RARE PHOTOS FROM NIGERIANS HISTORY

Original caption: World war II- African recruits learning to speak english at the Engineer training centre, Bukuru Northern Nigeria.

King Duke IX of Calabar, (1895). The reason he always wore 2 crowns, one on top of the other was to show that he was crowned by the British as well as the EFIK people.

British Troops showing off their precious loot after the Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897.

Nigerian soldiers leaving Kaduna for a second tour of service with the United Nations in Congo.

On 12/09/1897, Ajayi 

died.

Policemen at the Ilorin railway station in the 1910s with no shoes.

A Nigerian Football team without boots (1949).