Eastern Nigeria Premier Dr Michael Okpara , 1964 . Source: Historic Images

Oba. Afunbiowo Adesida I, meeting the Queen, 1956

Quaritch: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua(16 Aug,1951- 5 May,2010) with his wife Turai and daughter in the late 70s when he was a University lecturer....it is about two years ago that he passed away.Source: The News archive.

This couple look awesome!!!

Rugged and real

Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton, Awolowo , Oba Adesoji Aderemi, Oba Olateru Olagbegi II....during Lyttletons tour of Nigeria in 1952. Screen Shot from a British Pathe video "Lyttleton Tours Nigeria"

Quaritch: Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton, Awolowo , Oba Adesoji Aderemi, Oba Olateru Olagbegi II....during Lyttletons tour of Nigeria in 1952. Screen Shot from a British Pathe video "Lyttleton Tours Nigeria"

Gbemi of beat fm also bears that surname "olateru olagbegi" and also has the same eye ball as the Oba.

Guess she is a family of theirs

What a rich and colorful history!
Where did we get it wrong?
I love my country, I no go lie!

Quaritch: Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton, Awolowo , Oba Adesoji Aderemi, Oba Olateru Olagbegi II....during Lyttletons tour of Nigeria in 1952. Screen Shot from a British Pathe video "Lyttleton Tours Nigeria"

Let me guess;the laughter was caused by a cheeky comment made by Lyttleton on the number of Ooni's wives.

Legit1:

Gbemi of beat fm also bears that surname "olateru olagbegi" and also has the same eye ball as the Oba.

Guess she is a family of theirs

If she's got that surname combination,she's likely to be from Owo royal family,90% likelihood.

Quaritch: Anike Agbaje-Williams (1936- ) Broadcaster: The first person, male or female to appear on Television in the whole of Africa. This was at WNTV-WNBS Ibadan on 31 October 1959.

First TV in Africa!
Imagine if we had continued with that speed?
By now we'd have been the best country in Africa, but now, all we have is regret, hatred and bitterness!
And now, south Africa is exporting dstv to us!

very good thread

na2day!:


First TV in Africa!
Imagine if we had continued with that speed?
By now we'd have been the best country in Africa, but now, all we have is regret, hatred and bitterness!
And now, south Africa is exporting dstv to us!

You are very correct
I could just imagine. Then Idddiots like Tinubu would be comparing himself to Awolowo.

Quaritch: On February 18, 1977 numerous soldiers mainly from the Abalti Barracks including the Police stormed the residence of late Fela Anikulapo Kuti. They were on a mission to arrest Fela and members of his Young pioneers found at the residence for an earlier infraction of impeding an officer in his lawful exercise of traffic control.

It was reported that Fela refused to be arrested and barricaded himself behind the locked gate. The fence was also electrified to discourage entry. Having gotten NEPA to cut electricity supply to the house, the occupants re-electrified the fence through the generator. The soldiers as a result blew up the generator with explosives and laid seige to the building, its occupants and property.
Mrs Olufunmilayo Ransome Kuti, a doyen of women's rights and education was thrown from the one story building and later died from the injuries sustained as a result.
Dr. Beko Ransome Kuti, Fela and other occupants were subjected to physical trauma and later arrested. The building itself was set on fire resulting in loss of property including unfinished and unreleased works of Fela.

The resultant inquiries and lawsuits which followed spurned the popular culture and notoriety of soldier-civilian relationships in Nigeria from the Song "Coffin for a Head of State", the Supreme Courts assertion that the crime was done by an "Unknown Soldier". It also made the late Mrs Ransome Kuti one of the martyr of the struggle which is the nation of Nigeria.
Years later President Olusegun Obasanjo was compelled by recent circumstances to constitute the Oputa panel when he became civilian President and was summoned to appear to give evidence in a petition brought by Beko through his lawyer, Femi falana. The exchanges are intriguing and compelling for students of history.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qe44fwMdFE

Afe Babalola,Femi Falana and Wole Olaonipekun.Ekiti and the Nigerian legal industry sha

Rich history in pictures....hope am permitted to save some of these pictures ..

Quaritch: The burial of Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu.




Nzeogwu's grave at the Military Cemetary, Kaduna.

I just love this guy for REAL! A determined soldier, a reformer, a defender of truth and above all, a true PATRIOT! Adieu,Patrick Chukwuma Nzeogwu

Many of you do not believe me when i say there are only two tribes in Nigeria and is "Yoruba and Others".

Look at history proving me right. Look at all the women pioneers in this country.....show me one that is not Yoruba.

Also look at all the men and for every 1 of the "Others" there three of " Yoruba". The 1 you find in the Others category.....if you probe his background well you discover he was raised in Yorubaland or his success came out of Yorubaland. Even till today, that trend continues.

May Almighty God continue to bless the land of "Milk and Honey".

hey op, God bless you, good job my brother.

Well done OP

ilugunboy: Rich history in pictures....hope am permitted to save some of these pictures ..

Please go ahead,
I got all the info from Facebook

Gen. Ironsi watching a mortar concentration at Kachia near Kaduna in 1966, shortly before his overthrow and assassination. Some Northern soldiers wanted to make attempts on Ironsi's life on this trip, but were dissuaded by Northern elders who warned against spilling Ironsi's blood in the North. This was why Ibadan was chosen as the theatre for the July 29 1966 coup.

The murders and subsequent hounding of most of the men in this picture (and their kinsmen) led to the need for the Aburi Accord, its failure, and the resultant civil war, which lasted for three years.

L-R: Lt. Col. Imo, Major Obioha, Lt. Col Okoro (with umbrella), Lt. Col. A. Madiebo, Major Ogbemudia (with map), Col. Wellington Bassey, Maj. Gen. A. Ironsi, Lt. Col. O. Kalu, Lt. Col. M. Shuwa, Lt. Col. J. Akagha etc.

K.O. Mbadiwe contacts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Telegram, February 16, 1968
London, England to the United States of America
Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, Nigerian nationalist and politician, informs Dr. King of his planned trip to the United States. Mbadiwe ensures that he will contact King upon arrival. Dr. King and Mbadiwe were working on a proposal for a solution to the Nigerian-Biafran civil war. A peace mission to Nigeria was planned for April 1968. Dr King died on the 4th of April 1968 Source MLK Center

This video of Ojukwu and Gowon after the Aburi meeting might have been posted before, but I find in an interesting study in body language.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXK2Er8UZk

Biafran Airforce Pilots. From left Gunnar Hagland, Willy Murray-Bruce, Carl Gustav Von-Rosen, August Okpe, Martin Lang. Pre-mission planning meeting. 1969

Biafran Armoured Vehicle as displayed in the National War Museum, Umuahia
My appreciation goes to Philip Uko Efiong and the the entire family of Major-General Philip Efiong for the permission to share this piece of Nigerian ingenuity.

PEACE CONFERENCE
From right are Col Hassan Usman,Brig Adeyinka Adebayo,Rear Admiral Akinwale Wey,Chief Anthony Enahoro,Dr Russell Dicko,Dr T.O Elias and Dr Adetoro at a peace conference
Source: The News

These aren't the history makers, these are some of the wreckers of Nigeria.

Quaritch: Over 10,000 marriages may be cancelled.
There was a proposal to invalidate marriages which had taken place in the secessionist areas during the Civil war. There were no lawful authorities licensed to contract marriages in those areas.

Sunday Times. 17 January 1971

So these people went to this lenght in their grand design to annihilate a people with impunity?
What happened to our customary laws/marriages then?

Chima_Adeoye: These aren't the history makers, these are some of the wreckers of Nigeria.

How ?

alj harem:

How ?

There are some never do well that just want to troll on the thread...reasonable folks should just ignore them. They are in their best element when you allow them to turn threads into tribal e-war.