1960s Lagos Nigeria Streets, Rare Colour 16mm Home Movie Footage

[@divinest]

The reason why I am so angry is because, what most nigerians call developments is not development ......everytime a new road is built they start clapping hands The major problem that need to be fixed in nigeria is 1) Garbage Treatment Plants (in every city) 2) Sewage treatment Plants (In very city) 3) Clean water purification Plants for every home for bathing and cooking 4) Electricity for all of Nigeria (by Gas fired electric powered plants)- Notice that the resources for constant electricity is available but nobody is doing anything. 5) Build a better security organisation to fight curroption 6) There should be at least one world class hospital in every state ...try to make medical care at least free for everyone 7) Build high rise buildings for the middle and lower class in the city centers and put the people there, then get rids of all the filthy dirty slums 8) Build all roads with neatly paved sidewalks and underground drainage systems not filthy opened gutters....electric power lines should travel underground not on visually polluted power poles 9) for the larger cities build underground metro lines and use organised bus systems and taxis not okadas or those dirty danfo buses 10) Stop advertsing lagos when you dont have any infrastructure to contain the population otherwise slums will increase more 11) Secure the Nigerian Borders to control illegal immigration 12) Issue a law on Birth control 13) Abolish illegal street killings 14) Build multiple refineries 15) Stop blaming white people for your problems because your problem is with your curropt leaders...if other countries dont buy your resources, the country will never make financial gain. 16) In every city make multiple recreational areas 17)Maintain the rainforest 18) Stop voting for idiotic presidents who only come to eat and drink and never fix all these problems for nigeria ... For the one millionth time wake up people!

[@saltli8112]

Good plan , where is the money ?

[@waskyhenry3132]

Admiral Aladeen, I'll vote for you with this type of vision.

[@ramoswilliam3676]

Then tell us what development is?mad man

[@wateromiproduction3898]

@@saltli8112 - Nigerian have money. Start with pay as you use ideas to raise money and get billionaires to fund projects or Get 9ja money by listing on NSE to finance well run companies

[@kolutimehin]

The country is a scam built on wrong foundation so this lofty ideas just won't work. For this to work we need first to have a viable political restructuring. Let regions be stronger and develop at own pace (which is not happening now), then we can have long-term/ phased developmental planning, better public infrastructure delivery at all levels, vision-driven policy, public databases, serious research in our universities, data-centric backbone networks to serve various public service processes, plus of course skilled engineers, finance experts, system architects and project managers to run these things. The other issue is the lousy attitude of our people. The mediocre majority that aims high but deliver very little performance when it matters. Even if all these infrastructure are somehow built, the natural tendency of the Nigerian is to run things aground due to inherent poor management and zero maintenance culture. After 16 years of PDP, and Buhari now in power, the journey has not started yet. Any big country that cannot generate electricity and refine it's own petroleum products cannot be efficient and is thus a failed state.

[@saveourtreasuresheritagefo9932]

Oh my days. The structures, the cars, the fashion, the people, the sheer simplicity of the times. Thanks for sharing👍🏽

[@Founderschannel123]

​@cm-qt9irbut employment at the time was high compared to now even the infrastructure was better back then but now they use cost cutting technology bullshit to achoeve maximum profit for their lazy asses

[@jsbedi60]

Brings back so many memories of a long bygone era !! I grew up in Lagos and we lived at 9 Kuramo Close Ikoyi from 62 to 89

[@nsikanntuk]

Wow! Looks totally surreal. I wish there was an accompanying audio cos it looks like a clip from a documentary

[@baronessvondengler]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Thanks for posting this trip down memory lane!

[@leahgodson2319]

That’s amazing footage; what a privilege to see how Nigeria looked in that period. Most of the people there would in their 70s by now. It’s just one life on earth we have at the end of the day. May we all find salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who makes our life count through the decades and for all eternity. Thank you for sharing.

[@cantoniayatbou6237]

When people focus on the big cities like New York, London, Paris, etc. This video tells us, the Earth doesn't rotate around them, the Earth is fair, Lagos is also an amazing part of the world, should not be ignored. Nigerians have their own stories, the world doesn't not bear only American stories. Greeting from Southern China

[@johnmathew8878]

Even though I wasn’t born then .. at least from this footage I’m seeing here I can sense a high level peace & unity devoid of hate and insecurity among people in the 60’s . I don’t if I’m right anyway .. I never knew NIGERIA was this sweet lol. So where did we get it all wrong ?

[@markotv6761]

When we got our independent That when we go wrong

[@illitrait]

...dated post-1964, using Prof. Enwonwu's "Sango" as a reference point. The Victoria Island fishermen footage (Maroko? Five Cowrie Creek?) is truly remarkable. Things don change well well.

[@emmanueltvfant.b.joshuafan8442]

Even the then 1960s if way Better than the present, very neat and beautiful unlike dirtiness of now

[@divinest]

no danfo and large population. thats why

[@kenchuks5578]

Nigeria should have been more better if we were mixed with white people, bcox white people don't like dirty

[@jaybee4577]

@@kenchuks5578 Boy your brain needs medical check up.

[@george4281]

@@kenchuks5578 Don't say we, I am not your kind of idiot

[@markotv6761]

@@kenchuks5578 if we haven't gotten our independent Then sure I like the idea But sadly the fools below your comment will not accept because they like dirty and corruption

[@pinkcreams3134]

thanks for posting this. I like things from old times and sometimes I think I must have reincarnated from times past!

[@peterwood1059]

And I thought I was the only one

[@skeelzy2274]

You are not alone...

[@queenbeaut1578]

I thought I was the only one I only love listening to throwback music and movies too

[@goldchristian7130]

I like too much the old skool life,everything was easy going and natural not artificial.

[@Th3lite]

My oh my, how times have changed.

[@yuhboii7862]

Nigeria looked liked a wealthy city in the 1960s lol but now.....

[@finniaao]

I think this was in the 70s . . . Thank you for posting this clip.

[@divinest]

its should be before civil war

[@Lekanmoruf]

Tt087997

[@illitrait]

@@divinest ...you are correct. Post-1964, pre-1967, in my estimation.

[@jerryterwase9027]

It's paradoxical that my vision of a utopian future for Nigeria is an image from its past.

[@Bonexzilla]

And for any sane person, that should be scary to see your future in your past.

[@travelboy5213]

No difference,people remain the same.Only time will pass.. Live your best life and do what really makes you happy,so that at the hour of death you wont look back and be filled with regrets.

[@Hernameis994]

Wow,was this really Nigeria???

[@deepprobe6187]

Not a single black face in the swimming shot. Thank God things have changed.

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

+Deep Probe You couldn't scrape together that many white people in the entirety of Nigeria you mean?

[@obiajuluedwardogu4766]

+TheSpiritOfTheTimes The only time I want to that many white people in a swimming pool again in Nigeria is when they are paying £$£$ for that privilege. And yes, we'll bow and scrape, and even do much more for them (or any other paying holidaying foreigner), so long as we are getting rich in the process. Until then, they can f**k off!

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

Obiajulu Ogu Fair enough.

[@uknowamsaying]

+Obiajulu Ogu But you will be moaning they don't want to give you visa/green-card/permanent residency? You will not want to f**k off back to Nigeria.

[@thevivianobiorah7694]

Oyaator Bhoy Your comment doesn’t apply to everyone is quite broad leaving room for a tonne of argument.

[@stp479]

Everyone walks with purpose, it is good to see.

[@pinkcreams3134]

True. Unlike now where you see young people dragging their feet literally and just being simply sloppy. .

[@davidp2909]

I was living in Lagos (Ikeja) in the early 70s with my parents and sister. I am sure I recognise the Ikoyi Club, in particular the diving platform! I am sure that was where I learned to swim, age 6. Does anyone know where that was in proximity to Ikeja.

[@olaoluadeyeye5024]

I'd say about 20 minutes drive without traffic

[@davidokwara1894]

Far. Some 30km away. Traffic could mean hours on the road but normally 30 to 40 minutes at least

[@illitrait]

...I reckon the distance was approximately 25km, David Porter. Back in the early 1970s there was no 3rd Mainland Bridge, so travelling from Ikeja to Ikoyi meant crossing from one end of Lagos to another (as it existed then) using a two-lane Airport Road, a much narrower and constricted Ikorodu Road, then either Eko Bridge or the old Carter Bridge to connect with Lagos Island and Ikoyi. I know because we did it regularly. About an hour's drive at a civilised pace. Memories.

[@davidokwara1894]

@@illitrait Eko Bridge was finished in 1972 or 73. So it would have just been Carter Bridge for a while...

[@illitrait]

...your dates are a bit out, @@davidokwara1894. The first phase of the Eko Bridge Project (originally designated the 2nd Mainland Bridge) was the critical bit spanning the marshland and open water between Iganmu and Apongbon. It was completed and commissioned by Gowon in 1969. At the time, all traffic from the newly-completed Eko Bridge to Lagos Island exited at Apongbon, and this continued for quite a while. The other sections of the system (the Alaka-Iganmu, Apapa and Apongbon-Marina bits) were added later - I believe the finish dates you have given may relate to one or more of those additions.

[@mwdigitalcreations]

They never showed this on television in America at this time. They gave many black people a misunderstanding or how beautiful the continent of Africa truly is.

[@gerald1495]

strange seeing Lagos without garbage everywhere

[@TheSpunkAvenue]

Was already getting crowded and congested already here. Lot of peoples for 60s

[@scooby9921]

Is better than this present lagos

[@yormeey]

Where are these people this video ? Life is really too short. What's life like back then ? It's amazing seeing the streets of Lagos back then

[@yormeey]

In those says, there were still lots of Europeans who called Nigeria home

[@african-history-fountain]

NO it's not.... Lagos is far more developed now.

[@tundeoseni3884]

Are you having a laugh?

[@chyke6272]

@@african-history-fountain Lol....you don't know what development means.

[@BenjaminVelez-i3q]

Cars were few because it. Was too too expensive

[@tmdydan7546]

Nigeria's streets and roads were very clean and tidy during colonial time because colonial masters paid more attention to clean environments unlike the present governments.

[@divinest]

and now YABA YABA YABA OJUELGBA DANFO PUREWATER

[@gerald1495]

lmao

[@reggea83]

Still father's land, the birth place of humanity.

[@Quasiloks]

Look how clean 1960's Lagos was? as compared to what we have nowadays.

[@michaelkeshi7359]

Lagos Streets is like Madison Street (Seattle)

[@ozzythestunner]

Was*

[@ehiagwinamargaret4370]

Someone grandfather meant be in this forage and you won't know...

[@Jagseagle]

No volume?

[@divinest]

sound was recorded differently by then

[@oluakinwale4859]

We had what was called "order" and peace. Wow!

[@FalujoPhate]

Things were actually in order in the 60s.....it's a pity the future they yearned for then....is now in a big mess

[@SegTheGoon]

Awesome

[@juliusuzutunda]

Look at how slim the people look compared with the elephants we see today.

[@InquisitiveUniverse]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@toyinowoade3907]

😂😂😂😂

[@p.c2750]

Just give this nation constant electricity and leave the rest...

[@lionellikita3813]

Nigeria ! Oh Nigeria!

[@randoms2826]

See the cars omg 😳

[@daramolataiwo7487]

5:00, d smile of the future...

[@divinest]

population made naija look ugly

[@waskyhenry3132]

Aladeen, Population growth without corresponding growth in infrastructure.

[@olabodeomoniyi4805]

Eko for show

[@davidokwara1894]

Shitta Bey Mosque. Wow...

[@victoryEfam]

If this was the 1960s then I bet we are not even moving forward as a country. Except the cars and dress codes ,every other thing seems as what we have now or should I say much better and organized than what we even have now . God Help Us

[@osazuwaogbeide1540]

it look the same people selling stuff on the corner of the road was this pree 1960. why does every black majority country sell things outside instead of a shop inside

[@bowser3017]

Population lower than UK 😳

[@tristabenton9266]

This have to be a lie. This can't be Lagos

[@emmanuelanyasi8908]

This was lagos.

[@michaelheery7427]

VERY BACKWARD..

[@Robio_scorpio]

What is backwards about this and u do realise this is the 60s dumbfuck