ROSSIKE:
Keep deceiving yourself. Literacy rate has increased dramatically since independence. Why do you think the vast majority of our grandparents are illiterates? Use your brain for once!

You no need to de insulting, my opinion na my opinion, u can't force me to accept urs especially wen u fail to convince me.

So tell me, Weda ur grand parent was born in the 1960s?
Because most of those pictures na from the 60s upwards

ShymmexOBE:


Big Uncle, I had to jump on this thread, after seeing the picture and your post. And keep your reply not-too-deep/personal cos everything shouldn't be discussed on the internet, if you get the drift.

Anyway, I never knew that loquacious man's from the Agbonmade family tree. Ditto an Agbonmagbe bank. I have heard about the Agbonmade house somewhere in Lagos. The links...the links...the links.

Agbonmagbe was divided into two - Okupe and a next name, no? And the next name was further divided into two. Can you list all the ruling families in Iperu-Remo?

Well, I don't know much about the divisions. I just know Okupe, while Agbonmagbe is the family name, but some chose to use both names as a compound surname (Okupe-Agbonmagbe). The Agbonmagbe house is located at the Adekunle entry/exit of 3rd Mainland bridge just at the end of Herbert Macaulay Road Yaba. It's a house built by Doyin's father, the industrialist. Same Doyin's father also developed an estate in Maryland Lagos, called Okupe-Estate. All the houses are actually sold out but some are occupied by family.

I believe there are 3 ruling houses, Agbonmagbe(Okupe), Amororo, never knew the 3rd.

If you must know, my surname isn't either of those names, but I can trace my maternal links to Iperu Remo via the Okupe family amongst other popular families. Notable families from Iperu-Remo are Olushola (Late Amb. Segun Olushola), Ogunlesi, Adebutu (Kesington Adebutu of premier lotto - Baba Ijebu).

It's been a while I've been to Iperu Remo. At least not in a decade.

I'm no big uncle ooo, just a dude with a flair for world history, and charity has to begin at home.

Octaves:
Naija was more organized under the whites. Beautiful pix

No it wasn't. Nigeria was an underdeveloped, deprived hellhole under the whites. A footpath led to your village under the whites. Today under the blacks a tarred road leads to it, filled with cars.

The First national team "red devils" now "super eagles". that went on tour to the UK in 1949.


THE SQUAD
GOALKEEPERS: Sam Ibiam (Port Harcourt), Isaac Akioye (Hercules, Ibadan)

DEFENCE: Justin Onwudiwe (Lagos Railway), Olisa Chukwura (Abeokuta), ATB Ottun (Lagos Marines), Isiaku Shittu (Lagos UAC), John Dankaro (Jos), Hope Lawson (Lagos Marine), Dan Anyiam (Lagos UAC), Okoronkwo Kanu (Land & Survey).

FORWARDS: Mesembe Otu (Lagos Marine), Peter Anieke (Lagos Railway), Sokari Dokubo (Lagos Railway), Godwin Anosike (Lagos Railway), Tesilimi Balogun (Lagos Railway), Titus Okere (Lagos Railway), Etim Henshaw (Lagos Marine) and Edet Ben (Lagos Marine

ROSSIKE:
Of course I know that. I'm surprised you know.

Good, my earlier comment was centred or limited to Nigerians way back then. That is why I said corruption, stealing and the likes were almost zero.

Demdem:


Chai, Ojukwus nemesis.

I know its not possible not to find a fool in nairaland at anytime. This is simply their habitat.

Tinubu changed,his wife looked same. This is unusual as women age faster in their looks. What happened ?

cbaba:
My turn.... tinubu and wife 1987.

Mary Slessor in calabar

Asuokaa:


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

King Jaja was kidnapped from his village in Amaigbo, present day Imo / Abia state.
His REAL name was Jubo Juboagha.
It was from there he was kidnapped to Opobo.
Check google.

loomer:


You no need to de insulting, my opinion na my opinion, u can't force me to accept urs especially wen u fail to convince me.

So tell me, Weda ur grand parent was born in the 1960s?
Because most of those pictures na from the 60s upwards

I am not giving you my "opinion". I am giving you the facts. In the 1960s literacy rate was between 10 and 25%. Compared to 74% today.

Hon. T.O.C Ojiakor takes a stroll with his family in London (1955)

MzJackBaueress:
HRH Oba Adeyinka Okupe. Father of Dr. Doyin Okupe

HE'S EVEN A ROYAL BASTARD. GOOD.

MzJackBaueress:
Agbonmagbe Bank. The bank failed to meet the provision of the new banking decree and it was taken over and renamed Wema Bank in 1970.

WOW! GOOD TO KNOW!!

lolly2pops:
Nigeria looked better then than it does now.

That is your inferiority complex talking. A failure to appreciate the massive progress we have made. If I post modern pictures of Nigeria they would look a million times better than these pictures.

The MMA international airport
Before and now

ROSSIKE:
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.

What's this one saying ?
Plz ask your parents which era they preferred.
Free scholarship
No armed robbery
No kidnappings
Power supply was better
Equal power between dollar, pounds, Naira
Several Europeans were living in Naija then........unlike now..........because it was more comfortable

Nigerians first Parliament October 1 1960

THESE PICTURES ARE INSPIRING!

StOla:

Well, I don't know much about the divisions. I just know Okupe, while Agbonmagbe is the family name, but some chose to use both names as a compound surname (Okupe-Agbonmagbe). The Agbonmagbe house is located at the Adekunle entry/exit of 3rd Mainland bridge just at the end of Herbert Macaulay Road Yaba. It's a house built by Doyin's father, the industrialist. Same Doyin's father also developed an estate in Maryland Lagos, called Okupe-Estate. All the houses are actually sold out but some are occupied by family.

I believe there are 3 ruling houses, Agbonmagbe(Okupe), Amororo, never knew the 3rd.

If you must know, my surname isn't either of those names, but I can trace my maternal links to Iperu Remo via the Okupe family amongst other popular families. Notable families from Iperu-Remo are Olushola (Late Amb. Segun Olushola), Ogunlesi, Adebutu (Kesington Adebutu of premier lotto - Baba Ijebu).

It's been a while I've been to Iperu Remo. At least not in a decade.

I'm no big uncle ooo, just a dude with a flair for world history, and charity has to begin at home.

Alright, bruddah. Great people.

Say no more.

9jatatafo:


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.

was that 20 naira as common as it is now.

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

OMG!!

ROSSIKE:
I am not giving you my "opinion". I am giving you the facts. In the 1960s literacy rate was between 10 and 25%. Compared to 74% today.

Maybe na from where u come, cos my grandfather and him wife go sch, my papa and wife go sch.

I do like History. Time is flying past.

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

The picture was taken in 1965

THIS ROUNDABOUT STILL LOOKS THE SAME! WOW!

ROSSIKE:
More self delusion. The colonialists siphoned over 90% of annual export earnings which was why Nigeria was underdeveloped with not a single university or expressway after 63 years of uninterrupted colonial rule. So corruption actually reduced following independence.

There are people who actually think that Britain put Nigeria on a path for success.

They don't understand that Nigeria was run as a business for the benefit of stake holders as opposed to the inhabitants.

bebe2:


so proud of our men of those days,

they are not intimidated, dem wear agbada come oyinbo dinner party,

if na now, all of them go wear pencil trouser and fitted suits

I know, right.

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

They are like some godfathers...

robosky02:


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

Then the problem started from that day.

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

black trousers I mean.

ozodigboo:

What's this one saying ?
Plz ask your parents which era they preferred.
Free scholarship
No armed robbery
No kidnappings
Power supply was better
Equal power between dollar, pounds, Naira
Several Europeans were living in Naija then........unlike now..........because it was more comfortable

Free scholarship for how many people? 1 in 100? Today we don't need scholarships because post independence govts have built thousands of schools and 200 universities. What "better" power supply are you talking about? There were no power plants worthy of the name until after independence. The colonialists didn't even build a grid! The "several Europeans'' who lived in Nigeria then were holed up in pampered cocoons of comfort like Ikoyi from which blacks like you were barred, unless you were a servant.

Helkayklassic:
Ikorodu road

wow!!!!! My mom was describing this to me last week! good to finally see!!!