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60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Savigne(f): 11:17pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
They taught their new friends games and songs from their communities and also learnt new ones from them. There were a couple of other things experienced by a handful of the older generation of Nigerians that kids of these days will never know about. Let’s take a quick look at the list of games/things that made our childhood memorable. Games: 1. War start 2. Who Is In the Garden? A little small fine girl/boy 3. Police And Thief 4. Hide and seek 5. Ten Ten 6. In and Out, together 7. Obi, chikaobi, obi out 8. Suwe game 9. Tinco Tinco 10. Change your style 11. Oga 12. Swear 13. Pion Pion Pion (gun sound) 14. Skipping 15. Mr Marcaroni 16. Mummy & Daddy play Songs: 17. Tin tin tin fly away, fly away. 18. Kpoju Kpoju mo, o, akara mo, o. 19. Sandalili Sandalili 20. Cheke leke give me one better finger 21. Amina, amina tauro, a lazy girl 22. My kone kone, my jack ass, my enemy 23. Who thief my needle? danger 24. Oh Maria 25. Who sabi swim water? I sabi swim water 26. Tinini tanana tico obi am ma 27. Woman by the railway, basket on her head 28. My mother told me, that she will buy me, another dolly . . . Stories: 29. Eze goes to school 30. Ali and Simbi 31. Agbo and Gbenga 32. Edet and Mr Bassey 33. Emeka, Kunle and Wakama 34. Ralia Movies: 35. Sakobi The Snake Girl 36. Votron 37. Nneka The Pretty Serpent 38. Power Rangers 39. Willi Willi 40. Jagwa 41. Atom Ant 42. Tales by Moon Night 43. Ruth and Rachel 44. I Need To know Other Activities/Trends 45. We used our feet to build house with sand 46. Used 50 Kobo to buy Choco milo, Goody Goody and Nasco biscuit 47. Wore Akwaoche material (carpenter’s chair material) 48. Lined up in school for inspection of nails and uniforms before marching to our classroomsi 49. The days of Computer Socks, kitto sandals and basket shoes 50. We used to fly kites made from paper and broom sticks 51. Use paint bucket cover as wheels & disfigured hanger as steering or with tire and stick. 52. Used rubber band for stock exchange 53. Used mineral bottle cocks as football players 54. Used Eleganza pen 55. Drank iced colored water tied in nylon in the name of ice cream 56. Cooked play play food using flowers, sticks and millipedes and then pretended to eat it through the throat. 57. Drank Soda water, Ginger Air and Crush 58. Drank Water directly from the tap and even suck it out of the tap if it wasn’t running. 59. Waited for NTA to show rainbow colour for 30 minutes, then the national anthem, before showing any programme on the avilable Black and White TV 60. Bathed naked under the rain. If you are smiling right now you probably had a memorable childhood with the above experiences, but if you don’t get the joke, it means you were born just yesterday. Culled from Buzz Nigeria... So Nairalanders come and start confessing,which ones did you do? 1 Like |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Favolly(f): 11:18pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
All |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Savigne(f): 11:20pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Favolly:Haba...How can you say you did all? Na so you like play?...Even as I play reach I can only lay claim to most on that list,not all. |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Favolly(f): 11:22pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Savigne:Na joke nau Of course I didn't do all, maybe like half |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by dejavski(m): 11:27pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
How will this stop the Netherlands from Euro 2016 elimination |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Nobody: 11:28pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
gone are those days, when men were boys!! Need anything from Jumia? Contact me now! |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Savigne(f): 11:36pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Favolly:Ok...Afraid for catch me oo |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Savigne(f): 11:37pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
dejavski:Wait lemme ask Van Persey I dey come. 1 Like |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Haywhymido(m): 11:40pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Good old days 1 Like |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Nobody: 11:43pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Omg!can believe those days are gone for real,like really gone!! Hmmm which i can turn the hand of the clock back,even for a minute! I did all...like i play all...lolll. |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Nobody: 11:43pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Omg!can believe those days are gone for real,like really gone!! Hmmm which i can turn the hand of the clock back,even for a minute! I did all...like i play all...lolll. |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Savigne(f): 11:52pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Jollyjoy:I know exactly how you feel....So sad that our kids wont get to do all these... |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Nobody: 11:55pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Savigne:i seriously wish the hand of the clock can be taken back.....kids ke,wen oyibo lifestyle don set in... |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Savigne(f): 12:05am On Sep 07, 2015 |
Jollyjoy:These days if its not on screen den forget about it... My favourite pastime then was playing with dolls,did that till JSS3. |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by Nobody: 12:10am On Sep 07, 2015 |
Savigne:i played gamebox in ss2 self,even who picked my needle...loll crazy old days.. 1 Like |
Re: 60 Things That Made Tthe Childhood Of An Average Nigerian Child Memorable. by kirchofff(m): 1:30pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Savigne:hi, I just pm'd u......cheers |
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