OMG! I USED TO LOOOOOOOOOVE PACESETTERS! I HAD LOADS OF THEM,
THANKS FOR BRINGING THOSE MEMORIES BACK!

I'm just viewing all these wonderful pictures with a heavy heart, considering the present state of horror. Let us all go back to the drawing board and reshape our great country again, all hope can never be lost

@Ajileko
Anybody remember back then the "owo Udoji" I remember Dad coming home and braging of additional pay check he recieved. I think it is like a bonus pay for all govetnment workwers. Mom was really happy though.

"Owo Udoji" your father was refering to is the pay rise recommended by the Udoji commission in the 70s i think as part of the civil service reform process. I dont have all the facts in my head but my father told me about it too. I think there was another civil service reform commission headed by Ojetunji Aboyade too am not sure if its the same with the Udoji process.

Ministry of Communications and Aviation, Lagos, Nigeria 1959

From good old days to bad new day.

so clean and quiet.

Enugu Municipal Offices building, Enugu 1959

Seriously, Nigeria looks far better off then than it is now. How i wish we can actually and truly reverse the hands of time.

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tpia@:

blue band:

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Look at the dirty fingers.

Fatherly love

University College Hospital, Ibadan

Jos - Kafenchan highway

Emir's Palace ,Katsina

Nigerian family portrait: Lagos, Nigeria 1973

A'lone Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) @Yankari Game Reserve, Bauchi, Nigeria, 1980

Funny pix

We need realize that most Nigerians at that time were still living in their rural villages. Of course the cities were not as populated as we find them now.

EzeUche:

We need realize that most Nigerians at that time were still living in their rural villages. Of course the cities were not as populated as we find them now.

Do you make a habit of popping out of nowhere?

@Your post
True. So high population = ?

Mrs Ransome-Kuti receiving the first Nigerian prime minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa most probably sometime in 1961.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti and Beko Ransome-Kuti (from left to right) join protestors, as they protest the brutal attack on their mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti- who was thrown out of a 2nd floor balcony by soldiers allegedly acting on the directives of Head of State (1976-1979), Brigadier-General Olusegun Obasanjo.

EzeUche:



1959: Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, Onitsha, Nigeria Elisofon, Eliot photographer

look at the pride in their faces! , and the admirations in the eyes of the onlookers!!

Zik meeting his wife Flora Azikiwe on return from The USA in 1953.

Musediku Adeniji-Adele (Oba of Lagos 1949-1964) introducing his chiefs to Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Nigeria in 1956

Chief Okotie Eboh. Seriouzly!!

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Medical student (Dr Florence Abiola Adeniran, née Martins) studying at her desk in dormitory room.

I like the 'fear ground kemgbe' Mr. Zik was wearing

These trumpers were the onces that herarded the arrival of airplanes in Kano in the early days of air travel in Nigeria.

1974. The car in the background is a vauxhaul. L-R, Engr. Martins Izevbizua, Dr. Johnny Uhunmwangho and Mr. Ewean Osadolor, Staff BIU Benin City