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

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  • čas přidán 26. 10. 2014
  • From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. To order the clip clean and high res visit www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref LC17
    1960s Lagos, Nigeria, street scenes
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  • @divinest
    @divinest Před 6 lety +145

    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
      @saltli8112 Před 5 lety +9

      Good plan , where is the money ?

    • @waskyhenry3132
      @waskyhenry3132 Před 5 lety +5

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

    • @ramoswilliam3676
      @ramoswilliam3676 Před 5 lety +1

      Then tell us what development is?mad man

    • @wateromiproduction3898
      @wateromiproduction3898 Před 5 lety +8

      @@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
      @kolutimehin Před 5 lety +12

      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👍🏽

    • @samuraiboi2735
      @samuraiboi2735 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@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
    @jsbedi60 Před 6 lety +24

    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

  • @cantoniayatbou6237
    @cantoniayatbou6237 Před 2 lety +13

    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

  • @leahgodson2319
    @leahgodson2319 Před 3 lety +27

    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.

  • @emmanueltvfant.b.joshuafan8442

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

    • @divinest
      @divinest Před 6 lety +7

      no danfo and large population. thats why

    • @kenchuks5578
      @kenchuks5578 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @jaybee4577
      @jaybee4577 Před 2 lety +1

      @@kenchuks5578 Boy your brain needs medical check up.

    • @george4281
      @george4281 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @markotv6761
      @markotv6761 Před 2 lety

      @@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

  • @baronessvondengler
    @baronessvondengler Před 5 lety +7

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

  • @nsikanntuk
    @nsikanntuk Před rokem +5

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

  • @illitrait
    @illitrait Před 4 lety +11

    ...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.

  • @johnmathew8878
    @johnmathew8878 Před 3 lety +8

    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
      @markotv6761 Před 2 lety

      When we got our independent
      That when we go wrong

  • @goldchristian7130
    @goldchristian7130 Před 6 lety +11

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

  • @pinkcreams3134
    @pinkcreams3134 Před 7 lety +35

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

    • @peterwood1059
      @peterwood1059 Před 3 lety +4

      And I thought I was the only one

    • @skeelzy2274
      @skeelzy2274 Před 2 lety +3

      You are not alone...

    • @queenbeaut1578
      @queenbeaut1578 Před rokem +2

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

  • @jerryterwase9027
    @jerryterwase9027 Před 3 lety +7

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

    • @Bonexzilla
      @Bonexzilla Před 2 lety +6

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

  • @travelboy5213
    @travelboy5213 Před 2 lety +3

    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.

  • @Th3lite
    @Th3lite Před 5 lety +6

    My oh my, how times have changed.

    • @yuhboii7862
      @yuhboii7862 Před 5 lety +4

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

  • @deepprobe6187
    @deepprobe6187 Před 8 lety +25

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

    • @TheSpiritOfTheTimes
      @TheSpiritOfTheTimes Před 8 lety +3

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

    • @obiajuluedwardogu4766
      @obiajuluedwardogu4766 Před 8 lety +11

      +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
      @TheSpiritOfTheTimes Před 8 lety +2

      Obiajulu Ogu Fair enough.

    • @uknowamsaying
      @uknowamsaying Před 8 lety +1

      +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
      @thevivianobiorah7694 Před 6 lety +2

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

  • @stp479
    @stp479 Před 8 lety +9

    Everyone walks with purpose, it is good to see.

    • @pinkcreams3134
      @pinkcreams3134 Před 7 lety +5

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

  • @gerald1495
    @gerald1495 Před 2 lety +4

    strange seeing Lagos without garbage everywhere

  • @SegTheGoon
    @SegTheGoon Před 9 lety

    Awesome

  • @finniaao
    @finniaao Před 9 lety +6

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

  • @multitalentedbrother
    @multitalentedbrother Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @davidp2909
    @davidp2909 Před 6 lety +17

    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
      @olaoluadeyeye5024 Před 6 lety +1

      I'd say about 20 minutes drive without traffic

    • @davidokwara1894
      @davidokwara1894 Před 4 lety

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

    • @illitrait
      @illitrait Před 4 lety +1

      ...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
      @davidokwara1894 Před 4 lety

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

    • @illitrait
      @illitrait Před 4 lety +1

      ...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.

  • @oluakinwale4859
    @oluakinwale4859 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @Hernameis994
    @Hernameis994 Před 6 lety +7

    Wow,was this really Nigeria???

  • @ehiagwinamargaret4370
    @ehiagwinamargaret4370 Před 5 lety +5

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

  • @reggea83
    @reggea83 Před 5 lety +1

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

  • @michaelkeshi7359
    @michaelkeshi7359 Před 8 lety +6

    Lagos Streets is like Madison Street (Seattle)

  • @thespunkavenue3471
    @thespunkavenue3471 Před 9 měsíci +1

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

  • @scooby9921
    @scooby9921 Před 6 lety +24

    Is better than this present lagos

    • @yormeey
      @yormeey Před 6 lety +1

      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
      @yormeey Před 6 lety

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

    • @african-history-fountain
      @african-history-fountain Před 6 lety +5

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

    • @tundeoseni3884
      @tundeoseni3884 Před 5 lety

      Are you having a laugh?

    • @chyke6272
      @chyke6272 Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @FalujoPhate
    @FalujoPhate Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @divinest
    @divinest Před 6 lety +9

    and now YABA YABA YABA OJUELGBA DANFO PUREWATER

  • @olabodeomoniyi4805
    @olabodeomoniyi4805 Před 6 lety

    Eko for show

  • @lionellikita3813
    @lionellikita3813 Před rokem

    Nigeria ! Oh Nigeria!

  • @user-lb7mr1wu7u
    @user-lb7mr1wu7u Před 9 měsíci +1

    Cars were few because it. Was too too expensive

  • @daramolataiwo7487
    @daramolataiwo7487 Před 4 lety

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

  • @randoms2826
    @randoms2826 Před 2 lety

    See the cars omg 😳

  • @juliusuzutunda
    @juliusuzutunda Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @p.c2750
    @p.c2750 Před rokem +1

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

  • @tmdydan7546
    @tmdydan7546 Před 6 měsíci

    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.

  • @user-dp1fx4wy5b
    @user-dp1fx4wy5b Před 7 měsíci

    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

  • @Quasiloks
    @Quasiloks Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @Jagseagle
    @Jagseagle Před 6 lety

    No volume?

    • @divinest
      @divinest Před 6 lety

      sound was recorded differently by then

  • @davidokwara1894
    @davidokwara1894 Před 4 lety +1

    Shitta Bey Mosque. Wow...

  • @osazuwaogbeide1540
    @osazuwaogbeide1540 Před rokem

    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

  • @divinest
    @divinest Před 6 lety +3

    population made naija look ugly

    • @waskyhenry3132
      @waskyhenry3132 Před 5 lety +4

      Aladeen,
      Population growth without corresponding growth in infrastructure.

  • @bowser3017
    @bowser3017 Před 10 měsíci

    Population lower than UK 😳

  • @tristabenton9266
    @tristabenton9266 Před 4 lety

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

  • @michaelheery7427
    @michaelheery7427 Před 5 lety +1

    VERY BACKWARD..

    • @Robio_scorpio
      @Robio_scorpio Před 2 lety

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