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The FRSC boss is a hypocrite for saying such. Like their services are that accessible without greasing of palms.

@seun why don't you take a short trip to nearby towns here in the west and do some research, I'm pretty sure that with your status and resources, you will be able to find ample evidence from the "source". I will also like to know what you come up with.

Waste disposal is a big world problem, especially non biodegradable waste. Cities like lagos have a big issue with expansion and increase in population.

Sometimes you realise that going to some areas in lagos in your private vehicle is not worth it. In such cases I just stick with the crazy public transport system.

naptu2:
Boring ke? What does boring mean I grew up in heaven, so I didn't know the meaning of boring (I always joke that I've been to heaven, hell and earth in my lifetime).

There were so many things to do and not enough time in which to do them.

Video games



You could play video games.

We had a Binatone TV Master in the 1970s.

All the games were pre-installed. I particularly remember the tennis game.
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We had an Atari 2600 in the 1980s.


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It had lots of games which you bought separately. The games came in cartridges.

The most popular game was Pac Man
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My second favourite game was Spiderman

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My favourite game was Maze Craze

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I never really understood this game. Superman

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Superman-Atari-2600.jpg

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You could watch TV

TV stations began transmitting at 5pm and shut down around midnight. There was no 70% rule at that time, so they showed a balanced mix of foreign and Nigerian programmes. I knew the tv schedule off heart. The tv became my clock.


Then came LWT. There was a battle for supremacy between NTA2 Channel 5 and Lagos Television and sometime between 1980-1982 LTV started Lagos Weekend Television (LWT).

LWT began at 7pm every Friday and ran (non-stop) until 7am on Monday. They showed the best movies and series all through. Series like Incredible Hulk, Invisible Man, The Man From Atlantis, Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Dan August, The Avengers (John Steed and Emma Peal), etc.


There was a boy in my house. At around 11pm, the adults would make him go and sleep because it was past his bed time. Then, at around 1am, I would hear noise in the kitchen. This guy would be in the kitchen cooking all kinds of food. Then he would go to the parlour and sit in front of the tv with his meal. He would lower the volume so that he would be able to hear what's being said, but none of the people sleeping in the house would be able to hear it. Then at around 5am, he would sneak back into his room and sleep.

So I would wait until it's around 1:30 and then join him in the parlour to partake in his meal

Unfortunately the LWT studios burnt down in 1985 (or '86) and that was the end of their marathon transmission.

This is Chariots of Fire by Ernie Watts. It was the signature tune of LWT. It used to make a lot of people happy on Friday nights.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIKJG3uUWQ

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You could go to the video club and rent movies, tv shows, sports, etc or borrow from friends.

You could borrow video cassettes from friends or rent them from video clubs.

There were hip hop themed movies like Break Dance The Movie (Ozone and Turbo), Fame (the pilot was a movie, then came the tv series), etc.

There were movies and series that were adapted from classic books like The Other Side Of Midnight, Kane And Abel, Hollywood Wives, etc. These usually require TDB (Till Day Break). There was a day that we started watching movies at 7pm, took a short break to watch the news headlines at 9pm, then continued watching till 6am (I only realised what time it was when my mum called me to lock the door for her).

We were one of the first people in the neighbourhood to have a VCR (this was the late '70s) so neighbours often came over to watch with us.

Of course, in the 1980s there were video clubs like Video Mart, Cosmo, Videoscope, Glowe, etc and in the '90s there was Mega Movies.

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Sports

I played football, basketball, tennis, rounders, baseball, cricket and table tennis. I watched, but did not play, rugby.

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You could go to Ikoyi Club to hang out.

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You could read books.

I had a gigantic library. There were crime novels, story books, major literary works, everything from James Hardly Chase, Jackie Collins, Jeffrey Archer and those kind of authors, to Pacesetter novels, to works by Wole Soyinka, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, etc, to the African Writers Series, to story books by Enid Blyton (Famous Five, Secret Seven, Five Find-Outers, Mallory Towers), etc.

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You could go out and play.

I grew up in a multi-national environment and the kids taught each other various games from their countries. We had buried treasure, we had our own makeshift kitchen (where kids would bring recipes from their countries. That's where I first ate curry rice), etc.

In fact, there were so many things to do, that I could spend the whole day telling you about them.

Damn! You had a frigging good childhood, I'm jealous. On the other hand I'm profiling you and from what I see you grew up in some high brow area of Lagos.

Henry240:
Grand-Pa!



Sir, there's a book I'm also looking for, i can't remember the title of the book or Author (most have been Cyprian Ekwensi or Elechi Amadi).

I remember, the story was about a boy who met a man, a Northerner in the train. This man goes on to tell the boy or amaze the boy with stories of his adventures. I think the train was traveling from Lagos - Kano.


I would be glad if you can help me recall the title of the novel, i won't call it a proper novel, it's more like a story book. Just a few pages long.

Passport of Mallam Ilia by Uncle Cyprian Ekwensi.

makelove2m:
bend it again and get fired,....................

U must have passed summary with flying colours

Get a lawyer to write him a letter seeking mediation as an option, if he doesn't budge then sue his ugly as.s onigbese.

It was bound to happen, twas just a matter of time.

Op if you can accommodate that "thing" then Lagos state government has no use for fourth mainland bridge anymore.

As little an infection as it might seem, sore throat has the ability to effectively ruin your day with excruciating pain when swallowing.

iykekelvins:
[color=#099999]Lord Jesus, five rounds? Anty, you sef you can endure ooo.

What do u want to hear again? That your bf is dating u for sex is what you don't know.

Sister end the relationship or you can keep enduring because you "Love" him.[/color]

as funny as it sounds I think you are correct, the dude just wants to get all he can while he can, funny enough it's not a long distance relationship.

Op wake up, comman go and wash the plates

Guy is stupid, girl is "stupider"

Think there are some errors in that compilation, I guess festac is the most popular and the headquarters of Amuwo-odofin that's why they used FST.

I'm not surprised, well done guys.
I owe you one risky burger each.

In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914.

The great Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, the man most responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871, was quoted as saying at the end of his life that “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.” It went as he predicted.

The archduke traveled to Sarajevo in June 1914 to inspect the imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Ottoman territories in the turbulent Balkan region that were annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908 to the indignation of Serbian nationalists, who believed they should become part of the newly independent and ambitious Serbian nation. The date scheduled for his visit, June 28, coincided with the anniversary of the First Battle of Kosovo in 1389, in which medieval Serbia was defeated by the Turks. Despite the fact that Serbia did not truly lose its independence until the Second Battle of Kosovo in 1448, June 28 was a day of great significance to Serbian nationalists, and one on which they could be expected to take exception to a demonstration of Austrian imperial strength in Bosnia.

June 28 was also Franz Ferdinand’s wedding anniversary. His beloved wife, Sophie, a former lady-in-waiting, was denied royal status in Austria due to her birth as a poor Czech aristocrat, as were the couple’s children. In Bosnia, however, due to its limbo status as an annexed territory, Sophie could appear beside him at official proceedings. On June 28, 1914, then, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were touring Sarajevo in an open car, with surprisingly little security, when Serbian nationalist Nedjelko Cabrinovic threw a bomb at their car; it rolled off the back of the vehicle and wounded an officer and some bystanders. Later that day, on the way to visit the injured officer, the archduke’s procession took a wrong turn at the junction of Appel quay and Franzjosefstrasse, where one of Cabrinovic’s cohorts, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, happened to be loitering.

Seeing his opportunity, Princip fired into the car, shooting Franz Ferdinand and Sophie at point-blank range. Princip then turned the gun on himself, but was prevented from shooting it by a bystander who threw himself upon the young assassin. A mob of angry onlookers attacked Princip, who fought back and was subsequently wrestled away by the police. Meanwhile, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie lay fatally wounded in their limousine as it rushed to seek help; they both died within the hour.

The assassination of Franz-Ferdinand and Sophie set off a rapid chain of events: Austria-Hungary, like many in countries around the world, blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the question of Slav nationalism once and for all. As Russia supported Serbia, an Austro-Hungarian declaration of war was delayed until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention–which would likely involve Russia’s ally, France, and possibly Britain as well. On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the tenuous peace between Europe’s great powers collapsed. Within a week, Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Serbia had lined up against Austria-Hungary and Germany, and World War I had begun.

And then the pop up messages appear when you are receiving a call, next thing you know is you have clicked "ok" instead of cutting the call.

They will steal the cable and then start robbing people in the darkness they have created. At least now they will have a new home.

She's actively on duty, next stop is the other room

ifyalways:
Well, you can plead with him to move out seeing as you now disgust him. If he ever loved you and is humane enough, he should do that atleast for you but if he refuses, tough luck, try to co-exist as a room mate with him and please NEVER give him the cookie jar again.

Hahaha! And you believe that will happen? She better just sublet the place and get another accommodation, since the dude wants to get rid of her he should agree to it. Honestly I don't see them staying together for a year and it ain't gonna happen.

skarlett:
This is all spoof, can't believe people actually fell for this hogwash

I love intelligent ladies, not those that will copy this from NL and start broadcasting on whatsapp.

Let's go there explorers

The shoes really look nice, guys no look shoe again na the shoe maker them dey look

What is this? Is it another form of advertisement for land sellers? Useless news.

Did in 2014, can't let one useless human with a miserable life come and mess up my own.
A lot of Nigerians are living in bondage with High bp, insomnia and depression because of crazy "ogas". My advice is once you can't take it anymore, cut down on your spending and save for the next few months before leaving the ass.wipe to drown in his/her own misery.

Modified: also learn to use his wifi to search for other jobs (without getting caught)

Nice one explorers, you could also create a thread on K2, the world's second highest mountain in China.

Success is not sweet and well appreciated without a story of struggle and previous failures. This is just reality.

spawnx:
It is called a Gaboon viper.
Gaboon Viper
Common Name: Gaboon Viper or Gaboon Adder
Scientific Name: Bitis gabonica
GABOON VIPER
The largest African viper, this snake has a striking coloration and pattern that nevertheless offers it camouflage.

The gaboon viper ( Bitis gabonica ) is considered to produce more venom than any other venomous snake.

A single adult male may have enough venom to inject lethal doses into 30 individual men. Not only do they produce more venom than any other snake but they also inject more deeply.

Although sluggish and docile by nature, Gaboons are unpredictable and capable of great speed in short bursts making them extremely dangerous

you just took me back to 300L Zoology class. Nice!

The land is green.