Nigeria's History At A Glance (photo)

Picture collection about past events in Nigeria's history.
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Igbo ladies wearing brass anklets 1890s
Book was designed in honour of Emmanuel ifeajuna 1st African to win a Commonwealth Gold
Cappa & D AlbertoAlberto early construction company in Nigeria won the first contract in 1932 built QueensQueens college and kingsway store

1st Commonwealth gold winner

The first indigenous Nigerian law firm was set up in 1948 by F.R.A Williams, remi fani kayode, and bode thomas

WOLE Soyinka and sister tinu 1940

WOLE Soyinka receiving Nobel award for literature 1986

Yakubu gowon leaving the meeting hall in kampala after hearing the news of his overthrow 1975

Segun arinze album cover (dreams) under the premier music label 1982

JP clark, chinwe Achebe and Soyinka were at dodan barracks to plead ibb to release vasta, vasta was still executed.

Alake of egbaland oba ladapo ademola ll attending the coronation of king George Vl of England may 1937

Shell service station Hughes avenue, lagos 1955

Nojim mayegun at the Tokyo Olympics 1964 won the olympic medal (bronze) currently blind and lives in Austria

Police court lagos 1910

1st black pilot 1916 ottoman izimrli grandmother is from bornu

Now Maiduguri

4 time Grammy award winner Sade adu as a baby by dad adebisi adu 

Oliver de coque in 1976 he recorded 73 albums during his life time

Mr Bellingham traveling in the northern part of Nigeria been carried by his servantsservants 1900

19 year old Victor owaifo as a body builder now a professor near obalande 1960

A Nigerian policeman sgt umaru zaira 1959

Sa'du zungur first northern to attend yaba higher college 1930

Teslim balogun the first african to qualify as a professional coach, coached Nigeria at the Mexico 1968 Olympics

Children in a school at agwu enugu state 1970

Awolowo the then premier of the Western region pictured(arrowed) in the midst of primary pupils in bomadi ( present delta) 1952

Earl of Plymouth (R) visiting the then oba of bennin oba Akenzua llll in Benin city 1938

Major babangida, major b haladu, captain b dimka, capt y kure, major bako and mj vasta 1969

In 1969 while the civil war was still going on gowon, married to miss Victoria zakari, many considered it as distasteful

Igwe isreal iweka was one of the first Nigeria civil engineering contractors and build the massive iweka road Onitsha

(L-R) Tazania uganda, Rosalinda balogun( Nigeria 1st miss world contestant) and Ghana at 1967 miss world beauty contest

Dikko (then emir of katsina) was first reigning emir to perform hajj 1921 fly in a plane, visit UK and built school for girls

British West African currency were replaced by the nigeia pounds in 1958

PRINCE achribong ll of calabar wearing his crown jewels and sitted on his throne1900

Musa yar adua former minister of Lagos during the first republic, and was the father of the form

er Nigeria president and former vo sheu

Alhaji amadu bello, and the Emir of kano Muhammad sanusi at the inauguration of daily mailmail kano 1961

Then major Ibrahim babangida and major mamman vasta 1969 at okigwe ( in present day imo)

In 1918 before new currencies supply could reach Nigeria the Nigerian government issued this emergency currency

Dr Nnamdi azikwe with Felicia obua a local NCNC organiser orlu division during his campaign in urrulla 1959

Southern Nigeria protectorate flag (1900-1914)

Maitastine was leader of the tatsine millitant group they were responsible for bloodbath in kanokano 1972

August 11 1979 presidential election results NPN S.shagari, UPN O Awolowo, NPP N.azikwe, GNPP W.Ibrahim, PRP aminu kano

1954 British West Africa 100 shillingsNigeria gold cost ( now Ghana), Sierra lonne, lome, Gambia used this currency

Northern school boys at London airport entering British school under private arrangement 1956

Nigeria first political party was Nigerian national Democratic party, founded by Herbert Macaulay in 1922

Five shilling bank note 1968

Then ambassador of Nigeria to UN jaja wachukwu dissing off at the UN council meeting of Oct 14 1960

7 founders of pyrates confraternity at the university college of ibadan ( now university of ibadan)1952 Soyinka far left

Billboards in lagos 1957

The university of Nigeria Nnsukka was renamed university of Biafra(July 6 1967- 5 Jan 1970)

Obasanjo speaking to press on release from prison

1998

Ankle plates was main part of the female costume among the igbos, the women wore them permanently a lady in 1913

A bride in oil river protectorate ( present day rivers/bayelsa) 1900

An old style of taking oaths by recruits in the early days of Nigeria army

Tafawa balewa awarded a doctor of law, Honoria casua new York 

University July 1961

Colonial flag of Nigeria hoisted at the 1960 Olympics games in Rome

Tafawa balewa relaxing with his children during his annual leave in 1963 at his farm.

Queen Elizabeth ll rides in her 1952 rolls Royce sliver wraith LWB in Nigeria 1956

Pat utomi as a young student at the UNN

In 1956 mallam Umaru Altine becomes the first mayor of enugu

Biafra pound

An Igbo chief and head wife 1915

In 1982 taslim OLAWALE becomes the first African to be the president of international Court of Justice haquehague 

The action group (AG) was the first Nigerian party to write and present an election manifesto 1962

Hannah awolowo was the first to import lace materials and other textiles to Nigeria in the year 1950

Flag of lagos colony, 1862-1906 in 1872 over 60,000 people lived in Lagos

J.J Ransome kuti fela grandfather Nigeria 1st gospel muscian he composed "kole baje o kole baje oo ise oluwa" 

Nigerians in Lagos celebrate the end of the civil war on Jan 12 1970

Mary Nzimiro one of the 1st Igbo female millionaires, bank rolled her husband successful mayoral bid in 1951

Boy with a gorrila killed in asaba 1906

Ironsi with governors, (L-R) North u kastina, West Fajuyi, East Ojukwu, and Midwest ejoor 1966

Janet mokelumokelu and M.ekpo are the 1st female in Nigeria to be elected into a regional parliament eastern assembly 1961

Priscilla Nzimiro 1st woman doctor to work in the Igbo region sadly she died in 1951 a year after qualifying as a doctor

Ado bayero emir of kano 1963-2014

RabizRabih Az- zubayar warlord and slave trade who established a powerful 

Empire west of lake Chad for seven years as rabih was sheu of bornu empire 

Sultan schedule sanda of bornu bodyguard dikwa, kanem empire

Playing xylophone in Igbo land 1920

Old currencies

 Alafin oyo 1900

Fela anikulapo performing berkley,California 14 Nov 1986, the mayor of Berkeley California name Nov 14 as fela day.

Wives of king jaja of opobo ( present rivers) 1870

Madam efunroye tinubu, arms and salt trade Baron and female aristocrat 1800 tinubu square was named after her

Wife of the Nigerian ambassador to the US Mrs udochi, tafawa balewa and john f kenedy in Washington 1961

Walter Egerton (far right) GOV of southern Nigeria with wife and other Westerners in Lagos 1910

A cross section of readers at kano market in 1960

Oba ovonramwen of Benin the incumbent during the 1897 British invasioninvasion, an initial invasion attempts was voiled in 1896

M.K.O in 1994 arriving on his first appearance in court he was charged with treason.

Sir kashem Ibrahim the northern governor of Nigeria pictured here leaving London airport 1962

Inside a palmoil factory in calabar 1800

Adesina remigio herraria from credited as the founding father of ifa in Cuba, was enslaved and taken to Cuba as a youngman 1830s

Pope Paul john ll on his way to mass in Onitsha 1982, cardinal Francis arinze then archbishop of Onitsha to his left.

UK museums hold 1027 prices of Benin bronzes, Germany museum hold 1118 pcs and US holds 263 1893 expedition loots

During WWll the columbites mines in Nigeria contributed the mineral to the Construction of aircrafts

Sir Winston Churchill British prime minister from 1951-1955 meets with the Ooni of ife June 8 1953

Nigerian leaders as always be travelling with large entourage see tafawa balewa leaving for Commonwealth forum London

Points of no return, most the slaves who were exported through the slave coast are Yoruba tribe

Eeeyo Masquerade

Sir shina Peters with Clarion chukwu.

Maj Gen Ojukwu

Obasanjo with his children

Nigerian Airways

Nigerian Military Personnel

Argugun River Festival

Public phone booth.

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