YelloweWest:

My dad was a foriegn officer. Diplomat for 35years. He served his Nigeria in different countries.

My father said there was a time when power shortages was not in existence.
I've spoken to many elders and the one thing they agree on is that Nigeria was much better back in the day than now.

olayinks007:
When Nigeria is still a country, nw Nigeria is a dead country.

BankManager:
Good old days ...I still remember Kingsway...
#memories

Explorers:
Two donkeys are pictured loaded up with a rather hefty load of crates.

EazyMoh:

The load isn't heavy at all!
It's just empty jerry cans!
Cc sukkot
Nice thread as usual Explorers keep it up!

Explorers:



Thanks, o to jo meta.

Been a while, hw u doin bro?

Jiang:
May God destroy & curse all those people responsible for destroying Nigeria & bringing it to dis miserably STATE. May them and thier unborn generation Never enjoy the wealth they steal from this country.

Fuvck Naija leaders who have no sense of patriotism & leadersship.

infact dis thing don vex

Baroba:
Those nettle ( Volkswagen) were like 3k tear rubber, my old man bought one...Like my mum always say, The white man left too early...

kodded:
when we gained independence


sadly Nigeria was never ready for independence , as you can see today millions of Nigerians if not everybody in Nigeria will take any opportunity they see to run to england (our colonial masters that we wanted to get free from) even our president prefer england to Nigeria











..so I ask myself again are we independent ?

Ademat7:

There is a way white structure things such that if u don't see them u won't be able to move forward;more like giving u a car without d key or manual,go and read hw Belgians handover power in Rwanda

Rossikki:
It is you who is dead. Nigeria is very much alive. Today, Nigerians are manufacturing cars, buses, SUVs, computers, and mobile phones. Nigerian-built satellites hover in outer space right now as we speak. Name one industry under the colonial era.

Sagay212:


I do not agree. The whites have no business with all the billions our senseless politicians are stealing. When they fix something for you, you are expected to maintain it. If you go to ebutte meta and sabo, you'll still see some old buildings the white constructed. Many of them are not looking so nice because the idi.ots living in then now did not maintain the houses. Look at most of the second hand cars imported from Europe or USA, a car they have used for a year or more still looks very clean that when you bring it to nigeria, people think it's brand new. Drive the same car for about six months in Nigeria and see how it will look.

Ademat7:
tiz well
go and read "how europe underdevelop Africa" by walter rodney

kodded:
when we gained independence


sadly Nigeria was never ready for independence , as you can see today millions of Nigerians if not everybody in Nigeria will take any opportunity they see to run to england (our colonial masters that we wanted to get free from) even our president prefer england to Nigeria











..so I ask myself again are we independent ?

Explorers:
Adverts.

mikekobe01:


I will say it was the British government that caused our problems in this country. by supporting the north against the southern part of the country.

Zane2point4:


Change is the only constant thing.
Why dont we use the 1980 betteles? Why do an apprentice go to the master to learn new ideas from him? But form the pics you will see the obvious truth.

Sagay212:


Bro Europeans have left Africa and back in their countries. Is the white man stopping us from having steady power supply? Are they stopping us from constructing good roads and doing simple things as filling up pot holes? Are they stopping us from.using our brain to stay and spend money in our country instead of always travelling to their country to.buy houses and to shop for clothes? A lot of Nigerians wear very expensive designer clothes and any of them buy these clothes abroad. Even when you bring these luxury stores to open in Nigeria, majority of our senseless and low self esteemed people will still prefer to travel to dubai, UK or US to.buy just to show class and show off. We should stop putting blames on white people. They have really tried for us. The white man is not our president, governors, commissioners, LG chairmen who are stealing our money. No white man is under developing nigeria. Many of us are just greedy and stupi.d black monkeys.

Explorers:
Fascinating photographs of 1930s Nigeria taken by a high-ranking education inspector in the decades before its independence from Britain have been unearthed after more than 65 years.

The images were captured by Edward Harland Duckworth, who served as inspector of Education in Nigeria from 1930 to 1944, and collated into a photo album by his friend Henry Svory, who was a head of department at Ibadan University at that time.

They provide an insight into the lives of the native population in the West African country in the decades preceding its independence from Britain in 1960.







https://gossip.naij.com/1096554-these-13-photos-nigeria-independence-auctioned-n400k.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C8627661188

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4360200/Fascinating-photos-Nigeria-taken-65-years-ago.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Rossikki:
Would you rather be on a village farm with your hoe and matchet, or tapping palm wine from a tree, compared to what you are doing now, ie typing on your ipad, phone, or computer, well fed, literate, and aware? Independence has given you the chance to excel, something your forbears couldn't even dream about.

soath:
loose

Rossikki:


First of all, you clearly have a racial inferiority complex to call yourself and your family ''black monkeys''. That is something that only a therapist can cure you of. But to say the whites have ''really tried for us'' is to misrepresent history. And I will not let you do that.

The whites came to Africa to LOOT the continent. That was why you inherited nothing from your grandparents. Or great-grandparents. They were village illiterates, despite the fact that the whites exported our resources - cocoa, groundnuts, tin, rubber, palm oil, iron ore, coal, in large quantities yearly between 1897 and 1960. By all measurements, Nigeria should have been a reasonably developed nation at independence. Not an undeveloped bush with near zero infrastructure. Not even a power grid.

You can complain about the inefficiency of our post colonial govts, and how some of the roads have pot holes etc, but how many roads at all were built by the whites? Name one expressway they built.

We have power cuts today? What about NO POWER AT ALL as was the case during colonialism, for over 95% of the population?

IN FACT, IF THE WHITES WERE AS FANTASTIC AS YOU CLAIM, WHY DID WE EVEN NEED TO START FROM SCRATCH BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SCHOOLS AFTER THEY LEFT? HADN'T THE SUPER WHITE ANGELS RULED FOR 63 YEARS NON STOP? MAKING MONEY OFF OUR RESOURCES?

WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT? WHY DID THEY NOT DEVELOP THE COUNTRY?

WHY WAS NIGERIA NOT AN EL DORADO AT INDEPENDENCE?

Fact is corruption REDUCED DRASTICALLY after independence. That is why we have the country we have today, with some reasonable infrastructure here and there. Prior to independence 90% or more of our export earnings were sent straight to London. When Nigerians took over, that fell to maybe 30%, which was why we were able to start building things like roads, bridges, flyovers, hospitals, universities, power plants, and all the other things we have today.

SO WE MAY NOT BE PERFECT, BUT WE ARE MUCH BETTER OFF UNDER BLACK RULE THAN WE EVER WERE UNDER WHITE RULE.

THANKS.