Nigerian History Videos
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQkIQuK7A50&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qQdZ9nzbI&feature=related
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eppgEVwxCfk&feature=related
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqhqP3U-t4&feature=related
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZTpuVlKJ_Q&feature=related
Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An7IZBBATTM&feature=related
TENURE ELONGATION IN NIGERIA
This is an excellent documentary regarding attempts by various Nigerian regimes to perpetuate themselves in power under the guise of “transition” programmes and constitutional amendments.
BABANGIDA AND VATSA: A WIDOW’S PAIN
This documentary regards the controversial 1985 trial and execution of Major-General Mamman Vatsa for allegedly trying to overthrow his boyhood friend and best man, Ibrahim Babangida.
THE OBASANJO AND YAR’ADUA TREASON TRIAL
Another video with excerpts from the 1995 Special Military Tribunal “coup” trial of several prominent Nigerians including General Obasanjo, Maj-Gen Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Christine Anyanwu for allegedly plotting to overthrow the regime of General Sani Abacha.
SERIES OF VIDEOS ON THE ANNULMENT OF THE JUNE 12, 1993 ELECTION:
Part 1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HWRMQYCRAGg&feature=related
Part 2
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7Tlg9pjME&feature=related
Part 3
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lKDbvuACzV8
NIGERIA’S POST-INDEPENDENCE LEADERS
These three videos are a run down of Nigeria’s leaders over the years starting from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa through to the current incumbent, President Yar’Adua. Also click the “Nigeria’s Leaders” and “Nigeria’s Great Speeches” pages on this site if you want to see more regarding these personalities.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuxTi344E8
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5q6AHQ3LHg&feature=related
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgazc7YZDw&feature=related
TRAILER FOR NAIJ – A DOCUMENTARY
This is a nice selection of videos. The first is a series of old clips from famous Nigerians, including one of the Sardauna of Sokoto Ahmadu Bello who speaks in an impeccable old school British accent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jvmwd5ZRRM&feature=related
VIDEO FOOTAGE OF NIGERIA’S FORMER LEADERS
(including then Lt-Colonel Gowon, Major Mobalaji Johnson, Ojukwu, Tafawa Balewa speaking during Nigeria’s pre-independence constitutional conference in London, President Azikiwe speaking on the 1964 political crisis between he and PM Balewa. Some snippets of Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi on the parade ground, and footage of his funeral too. Enjoy
BIAFRA VIDEOS
This is another series of documentaries on Biafra. Produced by Nigeria’s own NTA, these videos feature interviews with the key players such as Gowon, Ojukwu, Maj-Gens Mohammed Shuwa, Adeyinka Adebayo, Ibrahim Haruna and David Ejoor, plus civilian participants like Philip Asiodu and Ahmed Joda who were key players in the abortive negotiations prior to the war. Of great vintage is the footage of the Aburi debate in Ghana in 1967. Amazing footage of Ojukwu chatting with Gowon, Hassan Katsina, Commodore Joseph Wey and other members of the federal delegation to Aburi.
BBC DOCUMENTARY ON BIAFRA WAR
This is a series of videos from a BBC documentary regarding the Biafran War. Features interviews and archive footage with the key personalities of the conflict such as Ojukwu, Gowon and Forsyth.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQkIQuK7A50&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qQdZ9nzbI&feature=related
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eppgEVwxCfk&feature=related
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqhqP3U-t4&feature=related
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZTpuVlKJ_Q&feature=related
Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An7IZBBATTM&feature=related
Biafran National Anthem:
Execution of Biafran Soldier (**Warning: Graphic Content)
Mash said
Max,
Great work you have here. I commend you and your team for the indepths here. Really good job. Can you please provide another source for that video “A documentary on Nigeria”? The one up here (from Youtube) has no audio. You tube claims that its too sensitive, so its audio is wiped off. Can you post me another copy.
Regards
Mash
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My Broda,
I want to say I’m profoundly grateful for these immense catalogue of useful information and for all the amount of work and sacrifices you must have incured. I’m a Bini man, I must say until today, I’ve been living in a cochoo land as regards the the actual amount of sufferings the Igbos went through during the Nigeria civil war.
Keep up the good work, and be rest assured – the true ‘NATIONS’ of Southern Nigeria as in the ‘WILL and PURPOSE of GOD’ shall rise again.
GOD Bless Real Good!
Israel E. O’kuoimose
Republic of Ireland.
uche said
great work i must say. am an ibo born right after that war and the much i knew about it prior to seeing this work was the little my parents ocassionaly mentioned. for a long time it was and still is unofficially forbidden to discuss that issue publicly so theres no historical documentation of it. if one mentioned the word biafra or used any signs that resembled anything in biafra you could have a problem with the authorities. thanks to you at least peple like me now have the opportunity to see a bit of what happened then. i have kids now and i cry each time i see those images of children dead or dying. its unbelieveable to know that some individuals we grew up knowing as statesmen of this country were active in the perpetration of that crime. it shocks me when i read excerpts from conferences organised then to at least cut down the suffering especially of children in biafra, it still shocks me to hear quotes from people like enahoro who was then the minister for information in nigeria regarding the legitimacy of starvation as a weapon of a war he and the government claimed was not a war in the true sense of it, but an action to crush a rebellion and unite the entire country. because of the restriction in publishing or displaying things biafra theres no articulate information of that conflict. the major actors of that period are either dead or will soon be gone without leaving an account of events so theres a need to encourage this type of work so generations unborn will have a idea of what happened then. i thank you immensely for this. uche