FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT

Northern Region Development Corporation of Nigeria offices, council meeting on Shendam resettlement, agenda, Northern Nigerian vilages & farms, tribal life, farming on infertile soil, (1962), pan new village settlement, surveyors, building dwellings, new villages, agriculture production, cultivation, drums, groundnut & cotton production, rice production, happy village life, children play, washing, water carrier, wells, grazing lifestock, school bell & primary school, truck past camera, markets, village produce, co-operative farmers, tribal dances, h.a.s. large village, busy roads, shell refinery, industrial scenes, corned beef production, good production scenes, beer and soft drink production, animal skin tanneries, tanning process, groundnut oil & butter production, groundnut oil & flour, dairy, Northern Nigerian textile factory, training school & students, hotel construction, factories, markets, re-settlement.
Northern Region Development sign.
Health & Baby Week – Lagos 1956 – Obe Adele opens baby week, health parade, Governor General Robertson arrives and greeted, colonial types, dancers, floats and people past, walk past, judging winners of parade, Health & Baby week exhibition, mothers & babies, babies, swimming pool, diving, closing ceremony.
THE NORTH REJOICES – Nigerian Northern House of Assembly meeting 1959, self-government bill to be ratified, Sir Gavin Bell arrives, colonial types, Union Flag unfurled, pan Northern Nigeria, towns, river trade, bridges, elegiac dusk, agriculture, villages, village activity, harvesting, tree-cutting in Northern Nigeria, water falls of Abuja, canoes, primitive fishing, tribal artworks, dance, cattle, Lake Chad fishermen, March14/1959 – Commonwealth Status achieved, Sultan of Sokoto, night of self-government, council of ministers, fireworks, celebrations, ministers arrive, Gavin Bell arrives at Lugard Hall, Sultan of Sarduana, Governor declares self-government for Northern Nigeria, Premier in Sokoto, police inspection & march past, cavalry, celebrations, displays, construction, logging, Sultan of Sokoto, muslim prayer, Sultan and others, fast over, procession, Sultan speaks to his people re independence, Federal election posters, voting, ramadan celebrations, procession, Governor, dancing, self-government construction works, preparing for celebrations, dancing, snake dances, hyena , Kaduna and Durbar, Bornu contingent, celebrations.