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nwabobo:
This video shows growing wealth and aspirations with a young business Nigerian and his sports car comes to his highrise office and starts his working day at a food processing factory, also shows Agriculture and life in the countryside, dairy and beef farming in the 1960s
Credit: Huntley Film Archives

Nigerian Growth, 1960's - Film


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9bgPk3GN4A

Been crying after watching this video.

The north reduced Nigeria to the mess it is now.

Nowenuse:
Igbos were the cause of all this.

An Igbo man started the first coup. An Igbo man also brought about the centralization system. That destroyed all this. Imagine where we would have been by now if the Igbos hadn't done all these.

And now they want to secede and go with Biafra and leave other Nigerians in the huge mess they caused.

Lol Watch how the Igbos come for my head. The truth remains the truth nevertheless.

Hausa fulanis are the ones dragging Nigeria backwards today nevertheless.

Haba! not only are they going to come after you with e-blows, their biased mods may even ban you for several months, if you are not careful. Take cover!

hammer6F:
The next best thing to the white man is the igbo man but will the monkeys allow him?

No!

Even the things he put together in his land they want to tear it apart. i.e innoson

Had they not gone on igbo killing rampage carefully set up by the imperialist.

Those machinery and industry would have been sustained.

But no, the looters and vultures went about murdering 3 million people with the technological ability to keep the industry going.

soon after that naira collapse and since then, the country have continued to sink, even with oil and gas.

Who are the monkeys? And who are the vultures?

HajimeSaito:
I thought it would be a documentary, but it is actually a story narrative (work of fiction) Everything in it is scripted. Don't be deceived, Nigeria has ALWAYS been a Shithole country. Shithole-ism has been a part of Nigeria from the beginning.

Were the visuals not shot in Nigeria? Or was it a recording of some foreign country?

That was lagos

After watching this documentary. I had a one minute silence for Nigeria. The truth is that we shouldn't have been granted independence in 1960.

DankemzI:
Kick an illiterate Buhari out>> vote in technocrats with proven track records like Duke/Adesina

Adesina/Duke Fixed

Goodness gracious me. That was really commendable. Where did we go wrong?

Can we fulfill the promise that Nigeria once had? Yes! We can! But we need to all put in HONEST effort to it.

Blame won't change things, things are already bad.

We need to forget ethnicity and religion and work together as one if we are to truly STOP THE ROT that is eating Nigeria.

I can't beleive this...is this my nigeria. .our fatherland....imagine this is in the 60s ooo if we were allowed to grow with any form of crisis or military takeover, we would have ben the besf place on earth...funny enough none of the boys in khaki who took over had any vision to grow nd develop this country, just power mongers....i wept for this present country called nigeria. .indeed there was once a country!

hammer6F:
The funny thing is they still look like monkeys using machinery left behind by the British.

When the machine spoil, they pack up production.

They could not even wear gloves before moving the meat.

Some were even wearing jewelry. Thank God for the white man. smh!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMtGP0Ss1UQ

The video you posted is a new technology which wasn't available in the 60's
Nigeria's technology was surely as good as those of other countries in the 60's because of the British government.

Also, remember that a Naira was equal to a British Pound

Many countries that are popular today were far behind Nigeria then.

linkin8k:
Can we fulfill the promise that Nigeria once had? Yes! We can! But we need to all put in HONEST effort to it.

Blame won't change things, things are already bad.

We need to forget ethnicity and religion and work together as one if we are to truly STOP THE ROT that is eating Nigeria.

The times you see in the video were when Nigeria's ethnic diversity was given its due recognition and religious differences were acknowledged and respected.
We started getting it wrong beginning from the day (May 24 1966) Aguiyi Ironsi decided to unilaterally do away with religion and ethnicity by way of proscribing all tribal associations which were existing during the times shown in the video, and centralizing power which ended up being to the advantage of the Hausa-Fulani who now use the leverage to dominate others to the detriment of national development.
Aguiyi Ironsi wanted us to start pretending we were a homogeneous country whereas we were a huge diversify. Look where it has landed us now. Pretence is the surest way to failure in life.

Mogidi:
This was before Buhari and his coup planning friends turned a once vibrant economy to what it is today. The good old days before Bubu plunged Nigeria into recession.

NO!!!!!

You are very wrong.

It was before your kinsmen led by Nzeogwu truncated the 1st Republic.

So get your facts right.

We got an independence we didn't need

Chai! Chai! Chai!.

Those devilish leaders that kept us like this, shall have the wealth through their greed, but they will never know peace in this life & the next

dasparrow:
Listen, peeps like you suffer from inferiority complex, low self esteem and self hate and will look for every opportunity to degrade your race and exhalt white folks by licking their sweaty balls. I will not be part of that sh!t because God did not make a mistake gving me melanin-rich skin that is resistant to skin cancer and aging. I don't know what melanin - that is responsible for your darker complexion - got to do with Nigerians underperforming.

The reason YOUR country Nigeria is a hot mess has got nothing to do with your skin complexion and everything to do with the fact that the average African is very clannish. As black Africans you don't know how to put aside your petty differences to work together for the greater good of your society. You prefer to have all the money in the world all to yourself so that Nigerian Society will worship you, massage your inflated ego and kiss your azz.

You prefer to hire an incompetent azzwipe for a job position all because the person is a member of your tribe or religion. You oppress your women folk and see them as nothing more than a baby breeding machine and walking vagina placed on earth to satisfy your insatiable appetite for sex. And then you wonder why many of your young women have become just that.

Your skin colour or race got nothing to do with your shitty character and outlook on life as a Nigerian. The truth is, most Nigerians are just wicked, greedy, bigoted and can't see past their noses. When you learn service to mankind, thinking about the greater good of society, volunteerism, agape love for neighbour, good work ethic and honesty, watch how your country will become transformed.

However, as long as Nigerians want to remain clannish, hateful, bigoted, short sighted even lazy, don't expect your country to turn into some heavenly utopia on earth. It just ain't gonna happen okay?

Africans are savages, are we not saying the same thing?

What does SATIS in the brand name stand for?

One of the grandchildren of the featured people are here in Nairaland Im sure.

edward1106:
Course they won't pass?

Read my comment again, then you can quote me

HisSexcellency:
Read my comment again, then you can quote me

I think I understand your comment and I wasn't in any way putting a rash on it. Just saying we all probably know as citizens what's wrong wit the country. How much more those (foreigners) who indirectly have a hand in all of this. Bad leadership u say! Yes its true but have you considered some of the requirements attached to all external loan we collect? They (foreigners), some products of Harvard don't want this country to work

nwabobo:
This video shows growing wealth and aspirations with a young business Nigerian and his sports car comes to his highrise office and starts his working day at a food processing factory, also shows Agriculture and life in the countryside, dairy and beef farming in the 1960s
Credit: Huntley Film Archives

Nigerian Growth, 1960's - Film


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9bgPk3GN4A

I want more.

This is like being allowed to travel to the past. I shed tears when I saw the aeriel view of Lagos Island. That place ought to look like the waterfront view in Stockholm with the level of potential development Lagos had then. Shame on the ten - twenty people that cost a whole nation it's better life.

Deadlytruth:
The times you see in the video were when Nigeria's ethnic diversity was given its due recognition and religious differences were acknowledged and respected.
We started getting it wrong beginning from the day (May 24 1966) Aguiyi Ironsi decided to unilaterally do away with religion and ethnicity by way of proscribing all tribal associations which were existing during the times shown in the video, and centralizing power which ended up being to the advantage of the Hausa-Fulani who now use the leverage to dominate others to the detriment of national development.
Aguiyi Ironsi wanted us to start pretending we were a homogeneous country whereas we were a huge diversify. Look where it has landed us now. Pretence is the surest way to failure in life.

I feel he did that with good intentions. Ethnic diversity should be recognised but we can't allow it rule us.

M

Op just want us to cry this morning

linkin8k:
I feel he did that with good intentions. Ethnic diversity should be recognised but we can't allow it rule us.

How really good a person's intention is about an action is judged against the prevailing background circumstances under which he took that action.
The coup and its resultant anarchical situation back then was as a result of the fact that the government at the center (headed by Balewa, Zik and Okotie Eboh) abused powers grossly by disobeying the Privy Council-Supreme Court equivalent, imposing falsified and disputed census figures on the nation, rigging elections in broad daylight, using the police to unlawful silence the opposition, etc.
A military officer who really came to the rescue and sincere about that mission should have found a way to further weaken the centre and strengthened the regions more in order to prevent future abuse of powers by the center by way of illegally interfering with the internal affairs of regions, thus avoiding a repetition of the ugly situation. But Aguiyi Ironsi, with his Unification Decree, took more powers away from the regions and gave them to the center whose abuse of power had just landed the country in anarchy. And you call that good intention?
I think he was just dishonest and after an agenda up his sleeves.

Deadlytruth:
How really good a person's intention is about an action is judged against the prevailing background circumstances under which he took that action.
The coup and its resultant anarchical situation back then was as a result of the fact that the government at the center (headed by Balewa, Zik and Okotie Eboh) abused powers grossly by disobeying the Privy Council-Supreme Court equivalent, imposing falsified and disputed census figures on the nation, rigging elections in broad daylight, using the police to unlawful silence the opposition, etc.
A military officer who really came to the rescue and sincere about that mission should have found a way to further weaken the centre and strengthened the regions more in order to prevent future abuse of powers by the center by way of illegally interfering with the internal affairs of regions, thus avoiding a repetition of the ugly situation. But Aguiyi Ironsi, with his Unification Decree, took more powers away from the regions and gave them to the center whose abuse of power had just landed the country in anarchy. And you call that good intention?
I think he was just dishonest and after an agenda up his sleeves.

You are right.

horsepower101:
The American CIA and British intelligence agency confirmed in their declassified records that it was GOWon and not Ironsi that dissolved the regions.

Ironsi centralized the civil service under the military command in order to control the chaos going on in the nation BUT he left the regions intact as they were.

It was Gowon that dissolved the region and created 12 states.

Don't mind Nigerians, expecially Deardlytruth and cohorts that have been parading such blatant lie for decades.

Deadlytruth:
[s]How really good a person's intention is about an action is judged against the prevailing background circumstances under which he took that action.
The coup and its resultant anarchical situation back then was as a result of the fact that the government at the center (headed by Balewa, Zik and Okotie Eboh) abused powers grossly by disobeying the Privy Council-Supreme Court equivalent, imposing falsified and disputed census figures on the nation, rigging elections in broad daylight, using the police to unlawful silence the opposition, etc.
A military officer who really came to the rescue and sincere about that mission should have found a way to further weaken the centre and strengthened the regions more in order to prevent future abuse of powers by the center by way of illegally interfering with the internal affairs of regions, thus avoiding a repetition of the ugly situation. But Aguiyi Ironsi, with his Unification Decree, took more powers away from the regions and gave them to the center whose abuse of power had just landed the country in anarchy. And you call that good intention?
I think he was just dishonest and after an agenda up his sleeves.[/s]

You've been beaten black and blue by Pazianza on this very stupid lies you've been parading for eons. Was it Ironsi that introduced the 12 State structure we are currently practicing? Ironsi harmonized the civil service, but left the regions as they were. Very wicked liar you are.

InfiniteLoopx:
You've been beaten black and blue by Pazianza on this very stupid lies you've been parading for eons. Was it Ironsi that introduced the 12 State structure we are currently practicing? Ironsi harmonized the civil service, but left the regions as they were. Very wicked liar you are.

Pazienza ran away from that thread without answering any of the questions I am about to ask you now. Please visit it again if you have forgotten how it ended.
As for the bolded, you have just exposed how uneducated you are.
First and foremost, in SS 2 Government classes it is taught that the civil service is the only institution through which the government exercises its powers of generating revenue, allocating same for different purposes, monitors the utilization of resources, etc., i.e. a government without a civil service is as good as a car without an engine. In essence the civil service is the government, and the government is the civil service.
You agree that Ironsi harmonized/centralized the civil service but contend that he did not centralize the government. How daft and illogical! What is a government without its civil service if I may ask you? Very shallow reasoning indeed. Imagine you being a governor of a state but with your civil service under Abuja control. What sort of State Government will you be running? How will you collect tax to execute projects and monitor same?
Secondly, before Ironsi harmonized/centralized the civil service, each region was paying it's civil servants from revenues generated by its employees from within its domain. How do you think Ironsi would have been able to continue paying the employees of the centralized civil service without also having effectively centralized all the revenue sources of the regions from which their salaries were initially being generated thus abolishing resource control? Did you ever offer Government in secondary school at all?
Thirdly, Only a dubious person like you would argue that a person who removed the engine of a car left the car intact just because he didn't damage the body while removing the engine. How exactly were your "intact" regions supposed to operate without their civil service institutions which Ironsi had harmonized onto a central one?
Fourthly, what exactly does the word "Unification" in Ironsi's Unification Decree connote? In that speech didn't Ironsi condemn regionalism and denounce it as the source of national instability? So how could it be that he left intact the very arrangement he believed was the problem with Nigeria?
In furtherance of your duplicity against common sense you argue that Ironsi did not introduce the 12 State Structure. That is totally irrelevant because the issue has nothing to do with how many subnational units there were but how autonomous they were. Recall that before Ironsi came to the scene a fourth Region (Midwest) had been created and more like COR, Middle Belt, etc were already being considered, and the autonomous system would have trickled down to as many of such as would have been created as well as onto the future states to be created had Ironsi never introduced centralization or harmonization of the civil service thus eroding the powers of the subnational units. So, your argument on who created the 12 states is irrelevant and stands as an escapist route to deny responsibility on behalf of Ironsi for Nigeria's derailment.


Please go back and read that Ironsi's speech of May 24 1966 and see where he declared that "Nigeria ceases to be what is called a federation, and it is now officially to be called Republic of Nigeria as against the former Federal Republic of Nigeria". His removal of the term federal from the name simply meant that the regions had ceased to exist.
Go back and read and digest before you spew tribal emotions over what you have not deeply analysed. Wicked tribal bigot you are!

Deadlytruth:
Pazienza ran away from that thread without answering any of the questions I am about to ask you now. Please visit it again if you have forgotten how it ended. As for the bolded, you have just exposed how uneducated you are.

First and foremost, in SS 2 Government classes it is taught that the civil service is the only institution through which the government exercises its powers of generating revenue, allocating same for different purposes, monitors the utilization of resources, etc., i.e. a government without a civil service is as good as a car without an engine. In essence the civil service is the government, and the government is the civil service.

You agree that Ironsi harmonized/centralized the civil service, but contend that he did not centralize the government. How daft and illogical!

What is a government without its civil service if I may ask you? Very shallow reasoning indeed. Imagine you being a governor of a state but with your civil service under Abuja control. What sort of State Government will you be running? How will you collect tax to execute projects and monitor same?

Secondly, before Ironsi harmonized/centralized the civil service, each region was paying it's civil servants from revenues generated by its employees from within its domain. How do you think Ironsi would have been able to continue paying the employees of the centralized civil service without also having effectively centralized all the revenue sources of the regions from which their salaries were initially being generated thus abolishing resource control? Did you ever offer Government in secondary school at all?

Thirdly, Only a dubious person like you would argue that a person who removed the engine of a car left the car intact just because he didn't damage the body while removing the engine. How exactly were your "intact" regions supposed to operate without their civil service institutions which Ironsi had harmonized onto a central one?

Fourthly, what exactly does the word "Unification" in Ironsi's Unification Decree connote? In that speech didn't Ironsi condemn regionalism and denounce it as the source of national instability? So how could it be that he left intact the very arrangement he believed was the problem with Nigeria?

In furtherance of your duplicity against common sense, you argue that Ironsi did not introduce the 12 State Structure. That is totally irrelevant because the issue has nothing to do with how many subnational units there were, but how autonomous they were. Recall that before Ironsi came to the scene a fourth Region (Midwest) had been created, and more like COR, Middle Belt, etc were already being considered, and the autonomous system would have trickled down to as many of such as would have been created, as well as onto the future states to be created had Ironsi never introduced centralization or harmonization of the civil service thus eroding the powers of the subnational units.

So, your argument on who created the 12 states is irrelevant and stands as an escapist route to deny responsibility on behalf of Ironsi for Nigeria's derailment.

Please go back and read that Ironsi's speech of May 24 1966 and see where he declared that "Nigeria ceases to be what is called a federation, and it is now officially to be called Republic of Nigeria, as against the former Federal Republic of Nigeria". His removal of the term federal from the name simply meant that the regions had ceased to exist.

Go back and read and digest before you spew tribal emotions over what you have not deeply analysed. Wicked tribal bigot you are!

Savage!! What a galactic, encyclopaedic finishing! I salute you, bro.'

LaudableXX:
Savage!! What a galactic finishing! I salute you, bro.'

Thanks. These folks are so pathetic in their tribal bigotry that they argue against common sense, basic academic principles and simplest logic. Funnily enough they are quick to claim they beat people blue and black in debates where they were subdued with superior logic. Beaters of vacuous chests.