Marina Rd.

Marina Rd is an improvement from the others because it is urban yet tasteful. Apart from the quality and comfort, our designs ooze status and prestige and give whoever wears it the social advantage.

14/11/2024

NIGERIA AIRWAYS INAUGURAL FLIGHT FROM LAGOS TO NEW YORK - OCTOBER 1964.

The first direct air service between Nigeria and the USA, inaugurated on October 4, 1964.

Dr K. O. Mbadiwe, Nigerian Minister of Aviation, said that the new service was sponsored jointly by Nigeria Airways and Pan American Airlines and that “this is a people-to-people flight dedicated to greater understanding, the strengthening of old friendships and the creation of more social and economic in*******se between Nigeria and America via Nigeria Airways.”

Mbadiwe set out to make Nigeria Airways a contender for the ever-increasing traffic between Lagos and New York, hitherto the exclusive preserve of Pan American Airlines.

Grandiosely, Mbadiwe executed what he dubbed Operation Fantastic to highlight the inaugural Nigerian Airways flight from Lagos to New York. Instead of inviting eminent Nigerians on the inaugural flight, Mbadiwe opted to take with him the Atilogu Folk Dancers, a carefully selected and well-trained group of Nigerian dancers and drummers.

The troupe performed at the auditorium of the State Department, at the International World’s Fair in New York, and at various venues in such cities as Chicago and San Francisco. The Atilogu Folk Dancers were a spectacular success.

An American film company, contracted by Mbadiwe, did a documentary of their American performance, which was shown both in Nigeria and abroad. For it had been Mbadiwe’s goal not only to market Nigeria Airways but to project a positive image of Nigeria in the United States and internationally.

Slide 1 : Dr Mbadiwe arriving at the JFK Airport in New York

Slide 2 : The Menu in the inaugural flight program.

Sources: Pan Am Museum, FLIGHT International and KO Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography by Hollis Lynch

11/09/2023

With all the Top Boy hysteria going on - Here’s a picture of ‘Sully’ & ‘Jermaine’ at the Bar Beach, Lagos in 2008.

14/07/2022

BRUNCH ON SUNDAYS is back again. Come and party with us (shop too lol).

05/05/2022

What’s the story behind this building? Some accounts allege that this was the ‘Lagos Boat Race Club’. Anyone with information please leave a comment.

1. circa 1920 -1935
2. circa 1940 - 1945
3. Boat racing event. Year unknown:
4. Present day. 2022.