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Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by FILEBE(m): 12:47am On Jan 11, 2021 |
[quote author=naptu2 post=97692393][/quote] Lwt wasn't burnt down around 1985. Nah. I was around long enough to know it was changed to LTV . Lwt still aired in the 90s . Yeah!! Oh!!! Forgotten DBN? The nightshift show. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by naptu2: 12:50am On Jan 11, 2021 |
FILEBE: The LWT studios burnt down in 1985 and that was the end of their marathon transmission. That's what I wrote. They were still known as LWT into the mid-1990s, but they didn't run a marathon transmission. They went off air at midnight like other stations after the studio burnt down in 1985. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Soknown: 12:59am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Ishilove:Ngugi wa Thiongo. Can't forget that name. The Achebe's Trilogy. Mills and Boons books. Pace-setters books. Hints. Vintage papers. Better lovers. Hardly Chase books. Ralia, the Sugar girl. D.O Fagunwa's books The beautiful ones are not yet born. Children of Ananze. The zero hour. And many more. Thanks Ishilove. 1 Like |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Soknown: 1:09am On Jan 11, 2021 |
jagorinho:I am waiting for that day, when nollywood will develop to the extent of adapting some of these books into Series, Or Hollywood will snatch it in the mould of Black Panther. These classics should be our Harry Porter. The imagination and the delivery was out of this world. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by jagorinho: 1:18am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Soknown: I have read a lot of books both international and local, none comes close to that guy's imagination, That Fagunwa was a genius in suspense, Damn it. I was lucky I could read Yoruba texts but my friends were poor in reading yoruba so they couldn't feel those books. I love Cyprian Ekwensi too, I think he is underrated, His early life in the north made him set most of his plots in Northern Nigeria. His Burning Grass was a classic, a good insight about the Fulani culture. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Icekyng: 2:14am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Ishilove:Lol why you dy savage am na |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by budaatum: 2:44am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Dpaulie:Damn, they were hard! Lol. In school one day, teacher said we will all have to introduce a word in our local language to the class so should get our parents to teach us one. Easy, you'd think, except ma was away all week training to be a nurse and had instructed my siblings and I not to squeek while dad was studying lawyer or its our fault if he failed, again, emphasis hers, so buda never asked. Day comes. Students from France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Turkey Cameroon, Ghana, London, Jews, everywhere, all stand and say a word in their local language then it's buda's turn. buda stands proudly and says "Finito. It means finished". Teacher look buda one kind eye and goes, "Finito is not a Yoruba word!" I learnt my Yoruba from age 7 with those books when my cousin came from village and brought them all. Makes me wonder why I never picked any Yoruba up from my parents talking it that the only Yoruba I knew was finito - dad's favourite word after supper. I was 5. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Jubilancy(f): 3:07am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Anyone with working sony VCD PLAYER complete with the game disk and pad please indicate oooo I need that vcd player ... If any one who resides in lagos have it please hit me up Asap |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by bewla(m): 3:13am On Jan 11, 2021 |
uboma:No come here they form if you still read S S then u no they among us |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 3:15am On Jan 11, 2021 |
budaatum: 1 Like |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by favour32(m): 4:07am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Those days dey natural pass now. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by ussv: 5:15am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Thanks for bringing back old memories |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Munzy14(m): 5:30am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Indomie generations are not used to reading... |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by naptu2: 6:12am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Here's the entire conversation. The thread was actually about Kokoro, the real life "Drummer Boy" that inspired Cyprian Ekwensi to write the novel. I saw him almost every day and that's what I was writing about when someone asked me this question. shakablaiize: naptu2: shakablaiize: naptu2: 2 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ray07(m): 6:56am On Jan 11, 2021 |
nihilistjnr:yeah |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by FILEBE(m): 6:59am On Jan 11, 2021 |
naptu2: Oh Okay. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by wajaja: 7:34am On Jan 11, 2021 |
ayovenice: I remembered that Dog series, with their long big tails. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by naptu2: 7:35am On Jan 11, 2021 |
joseph1832: Alausa? I know people who lived somewhere in Alausa and they had 24 hours power. Their explanation was that power that was sent to Lagos from the grid landed in Alausa before it was distributed to the rest of Lagos. There was a time that we had 24 hours power for almost 2 years. That's because we were on the same line with State House Dodan Barracks. Unfortunately we were removed from that line a few months before the NEPA strike of 1989. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by joseph1832(m): 7:42am On Jan 11, 2021 |
naptu2:Nope. One of the barracks in Ikeja. Won't mention because I don't want to divulge too much info. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by naptu2: 7:47am On Jan 11, 2021 |
joseph1832: OK. Understood. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 7:52am On Jan 11, 2021 |
joseph1832:No wonder you're so military minded |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 7:53am On Jan 11, 2021 |
wajaja:The Chuckle Hounds |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by wajaja: 7:53am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Soknown: Bad Child...Better lova.... |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by joseph1832(m): 8:12am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Ishilove:how come people have been saying that to me recently. Lol. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by Ishilove: 8:15am On Jan 11, 2021 |
joseph1832:It shows na |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by kayo80(m): 8:16am On Jan 11, 2021 |
I wasn't really a lover of books back then, but I loved The Passport of Mallam Ilia. It was such a great read...I loved the part where he was in a wrestling match or so, and got stabbed in the belly. It was so vivid in my head as I read it. I would love to read the book again as an adult. Other books as I liked as a preteen and teenager are...Sidney Sheldon books, and Sweat Valley High, the university edition...Sweet Valley Uni or something like that. Anyway, I didn't do much reading, even though my dad had a gazilion books at home. I did more of playing video games. I remember seeing the Atari video game at a cousin's house for the first time in the 80s (88 OR 89, can't remember)...I fell in love instantly. During the ride home, surprisingly, my mom convinced my dad to get one for us. I really couldn't believe my mom was fighting for us the kids to get a video game, lol. The next week, we went to Cash N Carry off Marina in Lagos Island to get the Atari. It was the best day of my life back then. We had Pacman of course, an airplane flying game, and some other cartridges I can't remember. From Atari, we went to Sega Genesis a few years later. It was around 1992 when the ABG cable came along I started playing less games, and watching more Cartoon Network and Sky movie channels. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by joseph1832(m): 8:17am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Ishilove:oh really. Never knew. Lol. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by mechanics(m): 8:44am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Ishilove:lolz. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by mechanics(m): 8:45am On Jan 11, 2021 |
Khalesie:hmmmm. |
Re: What We Entertained Ourselves With Before Cable TV by princessConfy(f): 8:50am On Jan 11, 2021 |
nihilistjnr: can you send me the bottled leopard in PDF |
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