Curated Video
SYND 5/1/69 NIGERIAN STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FOREIGN INTERVENTION
Western Nigerian students stage protest against foreign intervention in the Nigerian war
1 ms "Away with British blackmail" sign
2 ms pro Gowon banner
3 ms "Away with NATO" banner
4 ms anti De Gaulle banner
5 ms students on march...
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Toko of second group of peacekeepers arriving
1. Wide shot UN helicopter landing
2. Nigerian soldiers disembarking from UN helicopter
3. Soldiers taking up defensive positions on tarmac
3. Various of Liberian civilians at airport celebrating, waving to Nigerian peacekeepers
4. Mid...
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SYND 24 8 70 SCENES IN EAST NIGERIA
Scenes in East Central State, Nigeria - formerly Biafra - as it attempts to recover from the ravages of the war.
1. ms and pan military bailey bridge across Niger river
2. ws bicycle and lorry over bridge
3. ws wreckage of old bridge
4....
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A suicide bomber detonated explosives packed into a tricycle taxi at an outdoor World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigerian. (June 18)
Survivors of a deadly suicide bomb in Nigeria were receiving treatment at local hospitals on Wednesday.
Police in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, said a suicide bomber detonated a tricycle taxi packed with explosives at an outdoor...
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SYND 27 2 76 AFTERMATH OF COUP ATTEMPT
The aftermath of the coup attempt in Nigeria. The film includes footage of Nigerian President Yakubu Gowon.
1. ws of a street and a building under construction2. ms of a car parked with broken windows3. ts of busy streets filmed from...
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SYND 23 1 65 OAU COMMISSION MEETING
The Organisation of African Unity commission meets in Abuja.
1. vs of speakers addressing the conference
Film: Neg - Sound: Mute - B&W - NYFilm: F05067 - LN Number: No - Available in HD
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SYND 17/1/70 EFFIONG SURRENDERS TO GOWAN
Nigerian leader General Gowon accepts surrender of Biafran military leaders at ceremony at military headquarters
1 ms General Effiong arrives at Dodan barracks with Nigerian Colonial Segun Obasanjo, officer commanding the 3rd Marine...
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Kidnapped Filipino oil workers released
1. Two freed Filipino oil workers, Joseph Doctorlero and Pacifico Gajo, walking with officials
2. Close-up of one worker
3. Close-up of second worker
4. Two oil workers
5. Oil workers hug as they are reunited with colleagues
Two Filipino...
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SYND 17 1 77 SECOND WORLD BLACK AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF ARTS OPENS
the second World Black African Festival of the Arts opened by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanj in Lagos with a grand ceremony and parade.
1. ms exterior of National Stadium 2. vs people queueing 3. ms presidential party arrives4. vs...
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SYND 20-1-72 ETHIOPIAN EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE ARRIVES
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie arrives in Lagos for state visit to Nigeria
1 plane on tarmac
2 ms General Yakuba Gowon
3 ms Haile Selassie down steps
4 ms Gowon greets Selassie
5 ms guard of honour
6 ms Selassie salutes
7 ms...
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Nigeria - Pope celebrates mass
Pope John Paul II spoke out forcefully for human rights on Monday (23/3) at an open-air mass in military-ruled Nigeria. He addressed hundreds of thousands of people in Kubwa near the capital Abuja.
Arriving at the nuncio's residence in...
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Uneasy calm in violence-hit city, Friday prayers scenes
1. Pan of white pickup truck with security forces driving along street, Operation Flush II stencilled on side of vehicle
2. Forces, thought to be police, sitting on back of stationary blue pickup truck
3. Close of Nigeria silhouette on...
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Nigerian militant leader returns home after stint in jail, calls for end to kidnappings
June 18, 2007
1. Crowd of supporters running in street UPSOUND: singing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, Freed militant leader:
"We will try and work together to stop this act of criminality, of banditry. We are not going to...
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WRAP Scenes outside stadium after stampede ADDS footage of rush
1. Wide of crowd rushing through gate of stadium
2. Police jostling with members of crowd
3. Police bending over injured colleague
4. Group of police with riot shields struggling with some fans, other people walking past
5. Boy with...
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Aftermath of blast at mosque which killed 35 people
Multiple explosions tore through the central mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Friday killing 35 people, police said.
One hundred and fifty others sustained various degrees of injury in the blasts in the city of Kano, State...
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FILE Area where gunmen kidnapped two more oil workers
AP FILE: January 19, 2006
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State
1. Pull out of sign post which reads: "Welcome to Bayelsa State."
2. Military entrance with sand bags
3. Military personnel checking people in cars
4. Sign reading: "Stop for safety"...
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CAN828 MILITARY COUNCIL MEETS IN LAGOS
A Military Council, including the Nigerian Head of State Yakubu Gowon and the Head of the Navy Commodore Wey, meets to discuss Nigeria's future.
1. ms car pulls into car park
2. mcu pan administrator for Lagos arrives
3. ms onlookers...
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SYND 27 10 75 SHIPS CARRYING CEMENT JAMMED AT LAGOS HARBOR
Ships carrying cement jammed at Lagos harbor. (apapa)
1. gv harbour showing quayside ships moored
2. gv pan along ships waiting to unload
3. ms pan along ships, Brazilian ship shows name
4. gv ships waiting
5. various of ships...
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SYND 02 08 70 ANTI BRITISH DEMONSTRATION IN LAGOS
Anti British demonstration in Lagos streets, outside the British library where an efigy of British Premier, Edward heath, and the Union Jack are burned
1) ms demonstrators down street carrying placards
2) ms police stand by
3) ms...
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SYND 13 2 76 LAGOS COUP
The swearing-in of Nigeria's supreme military council in 1975 following the ousting of Genearl Yakubu Gowon by Brigadier Murtala Mohammed who was himself overthrown.
1. vs troops, vehicles and tanks in Lagos
2. ws and tilt up exterior of...
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AT LEAST 150 KILLED IN NIGERIA PLANE CRASH
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled...
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Nigeria - Violence
Nigeria - A'math of attack by militants on police station
Bauchi - 26 July 2009
1. Wide of police station where attack is alleged to have taken place
2. Pan of suspected militants arrested by police
3. Debris and home made ammunition...
British Movietone
NIGERIANS REJOICE
There are some 500 Nigerian students working at McGill University, Montreal. Natural enough, if they found it hard to concentrate, when their country was receiving its independence, and more natural still, that when the moment came, they...
British Movietone
NIGERIAN PARLIAMENT OPENED
In Lagos, the first session of the New House of Representatives has been opened by the Governor-General, Sir John Stuart-MacPherson. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...