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

Original copy of John Hinde's photo of Milk maids at the back of the N10 note

Igbo ladies wearing brass anklets. Circa Early 1900s.

Cappa & D'Alberto,early construction company in Nigeria,won 1st contract in 1932.Built Queens College,Kingsway Stores

KANO CENTRAL MOSQUE

The first indigenous Nigerian law firm was set up in 1948 by F.R.A Williams, Remi' Fani-Kayode & Bode Thomas

Wole Soyinka and his sister, Tinu in 1940

Wole Soyinka receiving the Nobel award for Literature in 1986. Source: YouTube/Wale Micaiah

The day before Wole Soyinka received the Nobel Prize for Literature,with other 1986 Nobel Laureates

Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in the sci-fi action -The Matrix trilogy was born in Ibadan,Oyo State on April 4, 1960

Gowon leaving the meeting hall in Kampala Conf' Ctr July 29, 1975 on hearing of his overthrow

In 1986,J P Clark, Achebe & Soyinka were at Dodan Barracks to plead with IBB to spare Vatsa. Vatsa was still executed

Taiwo Akinkunmi's (Nigerian Flag Designer) original flag design selected as the best out of 2,870 entries in the 1959

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

Shell Service Station Station, Hughes Avenue, Lagos in 1955

Then Burkina Faso Head of State,Thomas Sankara visits Fela,Circa 1987,he was assassinated on fela's birthday in 1987

Nojim Maiyegun at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics won Nigeria's 1st Olympic Medal(Bronze).Currently blind & lives in Austria

Balewa on the University of Ibadan Campus in Nov 1963 to install Kenneth Dike(L) as Nigeria's 1st VC.

World's 1st black pilot 1916, Ottoman Pilot- İzmirli Alioğlu Ahmed's grandmother is from Borno (in present Nigeria)

POLICE COURT, LAGOS

Nnamdi Azikiwe could only converse in Hausa until age 8,when moved to Onitsha & became fluent in Igbo & later Yoruba

4-time Grammy Award Winner,Sade Adu (being carried by her dad-Adebisi Adu)with her mom & brother in Ibadan,Circa 1959

Oliver De Coque in 1976. He recorded more than 73 albums during his lifetime

Nigerians who raised money for England to buy weapons in WWII were given Kill Hitler Certificates'41

Mr.Bellingham traveling in Northern Nigeria, being carried by his servants. Circa 1900s.

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

19-yr old Musician,Victor Uwaifo as a body builder(now a Professor),at Obalende,near St Gregorys College,Lagos 1960

Sa'adu Zungur ,1st Northerner to attend Yaba Higher College,Lagos,Circa mid 1930s,became a poet & political activist

A Village Court in Uyo,1949:A Colonial District Officer presides aided by his interpreter.

. Delegates at a Nigerian constitutional conference in the 1950s in England.

Before the War: Gowon & Ojukwu sharing a meal at Aburi,Ghana,while Ghana's Head of State Joe Ankrah watches, Jan 1967

Oba Awon University...IFE.... Where the greatness all bega

Children in a school at Awgu, Enugu State in 1970

Awolowo,then Premier of Western Region(arrowed),in the midst of Primary Sch'l pupils in Bomadi(in present Delta) 1952

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

Earl of Plymouth (R) visiting then Oba of Benin,Oba Akenzua II in Benin City,circa 1938.

Traffic on Carter Bridge, Lagos in 1963.

Abubakar Rimi as Kano State Gov' addresses his supporters at the Murtala Muhammed Square in Kaduna in 1981

Major Babangida,Major B Haladu, Captain B Dimka, Captain Y Kure, Major G Duba, Major Bako & Major MJ Vatsa

In 1969,while the civil war was still ongoing, Gowon got married to Ms.Victoria Zakari.Many considered it distasteful

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

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

British West African currency were replaced by the Nigerian Pound in 1958