According to Getty Images, this is Lagos Nigeria in the late 1960s.
See how everyone maintain their lane -Vehicle, bicycles, motorcycles and even humans!
Credit: Getty Images
Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Wow!!...
ReplyDeleteI love this...
When will Nigeria get better again??...
It looks like big apple...
When power changes hands
DeletePower must change hands
DeleteWow.lots of bicycles in the 60s!now in lagos every body is in a hurry
ReplyDeleteNo much change
DeleteThis shows nigeria no go better again
Portable girl witj portable sense
DeleteLol
DeleteLovely
ReplyDeleteWhen Lagos was still Lagos before @Thiefnubu made it what it is today by acquiring all state properties
@Galore
You should have put up a pic of Lagos traffic now so we can compare
ReplyDeleteWell organized traffic. Lol
ReplyDeleteTraffic was organised like this everywhere in Nigeria, even in small towns and villages. We still had the influence of the colonists in us. Things changed for the worse when we started doing things the NIGERIAN way.
DeleteMany people were still I thier villages then, that's why.........Stella u must enjoy me
ReplyDeleteNot just lagos but in Porthcourt too
ReplyDeleteLooks organised
ReplyDeleteIs that keke maruwa?
How many people get or dey drive car den? Abeg make dem forget leave story for d gods.....
ReplyDeleteIt's prolly one person that started the chaos on the road, when he wasn't cautioned then another decided to try his luck. You Nigerians and follow follow, copy copy. Dem full this blog sef with absolutely no opinion of their own, anything stella say i agree. As if they stamp follow follow for their fore head. Soon Stella's blog will be like our Lagos roads. Nothing but CHAO.
ReplyDeleteFunny comment.... True tho
Delete@posh baby what has this post got to do with stella'sblog hope ur brain is still intact.
DeleteIntact ke! The brain is suffering from major malfunction, and u're not Nigerian, bcos Ghana manage give u greencard,If stella makes a good point what's wrong in going with the flow
DeleteBy the way it's not CHAO it's CHAOS.olodo oshi
Guess life was less stressful then. Pple were less greedy then.human lives were more valuable then. Mgbe ezi di n'ukwu ukwa.
ReplyDeleteNa danfo and okada drivers mess up Lagos roads and traffic. The way drivers honk their horns is enough to give someone a migraine. God help us in Naija.
ReplyDeleteExactly Lisa, this danfo drivers r wicked
DeleteIt's prolly one person that started the chaos on the road, when he wasn't cautioned then another decided to try his luck. You Nigerians and follow follow, copy copy. Dem full this blog sef with absolutely no opinion of their own, anything stella say i agree. As if they stamp follow follow for their fore head. Soon Stella's blog will be like our Lagos roads. Nothing but CHAOS.
ReplyDeleteLol
Delete@Posh.....how ur pancake now
@Galore
That was when there was no corruption and spoilt brats everywhere.
ReplyDeletenow we have agberos, omonile armu robbers, kidnappers everywhere.
may be we should ask the europeans to come back and put sense in some people in this country,.
Where we right hand drivers then? Cos the cars are right hand drive cars.
ReplyDeleteEastwestern
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
ReplyDelete.
I prefer this Nigeria abeg....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
Then the colonial masters have not fully left,so if u do anyhow,u see anyhow!and dats the best way to handle nigerians...
ReplyDeleteUntil a disciplined regime like Buhari comes on board again,naija can never have such order again in its lifetime!.....so with that I proudly say;Goodluck Buhari!
You think Buhari can enforce discipline queen bee? It was Tunde Idiagbon that was the brain behind that project so you know.
DeleteVery well organized but what do i get now everybody want to leave and at the same time
ReplyDelete#GODWIN
It looks organised. Y can't we be organised now? Lagos na wah!
ReplyDeleteChai see as everybody maintain him lane
ReplyDeleteIts this still possible to achieve in nigeria again?
It can never be like this again in this country
ReplyDelete#GODWIN
Wow! Remarkable!
ReplyDeleteIf only my dear country will get better instead of what we have today. Sigh
ReplyDeleteWe had sane leaders and the economy was fine
ReplyDeleteBad economy= Insane people
My observation
*smiles* today you will get five lanes of vehicles on a 3lane road.
ReplyDelete*Wipes eyes*, where are the Gala boys? Nobody selling Sprite?
ReplyDeleteThese days you can buy the makings and cook soup in Lagos traffic!
Meat? Check!
Pepper? Check!
Maggi? Check!
Small stove to cook? Doublecheck!
Plantain chips to nibble on while you cook? Check!
By the time you're home, food is ready. Eko oni baje.
SHARONNA.
Why are they all the bicycle riders in the same colour of shirts? Could this be Photoshop? Just wondering
ReplyDeleteMy first observation lol but then again they could be school boys
DeleteThey were civil servants. Then u have to wear white starched shirt to work and look very neat
DeleteThose days are wonderful days I wish I really saw. Dad use to tell me how everything was heavenly then compare to now. It is well.
ReplyDeleteNo be small thing
ReplyDeleteAs at then, d crowd wasn't much also cars.Lagos can never be like that again. Never
ReplyDeleteWho told you we can't bring back such discipline? India is the second most populated country and they maintain such orderly. Our traffic sector should bring back the Discipline
DeleteI wish we can go back to this... hmmm
ReplyDeleteNigeria aga adizi kwa nma ozo?#thinkingoutloud
ReplyDeleteWhen the going was good. Wish I was here back then. Looks sane and orderly.
ReplyDeleteAnd I remember my uncle once told me that back then in Lagos, cars were allowed out on certain days according to the alphabet registration on the plate numbers. Something like, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays,cars with AZ or whatever were the only ones allowed out. While on other days another alphabet took turn to come out. He said it was to reduce congestion of some sort. Anyone else heard this before?
ReplyDeleteMrs Zulu dear,
DeleteWhat I remember my dad told me was that they did odd and even plate numbers.
On certain days of the week, cars that end (abi start) with odd numbers were allowed, then other days it's cars with odd numbers that were allowed.
That's how they managed the cars/traffic those days.
So if you had two cars then, make sure one is even number and the other is odd number so you can be able to drive daily.
LOL
Look who we have here oooo. Hey mrs Zulu.lol. As per this gist, never heard of it o.
Delete@genny, really? I imagine what it would have been like, having odd numbers and even number outings. Lol
imposicant
ReplyDeleteEko oni baje.....o baje ti..SMH
ReplyDeleteEko ti baje ti pe ti pe
1960? nah nah nah!Tell us the truth, where is this? Street or road name? yes i want to know!
ReplyDeleteVery organised but I think the people living in lagos have increased now unlike then
ReplyDeleteThen there was no much cars like now and also wasn't overcrowded.
ReplyDeleteDz pic isn't real....look closely!....r dere no children in shorts or clothes, women , beggers, hawkers.....let's analyse...so everyone was always corporately dressed back then?...dnt jst swallow everything u shown....Getty images, hmmm....issorait
ReplyDeleteNa lie. Lagos can never and has never been this organised. This one looks like London jere. Haba see as everything set na, can't be Lagos walai talai
ReplyDeleteKeke Marwa indeed...,are u blind! Mschweeeeeew
ReplyDeleteThis is what all Nigerians should be demanding from the New Government, the era of expending roads when traffic becomes heavy has passed, lets build bicycle lanes from existing roads and develop policies that promote non-motorized transport above the car centric model of transportation that has taking over the landscape.
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