Lagos 1976 archive footage

Archival footage shot by a filmmaker while visiting Nigeria in 1976.
It contains stock footage of Lagos: Mitsubishi Galant vintage car driving on dirt roads with mud, dirty water, and puddles, local people walking in a street market, Charlotte Toyota Land Cruiser stuck in the sand of the beach with people pushing, people on a speed motor boat sailing on the emerald sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the Guinea Gulf, Nigerian people and tourists together on Lagos beach, driving on traffic in the main streets of Lagos city, vintage trucks and cars during the rush hour.
Please comment if you recognize more subjects.
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[@joyandpeacefullaughter5307]

I feel nostalgic and I wasn't even born then. 😭

[@WanderingFriar]

🤣😂

[@aroor1785]

Me too though im not nigerian neither yet born then hhahahah and i searched nigeria in 70s because of nigerian movie 1976 i just watched in netflix ..made me love nigeria -that i already love because of alot of my friends form there- more and more

[@aishasannishittu1634]

Me too

[@sasorah6414]

Same. Born in 2001

[@preciousezekwereonye971]

Just imagine how life was in those days, also knowing most of the passerby and drivers are no more on earth today.

[@troyiebarber]

That's the realness of life an extraordinary experience when you really think about it 😟

[@MajorrBison]

Bad roads no be today, we need change.

[@Paw_chow]

Lol😂😂🤣

[@lalasng8643]

Honestly, first thing that came to my mind also

[@gam3boyxo121]

Sorry too late

[@nobodynoone2500]

@@gam3boyxo121 never too late.

[@ayodeler39]

Lagos my Lagos : Memories of my working life in Lagos driving my Mini to and from home to the UTA office on Davies Street then to the airport in Ikeja through roads flooded in particular areas, Surulere and parts of Ikorodu road. An aerial view of Lagos says it all rainy season or not Lagos is a peninsula and will always be a peninsula. An island surrounded by water! Also Lagos means Lakes in Portuguese, the Language of the first Europeans to arrive at the land already long inhabited by the Awori which belonged to the Yoruba people.

[@thetravelerwonderfulworld9854]

This may well have been in 2020. The roads are actually THE SAME in raining season . The houses and the filthiness are also present. Would things ever get better in Nigeria ? That remains to be seen .

[@davidebiember607]

Things dont get better in Nigeria. They only get worse. In 1976 when this movie was recorded i was living in Nigeria . The Naira was higher than the u.s.dollar . I Naira was about 1 dollar 50 cents. That tells the whole story.

[@ugochiqueen1417]

My thoughts exactly, nothing has changed except for sand filling of rivers to build towers. mchewww.

[@sasorah6414]

The only thing that changed is cars and then the internet was invented

[@olao9893]

Living in Lagos in the 60s and early 70s we made an effort to clean up our environment, now it’s seems we just leave the filth to build up around us. Everywhere you look rubbish is everywhere. I don’t understand our people nowadays.

[@Franklincnwosu]

NO NIGERIA WILL REMAIN THE SAME DIRTY COMPANY CAN YOU IMAGINE I THOUGHT LAGOS STUPID STATE SANWO OLU IS DESTROYS PEOPLE HOUSES CLAIMING THEY BLOCKING WATER WAYS WHAT ABOUT THIS VIDEO RECORDS NIGERIA NONSENSE

[@AbujaYummyMummy]

lagos looked less crowded

[@divinest]

no population boom

[@thevitruvianman9781]

It was before

[@jonesfemi918]

And more dirty

[@awalcare9625]

@@jonesfemi918 you can't use a small area to judge

[@nsikanntuk]

It was less crowded even up till the early 90s

[@emmanueltolani7243]

Most of the people in this video are dead. Life is so short, it made me think about those guys pushing that car? And the guy in front of that poor house? Did he achieve his dream? Did he live well before he died? I don’t know why I’m crying so much. Life

[@houstonmarron]

lesson learnt ; pursue your dreams, be 100% yourself and never apologize, relax and worry for nothing

[@ikgodwin7492]

Only the citizens were ever patriotic but the so-called leaders, till date are criminals.

[@naijabuzoy]

I don't know why I was thinking the same exact thing. Quite morbid, this take of ours. Live long and thrive.

[@giorgiocaruso3367]

Was in Lagos in 1974 .. very different times.

[@skybench100]

Lovely. When there was no kidnapping and less crime.

[@mujmus8441]

Knowing that many people from the clip would have passed away 😢

[@paulpatrick3371]

This comment nearly made me tear up...Lifeee.

[@nzeemmanuel8487]

The only way that assured me that this video is from the 70's is just because of the dressing and the cars here,the roads are still the same or worse.

[@ikgodwin7492]

Even women no dey shave that time too😅

[@dmedilicious8488]

45years after and we still have bad roads

[@emmanueliyoriobhe3363]

I swear na the same thing

[@Sadlife454]

Imagine

[@Anita-je9ms]

Thats so sad😢. There really isn't much difference in the surroundings either

[@chichiduruamata5343]

Same thing o...except for the colour of the video, yeye government

[@baxjay3666]

This song makes me feel emotional 😢

[@jerryterwase9027]

I don't know how we missed it , but there was something about the simplicity of those days of old that just isn't here today.

[@saveourtreasuresheritagefo9932]

Wow..the bad roads and filth didnt start today😣

[@realkvng]

Bad governance and the fact that Everyone was joined together to cohabit by force.

[@mr.abiodunonile8503]

Really sober, how time passes and people too

[@chydi10]

Thank you for this.

[@MajorrBison]

One thing I like about that time is that naira was stronger than US dollar.

[@thevitruvianman9781]

@eddy Exactly.

[@mostbeloved3813]

Imagine even at that time, Lagosians where even dirty. Why will naira not fall

[@valentinedpg]

Artificially

[@WanderingFriar]

Most beloved Oil! Lulled Nigeria into a false sense of security. No investments in infrastructure, corruption and greed. 50 years down the line, it is still an underdeveloped country and a failed state. To deny that and blame the West is the sick man not recognising his condition and prefers to blame everyone but himself for his choices.

[@obinnaezealah2465]

Didn’t mean anything.

[@YadiAnyankah]

Seems the ministers of transport have been sleeping all these years

[@ekanem2954]

LMFAOOO

[@zeeone4492]

And still collecting salary

[@adeadeyemi6759]

Watching this video makes me want to cry 😢 😭 😫.. Good old days Missing those times well well oooo

[@mrtruth2007]

That video looks like it was recorded yesterday, not in 1976 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@countrycottagelife4184]

My place my time. Adventure galore. It was so different then Europe. It was wild it was dangerous it was beautiful it was home. We were young and we grew up different ( from Germany). We returned to Europe and we realised we lost our place and we became wanderers cause no one had the same experience as us, and we would never again fit in anywhere, because we called this place home in the past and everyone else growing up was so different (in Germany) so civilized so safe so sound so normal...and we couldn't stand civilized...we were addicted to chaos .It shaped us...into something different, something restless something wild...something out of control. We saw a different kind of world, we were young, and it changed us into what we have become. Homeless wanderers , because we don't belong anywhere else, and yet we can never return. Ever again. We are restless spirits now. Almost ununderstandable, unreachable...by anyone who wasn't there with us. Who saw the things we saw who tasted the chaos, the mayhem the bedlam ...

[@darkbaby5403]

Totally get where you're coming from. A lot of my friends who I grew up with feel the same :(

[@akaxtian936]

So much memories, so many words left unsaid.. Time happens

[@nomad9785]

I fully understand. I was one of them. I returned to Europe (Germany) did not quite fit in anymore and then decided to keep on going. Nothing but faint memories now.

[@Manaroundtown753]

please kind sir, can I use this write up for a video I am trying to make for this year's independence?

[@sreyasdesai4865]

east Germany

[@simplyizustic6122]

Most of those areas that were bush here are now residential areas that go for really high prices

[@tmajec]

They destroyed the natural plants and wildlife for more “development” aka future slums.

[@osarunmwenseosarunmwense8431]

I miss Nigeria back for real thx for uploading

[@dienizekponu9657]

I was 9 years old when this video came out and I just realised that Nigeria has not changed

[@davidplatt6792]

The Internet never forget. Nigeria 🇳🇬 will be great again. Proud to be a NIGERIAN. WE MOVE!!!!!!!

[@pweshiouzentertainment373]

We don great before?

[@davidplatt6792]

watin carry you come here🤔. 9ja don bad to the point say people dey check how e be before? God nor go shame us!!

[@pweshiouzentertainment373]

@@davidplatt6792 hahaha my guy we don taya make we just sell the country make we move!!!

[@realkvng]

What will Be Great ? With All the kidnapping stories and negative stories We see on the news over there? shey na white people I dey see for that beach scene ? Shey oyibo still dey near naija in this 2022? It is well

[@tmajec]

Nigeria will never be great. When you learn your history, you’ll realise it wasn’t created to be a great. It’s a slow death. I remember the 80’s and it was heaven compared to today. Only a breakup of Nigeria will bring some semblance of an improved trend.

[@abdul-kabiralegbe5660]

Amazing footage quality.

[@leilaleila4874]

Who else watched this video and cried? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@patienceirogue4832]

Me

[@cryptomadeeasy9093]

I did I love watching videos of olden years When everyone loved each other 🤦😭

[@pharmgeraldtv]

I did, with lots of goosebumps

[@jawlinejawlinejawline]

💀 why are yall crying ?

[@leilaleila4874]

@@jawlinejawlinejawline are you Nigerian?

[@michaelogheneotovie7186]

Have not seen that big difference oo Bad roads network, dirty everywhere and so on

[@classicalretroback]

The flooded roads, as it was in the beginning.

[@Moodyaga]

1:35 - 1:46 Ikeja/Computer village 😂 4:00 - 4:15 Eko Atlantic 😭 5:10 Ikorodu Road/Palmgrove 😁

[@jideolateju]

Wetin you dey find here? A few years after this video was shot , I met Terry & Family at Airport Hotel. JJCs from the States

[@Moodyaga]

Jide Olateju 🤣🤣🤣 no hiding place from you. I remember that day 35 years ago.

[@joyandpeacefullaughter5307]

I bet it wasn't called COMPUTER village them 😭😭😂😂

[@charlesugochukwu9283]

How do you know these places?

[@nsikanntuk]

ment! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Tampinu]

Legend has it that they are still trying to push the vehicle out of the Lagos sand 😂

[@adetolaodukoya3493]

I noticed one thing very important .the cars commuting were all in good state . No bashed up and rickety rough cars and that's because all cars were bought brand new due to the fact they were all produces here in nigeria or brought in as new and not like we have now that's mostly united states of America fairly used cars and alsotjst the law well being obeyed then than now .because corruption was not pertinent to most nigerians and also that the economy was vibrant and the naira was infact stronger than the dollar .

[@nobodynoone2500]

Used cars make sense to the dollar. Even here in the USA I have money, but I buy used cars. New personal cars are for showing off wealth. Not inherently evil, but represent good left undone. Getting poor quality used cars is the real problem. The good ones get sold here, and they ship the rest off. Everyone deserves better. It is good to be proud and take care of your belongings, but too many encumber, rather than free you. When everyone has houses they cannot leave because they are full of things to be stolen will never change leadership for fear of uncertainty. The man with little, can deal with more. Most of the people in this video owned less stuff than would fill that car. And because they moved more lightly, could easy make change.

[@francescobonfiglio9142]

Looks like a lovely place

[@raphrobe-9896]

Ma certo che lo è, sure hahaha

[@peterambi7186]

Everything remain constant in the equation till date except security which has changed geometrically.

[@gundam00able]

So did he finally get his Jeep outta the sand?

[@gundam00able]

I'm pretty sure they respectfully declined whatever he offered them. Those were the days. In these times they'd gladly receive whatever they're offered, in fact, they'll even ask "anything for the boys?"

[@TheKing60210]

I just traveled to Nigeria in the summer, and the roads are even worst than back then Lol

[@osazuwaogbeide1540]

I am going back to Nigeria in december and I fear those roads man it a death trap. I had near death experience her sin the usa where I commercial bus caught fire can you just imagine nigeria

[@Tomi_janet15]

😪

[@johnsonolajide962]

I totally agree with you. No changes since that time

[@TheKing60210]

You and me both brother

[@jyde50]

@@TheKing60210 then you are dumb, roads were far worse then

[@ninauaye]

Bro Lagos is nigerian capital city and now this city to be the most stressful city beacuse In the past this city became a capital city and now it has moved to another city, he said, Lagos will become the mega city of Nigeria and many people go to Lagos to try their luck and the population is always growing and trafic jam even children go to school at 4 am and this is what makes children stressed and this is also experienced by workers

[@Fasholaoba]

Not much has changed except for the cars

[@mrtruth2007]

And American fast food shops 🤣🤣🤣

[@waleolabowale9825]

Some things never changed but people were wealthier

[@Jeffreydefinitelynotdahmer]

My Great country

[@PatrickEgwu]

Eko Hotel building was already up, but without the extension...

[@thomasf.9869]

Driving through those potholes is like driving through Harare today! Rustic and charming, but also inconvenient and unforgiving on the tires.

[@alfredthebrand]

Nothing has changed in this country see bad roads which means people have been suffering and smiling for real. So why do people lie and say life was better back in the 60s or 70s

[@gam3boyxo121]

We had our independence too early!

[@ikechukwuokonkwo7628]

My dad was two years old some where there

[@johnmathew8878]

Even though I wasn’t born then ... at least from this footage I sincerely can sense Peace & Oneness in Nigeria back in the 60’s .... So where did we get it wrong as. Nation ?

[@Fx_Explains]

the internet!

[@Fx_Explains]

@Samuel Fagbemi contributes to spreading fake news and hate.

[@ikemefunaumeadi4947]

They legit just ended the civil war six years before this video was made. Stop this stupid rhetoric.

[@MileyAfolabi]

Wow

[@godwinogabo5122]

4:22 the men from peak milk 😂

[@donjatto4457]

Lol that's true i just saw it now hahaha lol chai

[@asianfacility5682]

What Peak milk advert from

[@celebritypainters709]

@@asianfacility5682 peakmilk tin

[@asianfacility5682]

It is Nigerian brand if coconut milk?

[@hyacinthdibley2420]

hahahahaha So true.

[@belloabideen5197]

Nothing is forever, they're forgotten overtime. Time

[@fireworks9453]

5:03 - 5:23. That same traffic gridlock has plagued that express way for decades. It must have been the regular peak time (after work) The driver / camera man planned his journey well to drive against traffic. Returning to the island perhaps.

[@Patrickonsocial]

Chills 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@luqmanturaki]

Lagos was always a mess

[@Bebarii]

These were the days one could fly to the UK and back for under 1000 Naira 😩

[@h.i.ffarms7989]

So you think it’s a joke to get 1000 Naira then? Hmmm okay o

[@wastedyouth2066]

Lol… you think 1000 was beans then when 2kobo was hard to see but will feed a family

[@tamaratamara7600]

Lagos to New York was 17,500

[@Uzezzi_]

The building at the 4:04 mark is that the Federal Palace hotel?

[@zeeone4492]

Not alot has changed but alot of money has been spent

[@Cerl84]

nothing changed but the style of cars and clothes. many of the same buildings.

[@mrs.karenthomas9939]

That was time when Nigeria was Nice. No Cultiest, no ritual, No much Poverty, No Yahoo Yahoo, no traveling by sea to Italy, No hate between Hausa and Igbo. people dress clean, car look clean even due the roads not ok, but still manageable. I profer 1976 life than 2019.

[@camilosittegassevol2944]

so after finish watching this video your still lying to your self? continue, what is good about the enviroment in video now?

[@favouredgodslove4513]

Clean fresh air. No chemical pollution other than the organic pollution of trash & dirt.

[@tmajec]

Madam, there was hate. The war ended a few years prior. Today, the hate is not due to ideological differences because many are too dumb to conceptualise what those are. We have an emotionally immature society today.

[@isaaclanre]

Look at them going around their simple lives.

[@rocklandrockland2680]

A truly dirty place, even to this day, with slight improvements.

[@oluwaseyemikeakinware9853]

we missed it along the line

[@andreasilvestri1696]

Does someone remember which zone of Lagos was the road view from 1.23 to 1.50? I'm not sure but it looks real like an area in Ikeja, a road leading to the airport hotel, the actual Awolowo rd.. There was a store (year 1979), the MASCO and a newspapers kiosk nearby.. went there for the weekly shopping.. then to UTC on Oba Akran and LEVENTIS on Anthony😥😥😥😥🥰🥰🥰🥰.. wish I was still there..

[@deviantmarcus3938]

Same story today....horrible roads, terrible traffic, filth

[@halfnigeriaandhalfghana6447]

Crude oil is an embodiment of failure to Nigeria. We really missed it when we ventured into oil and gas. Because we neglected oil palm, cocoa, groundnut, rubber, timber, etc. May Gold forsake Nigeria of her sins "Bad leaders"

[@johnsmit3112]

With the plate numbers of those cars its early 80's

[@osazuwaogbeide1540]

Why did Nigeria get rid of the British license plates

[@enyinnayaibekwe3255]

We have the same thoughts, this must be the 80's and never 70's

[@johnsmit3112]

@@osazuwaogbeide1540 , Nigeria is not uk

[@onyekachukwuemeka5236]

4:04 Eko hotel and bar beach.

[@saveourtreasuresheritagefo9932]

Who noticed that man in yellow trousers😀

[@penielsstudios3040]

wimpey na for Port harcourt

[@goldenchild1368]

There was traffic even then?

[@Phriffo]

The year my mom was born

[@godwinogabo5122]

Lagos and flood sha

[@osarunmwenseosarunmwense8431]

Ties just fall out of my eyes Nigeria nor be sooo,we don try

[@nwangwukingsley]

Nothing different with today Lagos

[@UDUUSACANADAUMUORLU-er9wq]

I don’t think this video was in 1976. It looks more of early 1980s.

[@meekeverything4937]

Nice cars, bad roads

[@osazuwaogbeide1540]

Nigerians have always had nice cars we been good in that aspect

[@joyergodwin]

2022

[@preciousezekwereonye971]

Life was simple, more job opportunities for graduate, high currency value to dollars. Easy access to any country in the world

[@prakashm1468]

Which model is that car? Is it Mitsubishi? It looks really strong & sturdy

[@UDUUSACANADAUMUORLU-er9wq]

Mitsubishi Gallant

[@kennethmbaegbu4868]

This sea side probably lekki today

[@danielaiworo3900]

I wasn't born than but what i heard was in those days lekki was a swampland

[@pascaleburuche6937]

Panel beater

[@FreeForexSignals4you]

Who else noticed that majority of people looked rich and Comfortable , and wearing nice clothings

[@bibaolaitan5189]

Which ppl..

[@jaybee4577]

@@bibaolaitan5189 The people in the video. Are we watching the same video?

[@bibaolaitan5189]

@@jaybee4577 the people walking inside the flood... or which video re you talking about

[@Mskid]

Bad roads...Naija my country

[@natriac.6092]

STOOP!

[@osazuwaogbeide1540]

The roads are much betetr today then baxk then

[@ejay4032]

Almost 50 years later and it looks the same or even worse. What a shame

[@tosinojo7310]

stop lying through your theeth..it looks 100 times better...this is ikoyi and lekki

[@jaybee4577]

@@tosinojo7310 These people are not patriotic. I agree there should be some criticism but why lie just to badmouth the country? Probably those separatist groups. I pity them. If they separate from Nigeria, South Sudan will be paradise compared to their new countries.

[@tmajec]

@Ejay.. It’s worse today, much worse. Anyone alive between then and now will tell you 💯.

[@ejay4032]

@@jaybee4577 thunder fire you. You corn eating APC zombie without a functioning brain

[@onyebuchiazubike8354]

Picturesque thing about it is the lush and peaceful vegetation then which unlike now could be haven for militia herdsmen! Littered thrashes and poorly drained sewages are not as it is today due to probably less population compared to the present but there is scanty excuse that urban city cannot be sanitize for the eyes to behold beauty of nature corridors and human beings.....

[@angelinamary4025]

This place look like old ikorordu

[@bernardndubuisi6520]

Lagos traffic no start today oo

[@geritch]

Россию в 2017 напоминает :)

[@OAVProduction]

not much has changed just the clothes and the cars

[@dennisfandrich6586]

Corruption has crept into Nigeria then...So corruption has been with Nigeria for a long time. Contractors were paid for road construction but they steal the money

[@divinest]

so where did all the oyinbos go to

[@chukschuks5069]

I suppose the further we moved away from 1st oct' 1960, the more the oyinbos were less visible walking freely all over Lagos. They would have been withdrawing to the safety of the GRAs in Ikeja and Ikoyi as well as VI. The more we made the journey alone after 1960, the more things got bad, and it's only the petrodollars of the early 70s that would have attracted the oyinbos. Who no like money?

[@jyde50]

CHUK yet with all the oyinbo look how dirty with bad roads nigeria is, the oyinbo are the problem of africa.

[@thevitruvianman9781]

@@jyde50 No, Africans are he problem.

[@andreasilvestri1696]

It's easy to point fingers... things are more complex than it seems.. by the way I lived in Ikeja a couple of years in that period and I recognized one road of the movie.. The Masco super market.. the beach at Victoria that now is no more.. the eko hotel..I was a teen, then, and it has been a hard time for me, but now I think of it as one of the best period of my life.. I loved the people very much.. despite I'm an oyinbo.. people are not all the same

[@veritas2048]

kobra what exactly are you getting at? How on earth can you make such racist comments? This video was filmed in 1976 a good decade following independence, how can you blame the onyibos for the lack of maintenance of infrastructure they were no longer responsible for? Shame on you

[@cosnniran]

Datsun 120 Y

[@melvinnatstevens1095]

Nigerian government hasn't done anything from then till now because I see bad roads in this clip and until now no good road network

[@badonikelvin695]

Better Nigeria

[@mmanuel_musacheshow4549]

Wait so this is today Eko Atlantic and Banana Island 😅😂

[@sybex200]

Good roads that time,good roads now.Poverty then,poverty now.

[@nassplease]

this is not 70s its the 80s

[@quincyileh1578]

Then turtiose. Car was a big deal ...oh see the way my country get respect then

[@muhammedfitnessgrema3139]

All the people in this video are either old or dead sha

[@angelinamary4025]

Ghost town

[@mrtruth2007]

Looks no different from then and today

[@johnsonolajide962]

You're right. No changes since time, very very sad.

[@tosinojo7310]

lol stop lying

[@jaybee4577]

You guys are lying Lagos definitely have changed and most roads have been paved in Lagos. I can’t say much for other states.

[@mrtruth2007]

@@tosinojo7310 your right. There’s now KFC. Nigeria is moving forward 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Narrative_hoook]

This was after they destroyed Biafra land

[@emmanueltvfant.b.joshuafan8442]

Hmmm Sowore for president 2019 ooo, enough of the old fools

[@tunxlaw]

I am from the future. Bad news, Buhari won.

[@lakosanostra4914]

Sowore will eat your money and children

[@amakanwosu3795]

@@tunxlaw I am from the future. Buhari was Nigeria’s most inefficient president