rural areas were in total darkness. There was no fuel issue because the majority used bicycles not cars. If you had grown up then you'd likely be an illiterate because litetacy rate was less than 10% at independence, compared to 74% today.

Pataki:
These pictures bring me sadness, to just imagine where Nigeria would have been right now. Compared to the state of no fuel, no electricity across the nation today.

These pictures brings back memories......and a drop of tears to my eyes.

Way back then corruption, greed, stealing was almost zero. every man and woman was his or her neighbour's keeper but not anymore. I weep for this country. Just in the early nineties here, N20 was enough for me to go to school from Monday to Friday while in secondary school.

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford. Governor General of Nigeria. 1919-1925

Asuokaa:


i thought jaja of opobo was ijaw niger delta does that make him ibo...no offense and no insults just a question

You are wrong. He was Igbo man in fresh, blood and spirit. His descendants see themselves as Igbo.

Ishilove:

Nah.IBB's nose is like pumping machine. I prefer the young Abacha

Late Senator Uche Chukwumerije in 1970

MzJackBaueress:
Lord Lugard and other colonial masters with Emir of katsina(wearing black turban) and sarkin katsina, Mohammed Dikko in katasina 1903

There are 2 people wearing black turban in that pic.
Nice pics sha........well done.

Nnamdi Azikiwe Street Idumota along with Carter Bridge in 1959

Oloibiri: The site were the first oil-well was drilled in Nigeria.
at Oloibiri, in Ogbia, Bayelsa State, in 1956

MzJackBaueress:
The Tinubu Square erected in 1960. It was formerly called "THE FOUNTAIN OF LIBERTY".

The picture was taken in 1965

Tinubu square was beautiful then,now market everywhere.

MzJackBaueress:
Lagos Bus (1973)

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2409901_img72019027462299_jpeg_jpeg93c22cb5f613c97a252814047ebabe91
teni begi loju...... LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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Please sir, did you read to get this information or you are old enough to have witnessed the sequence as a youth ? Either way my respect sir, thanks to all refreshing our minds with history. Someday I will pretend to my kids I know so much too .

StOla:


Doyin Okupe is no prince since his father was not a King, but a popular industrialist that started the Agbonmagbe bank (Wema bank). The kings in the Okupe-Agbonmagbe family was Doyin's grand father and succeeded by his father's older brother (Doyin's uncle). After that, the stool of the Alaperu of Iperu-Remo moved to another ruling house.

At best, Doyin's Father was a prince and brother to a king. Therefore Doyin is Iperu-Remo nobility but no prince.

ROSSIKE:
You are ignorant. What fuel? What electricity? It is actually today you have those things in far greater abundance. In the 1950s power generation stood at 270mw. Rural areas were in total darkness. There was no fuel issue because the majority used bicycles not cars.

If not that you are a very daft useless nuisance, I would have responded to you like a normal human being. Your way of reasoning is non-different from an agama lizard. Hopeless entity.