abdelrahman:
When awon omo iya wa from oke oun were still living under thatched roof,naked,eating themselves

Yaff started again abi

papoudaupolos:
When there was order.
If we should have at least ask the masters to stay a little longer, may be till 2020 b4 we ask for that independence.
I think we ll have learned better

The organization in Lagos at that time was because we haven't learned enough of the ways of white people by then. We still had most people retaining our African ideals and values, which is orderliness, caring for one another, being contented with what we have.

The disorganization you see today is because the white man's language is now our language, his religion has become our religion, his education has become our education.

When someone give you language, education, religion, you will teach yourself how to destroy yourself, unfortunately, thats what we're doing in Africa today.

papoudaupolos:
When there was order.
If we should have at least ask the masters to stay a little longer, may be till 2020 b4 we ask for that independence.
I think we ll have learned better

I'm with you on this one. Ignorant people say I'm suffering from inferiority complex whenever I say we had independence too early.

KidsNEXTdoor:


They have come again...
Carry religion for head more than the Arabs that showed it to you.... No think you hear...

Common sense should’ve let you know that the person you refered to as a Muslim is not only a confusionist and a hypocrite, but also your Christian brother in Christ.

Kenstufez:
Much beautiful than what we have now.

There used to be law and order and the citizens were forced to abide by them or attract penalty. That was the simple magic to we see on the pics!

We all have a role to play on sanitatizing our environment in one way or the order, let's not wait for the government to do it all!!

We can start by proper disposal of satchets and plastic water. That would go a long way!!

The average Nigerian no send

It's official, blacks are cursed with disorganization. Why is that where ever there are whites things are usually organized?

Workingdays:
why is it that only CHURCHS is being shown does it mean that there was no mosque in lagos in those days

Mumu question, is this topic talking about religion? Think before you comment.

AutoReportNG:
Which one do you remember or recall?

See more amazing and breath-taking pictures here...

https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/05/pictures-of-lagos-during-colonial-days.html

most of these pictures are post-colonial

papoudaupolos:
When there was order.
If we should have at least ask the masters to stay a little longer, may be till 2020 b4 we ask for that independence.
I think we ll have learned better

True!

papoudaupolos:
When there was order.
If we should have at least ask the masters to stay a little longer, may be till 2020 b4 we ask for that independence.
I think we ll have learned better

regrets leads to regress.

We cannot improve as a nation when as a "government worker" all you do is to wait for ALERT! No innovations, nothing!

KidsNEXTdoor:
Wonderful pictures

Full of promises .....



But what is obtainable today is a certified dullard sitting at the helm of affairs of a soulless zoo Republic

All our past leaders were dullards known for looting our common wealth..... non should be exempted.

KingOfThisnDat:


Common sense should’ve let you know that the person you refered to as a Muslim is not only a confusionist and a hypocrite, but also your Christian brother in Christ.

Don’t mind them both. They are both bigots. Any Islam was already all over the South West and North before the colonialists came to tell them to close their eyes with bible in hand while they carted their kinsmen and children away. Pathetic lot. Always quick to find ways to ridicule Islam.

love the trees you hardly see trees in our cities today, even in our homes, trees help in curbing air pollution, the stupid city developers of today even with their computers are a dissapointment.

Five Must See Statues In Lagos Nigeria



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnTX3lnzgCo

papoudaupolos:
When there was order.
If we should have at least ask the masters to stay a little longer, may be till 2020 b4 we ask for that independence.
I think we ll have learned better

This is what I always tell people but it is unfortunate that these prodigal sons are not doing anything

dumo1:


***IMAGE CREDIT *** Google images or whichever website you pulled off those pics from. Stop crediting other people's works or pictures as your own. You have a very nasty habit of doing that. Give honor to whom honor is due.

The OP deserves an unreserved apology from you. If you had read the write up, I believe you should have seen it clearly written there where the pictures comes from...

Where are all the bicycle of those days ?

How come we don't ride bicycle like b4 again?

Nigeria will be great again

Feeling nostalgic; which life is as sedate and peaceful as that again. And those people in the pics, they are all gone now: these should remind us that life is ever transient; play your part there and leave the stage gently.

adekanmbi1986:


The OP deserves an unreserved apology from you. If you had read the write up, I believe you should have seen it clearly written there where the pictures comes from...

Still doesn't give him the right to stamp his water mark on those pics.

computer0810:
good old days of our grand parents when those flat head chest beaters have not flooded Lagos with Gala inside hold up, spear part to litter our environment and fake substandard product they sell including those disable from d north always begging up and down......this country should just divide already

You forgot to mention the Agbo jedi jedi sellers, Agberos, Owomida from Oshogbo, Iwo, Ogun and Ibadan who had not yet flooded Lagos as at that time.

KidsNEXTdoor:



God punish all those who fought for useless independence and immediately handed it over to the military... The likes of Buhari...who knows nothing about governance..

Imagine what could have been if the white man had stayed a little longer.... Look at South Africa today

We still dey queue up to get their visa

You can never compare the SA and Nigerian scenario. The British would have never really developed Nigeria like SA cos they were never interested in developing permanent settlements in Nigeria.

Whatever little thing the British built or would have ever built in Nigeria was for administrative convenience and ease of transportation of the looted rescources to UK.

South Africa had a lovelier weather, climate and topography very similar to that of Europe, hence Europeans settled there and wanted to develope it to their taste.

Beautiful pics

dataking:


Don’t mind them both. They are both bigots. Any Islam was already all over the South West and North before the colonialists came to tell them to close their eyes with bible in hand while they carted their kinsmen and children away. Pathetic lot. Always quick to find ways to ridicule Islam.

And how did Islam get into those regions, in the first instance? Was it by the free will of the people?

poseidon12:
Beautiful and clean. Nigerians have since turned Lagos (and the rest of the country) to a shit hole.
I wish the Europeans could come back and recolonize Nigeria.

Chaii!!!....this degree of mental slavery is the problem of the black race...

tenderfigure:


Chaii!!!....this degree of mental slavery is the problem of the black race...

Don't mind the ignoramus. One of the reasons why those pictures of old Lagos (particularly VI and Ikoyi) seem so nice is that in those days, the white men could prevent a mass influx of poor black people from the rest of the country as and whenever they pleased. Lagos would be incomparably nicer today if every new infrastructural development wasn't perennially being overstretched by indigent migrants who erect makeshift shelters in new mega-slums even as LASG is busy cleaning up the old ones.

The island areas of the "good old" Lagos looked so pristine for the exact same reasons of racial segregation that South African cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg were spick and span while millions of black Africans were stuck in "reservations" or the ghettos they called "townships". If what we want is just the projection of a misleading "modernity" through a few oases of wealth, we don't need to bring back any white people for that: we can simply emulate the Chinese, and require passes before any new migrants will be allowed into Lagos, while expanding Fashola's aborted deportation scheme for indigents 100-fold.

poseidon12:
Beautiful and clean. Nigerians have since turned Lagos (and the rest of the country) to a shit hole.
I wish the Europeans could come back and recolonize Nigeria.

You are a stupid mo.ron. You and the other brainless dunces here who have been praising those colonial pictures and calling for white recolonisation. You are brainless. That is your problem.

Tell me. What was in those colonial pictures? NOTHING. Compare them to what SSGN posted of development under black rule, and there is ZERO COMPARISON. Lagos is 1000 times more developed today than it was under colonial rule.

What will it take to get it into your thick skulls that colonialism was DISASTROUS for Nigeria?

The whites ruled you for 63 years and in that period they built NOT ONE MAJOR POWER PLANT. Not a single university. Mass illiteracy was the order of the day. Almost all our grandparents were stark illiterates. Yes or no? Despite the Brits exporting our natural resources for 63 years! What happened to all the money? Those rubbish handpicked colonial pictures from Ikoyi, and Lagos Island, where blacks weren't even allowed unless they were servants, apart from that, what else did they build in Nigeria?

Everytime, someone comes here and keeps showing us these same stupid pictures from Ikoyi, as if Ikoyi is the whole Nigeria, just to praise white colonialists. Idiot, dumb slaves....

SSGN:
This bridge us 12 kilometres long. One of the longest over water bridge in the world.

SSGN, may God bless you a million times for showcasing the modern development of Lagos under black rule, which far surpasses what was achieved under colonial rule, despite the oohs and aahs over the latter by these colonised, self-hating Nairaland slaves.

Even when black progress stares them in the face, they will abandon it to run into the arms of white enslavers, colonists and oppressors. Begging them to return and steal and oppress them more.

Cursed people.

mikaelzX:

And how did Islam get into those regions, in the first instance? Was it by the free will of the people?

Yes, free will and trade. No yorubas were slaves to Arabs or anyone before the advent of slave trade.

oglalasioux:


I'm with you on this one. Ignorant people say I'm suffering from inferiority complex whenever I say we had independence too early.

Because you DO have serious inferiority complex.

Name me the following:

One power plant by the whites during colonialism.

One dam.

One major hospital.

One full-fledged university.

One major airport.

One expressway.

The answer to all is ZERO.

Do you realise that your national football team, in the late 1950s, travelled to England to play, and insisted on playing barefoot because they had never seen football boots? This was after over 55 years of uninterrupted British rule of Nigeria.

You want them to RETURN and rule you, so they can continue with the total neglect of your people from where they left off?

That is why your friends say you have an inferiority complex. Get this. Colonialism is always about ONE THING. And that is enriching the land of the colonizer, by looting the resources of the colony. There is no other reason why whites will come here and rule you.

The idea that they will come here and make things better for you is founded on nothing but slavish adoration of white skin. NOTHING IN THEIR HISTORY suggests that they will ever do it. They developed South Africa with part of its resources, because they had a huge white settlement there. If they didn't, they would have looted it like they did Nigeria and other black colonies.

Until you people start to THINK, you will keep being the world's fools.