Lilimax:
In the late 80's I was still in Secondary school but usually .

Bodeem:
I remember running home after 3 o'clock closing hour so as not to miss my favorite cartoons on TV

There was nothing like satellite TV which meant we watched more contents on local TV. You go to school the following day to gist with friends about the episodes.

Christmas was much fun, we visited friends and families on Christmas day and eat to your satisfaction

There was nothing like phone so whenever my dad goes to work , I stay outside all night till he comes back. Make I no lie anytime its getting so late around 10pm and he's not back I start thinking of bad things like he was kidnapped or had an accident . The more it gets late, the more i get worried and when i finally see his peageot 504 headlamp shining from afar, there js this relief thay engolfs me instantly.. May his gentle soul rest in peace, he passed on last year.

Teachers and parents beat the hell out of you, they were more ruthless than what we have now.

Our soldiers (army) back then used to be very skinny infact na khaki dey wear them no be them dey wear khaki but the fear they commanded back then is far more than what we have today.

Oh did I forget Mr biggs toilets? When you enter Mr biggs toilet, you find phone numbers painted on the wall. They obviously belong to people looking for love.

Muhylonaire007:
Hmmm......
We can't name them all, the indomie generation really missed. They missed when we still have culture, traditions, norms and beliefs, what we have now is the imitation of the western world.

If only we can go back in time, but unfortunately we can't.

Abufo:




so you do not even remember the days of 1979 election! UPN and NPP.........with their danfo campaign vehicles! even before then the days of the Igbo Lagos military Governors.....Cppmander Kanu and Captain Ukiwe, say what you want about Obasanjo,you simply cannot take away his true nationalistic disposition,he was the one that appointed those solid Igbo men to Govern Lagos!!...wonderful Yoruba man!!! As for Freestuff I do not blame you,you are just an immature man....so you do not even know of the days of Mobolaji johnsonas Governor of Lagos ...chai see the babies I am contending with on Nairaland!

airsaylongcome:


We had Guava trees in front of our GRA residence and had become bored of climbing them. Their branches were not as strong and the trees were not as tall as say mango or "ebelebor". So climbing these other ones were more "fun" and risqué. We learned to take aim and throw a stick at a fruit located were no man dare climbed to. Today I don't even think children have seen those fruits grow on a tree.

Chno:
In the 80s my pops was still using his old rickety Mercedes car to woo my mom who was playing hard to get

Officialmrt:

You are my passion for life

Skyview01:


Na my childhood you summarized so. Now we don old finish!

Cantonese:


Talking always rubbish.

War against indiscipline (WAI) came under baba go slow. The baba who put Nigerians into absolute misery, who your likes supported for eight years. A terrible leader, with no idea of how proper nations are run. Thankfully he has gone back to what he professionally does well - looking after cows. His regime was very horrible between 1983 Dec 31 and 1985 Aug 27. Nigerians suffered terrible humiliation in the hands of soldiers. Warehouses of business people were broken into, goods sold off by soldiers in the presence that they were hoarding essential commodities. Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief, just like this year, when IBB removed him.

...

Marwa flushed away all the agberos with operation sweep between 1996 and 1998. They ran away from bus stops. Ask any Lagosian of that period. Marwa chased away herdsmen from the streets of Lagos. He chased them away from agbo malu, at marine beach Ajegunle, to the present Oko Oba, Agege. Your baba became the governor of Lagos state in 1999 and agberos returned to rule with him.

randymirrors:


Haha don't think so too. They don't play outdoor games either.

Lol..we are all girls so we only climbed guava trees😂. Another reason I didn't fly kites😂.

Can't remember much about the riots cos I was a kiddie then.

absoluteSuccess:


Omo, childhood seems like a different lifetime other than this one. I wish I could relive the childhood and enjoy what I didn't do.

I really felt happy this morning dreaming about childhood and thinking in the dream that I was not dreaming.

UrennaNkoli:

We were buying goldspot for 15 naira

airsaylongcome:


Back then you could "smell" harmattan in the air and know that Christmas was coming. Cotton seeds would drift from the north all the way to the deep south and we would run around trying to catch them

absoluteSuccess:


WOW, do you mean that thing we used to call fojufoju is actually cotton seed?

KingAzubuike:


Source

ConfidentialDoc:



Goldspot made by Femstar nig ltd.

Mrtaye:

OP you forgot to mention Channels TV and Clapperboard TV.....I used to stay up late in the night to watch a war series"Tour of duty" on channels TV that year....oh the good ole days

KingAzubuike:


Source

airsaylongcome:


Buhari 1984 regime and EssenCo is the primary reason I can never ever ever ever ever support him. He was a mad man. I was a kid then but I remember that period of EssenCo. His soldiers brutalized Nigerians. To buy milk was war. Soldiers flogged Nigerians like how cows were flogged. For essentials like milk and sugar. His silly WAI Brigade were a different kind of beast

BigBlackPreek:
There was this popular American TV program"PASSION" I use to it watch around 2002 , I was 10 at that year.

The main subjects of the program was a kid boy staying with his strict granny

She was so tough on him that she hardly let him play with other kids outside their house

The boy do get upset many times and granny wasn't given in at all.

Very interesting program for kiddies way back then

The granny should be around 65-70 at that time and kid boy should be between 9 and 11.

How time flies

airsaylongcome:


What in the name of all that is good and holy would have made you girls climb tree 😂. Girls didn't wear shorts or trousers them and "bad" boys had a field day "looking under".

postigar:
People of God
As way back 91,92,93, there was already satellite dish and cable network we used to watch captain planet, space ghost, thunder the barbarian, jossie and the pussy cat, centurions(power extreme), Mr T, the Flintstones, He-man, Thundercats and many more am still trying to remember.

Then there were game consoles already out then by that period
There was family computer, Sega drive, the was nitendo(Ness) and super nitendo(sness)

Then if you owned any of this game consoles your parents were topnotch and if u guys had cable TV then. Then few years later CTL came out

Was very fortunate to have most of these while growing up

Cantonese:


Nigerians have really suffered in the hands of the man. Children this time suffered what their parents suffered at the hands of the man.

Painfully some still say “make we suffer now to enjoy in the future”. Nigerians were known for enjoyment. Now they are known for suffering and hardship.

postigar:
People of God
As way back 91,92,93, there was already satellite dish and cable network we used to watch captain planet, space ghost, thunder the barbarian, jossie and the pussy cat, centurions(power extreme), Mr T, the Flintstones, He-man, Thundercats and many more am still trying to remember.

Then there were game consoles already out then by that period
There was family computer, Sega drive, the was nitendo(Ness) and super nitendo(sness)

Then if you owned any of this game consoles your parents were topnotch and if u guys had cable TV then. Then few years later CTL came out

Was very fortunate to have most of these while growing up

airsaylongcome:


That's what I was told as a kid o. Those things that had a small brown seed at the bottom with white "hairs" at the top. Na cotton dem tell us. And it will forever remain as cotton for me

randymirrors:


Hahahaha. Can't tell. But Guava trees were easy to climb then. Climb and somersault on them.