Explorers:
Rich women from Onitsha wearing ivory ankles.

Lol if these are the rich ones, how would the poor ones look like?
#imagine

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

Twas thereafter we lost every sense of decency & nudity craved in in d name of fashion & dressing

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

This is d real case of we are d leaders of tomorrow not d one we are doing in Nigeria

Best thread ever...

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

They were not recruited like recruitment as we know it. Rather, they were forcefully abducted following the instruction of the dictator, Winston Churchill, to capture and enroll into the British army any able-bodied African in British colony. Within west Africa alone, over 100,000 men were kidnapped in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra-Leone and sent off to Burma. After the war, Britain evacuated all their soldiers and abandoned all the African soldiers in Asia to their fate. Till today Britain refused to pay their pensions and entitlements.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3962093_img20160712190314_jpegc6ac9197a32cae81586e24feed580a54

Explorers:
A railway engineer, track inspector be lifted about

LoL, the white guyz really took advantage of the early black men stupidity...

musicwriter:


They were not recruited like recruitment as we know it. Rather, they were forcefully abducted following the instruction of the dictator, Winston Churchill, to capture and enroll into the British army any able-bodied African in British colony. Within west Africa alone, over 100,000 men were kidnapped in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra-Leone and sent off to Burma. After the war, Britain evacuated all their soldiers and abandoned all the African soldiers in Asia to their fate. Till today Britain refused to pay their pensions and entitlements.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3962093_img20160712190314_jpegc6ac9197a32cae81586e24feed580a54

This is sad and wicked, these peeps really used us heartlessly..


Seeing this post it is glaring Nigeria was bound for greatness but we missed our way along the line, too bad..

Wow this is some piece....wish I could save all the pictures

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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....

it's winged termite.

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

I wouldn't dare to enter this plane.

Realhommie:
This is sad and wicked, these peeps really used us heartlessly..


Seeing this post it is glaring Nigeria was bound for greatness but we missed our way along the line, too bad..

There are no words in the dictionary to describe the evil white people committed against Africans.

France and Spain did the same thing. Adolf Hitler used to mock France and Britain "for being so weak that they'll resort to fighting alongside their slaves". France never gave food to the African soldiers as a white man was not supposed to serve food to a black man. They had to resort to killing bush meat and eating it raw!!!. The video is below.

This's why I was explaining to some novices on this forum few days ago that Adolf Hitler loved them more than any other imperial power blackmailing him.

Here is a documentary on African soldiers abandoned in Burma by Britain during world War II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWIHOIZVZtE

Here's another short documentary on how Germans mocked France for fighting alongside slaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr-mhKreJqo

If you're from a Francophone African country, here is a documentary on the African soldiers abducted by France during the world wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQHx4_VMkXI

Africans beware!!.

Immediately i saw this topic on front page i screamed Explorers! And I opened it I wasn't wrong anyway...

Explorers:
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....

I still eat them bro... live ones taste better than fried ones, when you crush the stomach it tastes like milk!

can't help but shed a tear as I go through these amazing pictures... once upon a time, there was a country called Nigeria.

Explorers:
Nnamdi Azikwe welcome to Unilag by members of Pirate Confraternity.

when confra were still confra...

Chidonc:

older than ur grand mum oooo

Don't think so. My paternal grand mum was over Ninety when she died and my maternal 72

Beautiful pictures

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Opening ceremony for the Methodist church, Ikot-Ipeme, Akwa Ibom. Rev. W Grove hands the key to the church to Lieutenant Governor of Southern Province of Nigeria. Dec. 1933.

Used to pass through this Church, everyday. didn't know it had historical values. wow

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

This was history in the making! Why didn't my parents allow me to shake a president's hand too, when I was small??

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Vintage Brand new Volvo ads, #14,000.

=N=14,000 naira only?? You got to be kidding me! What year was that?!

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Sitting room from 1973. Nice TV set.

Choi! It is exactly like my late grandad's TV set. The thing stopped working years ago, but he refused to part with it, till he died!

BabaRamota1980:
Well done Explorer.

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

Bookmarked for reference.

Jiang:
people from that era don enjoy woh, How i wish i had a time machine, i remember my grandpa saying at that time, YOU CAN GET ONE BIG YELLO & BLACK LEDA FULL OF PROVISIONS FOR JUST 50 kobo, something even 3k cant do for you nowadays

Just look at how organised, awesome & beautiful Nigeria used to be

Which kain 3k? Na 10k you go spend now. Which time you go market last?

@Explorer, this thread is beautiful. God bless you! Keep up the good work. And thanks for the memories.....

ab11baddo:
nice... For those " we developed Lagos "

Hehehe.... That was the same thought that crossed my mind when I saw that picture, too!

gartamanta:
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.

Stop this yah propaganda, abeg! Don't derail the thread! Explorer, continue your good work, jare....

cupidhero:
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.

Donate those ivory bracelets & anklets to the Onikan Museum in Lagos, or any of the museums closest to you. They would surely appreciate it, and put it on display as a historical artifact.

It's called long wing reproductive termite

Explorers:
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....

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

So no be today we start to dey waste money on cars for govt officials!!!

Hmmm...this thread has triggered a deep reflection on the state of the Nigerian nation. A Nigeria, when our collective national destiny had not been raped by greed and tribalism.... when a dollar was less than 1naira... when our schools offered real education and Nigerian universities were ranked above american universities....when our youths had hope and our children a future....Nigeria!

Explorers:
Men carrying crocodile in borno near Gongola river. 1936.

We don chop all the crocodile finish in Borno!

And nw? C wt Buhari hs causd?

julioralph:

from a zoo, am sure.

but do we still have such in the wild

how I wish Nat Geo will do some documentaries about Nigeria

They will only do that when we are serious about conservation. They did a report on Silver backed gorilla some time back. Can't remember if it was Akwa Ibom or Cross River

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Nnamdi Azikwe welcome to Unilag by members of Pirate Confraternity.

This is UI. Not Unilag. Witness the academic gown. Used you're see a larger version of the picture in UI.

smartmey61:
when pirates were alla bout book book book now na Ak47

Pirates and AK47? Are you sure? Which state and which incident was that? Which school? Not true

What we do today will be history for tomorrow.

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Selling fruits in kano 1930.

this can never be 1930