throback Memory Lane! Rare Powerful Photos From Nigeria's History (MUST SEE)

World war II- African recruits learning to speak english at the Engineer training centre, Bukuru Northern Nigeria.
Original caption: World war II- African recruits learning to speak english at the Engineer training centre, Bukuru Northern Nigeria.

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King Duke IX of Calabar, (1895). The reason he always wore 2 crowns, one on top of the other was to show that he was crowned by the British as well as the EFIK people.

National stadium Surulere Lagos in the 70s.

British Troops showing off their precious loot after the Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897.

Nigerian soldiers leaving Kaduna for a second tour of service with the United Nations in Congo.

On 12/09/1897, Ajayi died.

Policemen at the Ilorin railway station in the 1910s with no shoes.

A colonial officer carried by servants in Lagos, 1910.

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The Ranch Hotel, Cattle Ranch Obudu, 1968.- Photo by Guy Fawkes

Some of the prominent Nigerian leaders in their youth (Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ismail, Ibrahim Babangida, Mohammed Magoro and AB Ahmed) with their names written at the bottom.

Cathedral Church of Christ Lagos, 1974.

Alhaji Ahmadu Bello being interviewed on TV prior to his departure to Mecca.

A Nigerian Football team without boots (1949).

Nigerian Schoolgirls in Sokoto Enjoy Breakfast in 1953. source: NigerianArchives

Pedestrians walking down the "London and Kano Trading Company". A woman in a red cloth wrapper walks past wearing stylish sunglasses. On the right, a man wearing a white shirt, tie and sunglasses looking dapper, 1961. -lostNigeria

Soldiers at Ibadan gate.

Picture taken after a hunting trip. Calabar, 1910.

A group of young men outside the university of Ife Library- 1966.

19 year old Victor uwaifo training and posing at Obalende, near st Gregory's college, Lagos 1960.

Alake of Abeokuta (Egbaland) Oba Ladapo Ademola II arriving at the coronation of King George VI of England. London, May 1937.

Captain James Labulo Davies. A London based yoruba millionaire who arrived in (1861) with 16 gold carriages for his wedding to Sarah Forbes Bonetta (The black adopted daughter of Queen Victoria)

Amalgamation meeting, Lagos 1914.

On the first of January 1914, the Northern and Southern Protectorates were merged together as one and Nigeria as we have it today was born. 2nd photo shows celebrations of the amalgamation along Tinubu street, Lagos.

Nigeria Airways.

Nnamdi Azikiwe's political campaign in 1959.

The Biafa war- General Yakubu Gowon can be seen in the first pic standing before a map as he tells reporters at a press conference that the war will be over in 4 to 8 weeks- Sept 13 1968. He was however wrong as the war finished apprx 2 years after. 2nd image shows genocide during the Biafran war, whilst the 3rd shows celebrations after the end of the war with a placard saying "Hail one Nigeria Ibos welcome".

Tarkwa bay Lagos in the 50s

Photo of a Tram line on Ebute Ero street Lagos (1913)

State house Marina built in 1886, was the residence of the head of state of Nigeria before 1967. I.E Balewa was kidnapped from that house and was never seen again.

Queen Elizabeth II with husband Philip and others visiting the Lagos Orthopedic Hospital (Igbobi), where the doctor explains the swimming pool therapy for polio and spastic cases, during ROYAL TOUR OF NIGERIA. 1956

Man riding on a carriage in front of Lagos police station in the early 1900s

Deportation of over 1million Ghanians and other African immigrants due to crisis. - FEB 1983

A picture of Prince Philip in 1956 surveying an open pit tin mine during the ROYAL TOUR OF NIGERIA. Looking at a vast amount of resources to be tapped and used for the benefit of the united kingdom. Unfortunately for him Nigeria gained its independence four years later.

What the Nigerian flag would look like today, if we never gained independence. Flag of the colony and Protectorate of Nigeria (1914-1960) situated in the top half of the picture.