Herbert Macaulay: The Story of Nigeria's First Civil Engineer

[@O2Jworldwide]

All civil engineers should gather here

[@albandenis3891]

This man was a great man. He is a hero and i think he deserves more flowers.

[@rotimiclassical1699]

Renowned and distinguished Yoruba men and women.

[@1004445]

He was a very distinguished looking man.

[@nnamdinwuchukwu6995]

Buried history unearthed. We talk of Nelson Mandela. This is heroism from the bars of Caucasian administrative hounding.

[@adebolaadeniyi1852]

Awesome story 👏

[@RandomQuote4u]

this is beautiful

[@Nkoli-j7w]

Great story

[@mungopark1876]

Nationalist and father of the nation, though slightly nepotist. Handed party "NCNC" power to his very capable inlaw, Nnamdi Azikiwe... Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh (Macauley’s grandson) was married to Deborah Okwuegbunam (Zik’s niece and mother of Dr. Shade Ameyo Adadevoh who was responsible for treating and containing Nigeria's Ebola virus).

[@abiodunabiodun9345]

This is beautiful..

[@isiomachigbolu1622]

Interesting, who knew , it shows you that Nigerians are connected in many ways, yet the likes of hateful buhari has sort to divide us,if we trace our history we will all find that we may have all been mixed with nearly all the tribes

[@neroflo57]

Wow 👏😮👏😮

[@ikpoegee]

It wasn't because Zik was capable, it was only due to nepotism? Macauley co-founded NCNC with Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. He had friends all over Nigeria when others were yet to know what a train was. Zik was brought up a nationalist who could speak most of the languages in Nigeria, a polyglot. Zik spoke Efik and Ibibio like an indigene. He spoke Hausa and Fulfulde like an indigene as well. Yoruba was like his first home. So, if you were looking for a person with a national spread, there was no other person at that time who was more qualified than Zik. That's why he never looked at Nigeria from any tribal spectacle because he didn't have any. Among all the people that represented their ethnic groups before independence Zik was the only nationalist among them. Others were mere tribal appendages that tried everything possible to reduce everybody to their tribal standard.

[@aframaco9491]

@@isiomachigbolu1622 That's a fact! Unions going back decades! That's why regardless of any excuse, I hate any agitators for secessions! We are Nigerians!

[@williamedwardchristopherla5056]

Scholar 👨‍🏫 in those fields of study too🤙🏾🌎🖤

[@crownjohnson8153]

Yoruba people are great 👍

[@ikpoegee]

All ethnic groups in Nigeria are great people.

[@crownjohnson8153]

@@ikpoegee Mr man just get the freak out of here. I know who you're and where you coming from. This is not Igbo. We for done dey hear Igbo amaka. You guys always have problem with Yoruba progress

[@ikpoegee]

@@crownjohnson8153 "Yorubas are great people" is even a worse slogan than Igbo amaka. You criticize people with the same attitude you have even more than them. All the ethnic groups are great and all of them amaka. Meanwhile, as a patriotic Igbo man, I have never even used Igbo amaka before. It's not a slogan or an affirmation I am used to. I don't need it. I am only here because instead of allowing us to celebrate Macauley, as usual, Yorubas like you must find a way to use any occasion to throw tantrums at an Igbo person. Zik and Macauley co-founded NCNC. When Macauley was the president, Zik was the secretary - General. So, nobody did the other a favour. NCNC was never the property of Macaulay. Read any good history on NCNC and you will see that the two co-founded the party. I can't co-found something with you and when I am no more, people will insinuate that I gave the business to you. It's also your business.

[@tinohlion1915]

A great man suppressed! + I'm mad that they had to go beg the British to give them more power to rule their own country 💔🤦🏾‍♂️

[@kemmieokon]

The man in efik attire is Chief Nyong Essien.. A traditional aristocrat from Uruan in Present day Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria! I don't know why he wasn't mentioned.

[@emmanuelakintayo3977]

He wasn't mentioned because this video isn't about him. There are a lot of notable people shown too that weren't mentioned

[@brianlong2707]

Nigeria started on a good note, but the Hausa-Fulani people turn it into a mess after independence.

[@kunlrjaiye7294]

Igbo man Nnamdi Azikwe with his greediness invited them to form government in 1959 And another Igbo military head of state Aguiyi Ironsi abolished the regional government which could have been best He abolish it because him and other Igbo officers were obsessed with another man's land Fulani only played igbos to their evil game

[@brianlong2707]

@@kunlrjaiye7294 the Igbo men made it to the top because they were very smart, the Igbo land was not developed as the West or north, the British made sure the Fulani Hausa had the military power because they were the least educated, they were primitive, the were easy to convince, and could easily be controlled. Today the north is the least developed part of Nigeria despite the fact that the northerners have been running the country for about for a long time. All they want to do is collect money from all these foreign companies and give them access to oil in the south and they don’t even used the money for the betterment of the country not to talk of the north.

[@ayenia2736]

@@brianlong2707 igbos were never smart, they were dubious and foolish then by supporting the northerners who they later betrayed and killed them. Read the history very well: Yorubas pulled out of that government, and Sadauna was in no way interested in any central goverment-- they both were rather interested in developing their regions instead of having greed for a control of other regions. Yorubas were the major political tormentors of the colonial masters of then, that should tell you who were actually brilliant. The yorubas already sued the whitemen and officially collected their land(lagos) where the seat of the government was located from the white men at that time-- read the judgement of the court in london of 1920-1921 , a case that started several years earlier, where the Aworis sued the Oba of lagos for give out land for the setting of the government house without contacting the land owners. Yorubas chased the white men away because of their property. How can you claim to outsmart such people? They were never at anytime interested in such dubious union, while Zik's father was even the secretary to the colonial master. So, no wisdom in what Zik did, and he lost woefully at the end.

[@ezemathew2716]

This history is questionable,what was Nigeria's name as a nation before Amalgamation (1914) ? Herbert marcauly is older than Nigeria's amalgamation so why saying he's the first Nigeria civil engineer? Someone should clear me on this.

[@isaacolorunmola9309]

i knew from your statement , you were igbo . SMH

[@ayodelejapheth8872]

I dont need to question ds but to understand that he was 1st civil Egr of British colony of lagos nay Nigeria. Yorubas av bn going to schools b4 colonial master came in 1861.D 1st graduate of igbo extraction was sir Arthur mbanefo in 1937,about 150yers b4 d first igbo man got educated.

[@ezemathew2716]

@@isaacolorunmola9309 Don't bring in sentiment here,if you don't av ment@l capacity to understand my article just kindly jump and pass

[@ezemathew2716]

@@ayodelejapheth8872 However,I'm not a politician but if i can understand your article dude,you said that Yoruba has been going to school before the coronation,what kinda of school are they going then? Because I know that African continent obtained education when the missionary set in so no education before the missionary., again Igbo people where the majority in school as of then and are first to obtain first class in education after amalgamation and before that civil war ,Igbos are the people controlling 80per cent of Nigeria economy ,Igbo dropped from school because of the war and that's why the Yoruba gained more accces to take over the education, the war was between Igbo and British and other western countries but used Hausas as frontier.

[@mikeplucy2000]

Please Mr. EZE Mathew, read history of Nigeria start from 1859 to 1959 and 1959 to post civil war. Then, you will fully understand true history of Niger.

[@herbertmacaulay8987]

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[@kunlrjaiye7294]

Blame Nnamdi Azikwe and Aguiyi Ironsi for what fulani are doing today in Nigeria Nnamdi Azikwe in 1959 Nnamdi Azikwe formed an unholy alliance with fulani to form government against Awolowo In 1966 another Igbo man Aguiyi Ironsi abolished the regional government thinking it would favour Igbo but fulani later play them to the evil game We supposed to return back to the regional government where each region controls her resources But Igbo politicians are the cause of everything with their greedy nature

[@Favour2020]

They Will NEVER Accept The Sin Of Their Forefathers.

[@Zero-hl2zy]

Nice story but I saw a man carrying something on top of his head in one of the 18th hundred pictures, and we still doing it today Oh God Africa we seem now to know it all 👍❤🇬🇭

[@ibrahimsalami4014]

Get lost with your colonial mentality. Respect your own culture. Well! you do not seem to have one. Every culture has a way of doing things. You really need to travel and see the world to appreciate this. Only fools put down their own culture.

[@Zero-hl2zy]

Carrying things on top of your head is not culture is very primitive and you know what, is our Leadership in Africa Miss used of our money that the problem. Okay. 👎🙏

[@oluakin9581]

Yoruba have no reason to be under the bondage of Hausa. They demanded freedom and are the ones suffering after the so called independence

[@tounoni]

Does Lagos look like a state under bondage?

[@MOBOLD4EVER333]

@@tounoni thank u so much for asked him that logical question which I can also say that this question applies to every other state in YORUBA REGIONAL TERRITORY IN NIGERIA THAT IS CURRENTLY CALL ( SOUTH WEST ).

[@megaeazy3]

@@MOBOLD4EVER333 are you satisfied with the current state of things in your land? Do you think it could be better under a different leadership? Bondage in this case is figurative

[@kunlrjaiye7294]

Igbos are the ones that invited fulani to form alliance in 1959 and Aguiyi Ironsi abolished the regional government in 1966 to pave way for fulani to take every body for a ride Fulani gain power through Igbo evil game plan they only play them to the game

[@abdulsudaisy]

Is Tinubu a Fulani? I thought he is a Yoruba? And he is keeping Lagos under his bondage ,😂

[@KECY_KELECHI]

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