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1st October 1958: The first Nigerian prime minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912 - 1966), greets air stewardess Miss Christina Twsela, after the inaugural flight of the WAAC (West African Airline Company). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=717823.msg8763270#msg8763270 date=1311276616]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

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7th July 1964, Sir Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, centre, the Prime Minister of Nigeria, arrives in London for the Commonwealth Prime Minister's Conference.

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Prime Minister of Nigeria Abubakar Tafawa Balewa with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower - October 1960

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1/16/1966-Dorking, England- Nigerian President Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe tells the press here on January 16 that he will return to his troubled country as soon as arrangements can be made. Dr. Azikiwe, convalescing in this country following an illness, said that on his return he would appeal for law and order to be restored in Nigeria, which has been the scene of a revolt against the government of Prime Minister Balewa January 15.

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We need realize that most Nigerians at that time were still living in their rural villages. Of course the cities were not as populated as we find them now.

LET US BLAME OIL!

Oil has been a curse for Nigeria. It has made the people lazy!

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=717823.msg8762540#msg8762540 date=1311270245]Have you started again? Behave yourself.[/quote]No I have not started. I was asking a question. You behave yourself.

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First published by C. Hurst and Company, London 1970

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1959: Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe (in purple robe), Premier of Eastern region, talks to supporters outside his apartment house, Onitsha, Nigeria Elisofon, Eliot photographer

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1959: Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe, Premier of Eastern region, Onitsha, Nigeria Elisofon, Eliot photographer

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1959: Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe's Chauffeur, Onitsha, Nigeria Elisofon, Eliot photographer

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1959: Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, Onitsha, Nigeria Elisofon, Eliot photographer

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1959: Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, Onitsha, Nigeria Elisofon, Eliot photographer

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(L-R): Ambassador Alex Quaison Sackey (Ghana), Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria), Ambassador Diallo Telli (Guinea) and US Diplomat and Nobel Laureate Ralph Bunche at the International House, United Nations, July 19, 1959. Photo by Paul Cordes courtesy of Dept. of Special Collections UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library.

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W.E.B. Du Bois and Nnamdi Azikiwe c.1950s

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Jaja Wachuku, Balewa, Queen of England

How did Nigeria fall so mightily? Could it be traced to the crisis in the Western region?  

EDNA PARK, MISS NIGERIA AT THE MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT (MIAMI, 1964)
When the names of the finalists were announced, Edna Park was not among them. Ms. Park immediately collapsed in tears and had to be carried off the stage. When she failed to stop crying after two hours, she was administered sedatives by a physician and admitted to the hospital for overnight observation before eventually returning to Nigeria. To her dismay, she found that the incident had earned her much ridicule in the Nigerian press.

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EDNA PARK, MISS NIGERIA AT THE MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT (MIAMI, 1964)
One of the questions on the forms for the contestant biographies required the contestants to state what they hoped to gain from their participation in the competition. Most of them replied with typically insincere, faux-inspirational pageantry cliches like "To represent my country," "To make friends" and "To travel." Edna Park however, stated in no uncertain terms, " To win the crown."

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EDNA PARK, MISS NIGERIA AT THE MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT (MIAMI, 1964)
Twenty-year-old Edna Park was the first Miss Nigeria to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant, and she impressed all in attendance with her regal bearing and unflappable confidence.

(Photo from Ebony magazine, October 1964)

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Omowale Malcolm X visits Nigeria in 1964 - there he was given the name Omowale by the Yoruba people meanining, the child has returned home

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Nnamdi Azikiwe at the Nigerian High Commission Office in London, Aug. 28, 1969, as he urged Biafra to abandon its fight against the federal Nigerian government.

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President John A. Hannah (third from front) marches in the opening convocation procession of the University of Nigeria at Nsukka in Eastern Nigeria, in 1960. For many years, Michigan State University worked closely with the Nigerian government in the total development of the University of Nigeria in the eastern section of the West African nation. This promising institution was cut short by Civil War in 1967.

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OGUNDE AND HIS WIVES (1969)
Theatre don Chief Hubert Ogunde and eight of his twelve wives in London during a tour of Britain with his Ogunde Dancers group.

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16 Dec 1959, Lagos, Nigeria --- Cheer election results. Lagos, Nigeria: A forest of waving arms is created as a crowd applauds election results posted at the Lagos racetrack during the Nigerian general election. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was reappointed Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria, which will achieve independence from Great Britain next Oct. 1st. Abubakar's party, the Northern people's congress, emerged from the election with the largest number of seats in the New House of Representatives. Abubakar said that Nigeria would remain within the British Commonwealth after Oct. 1st, adding that he favored closer ties with Britain and the United States. He expressed hope that the United States would provide economic aid.

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New head of state Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu in Enugu shortly after the declaration of independence and formation of the new state of Biafra, June 10 1967 takes the oath of office.