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ROSSIKE:
You are ignorant. What fuel? What electricity? It is actually today you have those things in far greater abundance. In the 1950s power generation stood at 270mw. Rural areas were in total darkness. There was no fuel issue because the majority used bicycles not cars. If you had grown up then you'd likely be an illiterate because litetacy rate was less than 10% at independence, compared to 74% today.

Some rural areas today don't have electricity my brother. I went to a village in Ogun State and I was amazed that there is no electricity in this time and age.

2n2k:


The Tinubu in that square is not Bola ooo, it refers to Madam Efuntoye Tinubu

ok just in case they want do "CHANGE" reach that side

Demdem:


Chai, Ojukwus nemesis.

Do I need to remind U that d war criminal who shot at everything that moved and even those that didn't move was eating his feaces shortly b4 he died in utmost ignominy?

bushdoc9919:


Not exactly...even back then there were rumbles and rumbles.

Rumbles, yet we lived happily

But now Yoruba wan kill igbo, urhobo wan kill ijaw, Hausa say its me or no one, calabar want kill kanuri, etc we need to go back to the basics

Bad guys

9jatatafo:


Way back then corruption, greed, stealing was almost zero. every man and woman was his or her neighbour's keeper but not anymore. I weep for this country. Just in the early nineties here, N20 was enough for me to go to school from Monday to Friday while in secondary school.

I remember back then, I swallowed 25kobo (my afternoon meal money for school) and it got stuck in my throat and I thought I was going to die.

9jatatafo:


Way back then corruption, greed, stealing was almost zero. every man and woman was his or her neighbour's keeper but not anymore. I weep for this country. Just in the early nineties here, N20 was enough for me to go to school from Monday to Friday while in secondary school.

More self delusion. The colonialists siphoned over 90% of annual export earnings which was why Nigeria was underdeveloped with not a single university or expressway after 63 years of uninterrupted colonial rule. So corruption actually reduced following independence.

My turn.... tinubu and wife 1987.

Lovely

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari

Ishilove, any thoughts?

A pregnant woman pushing her three wheeled truck to the market in Ijebu Ode (1969)

loomer:


Rumbles, yet we lived happily

But now Yoruba wan kill igbo, urhobo wan kill ijaw, Hausa say its me or no one, calabar want kill kanuri, etc we need to go back to the basics

You lived happily because 95% of people were illiterate village farmers and hunters with nothing to get angry about.

PhockPhockMan:


Sharrraaaaap.



http://www.africablast.com/2013/05/king-jaja-of-opobo-and-his-relationship.html?m=1

You don't need to tell me to sharrap bruv, let's maintain some decorum here

rhythyson:
# make I add too

This your post na hardest one ooo!!!! Got me laughing. The blows that the guy received.

Let me add my own


A 1953 stamp of Nigerian

MzJackBaueress:
US participants at FESTAC77 in Nigeria,May 1977

and this is the beautiful event some people claim is the cause of Nigerias problem. Smh

MzJackBaueress:
For those of us who used Lacombes text book.

Please, where can I get this book? I need it for my kids.What they are teaching kids these days is crap,no wonder some of them don turn omo baba olowo ati omo iya olowo.

ROSSIKE:
You lived happily because 95% of people were illiterate village farmers and hunters with nothing to get angry about.

Bros,i no agree with u on the 95%, na now illiteracy even wan tie wrapper, people now rada pursue money than go school

9jatatafo:


Some rural areas today don't have electricity my brother. I went to a village in Ogun State and I was amazed that there is no electricity in this time and age.

But back then NO rural areas had any electricity at all. The reason you are surprised at the village in Ogun today is because most places are connected to the grid today. Back then there would have been nothing surprising about it.

Asuokaa:


i thought jaja of opobo was ijaw niger delta does that make him ibo...no offense and no insults just a question

King jaja was an Igbo man.



http://www.africablast.com/2013/05/king-jaja-of-opobo-and-his-relationship.html?m=1

ROSSIKE:
More self delusion. The colonialists siphoned over 90% of annual export earnings which was why Nigeria was underdeveloped with not a single university or expressway after 63 years of uninterrupted colonial rule. So corruption actually reduced following independence.

The corruption you mentioned above was committed by the British and not Nigerians. I hope you feel me.

Naija was more organized under the whites. Beautiful pix

MzJackBaueress:
The Tinubu Square erected in 1960. It was formerly called "THE FOUNTAIN OF LIBERTY".

The picture was taken in 1965

Lawyer, politician and diplomat Matthew Tawo Mbu, from Okundu in Cross River State was appointed Federal Minister for Labour at age 23 in 1953.
He remains Nigeria’s youngest Minister till date.
He was also Minister of Foreign Affairs and former High Commissioner to the UK.
He was born in November 1929 and died in February 2012.

Do you guys still remember this currency notes used in the 1970s

50kobo
1naira
5 naira
10naira

loomer:


Bros,i no agree with u on the 95%, na now illiteracy even wan tie wrapper, people now rada pursue money than go school

Keep deceiving yourself. Literacy rate has increased dramatically since independence. Why do you think the vast majority of our grandparents are illiterates? Use your brain for once!

Pataki:


I remember back then, I swallowed 25kobo (my afternoon meal money for school) and it got stuck in my throat and I thought I was going to die.

Thank God we are alive. Nice memories though. Correct guy, the cry that day nor be small thing oooo especially when you see your mates buying food and eating.

9jatatafo:


The corruption you mentioned above was committed by the British and not Nigerians. I hope you feel me.

Of course I know that. I'm surprised you know.

Lagusta:


King jaja was not an Igbo man bruv.....

@mzjackbaueress nice thread, following, please more pics please

Lagusta, u are a regular presence on this site, so i respect u for that.
But u can't know everything.........and plz don't claim to do so.
King Jaja's real name was Jubo Juboagha.
HE WAS FROM AMAIGBO IN THE OLD ORLU DIVISION. IN PRESENT DAY IMO / ABIA STATE.
It was from there he was kidnapped and sold to slavery.
i wouldn't even be surprised if its on google.

zaiinneeii:


Op, abeg wetin sup wit okiotie dress, is dat suppose to be a train. Y is it on the young 's man nick?

It shows the level of stu..pidity of that Okotie Eboh guy. He was so wasteful cos he was the minister of finance. Thank Gof for the coup plotters then.

ozodigboo:

Lagusta, u are a regular presence on this site, so i respect u for that.
But u can't know everything.........and plz don't claim to do so.
King Jaja's real name was Jubo Juboagha.
HE WAS FROM AMAIGBO IN THE OLD ORLU DIVISION. IN PRESENT DAY IMO / ABIA STATE.
It was from there he was kidnapped and sold to slavery.
i wouldn't even be surprised if its on google.

Thank you so much bro....

MzJackBaueress:
For those of us who used Lacombes text book.

Those who could solve "Bicycle dealer" and "tobacco dealer" are great men and women now.