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Rich women from Onitsha wearing ivory ankles.

Swag: A form IV student of FGC Sokoto posing near the principal's office.

Airlifting of reliefs, food, medicine during Biafra war.

Staff of central Bank of Nigeria setting tje value of Naira in weekly session. 1987.

General Gowon shaking Justin Trudeau as a baby in 1973. Trudeau is now the Prime Minister of Canada at 42.

Apapa wharf, 1936.

Female police officers being inspected before patrol, 1960.

Lagos 1910.

Selling fruits in kano 1930.

Translator.

A Nigerian soldier recruited to fight for the British during WWII shows off his medal.

Agbonmagbe Bank, now Wema Bank. Incorporated in 1945.

Making call in Nigeria way back.

Fela beaten by soldiers, 1978.

Nigeria Airways stewardesses with Forker F28 Mark 2000 5N-ANK

Sultan of sokoto, Emir of Gwandu and Emir of Kano inspecting imperial Airway's latest(new) plane. 1934.

Sir Ahmadu Bello and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Date and location undocumented.

Government car: Row of Mercedes Benz with FGN plate number.

Our ancestors: Two men in southern Nigeria, 1890.

Men being trained on how to use microscope in southern Nigeria.

Growing up: Do you remember eating this? Share your experience.


We call it esunsun(Dont no the English), they fly around in the night during rainy season and they're attracted to fluorescent bulbs, halogen lamps and so on. We capture them using brooms, we put them in bowl/bucket of water and fry with salt, pepper etc.

Ate it today, delicious....

Accident way back.

Friday prayer at a mosque in Kaduna.

Final check, preparation for Queen Elizabeth visit, 1956.

Onyeka Onwenu performing on stage.

Eager to shake his hand, Mohammed Ali in Lagos.

Late Stephen Keshi exchange pennant with Cameroon captain Richard Abega. Date unknown.

Vintage Lipton Ad sold for 75k, 1980.

People returning from Eid prayer Kano, 1940.






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allytinted:
what an interesting and educating thread. Bookmarked and saved for future reference and offline reading. Also going to research more. Thanks explorer.

Tnx bro.

aolumaxi:
Lalasticlala will always come late to this kinda party.... sha come and move us to capital city... good one explorers.... one snake for you and lala

Bros lala abeg help with more views na....

So sad, RIP.