Donlouise: na your own kasala b dat o! Hw many police pikin u don come across 4 lyf as in get 2 noe d person wella.

many of them and they are always very rude

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Got no experiene I beg.

MY EXPERIENCE IN DODAN BARRACKS OBALENDE WAS SWEET N MEMORABLE!BORN N RAISED IN D BARRACKS LIKE VECTOR WILL SAY. D BARRACKS CAN BE D UNITING FORCE OF NIGERIA IF WE CAN PICK FRM COEXISTENCE OF LIFE IN D BARRACKS.U CAN HARDLY PICK UP TRIBAL ACCENT IN D BARRACKS.MY BARRACK IS NMORE LIKE D CLEANEST AND BONNY CAMP (CANTONMENT)AS WELL.VERYBODY HAVE A COMMON TONGUE IN PRONOUNCIATION N ALL.D BARRACKS HAVE DIA OWN WAY OF LIFE DIFF FRM D OUTSIDE VICINITY.EVERBODY IS A BROTHERS KEEPER OUTSIDE D BARRACKS.A BARRACK CHILD HAVE D ATTRIBUTE OF A TOUGH SKIN,NO FEAR N ATTITUDE,U CANNOT TREATEN A BARRACK BOY BE U AREA BOY OR WARRI BOY.I RILI HAD FUN IN MY 18 YEARS IN D BARRACKS.A YORUBA BOY CLD NOT SPEAK HIS LANGUAGE EVEN IN A YORUBA TOWN SAME TO OTHERS INCLUDING ME.THERE WNT BE ENUFF TIME TO TELL D SWEET STORY AS IM ALERGIC TO TYPING ON MY BB PHONE.BUT MY MOST MEMORABLE EXPRIENCE IN D BARRACKS IS DURING D TIME OF GIDEON ORKAHS COUP,IT WAS LIVE IN OUR BARRACKS BECOS DATS WHERE D PRESIDENT RESIDES N ALSO WHERE FRCN IS AT.IT WAS A FREIGHTENED EXPERIENCE.WHEN ABACHA WAS PRESIDENT WE ALWAYS GATHER AT THE ENTRANCE OF STATE HOUSE TO BID FAREWELL TO HIM N HIS CONVOY.D GUY WILL JUST USE NEWSPAPER TO COVER HIS FACE COUPLED WIT HIS SINATURE GOGGLES.WHILE IBB WAS FREE MINDED AS HE WAVED BACK WEN WE BID HIM FAREWELL.THERE WAS A POINT HIS ESCORT WILL STOP N START SPRAYING RA CASH FOR US(CHILDREN).MY EXPERIENCE AREAWSOME N MANY BUT WILL LIKE TO STOP HERE...

rubi96: many of them and they are always very rude

hmm okay o, na wrong set of people u dey meet

I represent sam ethnan air force base ikeja, one of d most sophisticated nd neatest base in d country.... Shoutout to odas barrack boyz.....we compete in academic excellence not in truancy.....

Christane: I was born and brought up in nigerian navy barracks Ojo..a.k.a navy town ,,,i was fun growing up becus d barrack was kinda secure ..u comit any offence or fight u get locked up in NNS WEY ...so we barracks boys re well bhave unlyk sum children of bloody civilians ..nd even d popular movie star MERCY JOHNSON came from d barrack ...NIGERIAN NAVY ...ONWARD TOGETHER

LoooL yes o. Team navy town! NNS wey dat was formerly known as BMU

Yap ...u got it ryt ..it was called BMU

Donlouise: if u no grow up 4 barrack and u no smart 4get u no go smart again 4lyf.
I rep mczone. Marcathy police barracks onikan. Do guyz noe dat d famous vector d viper 1ce lived in marcathy police barracks.

yeah to all ma McZone bois I dey troway salute oh! VEC, JoeSlim, Henry, etc and all ma chicks I dey rep oh!

Marchathy is one of dem cool p.o barracks in lagos. Ijeh police barrack na hin dirty pass. If you enter warders barrack awolowo rd you vex comot cos e be like slum. Dodan barrack irep!

Lived in one of the best baracks in the country back then for a while. The now defunct 311 Field Artillery Regiment, Epe. Well laid out, neat modern buildings all ensuite, electricity and water to all flats and best of all a private beach where we chill out on weekends and eat plenty coconuts. What an experience. It didn't feel like a barrack at all, more like those adventure expeditions. Yes it was far.

JABOO55: MY EXPERIENCE IN DODAN BARRACKS OBALENDE WAS SWEET N MEMORABLE!BORN N RAISED IN D BARRACKS LIKE VECTOR WILL SAY. D BARRACKS CAN BE D UNITING FORCE OF NIGERIA IF WE CAN PICK FRM COEXISTENCE OF LIFE IN D BARRACKS.U CAN HARDLY PICK UP TRIBAL ACCENT IN D BARRACKS.MY BARRACK IS NMORE LIKE D CLEANEST AND BONNY CAMP (CANTONMENT)AS WELL.VERYBODY HAVE A COMMON TONGUE IN PRONOUNCIATION N ALL.D BARRACKS HAVE DIA OWN WAY OF LIFE DIFF FRM D OUTSIDE VICINITY.EVERBODY IS A BROTHERS KEEPER OUTSIDE D BARRACKS.A BARRACK CHILD HAVE D ATTRIBUTE OF A TOUGH SKIN,NO FEAR N ATTITUDE,U CANNOT TREATEN A BARRACK BOY BE U AREA BOY OR WARRI BOY.I RILI HAD FUN IN MY 18 YEARS IN D BARRACKS.A YORUBA BOY CLD NOT SPEAK HIS LANGUAGE EVEN IN A YORUBA TOWN SAME TO OTHERS INCLUDING ME.THERE WNT BE ENUFF TIME TO TELL D SWEET STORY AS IM ALERGIC TO TYPING ON MY BB PHONE.BUT MY MOST MEMORABLE EXPRIENCE IN D BARRACKS IS DURING D TIME OF GIDEON ORKAHS COUP,IT WAS LIVE IN OUR BARRACKS BECOS DATS WHERE D PRESIDENT RESIDES N ALSO WHERE FRCN IS AT.IT WAS A FREIGHTENED EXPERIENCE.WHEN ABACHA WAS PRESIDENT WE ALWAYS GATHER AT THE ENTRANCE OF STATE HOUSE TO BID FAREWELL TO HIM N HIS CONVOY.D GUY WILL JUST USE NEWSPAPER TO COVER HIS FACE COUPLED WIT HIS SINATURE GOGGLES.WHILE IBB WAS FREE MINDED AS HE WAVED BACK WEN WE BID HIM FAREWELL.THERE WAS A POINT HIS ESCORT WILL STOP N START SPRAYING RA CASH FOR US(CHILDREN).MY EXPERIENCE AREAWSOME N MANY BUT WILL LIKE TO STOP HERE...

bros I share the same experience mhen! It was damn fun. Remember the basketball team 'Dodan Warriors'? In my time, we use play soccer on the road(called babangida road or abacha road) to state house and do other entertaining stuffs.

I was once a barrack boy and I had plenty of fun and learned plenty things for myself. Barrack children are bad barrack children are bad it all depend on the individual mindset. I tried to distinguish myself from the others back then because I focused on the future irrespective of the fact that sometimes I joined up to cook one funny act or another.

I never lived inside the barracks, but my secondary back then was close to a police barracks.. mehn barrack kid are rough. barrack houses was not fit for humans. www.brandigest.

This is my Roll-Call:
Myohaung barracks, Lagos ( small place, kind of cozy and warm)
Ribadu Cantonment, kaduna (The Good, the bad and the most awesome)
ECR Ede, Osun State ( More of a farming community than an Army barracks)

Odunharry:
mumu like u..get it into ur head.
i lived at kayode police barracks at marine beach apapa until 2007.for those of us who know there opposite mobil apapa will know we have army barracks near npa quartrs.whch is nt far from signal barracks and ashanti barracks.how abt navy barrack opposite press coca cola?
My guy go dive 4 hot water abeg if u no knw wetin to talk.

Now u are talking, of all forces, police barrack is d dirtiest..in bonny camp where I stay all dis u listed up does not happen, we don't pay nepa bills, each flat comes wit kitchen and toilets as long as u are a soldier, except for those dat are retired and given bungalow to stay pending wen they get their entitlements...it is most safe and fun living there, and for d fighting, it hardly happen as pple get punished severly for it..as for gossiping, yes I agree wich is nor where idleness is other of d day..pple cooperate wella there, only in d barrack u will leave your children wit neighbours while u are out for daily bread..the issue of rape is rear (except for those girls wey dey dress half naked go greet man for house). Barack the most secured and fun place to stay..u will always recount your memory there

Archmed: I was born and bred in the barracks.Odogbo and 192 army baraks in Ibadan and Owode-Idiroko respectivly.
As sons and daughters of Officers and soldiers,d word discipline was entrenched.I wont lie abt d negative part of barrack life.Dirt,prostitution,brutality,gossip,waywardness,truancy,gambling,malnutrition ...name them,in any case,are all dis vices peculiar to 2barrack life alone?does it mean we dont have dem in our civilian society?Its easy 2 term these vices a barrack thing because of the confinement.Its also a foolish thing to do too.Buh i didnt assimilate all dis,all i assmilated was d concept of discipline passd 2us by our fathers,mutual respect and interactn,self reliance,ruggedity and endurance-d hallmarks of military life.
Like our fathers,we learn to be strong bold and if need be, confrontational,dat is mistaken as stubborness by bloody civilians.
I love my barrackLIFE!

My brother frm the same barrack.. Long time no see..

rukuba barracks jos...my luvli command day sec schul...i miss dose days

Odunharry:
mumu lyk u...c fool o....
Blieve it or not dat s d truth or go ask those who have lived in barracks before.
A Barrack normally have 4 bathrooms,2 4 d males n 2 4 males with 27 or atyms 18 rooms in a barrack depending on how it is built...
Hater like u,abeg go use head knack stone 10times.

There are different types of structures in the barracks and bases and every personnel residing there, depending on their ranks, is assigned one. There are CBQs, SNCOQs, etc. Can't remember the meanings now. For the CBQs, they are of different types. Some have 4 toilets & 4 bathrooms to each floor of about 10 rooms and parlour and others have one toilet and bathroom to a room and parlour. The SNCOQs are structures with 2bedroom flat apartment and are different from CBQs. The officers(captain) and above have their own structures too which is different from the CBQs & SNCOQs. The officers & SNCO quarters are not usually as jam-packed as the CBQs. The officer's children are quite different(behaviourally and otherwise) from others even within the same barracks. So, depending on the type of structure/quarters you lived in, you might have a different story to tell. I grew up in 4 different army barracks in 4 different states in Nigeria and the last was army cantonment Ikeja. I was there during the January 2002 bomb blast. I survived it. Life in the barracks was fun for me remembering my childhood days. People who lived in the barracks have the tendency of being aggresive and stronger. It's the military up-bringing and koboko things. You just can't oppress a barrack boy or girl. Was glad I grew up in the barracks cos there are benefits.

Riba_man:

@ OP
I can swear that you have never lived in an Army barracks. Your post is a composite from various sources.
The Airforce and Navy barracks are in a class of their own, for many reasons.
Even amongst the Army barracks, there the Grade A ones like, Ojo Cantonment,Ikeja cantonment, Ribadu Cantonment, Mokola Barracks, Depot Barracks Zaria, and Rukuba barracks. The foregoing are the A-listers, the other are small time barracks of one brigade or units.
The life in the A-listers is not the same as life in the small ones.
Will be back with more gist, make I try do some work first.

did i mentioned that i stayd in army barracks?i said kayode police barrack,marine beach.
Barracks differ 4m one another.one i still love is navy barracks at press boundary the barrack is vry neat and quiet

Dr. Wise:
I have lived in both police and Army barracks for 20 years. I started up at the Otop-Abasi Police barracks, Calabar and later 34 Brigade, Eburutu barracks, Calabar.

Barrack live was fun as there was stiff competition both in football and in classroom amongst the blocks. When we get our results, you hear we have 6 first position in so so so block etc. Then the inter-block matches which were fun.

In police barracks, I got the privilege to stay at the women police block which is a 2-bedroom apartment with two wardrobes, a large kitchen, a balcony and a toilet/bathroom. Life in police barracks was much more interesting than the Army barracks. We stole wood from the nearby timber market and sleepers at other blocks' room footmats.

Going to the streams at Army barracks was aspect I relished but hated the generally wayward lifeestyle of the soldiers. One moment I hated the military was when my 52 years old uncle, a Corporal was sent to the guardroom by an NDA officer of about 25 yrs who was a captain. He ended up spending christmas in the guardroom and I hated the military thereafter.

yap u r ryt...in ma barracks too there was competition academically n in ftbll.i remembr when people frm army,custom or even navy barracks wil cme to our barracks to play match...o boy cme see pipu dy watch match includng ur family membrs n fwnds wl b there to cheer us up and we too no go wan Bleep up 4 home..

justsayemma: I'm glad I grew up in d barack, it made me a well rounded man(a gentle-rugged man)
@ op, I suppose knw u o,cos I grew up in Army barrack opposite Mobil,and I get friends 4 Kayode police barack( Ehime,Peter,Elue,Oto,etc)
Props 2 all barack boiz!

u get mouth jo...me i be peter junior brother,ehime and oto self na block 1..
Elue na fire service.

mosquitoNet: bros I share the same experience mhen! It was damn fun. Remember the basketball team 'Dodan Warriors'? In my time, we use play soccer on the road(called babangida road or abacha road) to state house and do other entertaining stuffs.

TRUE BRO.THE EXPERIENCE TOO MUCH SO NO TIME TO WRITE IT.I STILL DEY BALL WIT WARRIORS FOR PARADE GROUND O.BABANGIDA ROAD EXPERIENCE,FOOTBALL TOUNAMENT AND ALL THE BIUTIFUL SWEET MEMORIES...NOLSTALGIA HMMMMMMM

Blackgold09: guy na wic barracks u live? Cos i be barrack pikin o so tell me dat ur barracks name.

me na kayode police barrack,marine beach,apapa.

kemoolala: @odunharry, na police barracks u stayed b4 and dat is why u had these terrible experience, army barracks are not this bad at least i know of some barracks though av never lived there b4 but i know not as this bad. like 82 div in Enugu, ojoo in ibadan and ojo in lag.

except u av bin to all d army barracks in Nigeria.u r ryt though,u hardly see army barracks that is bad bt mind there are.

angeldaniels: Well.I A̶̲̥̅♏ proud to say I live in d barrack and I A̶̲̥̅♏ stil living in d barrack.if I don't tel u I live in d barracks u wil neva know.I A̶̲̥̅♏ a final year industrial chem student of d feferal university of technology akure.we have all kind of people in d barrack just as u hav in ur banana island,lekki,ajah,etc.we hav it all in d barrack.beauty,talent,etc.there is N̶̲̥̅̊Õ̳͡ were we don't hav G̶̲̥̅Ơ̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴̴͡D̶̲̥̅ and bad people,it depends on who u choose to be.barracks is a place were u learn a lot abt life,we have diff tribes,and all.if u hav lived in a barrack bfor,u will be able to adapt nd liv wit any kind of people.I A̶̲̥̅♏ proud to be a barrackian.I love my life.I A̶̲̥̅♏ proud of who I A̶̲̥̅♏ and d barrack I live.

i like this

I did my nysc ppa at the elele army barracks live in the barracks is regimented

I had a sad and wonderfull experience.I used to reside in an Estate close to a Military Barracks and we usually crossed over to go look for women.I was dating a Col.Daughter and will never forget the day I was given d beating of my life by the Jealous Junior officers who were guiding the Officers Quarter after taking orders from the Lady Daughter.

I had fun when I relocated and usually go to visit my Cousin who is an Officer and I usually follow him around intimidating and Harrasing civilians and Junior officers.

Barack's full of sh*t! I neva plan to go there again. If u wan experience a 'typical rough life' go liv 4 S&T Barack in Benin

Op it is true what u just said,barrack life has it ups and down but trust me staying in the barracks is not easy,it has been 13 yrs and feels just like yesterday.

Obalende police barrack is where u will experience all what the op has said but in my place which is women police barrack you will see were clothes are lined up infront of the house and when u enter the gate u will think the place is a laundary barrack. Well I still rep my hood for now.

::gsmcoder:::
Ojo barracks is the biggest cantonment in west Africa, thats where I was born.

Thats true my man. I loved the life in the Barracks. Playing ''slipo'' every saturday morning was the norm in WORKSHOP and PTF.. New Building was were I stayed. Long Live Nigeria Army....

::gsmcoder:::
Ojo barracks is the biggest cantonment in west Africa, thats where I was born.

Thats true my man. I loved the life in the Barracks. Playing ''slipo'' every saturday morning was the norm in WORKSHOP and PTF.. New Building was were I stayed. Long Live Nigeria Army !!!!....