Sir, it just so happened that I wasn't granted permission to mention or even quote you on your other thread- the one in the diary section but then, I have decided to ask the question that I was meaning to ask on the other thread right here.
And it goes thus: You made mention of a certain General Dogonyaro on that thread. Now, I know there were a lot of officers in the NA who went by the name Dogonyaro in those years. But is this particular General Dogonyaro in any way the same as Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro?
NB: I would definitely be doing a follow up reading on General Quainoo. An acquaintance of my father's once labelled him as nothing 'more than a sellout' in the ECOMOG cause.
Do you think there is a slight chance that he was bought over by the bad guys to scuttle ECOMOG's Ops in Liberia or something?
Yes, Lieutenant General Joshua Dogonyaro.
I just realised that the link to General Iweze's interview is dead. Luckily I saved the text of the interview somewhere else. I'm going to post it on my diary.
In my opinion it was a very silly idea to begin with.
NIN registration may be suspended to avoid spreading Covid-19 – Mamora, Health Minister
ON JANUARY 11, 202111:45 AM
Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, Minister of State for Health, Monday said that the ongoing registration and National Identification Number enrolment may be suspended due to the rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country.
As at yesterday, 100,087 cases have been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). 1358 are reported dead since Coronavirus stormed Nigeria on February, 2020. Also, about 80,030 persons have been treated and discharged.
On Sunday 10, 2021, NCDC confirmed 1,544 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
This however is a wake-up call to all Nigerian that Covid-19 is real. In other to stem the spread, Mamora while playing host on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme today, said it would be wise if NIN enrolment and registration is suspended.
His words: “I don’t feel good looking at the picture where people are gathered in multitude; it’s like a super-spreader event which we don’t like. But I’m also aware that the relevant ministry which is the communications and digital economy is looking at this.
“My understanding is that the whole process may be suspended so as to reorder the whole process in terms of management of the crowd because it was never intended that it would become a rowdy process like that.
“We have a duty as government to ensure that people are protected; we also have a duty to ensure people comply within the limit of what is good for the society at large.”
joseph1832: Nope. Somewhere in Ikeja where it's safe and sound and discipline is enforced.
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.
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: baba good evening sir... can you please tell us a story on how you survived without phones back then??
naptu2: Telephone service was provided by P&T (Posts And Telecoms) which became Nitel in 1985. There were area codes - Ikoyi was 68, Victoria Island was 61, Lagos Island was 62, Festac was 88, Ikeja was 97, etc.
You had to wait for a dialling tone before you could make a call. We were lucky, the government paid our phone bill.
There were huge telephone books (1978, 1979, 1982 and 1983) and you could find people's phone numbers with the telephone books.
Some short codes were 199 (emergency), 198 (speaking clock), but I can't remember what the ring back short code was.
You had to book international calls with the operator.
shakablaiize: yes sir about the phone book i found one in my dad's wardrobe when i asked him if he knew every body in the book... he smiled and said you won't understand my son...i was much younger tho.... mehn life much have been really boring without internet
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.
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.
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.
Sports
I played football, basketball, tennis, rounders, baseball, cricket and table tennis. I watched, but did not play, rugby.
You could go to Ikoyi Club to hang out.
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.
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.
The Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has sent a message of congratulations to the newly elected President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Professor George Obiozor on his victory at today's election in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Governor Ikpeazu described Professor Obiozor's election as a "watershed" in Igboland judging from the overwhelming support he enjoyed at the election.
According to the Governor, "Professor Obiozor's election comes at a time when the Igbos are in desperate search for consistent strong leadership which will galvanize us into a solid voice in national affairs. Professor Obiozor's pedigree is unquestionable and his records,
unassailable. His reach is wide and his integrity, solid. I am confident that with his long years of experience in public service, especially his expertise in managing the challenges inherent in complex diplomatic relations,
Professor Obiozor is well suited for the challenges that face the Igbos in a united Nigeria. Governor Ikpeazu also warmly congratulates the rest of the members of newly elected Executive Committee of Ohaneze Ndigbo, especially the two sons of Abia State, Ambassador Okey Emuchay
who emerged the new Secretary General and Dr. Kingsley Dozie Lawrence who emerged the Vice President General of the organization. Governor Ikpeazu urged them to be be good ambassadors of the State at the organization.
The Governor assured the new leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo of the continued support of the people and Government of Abia State in their assignment and thanked the outgone President General, Chief John Nnia Nwodo for his services to the Igbo nation.
Sir Onyebuchi Ememanka Chief Press Secretary to the Governor. 10th January, 2021.
FILEBE: 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.
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.
The song was written by Wole Soyinka in the 1970s and it was used by Tunji Oyelana in a stage play. Tunji Oyelana also adapted the song for his hit TV sitcom "Sura Di Tailor".
The actual name is "Etika Revo Wetin?" (taken from a government campaign called Ethical Revolution).
It was later released in an album called "Unlimited Liability Company"
Wole Soyinka featuring Tunji Oyelana and the Benders - Etika Revo Wetin? (I Love My Country) (1983).
naptu2: Wow! I almost missed this anniversary! RN2 (yes, I still call it RN2) is 40 years old today!
From NBC2 (Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation 2) in Ikoyi, to Radio Nigeria 2 (RN2) on Martins Street, to Metro FM in Ikoyi again.
It used to be on 97.6, then it moved to 97.7 in the early 2000s.
This station introduced me to Sonny Irabor, Joseph Akinyemi Johnson (J.A.J), Boniface Onogwu, Vin-Martin Ilo, Momoh Kubanje, Willy Egbe, Ohi Alegbe, Jones Usen, Ihria Enakhimio, Aloma Nwogbe, Godwin Asuquo, Ndidi Osaka, Femi Sowoolu, Phil Ushie, Jim Lawson Maduike and many other fantastic broadcasters.
I suspect that it's the first FM station in Nigeria.
Politics › Re: Yusuf Gagdi Inspects Nigerian Navy's New Warship Under Construction In UAE by naptu2(op): 9:12pm On Jan 11, 2021
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).
