Time passes by so quickly! Everything around us changes
so fast that we don't even notice it. Sometimes we realize
the changes only when looking at old pictures. In a few
decades Nigeria became Africa's largest economy. Less
than a century needed for Nigeria to become a soaring
capital.
We present you 50 amazing old photos that will show how
times have changed in Nigeria. These stunning photos
show the big difference between those days and now:
#1 Mary Slessor’s House in Calabar, Built in
1880.
#2 The Lagos Railway (1900s)
#3 Transportation in Nigeria (1900)
#4 A Nigerian chief with his family (1910)
#5 The Niger at Jebba (1930)
#6 The Niger at Jebba (1930)
#7
Chapel Of The Resurrection, University
Of Ibadan (1960s)
#8
General View Of Historic Kano City
(1950s)
#9
When Queen Elizabeth met her people
– Nigerians (1950s)
#10
Carter bridge street scene, Lagos
Island (1950s)
#11
Asaba-Onitsha ferry crossing (1959)
#12
Main Gate University of Ibadan, (1960)
#13
University College Hospital, Ibadan
(1960s)
#14
Lagos Airport – Fokker FK27 BOAC
and Shell Tanker Fokker (1960s)
#15
The London and Kano trading
company, Lagos (1960s)
#16
Emirs palace, Kano (1960)
#17
Fulani Milkmaids (1960s-1970s)
#18
Independence Fountain on the main
road leading into the city of Kaduna, Nigeria
(1960s)
#19
Hair braiding in Nigeria. 1960
#20
African Visionary: Chief Festus Sam
Okotie-Eboh – a Nigerian politician and
former minister for finance (1919-1966)
#21
Igbo soldier during the Nigerian Civil
War, (November, 1968)
#22
Ibadan, Capital and Seat of
Government, Western Nigeria (1968)
#23
A man and a lady on a motorcycle in
Lagos Nigeria (1969)
#24
Barclays bank and Shell Petroleum
buildings, Lagos (1960s-Early 1970s)
#25
Nigeria Airways Fokker 28 at Calabar
airport (1970s)
#26
Nigeria leaders (1985)
#27
Lagosians waiting to get on the bus
(2010)
#27
Lekki-Ikoyi-Bridge (2013)
#28
Victoria Island (2014)
#29
Lagos Transportation, buses BRT
(2015)
#30
Eko Atlantic City,
district of Lagos in the future
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