23 Dec 2015

Some great pictures from Nigerian History (Photos)

Some great pictures from Nigerian History.

1. Then Emir of Katsina & entourage admiring Hyde Park Traffic Lights in London on May 1st, 1933

2. Traffic on Carter Bridge, Lagos in 1963. 


3.Igwe Israel Iweka was one of the 1st Nigerian Civil Engineering contractors & built the massive Iweka Road at Onitsha


4.(L to R)Tanzania,Uganda,Rosalind Balogun(Nigeria's 1st Miss World Contestant)&Ghana at 1967 Miss World Beauty Contest 

5. Queen Elizabeth inside the Nigerian Parliament, Lagos in 1956. 

6. At the Enugu Airport, awaiting the arrival of the plane conveying Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi

7.Kano Groundnut Pyramids in 1975.Nigeria was the world’s largest exporter of groundnuts in the 1970s


8.In 1918,before new currency supplies could reach Nigeria, the Nigerian Authorities issued this emergency currency

9. Nigerian Airways plane

10. Ambassador of Nigeria to the UN,Jaja Wachukwu, dossing at the UN council meeting of October 14th,1960. Norway ambassador looked suprised lol   

11.7 founders of Pyrates Confraternity at the University College Ibadan(Now University of Ibadan)1952. Soyinka(Far Left). These are the people who laid foundation for cultism in Nigeria lol

12 The University of Nigeria, Nsukka was renamed the University of Biafra between (6 July 1967– 5 January 1970)

13. Book was designed in honour of Emmanuel Ifeajuna,1st African to win a Commonwealth Gold,he was executed in Enugu,1967

14. When the going was good! Kano Central Mosque. 

15 Shell Service Station Station, Hughes Avenue, Lagos in 1955    

16 King Duke IX of Calabar,(1895). wore 2 crowns,to show that he was crowned by the British as well as the Efik people.


Photo Credit: Abdulahi Hassan Ali  

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