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Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by themanderon: 2:19pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
When Nigeria was not as rotten and as depressing as it has become today. One could still boast of close to 20hrs electricity supply, fuel price then was negligible and the exchange rate was not changing as the second is ticking by. I may say I miss Nigeria of those days. At least you could still find normal people everywhere. Only God knows what happened to make it the shithole it has become today. The series was the star of those days and we would always look up to seeing another episode the next Sunday. 3 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by OssyMalik: 2:19pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
How time flies Racoon: |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Nobody: 2:21pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Lol |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Nyanabo(m): 2:22pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
From the story line this was when nollywood was still dishi g out good content. Not this one's we have now. When you can single handle predict the end just by watch 3 scenes. Those days, if you miss an episode or a scene you would be lost for a long time. This was why they brought about the 'Previously On....... 3 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by descarado: 2:24pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Is this lady bleaching too? What is wrong with these people? |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by PoTTV: 2:24pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
I want to watch old 9ja comedy sitcoms. I'm just finding out fuji house of comotion was a spinoff from checkmate wow ! Rest easy Amaka Igwe. 3 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by greenie77: 2:26pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Okuda: Checkmate was on Thursdays. 4 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by do4luv14(m): 2:29pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Racoon: Bros, not only Checkmate but Behind the Cloud, Lagos Na WA, Village headmaster Indeed indomie generation, no go sabi those ones 6 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by J2381: 2:30pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
How can I forget. Absolutely love Checkmate. Checkmate and Fortunes were my favourite Nigerian soap opera. |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Bvlgari: 2:32pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Hmnnn I remember |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by szen(m): 2:36pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Good old days...mehn I miss the ‘90s 1 Like |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by toxjox: 2:40pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Who knows where Tunde Euba is? And what he is doing now. You can only appreciate that guy if you watched him on stage in the play SWIZI BANZI IS DEAD back then at the NATIONAL THEATRE. I have searched and searched on Google about him. That guy is too talented not to have footprints 3 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by DMCY: 2:41pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
1 Like |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Tywo2018: 2:50pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Go and comprehend ok. Droppxx: 1 Like |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by sylve11: 2:53pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
I need a time machine to take me back.... How soon hath time.... Meanwhile, since those times when I was still young, I have always had a thing for Ego Nnamani. That lady beautiful! |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Buksaylor: 2:54pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
aikyg:No rivalry up till now.... No.2 is Rattlesnake.. 1 Like |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Myself2(m): 2:54pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Racoon: Hahahahaha |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by neyoohhh: 2:59pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
themanderon: Exactly, we could find normal people everywhere back then. Not anymore unfortunately. 1 Like |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by femiakinbully(m): 3:06pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
I remember Yinka Craig's character "Kokoyo" ..... The man with many lives . |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by OpinionCounts(m): 3:07pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Doggedseller: Also BEHIND THE CLOUDS. 2 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by azpekuliar: 3:12pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Racoon: He is |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by webizone(m): 3:19pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
LadySarah:Right? They won't dare leaving the old NTA as a free channel in this day and time. They would lose, nobody go subscribe. Come to think of it, cable TVs in Nigeria then were free. Nigerians had a choice. |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Nobody: 3:20pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Best soap opera then followed by fortunes,then ripples..... Akpan was my best actor,as he was resilient for all d attack he got from cultists. I missed Ireti, catering practical. 1 Like |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by slivertongue: 3:26pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Racoon: nostalgia ooo kai. wish I could have those days |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Nobody: 3:26pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Love the opening video: shows a Nigeria full of promise but look at us now! Memes and I can't breathe! |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by BOOOMNAIJA: 3:30pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Like for ego boyo, share for Genevieve nnaji. Indomie generation, pls stay out of this poll to avoid unfair vote results. |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Joeyfizzo: 3:34pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
causewahala:Third Eye |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Nobody: 3:36pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
Okuda: The 1980's were very hard for a lot of Nigerians. By 1990, when the show first aired, we had some economic uplift due to rising oil prices...but then by mid 1991...the prices collapsed and we were back to square one. The economy has always been hard for most Nigerians because of the fact that we rely on revenue from things whose prices we don't control. Whether Buhari or anyone else. 2 Likes |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by enemmo(f): 3:41pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
toxjox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrP5jf2K20Y 1 Like |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Nobody: 3:45pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
LadySarah: Let me start my repsonse by saying that ;person wey never eat outside him papa house, think him papa food na best food; NTA compared to other TV stations has always been useless. But back in 1990, we had no choice. There was cable, but it was very expensive then, and you needed a very large dish to get signal sometimes . Even back then, NTA used to show a lot of foreign programming...though it got limited as time went by, due to money issues, and government mandating more local content. Watching the foreign programming and comparing it to local programming back then showed you how useless NTA was.(Sesame street was a lot better than Puppet world(from NTA Jos) , for example...and Puppet world wasn't exactly awful) But as i said, we had no choice. Everyone watched NTA and /or the state broadcasting service(not usually avaialble in all parts of the state anyways) In 1990, cable satellite became available in Nigeria. By 2000, most of the NTA's potential tv viewing audience had access to cable and better programming.. The dish grew smaller too. Part of the problem was that until 1991, NTA had no private competitiors..so they could take refuge in complacency. After all, NTA was all we had.. Even when the private competitiors came, they took time to get to NTA's reach (it took AIT a very long time.) Meanwhile, government TV stations in say the UK had private competitiors (itv, channel 4, etc) for a very very long time...meaning they had to up their game. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Reminiscence: Checkmate the Popular Nigerian TV Soap Opera Series) by Elliotwaveforec: 3:46pm On Aug 14, 2021 |
What about Third Eye and Ripples? 1 Like |
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