If you grew up as a Nigerian kid in the 80s and 90s, you can surely relate to this. Fondest memories.

Please share your 80s and 90s Christmas experiences as a kid.

Few days preceding Christmas, we used to shoot toy guns with pipes gotten from old abandoned refrigerators. This was before knockouts and bangers were introduced. We would add the head of a matchstick and fire with a loud sound. Some kids used to dig the ground to make a particular spoon shape and pour hot led gotten from condemned battery to make a loud sounding device called 'Agadagbo'. Old Bendel kids can relate.

Innocent kids when there was no smartphone.

All those things you mentioned are still available,but location matters.

Back then, There’s this card that is called promise card. The card contains list of gifts like money, sweet, biscuits, caprisun juice, dress, shoe etc. When Christmas is approaching, I used to carry the card around to school, church, neighbor’s house and even visitors so they could tick any gift they wish to give me on Christmas Day.

Some will fulfill their promises while some won’t. It was really fun as a kid.

Sure

Power Rangers squad ready to destroy enemy jollof rice and Limca.

The short comrade in black suit is the real MVP on this parade

Good old days

No be lie...

I just came across a similar photo we took way back in the 90's,on an Xmas day......

Even the coat wey me and my brothers wear make me laugh so hard . I wonder who taught those tailors and seamstresses those award winning styles

Gone are those days cha............I remember the first Xmas when my father bought fancy shoes for us instead of our regular sandals....Out of over excitement,I brought it out to show off to my friends...... Unfortunately little did I know my father was busy watching me all those while, from upstairs .......That was how a huge knock landed in my head and he also ended up seizing the shoes.....

Abi na those times wey we go stroll go our aunts and uncles houses . And settle down chop stew rice,cuz jollof rice and fried rice wasn't common as at then... At the end,na who we visit him/her Uncles dormot pass wey give us money go get the highest amount of money when the money is being shared

Jeon:
All those things you mentioned are still available,but location matters.

I haven't seen them in years.

Sonnobax15:

No be lie...

I just came across a similar photo we took way back in the 90's,on an Xmas day......

Even the coat wey me and my brothers wear make me laugh so hard . I wonder who taught those tailors and seamstresses those award winning styles

Gone are those days cha............I remember the first Xmas when my father bought fancy shoes for us instead of our regular sandals....Out of over excitement,I brought it out to show off to my friends...... Unfortunately little did I know my father was busy watching me all those while, from upstairs .......That was how a huge knock landed in my head and he also ended up seizing the shoes.....

Abi na those times wey we go stroll go our aunts and uncles houses . And settle down chop stew rice,cuz jollof rice and fried rice wasn't common as at then... At the end,na who we visit him/her Uncles dormot pass wey give us money go get the highest amount of money when the money is being shared

Your mind dey there my bro.

When men were boys.

There is this racket that you would fill up with the powder from matches head, and use a nail to press it down, then you slam it against the wall to give a loud bang. This was before bangers and knockouts.....

Good old days when one had nothing to worry about as kids........

Rapmoney:


I haven't seen them in years.

Example, Those eyeglasses are still available in Market.

Some kids used to dig the ground to make a particular spoon shape

Unless you don't visit a nearby schoolz. Kids still dig ground even in a compound with sands.

Jeon:


Example, Those eyeglasses are still available in Market.


Unless you don't visit a nearby school. Kids still dig ground even in a compound with sands.

OK. I thought you were talking about the toy guns that came before knockouts and bangers.

Rapmoney:


OK. I thought you were talking about the toy guns that came before knockouts and bangers.

Still available, not like exactly a pipe from a fridge.




But who will waste that when everything is costly.

we used to shoot toy guns with pipes gotten from old Abandoned refrigerators.

Everything is cashable now.Your abandoned fridge can still give you 💵.

This was during when Nigeria was in a good shape before yellowbar Muslims came and scattered the whole country through tribalism and religious bigotry, today the country is now in total collapse regressing backwards.

I missed those days, 😁😁😁

Toy handset and watch nko?

You see that small odogwu on coattsuitblaze he's now a big man in china town.

ahnie:
You see that small odogwu on coattsuitblaze he's now a big man in china town.

ahnie i can sight you in that picture.

Hahaha

JONSYN7154:
ahnie i can sight you in that picture.

Hahaha

JONSYN7154:
ahnie i can sight you in that picture.

Hahaha

Those days with awa rubber pink wristwatch and eyeglasses and disco light canvas.

Oh Lord I want to go back to being a child

ahnie:



Those days with awa rubber pink wristwatch and eyeglasses and disco light canvas.

Oh Lord I want to go back of being a child

those days are better than now.

What a good reminiscence.

That was when people trusted and genuinely loved. No fear of anyone poisoning your child or children who went visiting.
Not in this era anymore,my brother. People are living in fear of their relatives.

Sonnobax15:

No be lie...

I just came across a similar photo we took way back in the 90's,on an Xmas day......

Even the coat wey me and my brothers wear make me laugh so hard . I wonder who taught those tailors and seamstresses those award winning styles

Gone are those days cha............I remember the first Xmas when my father bought fancy shoes for us instead of our regular sandals....Out of over excitement,I brought it out to show off to my friends...... Unfortunately little did I know my father was busy watching me all those while, from upstairs .......That was how a huge knock landed in my head and he also ended up seizing the shoes.....

Abi na those times wey we go stroll go our aunts and uncles houses . And settle down chop stew rice,cuz jollof rice and fried rice wasn't common as at then... At the end,na who we visit him/her Uncles dormot pass wey give us money go get the highest amount of money when the money is being shared

amnesty7:
Yes!

Yes wetin?

Na u dey 4 front?

lol here is something as a reminder , birthday in my compound 1992,who can spot me in this pic?

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We were always fighting for who to go and give one Uncle Kelvin and his wife food(they were the most generous neighbors).

Then the excitement of showing off your new oversized cloth .
You will wake up 20times before dawn to check it, make them no tiff or rough am .

Good memories.

I remember playing Duke nukem on my GBA then after I would proceed to watch danger mouse . I was mostly introverted as a child, I didn't interact with other kids nor did I go out to play, just stayed at home with my house help looking over me while my parents are at work .


Pic of me as a kid in early 90

234GT:
When men were boys.

There is this racket that you would fill up with the powder from matches head, and use a nail to press it down, then you slam it against the wall to give a loud bang. This was before bangers and knockouts.....

Good old days when one had nothing to worry about as kids........

where did you grow up