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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 ...