Pictures of Nigeria in the 60s and 70s
Some of the pictures and many more can be seen on the facebook page of "The Nigerian Nostalgia 1960 - 1980 Project" (https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152978661409591). The rest of my pictures are sourced via google search





Kingsway

Federal Palace Hotel

Looks like the nation was more developed than now

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digging it

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Olubumi Jibowi presenting flowers to Queen Elisabeth Lagos, Nigeria 1956

I must confess, most are pictures of Lagos. Il try to see if I can see other states of the federation. Feel free to post if you have any too

Beautiful pictures - the country was more developed then, compared to these days
These sets of pictures are trully amazing, look out the roads and street are neat, no agberos, or area boys molesting people.
We should show these pictures to our politicians, maybe it will help them to understand the need for massive development in the country.

Where did we actually lost the drive to move the country forward?

@ poster, thanks so much for the pictures, keep them coming

Premier of Northern Nigeria , accompanies Tafawa Balewa ,the Prime Minister of the Nigerian Republic, during one of his visits to Northern Nigeria. Both of them were assasinated in the military coup d'etat of 1966


GROUNDNUT PYRAMIDS




Nigeria Breweries HQ (by Eric Moore/ Costain, near the National Theatre)-- 1971

Tinuade Eyo, Nigeria Airways Air Hostess (c)1962


Passengers about to board a Nigeria Airways Boeing 737 at Calabar airport for a flight to Lagos


Cocoa House, Ibadan, Oyo State. The FIRST skyscraper in Africa. [Year Unknown]

20 Mar 1922, Nigeria, West Africa --- Palm Oil Industry. Palm oil awaiting shipment at Nigeria. ---Original caption: Image by Bettmann/CORBIS


Kano, Nigeria --- Pyramids of Sacks ---A row of pyramid structures made from sacks of peanuts in Kano, Nigeria. Image by Paul Almasy/CORBIS (Undated)

Passengers embark and disembark on river transportation including canoes and ferries. The Niger River, Onitsha, Nigeria. © Paul Almasy/CORBIS Photographer: Paul Almasy Location Information: Onitsha, Nigeria

Students relaxing in new residence hall at University College.
Location: Ibadan, Nigeria
Date taken: April 1953
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Source: Google Life Image Archives


Undergraduates holding a student council meeting.
Location: Ibadan, Nigeria
Date taken: April 1953
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Source: Google Life Image Archives

Edward Iduorobo Ogedegbe being honoured by the Sir James Robertson (The last British Governor General of Nigeria) for his research on Oil Palm -- Jan 01, 1960

Catholic chapel, University College, Ibadan.


Eastern House of Assembly, Enugu, Nigeria (1960). Nnamdi Azikiwe was the governor in the 1950s and Michael Okpara was the governor in the early 1960s

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^^^
Nice one jaybee
how u dey?

I want more pictures please,

proudly9ja:

^^^
Nice one jaybee
how u dey?

I dey oh ma Oga. . .
Hope u've left the lab sha

lets have more

jay bee:

I dey oh ma Oga. . .
Hope u've left the lab sha

Two more months o, been a looong 3 years bt thank God!

Medical students listening to a lecture at University College.
In the middle is Dr Florence Abiola Adeniran, née Martins
Location: Ibadan, Nigeria
Date taken: April 1953
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Source: Google Life Image Archives

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A rainy day on the outskirts of Benin City, Nigeria, in July 1974

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River Owe" near Port Harcourt, 1974

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In 1974 G-AVNE was transferred to the Warri base in Nigeria

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mammy wagon in Nigeria, 1975

By d river of Babylon
Their we sat down
And there we wept
When we remember Zion

And then dey dt carried us away in captivity
Required of us a song
How can we sing d "land" song in a strange land.

Reminds me of the pictures posted by Akhenaten.

Nairaland tribalist frustrated him and he deleted all his pictures.

It is shameful that the LAgos of today or Nigeria of today is a shadow of what it was 40 - 50 years ago. The only inference i can draw is that the older generation failed us woefully and they handed no legacy down to our generation except corruption and mediocrity.

The scary thing is I have the feeling our generation will be worse as most of us are product of mediocre Nigerian education and victims of society at large. Examples are abound of young politicans looting more than their predecessors. Dimeji is a shining example of our lost generation.

Looks like the nation was more developed than now

strange.

i like the palm oil picture.



20 Mar 1922, Nigeria, West Africa --- Palm Oil Industry. Palm oil awaiting shipment at Nigeria. ---Original caption: Image by Bettmann/CORBIS

nice one:


Tinuade Eyo, Nigeria Airways Air Hostess (c)1962

gone are the days sha!!!

groundnut pyramids, kingsway, etc.

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W. E. B. Du Bois and wife in Nigeria at ceremonies marking the nation's independence, 1960.

Chinua Achebe & Langston Hughes

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Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe & Dr. Michael Okpara