Nigeria was more beautiful and better then

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

This thread is da bomb! Best thread ever.

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

Resembles a certain nollywood actor/ broadcaster

ba7man:
See as rich women face strong for that year.

I thought I was the only one who noticed.

Add this one too

Best thread ever
I can't imagine reading 20 comments without anyone using foul language or insultive words

obaaderemi:
Yes,I agree but that coup led to the war and the war broke the political will of the igbos and completely destroyed any chance for unity in the south forever thereby giving the north absolute power.

No you are wrong. The coup did not lead to the war. It was not the 'proximate' cause of the war. This is one error a lot of Nigerians believe which must be debunked.

Nigeria was already on the path of war even before 1966, violence was prevalent especially in Western Region.

What causes a war is the same thing that causes a fight, the inability of two or more people to reason like adults and reach a compromise that does not include fighting.

That was what Gowon and Ojukwu met in Aburi to avoid. The met, discussed for two days and reached an agreement which both signed. The went back home and there was peace. War became inevitable when Gowon could not live up to his side of the agreement.

The war was not caused by the first coup, it was caused by Yakubu Gowon.

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Lagos 1910.

nice... For those " we developed Lagos "

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Fela beaten by soldiers, 1978.

thsi is what tuface the coward was avoiding...

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A railway engineer, track inspector be lifted about

oyinbo suffer our ppl no b small

this thread was abandoned 12 july 2016, today there is over 60new posts on it and it made fp!
oga explorers, i say "i will hammer again"

Explorers:
Selling perfume in kano 1930.

where is the perfume Explorers

Audrinakane:
Nice thread explorers keep it up. This thread is amazing. Nigeria would have been great if we had put tribalism and religious differences aside. There was once a country

things looked good cos the handiwork of the whites was still in place. now african leaders wanna be rule forever and be rich forever.

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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....[/quo

Code Name Thermites.

No wonder anytime my papa dey talk about d olden days compared to this present Nigeria he always felt lyk carying....omo so Nigeria don good lyk dis....C Fela bandage soldiers ton tear hin head with club...

Explorers:
Onyeka Onwenu performing on stage.

Onyeka Onwenu must be a runs girl

Explorers:
Biafran fighter beating his enemy, 1968.

I suspect foul play in this one... Who took the picture.. He was just there watching the beating and the beater was very serious beating the beaten...

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Nnamdi Azikwe welcome to Unilag by members of Pirate Confraternity.

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Nice thread, I learnt a lot...
So this was nigeria when politicians and tribalism hasn't spoilt it

Explorers:
Rich women from Onitsha wearing ivory ankles.

My dad owns about 6 ivory bracelets.
I will surely advise him to bury or throw it away. Elephants were almost hunted into extinction in the name of fashion. If him no troway the bracelet make him find who him go dash am cos i ain't wearing something like that in the future.

Explorers:
Female police officers being inspected before patrol, 1960.

Inspector be like, "what's this?"

Explorers:
Agbonmagbe Bank, now Wema Bank. Incorporated in 1945.

thanks op
never knew this

I'm sure I used the laughing emoji

oga seun why

According to my dad, the first TV to arrive warri, they had to send an engineer for a course on how to operate TV. He was seen as a demigod then because without him no one was authorised to touch it in the big town Hall.

Great thread. Pictures are worth more than a thousand words.

Onyeka: That was unclothedness way back then.

Football: Nigeria has got the best of the best.

White men: Are you ok upstairs?

Nigeria: The legacy you leave behind leaves your name written in stone. How can century old infrastructure still be around to date (built to last). If we had that rate of development till date we would have been TRUE GIANTS OF AFRICA.

Groundnut Pyramids: The North's legacy which the whole Nigeria benefited from way back then.

Hot babes: When we were proud of ourselves and respected our accomplishments.

Ivory legs: At that time the kain work Wey u go do to afford that ivory, no how your face must hard.

cupidhero:

My dad owns about 6 ivory bracelets.
I will surely advise him to bury or throw it away. Elephants were almost hunted into extinction in the name of fashion. If him no troway the bracelet make him find who him go dash am cos i ain't wearing something like that in the future.

Please give it to me what kind of son are you? Don't be annoyed sneak out just one for me.

Explorers:
Workers on top of groundnuts. Kano, 1965.

Awww Explorers thanks for all this. Gonna sleep tonight with memoirs from the past #WhenNaijaWasNew..

BabaRamota1980:
Well done Explorer.

This Biafran soldier flogging a villager in one of the places they invaded and planted flag.

How exactly did you arrive at your senseless Afonjaic post from the earlier caption given by the OP?
What exactly is the problem with Afonjas?

This thread is the best ever, I so much love it. Makes me wanna cry to see how Nigeria derailed into what it is today. #MemoirsFromThePast.

I feel like traveling back into time

Explorers:
Rich women from Onitsha wearing ivory ankles.

Those women are actually very rich wearing those ivories on both feet and hands.
Today, a pound of that ivory cost, $1,500 in the black market if not more. Chai!

nkemdi89:

Please give it to me what kind of son are you? Don't be annoyed sneak out just one for me.

I'm that son that knows we don't need to torture or kill animals carelessly in order to look good. Fur coats, Snake skin belts/shoes and even croc leather goods is a no no for me. 90% of the money generated from poaching activities like ivory hunting end up in foreign pockets. Indigineous owners of the lands were these elephants are killed and slaughtered for their ivory tusks gets nothing.