pocohantas:
I have (always) noticed this trend of being called indomie generation when one is (totally) clueless on some “historical” subject.

I like to think I am old enough to be old, yet I still have some friends and colleagues calling me Indomie generation.




Suffice to say, Indomie is 31YEARS OLD IN NIGERIA.


So, what exactly makes one an indomie generation?

Have you ever used these?




Yes = Not Indomie
No = Indomie

dangotesmummy:
lmaooooo so because a 15 year old child is already in the university automatically makes him "intelligent"?

Do you realize that we had exceptionally smart kids in our generation too who finished secondary school at 14/15 but the parents Will not ALLOW THEM TO GI TO UNIVERSITY TILL THEY'RE 18.instead they will register them to go and learn hand skill till they're ripe (mature) enough to enter university. But you see this is part of what we're talking about. you just want to rush the process.a child is not mature enough for the rigours of college but you push him there as if you Dont know that there is also emotional intelligence.do you think if a person is just academically intelligent,that's all.what if he knows book but cannot cope with the challenges of gangerism/cultism in our university those days nko? Or are you pretending to be ignorant of the fact that our parents kept the ones who weren't old enough at home just to help them mature so they can independently cope with school pressures.even the universities weren't admitting kids who were less that 18.18 was the required minimum to enter university but it was later into the late 90s desperate parents were doing fake birth certificates just because they wanted their kids to be in school at 15

Is cultism supposed to have a place in a tertiary institution? That is one of the legacies of the pre indomie generation. Make no mistake, the preindomie generation had all the opportunities, and they blew it. They were the ones who were supposed to turn Nigeria into a first world powerhouse. Back then the country was full of potential and the problem was how to spend money

All of that potential was pissed away by greed, mental Laziness, corruption and indiscipline.

Rubbiish:

The bold was very few until late 90s
Reason we are backward, isn't it a good thing if a kid should have msc at d age of 22?
In USA, at d age of 20 - 22 they are planning family already. Our way of reasoning was backward due to our level of exposure, not because it was the right thing to do. Why would u wish such life style for ur kids?

this has nothing to do with exposure.lets be objective here,15 is actually too young to be in the university.if a person enters university at 18 and finishes 22,that's fair enough.there is a stage and learning process for everything.you don't jump the process.how can you push a 15 year old into what will take him time for him to adjust into.do you realize those 15 year old kids forced into university were vulnerable to being Bullied and victims of forced cultism?

Didn't you hear of a lecturers son who enterd university at 15 and was forced to join cult.a very intelligent boy for that matter and along the line he was killed in a cult clash.it was an old story then.now how will a 15 year old handle such matter? Meanwhile an 18 year old is mature enough to wiggle his way out of such nonsense.

shadeyinka:

You are angry and I can feel it.

Unfortunately, those who call you Indomie generation are the worst hit. They grew up at the tail end of Nigeria having hope and greatness into a messed up hopeless society.

Those who destroyed Nigeria will not call you Indomie generation. They will call you "children".

As per changing the Nigeria as a result of knowledge acquired through reading: this is not possible again because knowledge without facilities, tools and environment is not useful for anything except self preservation and survival.

Is it your fault to be an Indomie generation? Certainly not!
It's about the society we all have found ourselves in. The difference is that Indomie generation do not have any reference to when the society was still same.

Don't play psychic with me Sir, if you have such skills- put it into professional use. I am not angry and won't have you or anyone project your feelings on me.

Now to the topic, both the ones who destroyed Nigeria and the ones who watched them destroy Nigeria, should stop acting like the best thing to happen to Nigeria.

Growing up I didn't even see that much very "intelligent" aunties and uncles. Except for the ones who had formal education. Even till now, my senior colleagues that I can say I look up to in reality and Nairaland, are those who developed themselves. The rest are just there, nothing special apart from bragging rights with some memories which I do not know how it translates to money or something of national importance.

I don't care if it is my fault or not o, I am not seeking anyone to pet me and tell me it is fine...

Indomie generation is not the right term to use for these post cheated generation. Instead of criticism I would suggest we hide our faces. What you don't know won't hurt you.

I have read comments on here by people of my generation (cheated generation) and I feel so hurt that even though we witnessed a different society that was more conducive to what we have now we can still come on here without shame of not doing anything to stop things from getting so bad.

I knew about indomie in 1992 when the company came to our school for promo and it was advertised as a snack not a meal. So if we now have a society that indomie can be seen as food then we the pre indomie generations should hide in shame and that goes to anyone that is between the age of 40-60.

Nigeria could have been a better place if we stood up against a lot of things in the past. The systematic breakdown of a people has taken its course on this generation (wasted generation). This so-called indomie generation were meant to take the batton from our generation (cheated generation) and take our dear country to greater heights in technology, health and social care, architecture, industrialisation e.t.c.

I give kudos to this so-called indomie generation for staying strong and surviving a very harsh economy.

dangotesmummy:
Mr mannn let us tell ourselves the truth and stop being sentimental about everything for once.

Oyinbos have their own civilization,let us too have our own indigenous civilization IN OUR OWN WAY AND AT OUR OWN PACE,IN WAYS THAT FIT INTO OUR OWN SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURE. Moreso if we want to copy oyinbo civilization let us copy the good side and leave the nonsense out of it but our people, instead of copying the good sides,it's the junks we will be copying.

If you notice oyinbo,they copy our good sides e.g coming here to learn out culture,food and music and they take it to their side to suit their environment.they don't take our negative side that's my point

Our own system and structure is why we are in this mess! Nigeria was working not until independence we took over from oyinbo in 1960 everything crumbled within few months, so we basically have no good structure and system. There are no much bad side to Civilization, we blacks are the ones applying bad side to civilization, it has nothing to do with whites. Whites were never responsible for the corruption we experienced in d first republic, it was as a result of our greed as a people.

ornicus:


How many books have you bought for your children? Do you read books in front of your children? Our children are our own reflection. My dad and mum had a big library of books when we were growing up. Encyclopedias, classic novels, etc. So I read a lot. I read roots before I was 10.

I had intended to do same, have a giant library of hardcover classic literature. I do have a library, but it is electronic and not the same thing. I don't read books that much anymore. I have a colleague that religiously reads and practises self development via books. His library is conspicuous in his house. I'm sure his kids are reading well.

I have a library of books: tonnes of them. And I tell you, in my short life span, I have read from the Sciences,to the Arts, to Finances, to Psychology and even novels.

My children don't like reading books. They would rather watch cartoons or movies: peer pressure seems to be winning . I literally have to force them to read while they were younger but alas as they grew older, I see the pattern is set.

It's about a national culture and it is consuming everyone.

Right now, I do most of my readings online or on my tablet. Another library of ebooks, educational materials and videos. My childrens phones are the exact opposite: filled with movies and social media.

Don't forget that it is easier to watch a movie than read the story.

Of course, try your best with your children. You might be lucky that some will catch up to being a serious reader of books

chijioke17:

Why is everyone always forgetting suwe

soap opera like things fall apart
after the storm
beyond our dreams
sunset beach,i bought pap for 2naira
50 kobo was valuable
my school fee in 1993 was 30naira
i missed those good old day,ladies that paint their nails &chew bubble gums were view as harlots,
u need grammer to woo a lady,
we mingle with hausa people,christmas celebration used to the d bomb back then.i don old small sha

makinson2865:
Years when all good electrical appliance must be " NATIONAL"


National TV, national fan and etc

Those days of turn table radio.



Indomie generation are only conversant with plasma tv and home theatre�



Hmmmm,how time flies

National tv

Na Jet cream and imperial leather dey reign day time
I recently bought Jet cream just because of the nostalgia.

I just want to use this medium to make a report that someone has been posting some pornographic pics on this platform recently.I was so embarrassed today while in the bus reading some news on nairaland.I suddenly came across this pornographic pics while people sitting beside me saw this.I was really embarrassed cause it makes me look as if I was watching porn pictures deliberately making me look like a perv.Pls I want the mod and seun to take serious note on this.Have been recommending this site to responsible men and women in the society and such disdained behaviours are uncalled for.I believe nairaland has a standard and that standard should be maintained at all cost.And shouldn't allow unscrupulous elements destroy that.thks

dangotesmummy:
E pain am sotey he go research about the history of infomie

Actually when people refer to any individual as an indomie generation,it means the person is young,naieve and ignorant of WHAT HE SHOULD KNOW OR IS EXPECTED TO KNOW

You know how millennials are.young,dumb, entitled,lazy yet they always think they're smarter than king Solomon.those are what characterize indomie generation


Then again you know indomie is just 2 minutes?,they want to do/have everything fast without taking the patience to go through the process and learn

Bottom line sha is that anyone that has childish behaviour or displays little knowledge of history and it shows is what they call indomie generation.for example if I am discussing with a friend and I say I enjoy the music syncro system and millennials interject and say who sang syncro system or who sang redemption song, or doesn't know that once upon a time in Nigerian history MTN SIM or mobile phones were only used by the elites and mercedes Benz were only used by big boys or rich men's kids to woo girls on campus.i'Il quickly know this one is an indomie generation child

One of the indomie generation child is below me.he just proved my point aptly of the reasoning and characteristics of an indomie generation

And yes the society was better then because we could leave our kids with neighbors and go to the market without fear of anything.anyone that tries it now,na sorry be him name,we could close our doors without padlocking or fencing it yet nobody will steal our stuffs

We could buy stuffs from market women and drop the money on the wares and whenever the owner of the product comes she will pick her money because people lived with CONTENTMENT AND MODESTY

Those days you could take 100 naira to the market and stock up your kitchen to the brim because food was cheap.eggs were 10 Naira,small coke was 15 Naira and the big one was 25 naira

With 30naira you can enter molue from mile 2 to festac

Festac was a peaceful, tranquil and safe haven before it became a den of pickpockets,armed robbers,kidnappers and Yahoo boys. you can go to a relaxation joint with just 500 naira and buy drinks and pepper soup to your satisfaction even as late as 2am and you are safe.if you walk around festac by 11.54 you will be sorry for yourself.infact by 7pm shop owners are closing when it was even at that time faaji was getting started

Never did I know festac will deteriorate to the level it is now

Those days you will beg,stalk and write several letters before you can manage to see a woman's cleavage.female nudity was rare but now you can meet a girl in tfc,buy her meat pie and in the twinkle of an eye you have bleeped her without much effort

Now men don't have to leave their house before they order for vagina online and the vagina will be brought to their doorsteps with just online booking

Millennials,I hope you can now understand why the older generation are irritated with your ways and lifestyle of how you do your things.not that the older generation were saints or perfect but they do things with tact and discretion.now no single taste again

We also went to night club.they call one of the night clubs 11.45.i don't know whether it's still being operated? Even in the club they were sexy in our own standard of sexy then o but not naked or in colourful rags and bogus wigs and heinous make-up

Those days you could put rice of 20naira and egg 10naira into the flask of a child to school but now it is indomie they put in their food flask to school

You need to watch music videos of the 80s and 90s then compare it with the olamides,davido,dammy Krane,tiwa savage etc,then you'll understand my point and the level of deterioration



Even club girls those days had to be begged for several months or sometimes years to see the colour of her pant but these days even church girls,to enter her pant no go reach 2weeks

Then by 10pm TV station closed.it was just nta we had it will show different colours of lines before it closes and the TV shows were edifying not the ones kids cannot even watch.millenials don't even know the difference between family soap operas/family drama and soft porn

All our own entertainment didn't pass

Everyday people
Family circle
Super story
Passion
Second chance
Gardner's daughter
Secret of the sand
And nta news.but now go to MTV naked video vixens,trace,naked women, everywhere nudity and sex

Also teenagers getting pregnant was a serious abomination,they were ostracized and the parents shamed so parents really monitored their kids till they got to university.its not like now ss2 boy will be fucking jss3 girl inside the school toilet or at the back of principals office

You deserve a front page with this write up. Refine and create a topic on this please.

dangotesmummy:
this has nothing to do with exposure.lets be objective here,15 is actually too young to be in the university.if a person enters university at 18 and finishes 22,that's fair enough.there is a stage and learning process for everything.you don't jump the process.how can you push a 15 year old into what will take him time for him to adjust into.do you realize those 15 year old kids forced into university were vulnerable to being Bullied and victims of forced cultism?

Didn't you hear of a lecturers son who enterd university at 15 and was forced to join cult.a very intelligent boy for that matter and along the line he was killed in a cult clash.it was an old story then.now how will a 15 year old handle such matter? Meanwhile an 18 year old is mature enough to wiggle his way out of such nonsense.

Lol
U make me laugh
So all d students that have been initiated into cultism in our higher institutions are below 18yrs?
Age is not even a factor here, your mindest and focus determines your purpose. Some persons join cult in final year, so age is out of it. The advantages of early education outweighs d disadvantages, it is not even debatable

ornicus:


Is cultism supposed to have a place in a tertiary institution? That is one of the legacies of the pre indomie generation. Make no mistake, the preindomie generation had all the opportunities, and they blew it. They were the ones who were supposed to turn Nigeria into a first world powerhouse. Back then the country was full of potential and the problem was how to spend money

All of that potential was pissed away by greed, mental Laziness, corruption and indiscipline.

lies!

Which opportunities? It's the indomie generation that have 1 thousand and 1 opportunities.they didn't blow anything.infact it's the pre indomie generation that grew up to become successful in their respective fields and started coming together to build private universities so that their kids can be protected from every nonsense associated with public schools.they literally did everything for them to make them have comfort in school ,now they have been spoilt rotten hence you will see a person that finished university that has hands and legs to go out there and job hunt,yet he will still be insulting his parents that they didn't help him to find job

saintneo:


Have you ever used these?




Yes = Not Indomie
No = Indomie

Lol. Seems you people do not know that some of us have parents that couldn't let go of things. Average households had these things for sometime na, before they could port to VCRs.

adedayoa2:
2 minutes noodles was the in thing in the 90's, still parents no dey buy except for boarding house students. Indomie noodles became popular in the 2000's, so anybody thats still in his/her 20's as at today, na indomie generation.

I concur, my very first knowledge of Indomie noodles was around 1994, my brother just came back from the Boarding House after his SSCE, so he brought back his cupboard stocked with Indomie packs.

Back to the original post, in my own opinion, Indomie Generation children are children who were born between mid 90s and now. The did not witness many of the things the older generations saw or witnessed while growing up...

The military coups and the juntas
When Chris Okotie was a secular singer...
The days of WAI (Environmental Sanitation) when you just have to comply by fire by force
The June 12, 1993 and the aftermath...
The NTA, the programmes regular news casters...Ruth Benamaisia Opia, Frank Olize, Tokunbo Ajai, Namsel Nimyel...
The colour streams that comes up on our TV screens before 4pm and after 12am
The coins...
Gogo Sweet, Eyin Alanga, Jet Bubble Gum...
Soft drinks like Vinto, Crush, Africola, Fanta Ginger Ale...
Big TV boxes with their own doors...LOL
NITEL phone boxes and big telephone directory
When Permanent Secretaries were called Director Generals
When Land Rover utility vehicles were the project vehicles unlike now, all u see is Toyota Hilux at the MDAs
When Peugeot 504 saloon/wagon cars were government official vehicles in the Ministries in the early 90s... Gen. IBB used a Peugeot 505 Evolution limo.
My mum would give me and my lil sis N1 note each as pocket money, whenever she was going for her part-time programme on Saturdays.

And a lot more.

Rubbiish:

Lol
U make me laugh
So all d students that have been initiated into cultism in our higher institutions are below 18yrs?
Age is not even a factor here, your mindest and focus determines your purpose. Some persons join cult in final year, so age is out of it. The advantages of early education outweighs d disadvantages, it is not even debatable

you are entitled to your opinion and life but early education makes kids only smart academically but immature/unintelligent emotionally because you didn't allow them to pass through the age of learning they were supposed to pass through and learn what they ought to learn

What is the essence of sending a 15 year old to school,he comes out 19 or 20,starts working and cannot behave himself properly like an adult should and be making stupid,life threatening mistakes at work because of immaturity

dangotesmummy:
lies!

Which opportunities? It's the indomie generation that have 1 thousand and 1 opportunities.they didn't blow anything.infact it's the pre indomie generation that grew up to become successful in their respective fields and started coming together to build private universities so that their kids can be protected from every nonsense associated with public schools.they literally did everything for them to make them have comfort in school ,now they have been spoilt rotten hence you will see a person that finished university that has hands and legs to go out there and job hunt,yet he will still be insulting his parents that they didn't help him to find job

Under whose watch were the public universities destroyed? Under whose watch did cultism become the norm in universities?
It is those that came out of university in the 70s that had jobs waiting for them on a platter of gold.
They were the ones with the opportunities.
Today you see 1000 people fighting for one job opening.



Whose generation is it that is sexually harassing students in universities, sitting on results and refusing to update curriculums? Which generation is it that cannot teach university graduates basic critical thinking? Which generation is it that is a slave to religious dogma?

The same people that had it all are the ones who cannot even try to update themselves. They are still teaching students with drawing boards. They are still using 70s curriculum

ornicus:


Under whose watch were the public universities destroyed? Under whose watch did cultism become the norm in universities?
It is those that came out of university in the 70s that had jobs waiting for them on a platter of gold.
They were the ones with the opportunities.
Today you see 1000 people fighting for one job opening.

Whose generation is it that is sexually harassing students in universities, sitting on results and refusing to update curriculums? Which generation is it that cannot teach university graduates basic critical thinking? Which generation is it that is a slave to religious dogma?

these are excuses
. government and academic leaders has failed Nigerians youths and didn't put structures in place to see all these nonsense of sexual harassment by lecturers and poor standards of curriculum not happening and you are blaming it on the pre Indomie generation

dangotesmummy:
you are entitled to your opinion and life but early education makes kids only smart academically but immature/unintelligent emotionally because you didn't allow them to pass through the age of learning they were supposed to pass through and learn what they ought to learn

What is the essence of sending a 15 year old to school,he comes out 19 or 20,starts working and cannot behave himself properly like an adult should and be making stupid,life threatening mistakes at work because of immaturity

You have no idea what you are talking about. I was 16 when I entered university. Someone on this thread was 15 or 16. There are people I know on this forum who graduated at 21.

Behaving properly like an adult is a function of how a person was raised /grew up. That is why entry level employees are asked subtle questions about their family. A person from a Buta background professional parents already ticks the boxes. He/she knows what to wear, the basic etiquette, dos and donts

dangotesmummy:
you are entitled to your opinion and life but early education makes kids only smart academically but immature/unintelligent emotionally because you didn't allow them to pass through the age of learning they were supposed to pass through and learn what they ought to learn

What is the essence of sending a 15 year old to school,he comes out 19 or 20,starts working and cannot behave himself properly like an adult should and be making stupid,life threatening mistakes at work because of immaturity

So u can argue like this?
What happened to ur other moniker?
Do u remember dis music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHwZRjaOZjA

dangotesmummy:
these are excuses
. government has failed Nigerians and didn't put structures in place to see all these nonsense not happening and you are blaming it on the pre Indomie generation

And who makes up the government? Ghosts? What generation are the people running things? You think you can seperrate the government from the people who make it up?

pocohantas:


Don't play psychic with me Sir, if you have such skills- put it into professional use. I am not angry and won't have you or anyone project your feelings on me.

Now to the topic, both the ones who destroyed Nigeria and the ones who watched them destroy Nigeria, should stop acting like the best thing to happen to Nigeria.

Growing up I didn't even see that much very "intelligent" aunties and uncles. Except for the ones who had formal education. Even till now, my senior colleagues that I can say I look up to in reality and Nairaland, are those who developed themselves. The rest are just there, nothing special apart from bragging rights with some memories which I do not know how it translates to money or something of national importance.

I don't care if it is my fault or not o, I am not seeking anyone to pet me and tell me it is fine...

Interestingly, it is the so called non-indomie generation who you said "developed themselves" that call you Indomie generation.

They are the generation whose hopes were dashed. They saw the goodness but didn't taste of it. They see the up coming ones as blind; who never saw a reference other than this messed up Nigeria. That's the truth.

shadeyinka:

"This is Frank Olize, Do you know where your children are?". NTA was king then: except for those who lived in Lagos, you don't have an alternative.

Sweet memories indeed.

For those that was born in Lagos and doesn't know Amusement Park in Lagos, Leventis Stores, Bata Shop, Leonard Shoe Shop, Iddo Boat transport to Lagos Island, Old Maroko Reverine Community Town (not Ajah or Jakande), Old CMS Bookshop, NTA 2, NTA 5 Christmas Gathering Festival show, Old Bar Beach, .

You are all children of INDOMIE GENERATION

Rubbiish:

So u can argue like this?
What happened to ur other moniker?
Do u remember dis music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHwZRjaOZjA

of course I can argue like that
. and yeah I remember the music

ornicus:


And who makes up the government? Ghosts? What generation are the people running things? You think you can seperrate the government from the people who make it up?

what generation of people are running things

Answer 60 to 40 something year olds

And these people in government have their kids studying abroad

dangotesmummy:
what generation of people are running things

Answer 60 to 40 something year olds

And these people in government have their kids studying abroad

And Are those not part of the pre Indomie generations?

ornicus:


How many books have you bought for your children? Do you read books in front of your children? Our children are our own reflection. My dad and mum had a big library of books when we were growing up. Encyclopedias, classic novels, etc. So I read a lot. I read roots before I was 10.

I had intended to do same, have a giant library of hardcover classic literature. I do have a library, but it is electronic and not the same thing. I don't read books that much anymore. I have a colleague that religiously reads and practises self development via books. His library is conspicuous in his house. I'm sure his kids are reading well.

These days if parents do not expressly insist on reading schedules for kids and enforce it strictly, it does not matter how big their library is, those kids will not read it.

Sewgon79:


For those that was born in Lagos and doesn't know Amusement Park in Lagos, Leventis Stores, Bata Shop, Leonard Shoe Shop, Iddo Boat transport to Lagos Island, Old Maroko Reverine Community Town (not Ajah or Jakande), Old CMS Bookshop, NTA 2, NTA 5 Christmas Gathering Festival show.

You are all children of INDOMIE GENERATION

You didn't add the beach

ornicus:


Did our generation nurture nta, or did they just let it die?
Spelling bees are still going on to today. Mtn sponsors some of them.

The so called lazy indomie children were raised that way. What do they see their parents doing? Are their parents watching educational informative TV, or are they watching music videos, nollywood, series channel and football?

I remember the show on nta.it was called speak out but I don't know how it just fizzled away.however you see indomie generation children be pumping money into big brother naija and show only nonsense.what then do you expect the parents to watch since they have expired?

ornicus:


And Are those not part of the pre Indomie generations?

well,since they saw that this nation cannot be salvaged again from the rot,enabled by indomie children,they had to send their kids abroad

missjo:

These days if parents do not expressly insist on reading schedules for kids and enforce it strictly, it does not matter how big their library is, those kids will not read it.

What example are the parents themselves setting?
Your children are your own reflection. Do your children see you reading? Or do they see you always on the tv?