airsaylongcome: In hindsight, do you think it was "fun" living through that and watching history unfold? I had very fun imaginations of Dodan Barracks. Moved to Lagos in 98 and lived off Awolowo Road in Ikoyi. I was so deflated when I saw the Obalende back entry points to what was (in my mind), the great Dodan Barracks. I was so disappointed and let down.
That's because Dodan Barracks is made up of many different things.
I remember how difficult it was to explain this to people in the 1980s. Some people thought that the president lived in a regular army barracks.
There was State House Ribadu Road (that's the Presidency).
There were 2 sections of Dodan Barracks (the army barracks)
There was Mopol 2
Etc.
It was fun when you look back at it, but it wasn't as much fun on the day. It was more surreal. I couldn't understand why people were doing normal things like playing football and delivering newspapers when there was a war not far away.
They won't understand that Pastor Kris Okotie made great music like this.
naptu2: I HAVE FOUND IT!!! I HAVE FOUND IT!!! I HAVE FOUND IT!!!
This is a momentous occasion! It is an epoch making event! Wow!
This is the song that I have written about on this thread countless times. This is the song that I have been searching for! I couldn't remember its name and I couldn't remember if it was by Kris Okotie or Jide Obi, but this is the song! This is the song!
Unfortunately the video doesn't get to the end of the song, but I don't care. This is the song!
Kris Okotie - I'm Going Now (1979)
naptu2: ♪Ah! I came from far away now just to set my eyes on you. I felt the apprehension as soon as I was landing I knew something was wrong and I couldn't get my heart's desire
Ah! I came from far away now just to set my eyes on you. I know you made me cry once, no, even twice I knew something was wrong and I couldn't get my heart's desire
Ah! I came from far away now just to set my eyes on you. I felt the apprehension as soon as I was landing I knew something was wrong and I couldn't get my heart's desire
But I'm living my life now just to make you my own I'm leaving all these things just to do what you say I'll leave you with my love if you give me your love I'll give you everything now just to get my heart's desire
Ah! I came from far away now just to set my eyes on you. I felt the apprehension as soon as I was landing I knew something was wrong and I couldn't get my heart's desire
I'm going now, I'm going now, I'm going (Don't go oh oh) But my heart breaks♫
naptu2: I came from far away now just to set my eyes on you.
airsaylongcome: We weren't in Lagos so didn't have the "luxury" of being thrilled by the "bombs over the Dodan". We got wind of it by 8am in the morning when we suddenly started hearing martial music on the radio. I didn't really understand what martial music was or meant. But my parents had been coup "veterans" having experienced Gowon, Mohammed, Buhari and Babangida coups. So they knew what's up immediately and we ran back home
Unfortunately I lived a few streets from State House and had to witness the fighting.
naptu2: Aha! Dear diary, this is what I wanted to show you the last time I posted about Bugsy Malone. I've finally found it!
1) Look at their cars. Look closely at their cars. What's making the cars move? (Don't worry if you didn't see it, cos I'm still going to look for a better video, but in the meantime, look at their legs when they are in the cars).
One day I'll find the theme song for Kwagh-Hir, the fantastic puppet and masquerade show from Benue.
naptu2: That song! The song that the band is playing right now was the theme tune for Giant in The Sun, a programme that was shown on the NTA in the mid-1980s. I wish I knew the title and the lyrics.
I typed the lyrics of Is It Good To You a few days ago and it included the line, "My main man did it in Charles In Charge". Charles In Charge was a sitcom that Scott Baio starred in. It aired from 1984-1990.
Now I'm watching "See Dad Run" (2012-2015), another sitcom that Scott Baio acted in and I decided to Google him because I was trying to remember the name of another sitcom that he acted in (Happy Days 1977-1984) and I discover that he was Bugsy Malone!
I've posted about Bugsy Malone many times on this thread (It's one of my favourite childhood movies), but for those who don't know, Bugsy Malone was a 1976 mafia comedy. All the parts were played by children (including 13 year old Jodie Foster). Their machine guns fired whipped cream and their cars had pedals.
naptu2: Their Thompson sub-machine guns (Tommy guns) fired custard, their cars had bicycle pedals and were propelled by human power and they had massive cream pie fights. This is the first Jodie Foster movie that I ever watched (she was just 13 when she acted in this film).
Bugsy Malone
(I think they mashed up the names Bugsy Siegel, Moran and Al Capone).
naptu2: This is the Binatone Tv Master. I don't even know when we got it.
I remember realising one day that this thing had been in my house for as long as I could remember and I didn't even know what it was.
That's when I began experimenting and investigating and I discovered that it was a video game. Can you believe that this thing could work on the gigantic black and white TV as well as the colour TV??
This is the only game that I remember. It's tennis.
This was the second game console (1984/1985). I'll show you the first in a minute.
naptu2: This is the Atari 2600 and this was my favourite game.
It's called Maze Craze.
Basically, you were cops and you were trying to get out of the maze while also trying to avoid the criminals.
The game was usually played by two people (there were two cops) and there were two or more criminals. You can increase the speed of the criminals and there were several difficulty settings.
The person that played the game in this video kind of ruined it because he kept changing the maze. There are settings that can make either the entire maze or part of it to be invisible. I usually played it with the maze completely visible.
naptu2: This is the Spiderman game. The objective is quite simple. You are to try to climb to the top of the skyscraper. You win the game if you get to the top.
You gain extra points if you save the people at the window. You lose lives if you are hit by the bombs in the windows. I don't see it here, but I remember that there was a goblin that also threw bombs at you.
You can climb up the building and you can also spin webs and swing up the building, but you've got to be careful because your webs are finite. It could finish while you are trying to swing and you'd fall to the ground and lose a life.
naptu2: This is the most famous game ever created by mankind.
It was so popular that it even had its own 7up advert.
The objective is to go through the maze and eat the squares and numbers in order to get points while avoiding the ghosts that can kill you. The number of ghosts increase as you advance in the game.
naptu2: These were all continuity announcers on NTA2 Channel 5 (back when we had "duty continuity announcers).
Efunsheke Merriman-Johnson was my favourite. She's from the Merriman-Johnson family of Lagos/Sierra Leone. She had absolutely perfect diction.
Patrick Ugbe was a baby-faced announcer on NTA2 Channel 5. He later became the Commissioner of Information in Cross River State (either in the Donald Duke administration or the military government before it). I hear that he is now the MD of a radio station in Cross River State.
Shola Adewunmi was also a continuity announcer on NTA2 Channel 5. He disappeared and reappeared on AIT in 1996 and then disappeared again.
Geena Ikpe is the youngest of them. She became a continuity announcer in 1990 or 1991. I think she still works at the NTA and her name is now Geena Udeme-Etuk.
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.
I congratulate my brother, the Deputy Governor of Edo State, @HonPhilipShaibu on his 54th birthday.
I thank him immensely for his support in the course of our drive for the development of our State in the last seven years.
I also acknowledge the energy and vigour he has brought to bear as this administration embarked on the onerous task of bringing transformational change and development to Edo State.
Alongside making these contributions to this administration, he has remained an exemplary husband, father and a great family man.
I celebrate him today and wish him many more years in good health and sound mind.
Congratulations.
His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki, Governor, Edo State
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