I am trying to follow this tutorial, this answer, and this answer to create navigation bars for each of my tabs in a tab-based application in iOS 8 / Swift, but no title or butt
No need to use a new navigation bar just use your existent navigation bar. Remember what you did here :
let nc1 = UINavigationController(rootViewController: vc1)
So your view controller is already embed inside a navigation controller just use self
to access to the navigation items
self.title = "Your Title"
var homeButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "LeftButton", style: .Plain, target: self, action: "")
var logButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "RigthButton", style: .Plain, target: self, action: "")
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = homeButton
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = logButton