₦airaland Forum

Osariemen12:
Don't have an idea of what that is.



Is that a bird's nest?

Dear Gen z.
If you hear or read about about loot or looting of the national Treasury by Abacha, that stove is one of the effects. Somehow, it is similar to today's economy hardships from sophisticated looting of savings from subsidy removal by Tinubu. Whenever, he too leaves office and hidden truth is coming out, something to remember him for ongoing looting we come up as well, to be nickname after him.

My mum used it . At first it was free and in abundance, later we paid for it and became scarce. I remember we used to stay back at the saw mill to pack the newly saw dust from the saw machine when the scarcity took turns. Tinubu shege na small fraction compared to Abacha own.

May we never experience such again. amen

Iya Tolu, my distant uncle's maiguard wife used it.

It brings fumes and it irritates the lungs. Sometimes I cough violently.

Poverty brings out the creativity in people.

Wow.

I appreciate.

delpee:
Nah! Not for those of us who experienced his rule first hand. Just that the economy was still a bit strong but we were being terrorised into submission against our collective will for true democracy. We couldn't even express our views freely in public spaces after a while for fear of being picked up or....Long story!

We witness am ooo🤣

pejuakinab:
My eyes saw shege that year
Oluwa was still in controll all thesame

you straff that time?

gaskiyamagana:
Dear Gen z.
If you hear or read about about loot or looting of the national Treasury by Abacha, that stove is one of the effects. Somehow, it is similar to today's economy hardships from sophisticated looting of savings from subsidy removal by Tinubu. Whenever, he too leaves office and hidden truth is coming out, something to remember him for ongoing looting we come up as well, to be nickname after him.

Unfortunately, I don't belong Gen z. Still, I don't know anything about this antique vessel.

Thank you for your explanations though.

peterjero:
Bros not fun memory abeg

That's your opinion and you are fully entitled to it. For me it was so much fun, from plucking guavas on our way to the saw mill, to playing mopol at the saw mill compound, playing hide and seek behind heavy logs of timber. Rushing and scooping saw dust and wood shafts, washing the saw mill workers using manual jacks to haul and roll heavy logs of timbers, watching how a man manned saw will first slice the logs to board, then the other saw will slice the boards to 2X4, 2X3, etc. Such type of saw mills no longer exist in my locality.

We used it at home, truly those were the darkest days.

Buharidgeneral:
... Even the saw dust wasn't free then. Na buy. Eye don see shege

I didn’t use it but this your comment is a lie, Nigerians didn’t start selling everything until late 2000. Things like sawdust’s, wood shavings, etc... were free almost everywhere, you just got to go to the sawmills on time and beg their securities to allow you pack as many as you want. It’s a waste to them, so they need people to come and pack it.

unitysheart:
My family had been using gas stove that period. Na wetin save us from kerosene scarcity and abacha stove be that.

funny enough, gas was cheap that time oo. Economics says the lower the demand of a commodity, the lesser the price of that commodity. I think there was just this fear of explosion that was created in people that made people avoid it like a plague.

Jakarta:
That's your opinion and you are fully entitled to it. For me it was so much fun, from plucking guavas on our way to the saw mill, to playing mopol at the saw mill compound, playing hide and seek behind heavy logs of timber. Rushing and scooping saw dust and wood shafts, washing the saw mill workers using manual jacks to haul and roll heavy logs of timbers, watching how a man manned saw will first slice the logs to board, then the other saw will slice the boards to 2X4, 2X3, etc. Such type of saw mills no longer exist in my locality.

even when I didn’t do any of those, all these things makes childhood fun. You are a real G.

Datedoboy:
Despite Abacha stove and Abacha loot, Nigeria was far better then compared with now. I remember I took 5naira as pocket money to school asides my food box and I enjoyed it. I bought coke for 10 Naira. With Coca-Cola company giving us free drinks when you check under the cover. Now that Abacha is no longer in power why are things worst than when Abacha was in power?

I don't think Abacha was as bad as they made us believe. If bread can be 10 Naira under Abacha who was seen as bad, how come that same bread is 400 Naira under a good government ? Or is someone deceiving us?

Investment that should have been done to make the future better was left undone and the money was stolen so the consequence is what we are facing today. If nothing is done again today,in the nearest future when our population has increase exponentially, today's economy will be like child's play compare to that time. Imagine we have built like 5 functioning refinery and the whole country is linked by fast trains and so many great infrastructures things would been better now but few people stole all the funds.

Faith0:
First time seeing it anyways

Haa
It was terrible

Love800:
I thought abacha was the best president in Nigeria as they said.

I laugh

Countless strike, deaths, assassinations

fxdee:
I used it when i was growing up around 1983-1987. my house was very close to a sawmill and it was easier for us getting saw dust .we used it to cook beans mainly on Saturdays but not because we were suffering then sha..it was just basically childhood experiences...

Under Abacha, you must use because there was no kerosene

unitysheart:
My family had been using gas stove that period. Na wetin save us from kerosene scarcity and abacha stove be that.

same here too. I remember the Eazy cooker gas cooker. Na that thing save us too.
I dey always smile when I see ppl calling for military takeover in Nigeria, they dont know the evil they are inviting.

I don’t believe in God. Thank nature for being born in the family I landed in. I used stoves only in my university days because of cost cutting. Every other time, gas cookers. My mother sometimes used firewood in a bid to claim “you children grew up soft. This was how it was done in my time.” Body dey quickly tell am. She dropped the act after four days of continuous use.

Sonnobax15:

Abacha that year cha

The man after devil's heart herself

The day this dude's death broke out,many men couldn't perform with their wives cuz many of them drank to stupor out of joy



As for the stove,I didn't see it,cuz not everybody was broke then

It wasn't about brokeness as many people were not actually broke then
But because of the strike by Nupeng and other oil workers you can't even get kerosene to buy so most people resorted to Abacha stove which uses saw dust

Kaiii, kudos to Nigerians,
Nigerians don stuff for different wicked government hands oooo

If Nigerians can survive Abacha government an his stove, no any wicked government we Nigerians can never survive.



May God Almighty continue to be out straight to shame them.

Biodun556:
I think it was around 1994/95

There was no kerosene for long time, people had to devise means by using saw dust with paint containers

this cooks faster than gas or firewood and you dare not leave your food unattended or else,it will burn

Buharidgeneral:
... Even the saw dust wasn't free then. Na buy. Eye don see shege

it was free

There is nothing wrong with it.
I feel bad as an engineer not to have modified it and make it available for use in households rather than destroying our forests and making charcoal.


I am taking that challenge and research into it. We just burn saw dust away in our sawmills over the nation wasting resources.

The north has always brought the worst of their stock to rule this country. Abacha,Buhari etc. I will exclude yaradua

Sonnobax15:

Abacha that year cha

The man after devil's heart herself

The day this dude's death broke out,many men couldn't perform with their wives cuz many of them drank to stupor out of joy



As for the stove,I didn't see it,cuz not everybody was broke then

Abacha stove was not as a result of being broke. It was due to unavailability of kerosene to power the normal stove. This was at a time that NUPENG and PENGASSAN were on strike for like 3 months. Nigerians saw hell.

Wunna00097:
quote author=press9jatv post=138173093] people are still using it till today. I experienced it too. GenZ will never know it
GenZ here, I well damn know it

na lie you dey lie

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Sonnobax15:

Abacha that year cha
The man after devil's heart herself
The day this dude's death broke out,many men couldn't perform with their wives cuz many of them drank to stupor out of joy
As for the stove,I didn't see it,cuz not everybody was broke then

It's not "Abacha Stove".

It existed well before Abacha. I know this Stove. It was used in villages in my area.

However, one thing I remember well, was people going to cut living trees, soak them in diesel fuel, and use them for cooking. It was on the news.

I also remembered the smelly, chemical petrol.

Came across it .. but didn't witness it ..


We no use am for your side...

Oakenshield:
it was free

I'm surprised seeing his comment that it was not free . Because then , it was as if we were doing the sawmillers favour by packing the sawdusts . It was a hard time ###

Biodun556:
I think it was around 1994/95

There was no kerosene for long time, people had to devise means by using saw dust with paint containers

Both the rich and poor experienced it - it was a result of the demonic sanctions of the collective west on Nigeria at the time, the same tool they use till date to limit countries growth and complete liberty. There are outright sanctions, tariffs and systemic sanctions placed on goods camouflaged as standards.

Those era was tough, army picks people up as they want- as a young boy, passing in front of Ojo barracks at the time or Signal barracks (Mile 2) was scary. They can even come to the next bus stop, move people to their gate to start picking papers, or cutting grass. There were older men that they would punish, make you do frog jump every morning. You literally cannot question the military anywhere....As soon as i gained admission into LASU at the time, we used every opportunity to fight back, every soldier caught in our own school gate area too get beaten. That era was hellish......this indomie generation can never understand...... Refilling your gas was more expensive than the minimum wage at the time...... Many families could not even afford kerosene, only the rich use gas. The average families could only afford room & parlor in a face me i slap you compound. Most toilets were latrines or pit toilet, where will you see WC.

as lekki boy that year









i no smell am at all due to



i be abacha cousin