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1. Police Court, Lagos. Circa 1910.

2. Then Alake of Abeokuta(Egbaland), Oba Ladapo Ademola II attending the coronation of King George VI of England. London, May 1937.

OK keep it up

good

Nigeria is moving backward

3. The day before Wole Soyinka received the Nobel Prize for Literature, with other 1986 Nobel Laureate

4. Traffic on Carter Bridge, Lagos in 1963.

It shall not be well with the originator of Nigeria's problem.

Ahhh! See country with a very bright future so sad

5. Abubakar Rimi as Kano State Governor addressing his supporters at the Murtala Muhammed Square in Kaduna in 1981.

Marvel1206:
4. Traffic on Carter Bridge, Lagos in 1963.

We been dey drive for left hand? Abi dem invert the photo.

Oh I forgot, our colonial masters dey drive for left.

6. (L to R)Tanzania, Uganda,Nigeria (Rosalind Balogun) &Ghana at 1967 Miss World Beauty Contest.

Rosalind Balogun was Nigeria’s first Miss World contestant. Iconic

7.The Kano Groundnut Pyramids in 1975.


Nigeria was the world’s largest exporter of groundnuts in the 1970s

8.Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe at an N.C.N.C. rally at Urualla in 1959.
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emorse:
We been dey drive for left hand? Abi dem invert the photo.

Oh I forgot, our colonial masters dey drive for left.

Yeah, you are correct...Nigeria change to right hand driving under Gowon

9.The then Ambassador of Nigeria to the UN, Jaja Wachukwu, sleeping at the UN council meeting of October 14th,1960.



No be today our politicians start to dey mess up.

10. Then US President, Carter& wife with Shagari greeting the crowd from the White House balcony in 1980.

Why should any of these pictures make us wish to ''time travel'' back to then?

11. Tokunbo (Awolowo’s child) presents a bouquet of flowers to Queen Elizabeth inIbadan 1956.

OP Wa gbayi!, Kudos to you... Pls keep it coming
a na m na-ekpori ndụ a!.....


No 9. Got me LMAO!

Marvel1206:
11. Tokunbo (Awolowo’s child) presents a bouquet of flowers to Queen Elizabeth inIbadan 1956.

Mr Lover of White Colonialists

Back then, 98% of Nigerians, including your grand or great grandparents, were stark illiterates, courtesy of the colonialist's total neglect of education. Cars were only for the super rich. People walked around barefoot. Malnutrition was rife. Our founding fathers had a good reason for fighting the colonialists.

The British exported all those groundnut pyramids but you never ask what they did with all the money, such that your country was an underdeveloped bush by 1960, after 90 years of uninterrupted white rule and export of your resources, including cocoa, tin, rubber, iron ore, palm oil, coal etc, which fetched huge sums in those days.

So instead of glorifying your own subjugation, and automatically equating white colonial faces with 'the good times', you should rather, employ your grey matter, and ask yourself pertinent questions about that era.

Our politicians no fit change

12.Kanuri Dancers in Kanem-Bornu Empire.

13. Fela performs at Berkeley, California, 14 Nov, 1986.


The then Mayor of Berkeley, California named 14 Nov 1986 ‘Fela Kuti Day’.

14. A cross-section of tradersin a Kano Market in the 1960s

15. Pope John Paul II on his way to mass in Onitsha 1982. Cardinal Francis Arinze, then Archbishop of Onitsha, to his Left.

16. Kano Indigo Dye Pits builtin 1498.



The dye solution was brewedfor about a month and lasted for a year.

17. The Late Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, touring Nigeria in 1990.

Nigeria shall be great again

18. The Ebun House (85 Odunfa St.)



This house, owned by a Sierra Leonean immigrant, was the 1st 3-story building built in Lagos in 1913.

Rossikk:
Mr Lover of White Colonialists

Back then, 98% of Nigerians, including your grand or great grandparents, were stark illiterates, courtesy of the colonialist's total neglect of education. Cars were only for the super rich. People walked around barefoot. Malnutrition was rife. Our founding fathers had a good reason for fighting the colonialists.

The British exported all those groundnut pyramids but you never ask what they did with all the money, such that your country was an underdeveloped bush by 1960, after 90 years of uninterrupted white rule and export of your resources, including cocoa, tin, rubber, iron ore, palm oil, coal etc, which fetched huge sums in those days.

So instead of glorifying your own subjugation, and automatically equating white colonial faces with 'the good times', you should rather, employ your grey matter, and ask yourself pertinent questions about that era.

at least boko haram was not bombing up and down.
can you tell us the number of unemployed youth we have back then so we can compare it to what it is now,or lets compare the inflation rate

19. A Constable receives a certificate of commendation from Hon. M.A Olanrewaju, the then Minister of Police Affairs.

How hilarious would it be if present day police officers wore shorts? LOL

20. Queen Elizabeth II rides in her Rolls-Royce in Nigeria, 1956.