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The very first Nigerian stamps - Lagos, 1874

 Beautiful cancellations of the first set of Lagos stamps from 1874-75.

LAGOS STAMPS 1887 - 1902: QUEEN VICTORIA

OLD CALABAR STAMPS 1903-1904: KING EDWARD VII

 LAGOS STAMP- 1876 (QUEEN VICTORIA)

LAGOS STAMP- 1884- (KING EDWARD)

NIGERIAN FOUNDING FATHERS- Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904 - 1996), Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello (1909 - 1966), Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909 - 1987), Alhaji (Sir) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912-1966)

NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY-NIGERIA @ 50-CELEBRATING GREATNESS IN TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY, ARTS, SPORT AND CULTURE

Mother Theresa's First day of Issue- September 5, 2010 in the USA.

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US SPACE BLOCK SHIFTED COLORS

PTA PLATE BLOCK 4 INVERTED YELLOW MNH

Eddy's stamps resort is a worldwide stamp Trading/exchange and Tourism website. We are committed to making rare philatelic items of British Commonwealth, African countries, Caribbean nations and small Island countries available at your door post. We have in store several items like Stamps (Mint, Use, Fine Cancel, and CTO’s) on all topics. We also have rare postal histories, FDC's, Miniature Sheet, Banknotes, Coins, Postcards/View cards, Phone cards, Crown Caps, Labels and many more.

You can make inquiry on everything about Hobbies Recreations and Holidays in Nigeria and Africa at large from us. We attain and give solutions to all Philatelic Issues and other collectibles, Tourism and other relevant information. You are also free to explore our collectible galleries and have fun.

About Eddy

 Edet Akpan (Eddy) is an advance collector based in the city of Calabar, Cross River State of Nigeria. He graduated from the Federal University of Calabar with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial Microbiology and a post Graduate Diploma in integrated coastal zone management strategies. He has several years of experience and certificates in information technology and website design/hosting. He ventured into stamp collecting in 1991 as a pioneer member of the Nigerian Philately Club Calabar Chapter and has since been a collector of repute from within and outside of Nigeria. He Holds the post of a Vice President of the said Organisation as at present. He collects items related to Stamps, bank notes, Miniature sheet, Postcard/View cards, Phone cards, First Days Cancellations, Postal History and Numismatics etc. His particularly interest is in pre-independence stamps of Nigeria and stamps of British West African countries including; British Camerouns, Gambia, Seirra Leone, Togo, Gold Coast (Ghana), Nigeria, Ascensions, St. Helena, Tristan Da Cunha etc. He also collect stamps of British Commonwealth nations particularly those of Caribbean, Small British Island colonies, Polynesia and Micronesia. He has a large stock of his collections for exchange and for trading to willing collectors within and outside of Nigeria. Eddy is a member of numerous Philatelic associations and groups worldwide(Online and offline) including The Nigerian Philatelic Association, Stamp Explorers Club (Australia), Quezon Philatelic Club (Philippines), Siam Stamp group (Thailand), Cyprus Stamp exchange (Cyprus), Peace and Friendship Stamp Club (Spain), All stamp Paradise (France). He has contact with several Philatelic organizations and Bureau including American Philatelic Society, Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau Ltd, New Zealand Post, Australian Philatelic Bureau, Brazilian Philately, Canadian Post, Linn's' Stamp News, West African Study Circle(WASC), PAKNET Magazine(Pakistan), Poppe Stamps(Philippines), Bashyam Stamp collecting basics (India), Delcampe Net Auctions, Jamestown Stamp Company,Westminster Stamp Gallery, UNOstamps,Philatino News(Argentina), World stamp club(Ceskoslovensko), Chub collectors, Postal Bidding(Indonesia),Stamporama Discussion Board and several stamp companies with stock of their catalogues in his archives etc. Currently, he lives in Calabar from where he co-ordinates his affairs and passion all over the world.

 STAMP RELEASED TO MARK 10th ANNIVERSARY OF RETURN TO DEMOCRACY (1999-2009)

DEPICTING

NIGERIA LATE PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YARDUA

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 1951 – 5 May 2010) was the President of Nigeria and the 13th Head of State. He served as governor of Katsina State in northern Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 28 May 2007. He was declared the winner of the controversial Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He was a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). In 2009, Yar'Adua left for Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for pericarditis. He returned to Nigeria in 2010, where he died on May 5.

PENNY BLACK

The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was issued by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 May 1840, for official use from 6 May of that year.

All London post offices received official issues of the new stamps but other offices throughout the United Kingdom did not, continuing to accept postage payments in cash only for a period. Post offices such as those in Bath, began offering the stamp unofficially after 2 May.

  Dear fellow stamp collectors,

The objective of our website is to project to the rest of the world the positive image of African philately. And there is so much valuable historic and cultural heritage of Africa that remains unknown that can be enhanced through the issue of honorable postage stamps that are expected to be the itinerant and miniature ambassadors of their countries.

However, we must at the same time recognize that many of our African countries are suffering, probably mostly involuntarily, but also voluntarily in some cases, from a worldwide campaign of denigration of the African image through the production and distribution of what are known as illegal and abusive postage stamps. It is vital to take a stand to protect the image of our African culture from the continued proliferation of illegal and abusive stamps.

 Fellow stamp collectors and friends have brought to my attention that there are many stamps circulating on the Web that are produced and sold in the name of many of our African countries and that many such so-called stamps are illegal products. Many other stamps are produced based on so-called legal contracts with private companies (working mostly in certain Western countries) and such stamps are termed as abusive because they are produced in huge quantities and in many variations and the images they portray have nothing to do with the culture or specificity of the country in the name of which they are issued. For example, how can one accept that landlocked countries such as Malawi and Rwanda should have on so-called stamps in their name, among many other topics, such as Arctic, marine and other non-African fauna, penguins, lighthouses, fire engines, Ferrari cars, ships (and catastrophes such as the sinking of the Titanic), submarines, trains, American, Asian and European public personalities, chess players, paintings, actors, actresses, musicians, singers, nudes, etc. on so-called stamps in their names! It is also shocking and totally unacceptable that certain images and scenes that appear on so-called postage stamps in the name of African countries are outright indecent and border on pornography.

 We have learned from the website of the Universal Postal Union in its «Philately» section that there are public denouncements known as circulars that are regularly published to advise of the existence of illegal postage stamps which are produced and distributed by private companies in the names of the countries concerned. We find that the majority of such countries are unfortunately African countries.

  From the total of 53 countries that make up the African continent, we observe that the following 25 countries have public denouncements of illegal postage stamps published through the UPU (some countries published more than once):

  1 - Angola, 2 - Benin, 3 - Burundi, 4 - Cameroon, 5 – Centrafrique, 6 - Comoros, 7 – Rep of Congo, 8 – Dem Rep of Congo, 9 - Côte d'Ivoire, 10 - Djibouti, 11 - Eritrea, 12 - Gambia, 13 - Guinea, 14 - Madagascar, 15 - Malawi, 16 - Mali, 17 - Mauritania, 18 - Morocco – Western Sahara, 19 - Mozambique, 20 - Niger, 21 - Rwanda, 22 - Senegal, 23 - Somalia, 24 - Sudan, 25 - Tchad.

 We found also that the following African countries have very doubtful so-called stamps in their names that look very much as illegal ones but for which we have yet to see a public denouncement: 1- Botswana, 2 - Burkina Faso, 3 - Gabon, 4 - Guinée-Bissau, 5 - Ecuatorial Guinea, 6 - Lesotho, 7 - Liberia, 8 – Sao Tomé-et-Principe, 9 - Sierra Leone, 10 - Tanzania, 11 - Uganda and 12 - Zambia.

 This makes for a total of 37 African countries in the names of which illegal so-called postage stamps confirmed and suspected have been identified, whether a public denouncement has been published or not, in other words, almost 70 % or two-thirds of the African continent. This is a calamitous situation!!! That requires urgent and immediate action.

 We call upon fellow friends and collectors to seize the public authorities of the countries named above to call them to action against the devastation and denigration of the image of Africa through the large scale worldwide production and distribution and sale of illegal postage stamps that continues to spiral out of control.