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Nigeria gained independence from the British Empire on 1 October 1960.
THE INSTALLATION OF THE SARDANA OF SOKOTO> AS PREMIER OF NORTHERN NIGERIA AT KADUNA>, 1ST OCTOBER, 1954
INTEREST: Deals with the work of the Lagos Executive Development Board which was formed in 1946 to plan and develop ...
THE ELECTIONS TO SET UP REGIONAL LEGISLATURES IN NORTHERN, EASTERN AND WESTERN NIGERIA; AND THE MEETING OF THE NEW LEGISLATURES ...
THE VISIT OF BRITAINS SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, OLIVER * LYTTELTON>, TO NIGERIA, 24TH MAY-1ST JUNE, 1952
Four stories set in Nigeria with the frustration of endeavour as their theme. One deals with the problem of hygiene, ...
three parts:- Animal Feeding Men of the Mersey Matadi Palm
Multiple reels on DVD. Family wedding. Journey from South African to Lagos. Flight to Kaduna. Picnic near Kaduna. Kaduna Polo ...
Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots ...
No titles. Colonial visitors attend a festival/exhibition in Britain. LS line of colonial visitors, mainly Africans and Asians. At the ...
Coverage of the council elections in Lagos in October 1950.
(1) Ocean voyage home from Pateau in 1939 in M.V. Accra. with visits to Maderia which show the local scenery ...
Dramatised propaganda film, in which a villager refuses to be vaccinated by the visiting sanitary inspector and contracts smallpox.
'Alabi, a ...
A selection on video of Mrs Spencer's slides and photographs taken during her nursing career in Nigeria and Sarawak. Part ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
The work of a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria. On a cocoa farm in southern Nigeria, ripened pods are cut ...
Gold Coast. A new fish-canning industry which has been started at Osu.London. African students visit the Fire Brigade H.Q. and ...
'Nigeria - Akeredolu the Woodcarver' Mr Akeredolu carving human figures using thorn tree wood. Small heads and models. Larger heads ...
Coverage of the Colonial Exhibition in Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949 to 'spread the ...
A survey of various community development projects, connected with housing, health, irrigation and transport organised by individual villages with the ...
DOCUMENTARY. A maternity hospital is built by natives in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana.
Rl.1 Opening shots of the natives ...
'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new ...
4 stories. NIGERIAN SECOND FESTIVAL OF ARTS. OLYMPIC SPORTSMEN VISIT LAGOS, WEST AFRICA'S FIRST ARCHBISHOP, L.N. BINING. KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE.
Coverage of the 18 strong Nigerian football team, the first ever to leave West Africa, who played nine matches in ...
Intended for African audiences, the films shows the opening of the African Conference in London in September 1948 and the ...
INTEREST. Bead-making and leather-working in West Africa.
Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train ...
DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.
RL.1 Different ...
An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of ...
Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive ...
Scenes in a walled Mohammedan city in N. Nigeria.
The film shows the industries, schools, administration and communications of the city. ...
A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation ...
The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and ...
At Udi in Nigeria.
Work goes on in a village. The chief takes other village chiefs on a tour of inspection ...
The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander ...
Inter-colonial sports. Nigeria v Gold Coast at Lagos 1947.
'Inter-Colonial Sports Nigeria v Gold Coast, Lagos 1947'. The police ground Ikoyi, ...
Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial ...
Taken in Nigeria, this film shows the production of cocoa, how the farmer prepares the beans and how the cocoa ...
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...
Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides ...
North-east Nigeria: 1) African village; 2) girl pounding grain; 3) making scar decorations on a boys back; the operation is ...
A film produced in West Africa in order to show how, by sensible conduct and precautionary measures in the home, ...
Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and ...
The medical work of the Uzuakoli leprosy settlement, and the patients' varied activities.
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north ...
Central or Northern Nigeria: Jos Plateau; children in village and guinea corn; baby bathed on gourds; pounding maize; giving baby ...
North-east Nigeria or Cameroons: 1) Big game on the veldt; 2) two people riding; 3) Africans killing dogs, slitting their ...
Two items on the logistic aspects of the campaign in Burma: the "bloodless battle" of the latter stages ...