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naptu2:
4) Prime People And Vintage People

These were the major Nigerian gossip magazines at that time. Think of them as the Linda Ikeji Blog and Stella Dimoko Korkus of the 1980s.

Prime People was founded in 1985 and it quickly became the biggest selling publication in Nigeria. Whenever the vendor came to the house, rather than the office (which was usually at the weekends), my sisters would immediately request for Prime People in addition to the two papers we bought every day. I believe Prime People usually hit the newsstands on Fridays.

Vintage People appeared in 1987 due to a split in Prime People.

Prime People covered stories about who was having an affair with whom, who bought what car, why did a star leave a TV series, disputes between music stars, how much did a famous person’s coffin cost, etc.

Prime People and Vintage People competed for exclusives and scoops on the Wedding Of The Century (Lanre Tejuosho weds Moji Okoya) in 1987. They reported about the items that the two families were procuring for the wedding and the cost of the wedding, who attended the wedding, who was on the bandstand at the two all-night parties (Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey), the gifts that the couple got (including cars and houses), the souvenirs that were distributed at the wedding (including Eleganza products), etc.

Prime People also reported the insane Harold Shodipo scandal in the 1980s and early 1990s. A wealthy man, Chief Harold Shodipo, who is a good friend of the Ooni of Ife, sued for divorce from his wife (they had been separated since 1983). He claimed that the Ooni of Ife was having affairs with both his wife and his daughter. The wealthy man’s daughter, who was a young lawyer, appeared in court as the Ooni’s counsel. Years later, the wealthy man’s daughter got married to the Ooni of Ife (who was her father’s former friend).

I think it was also Prime People that broke the story about the affair between Bianca Onoh and Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Vintage People deviated at a point and started publishing stories about juju and all that crap (they wanted to add something extra to the gossip stories that they regularly published. They wanted something to differentiate them from Prime People). That put me off a bit. However, I still read them occasionally because two of my favourite journalists from Prime People, Desola Rajifuja (later Desola Bakare) and Kunle Bakare both moved to Vintage People. Kunle wrote about cars and I’ve forgotten what Desola’s column was about, but I never missed it. They later got married.

Growing up couldn't do without these magazines. Those were the days of aproko on paper.

Putindbutt:
US/Isreal are the real terrorists. After all, they created Al qaeda & Isis.

Most of Iran's strikes are retaliatory. The terrorist US/Isreal started off the war by hitting a female school where 167 young girls were murdered. Then they hit Iran's hospital, energy sites, companies, oil field, residential buildings and now universities.

How can you be attacking schools, universities?, how?. I now see why Nentayahu has been so bold in carrying out genocide in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria etc. and US keeping quiet. If US could also be committing genocide against civilians in the name of war.. Therefore both the US and Isreal are birds of a feather.

I completely support Iran to carry out aggressive retaliatory attacks against all US assets in the neighbouring countries, shoot everything down.

You have to do more than shooting down their pilots and fighter jets.

Exactly, all the strikes are retaliatory strikes. Unlike the other two nations, Iran has been following the rules of engagement.

naptu2:
It was because of the rectangular shape of the remote and the cord that I converted it into my "microphone" while watching music videos.

Exactly had a rectangular shape...the good old days!. Quite recently I have been thinking of converting the VHS tapes, that's if they are still okay. It's been a long time I checked on them. They are have been in storage for over a decade now. We've also got phonograph records together.

naptu2:
Video cassette recorder (VCR)

We got our very first VCR in 1979. It was a top loading VHS VCR. The video cassette was loaded into the VCR from the top.

I've just remembered something funny. We sometimes banged the top of the VCR when the picture was not clear and it would become clear.

I thought our situation was bad, but I didn't know anything.

I spent my holiday with family friends in Ikeja in 1985 and you needed to see the way that they banged their VCR. In fact, someone suggested that they should take their VCR outside and ride their bikes on it.

Of course I knew how to use methylated spirit and tissue to clean the video head when it was dirty (although we sometimes had video head cleaning cassettes).


The VCR in the first picture looks very much like the type that we bought in 1979, but I can also see some differences (the socket for the remote control is not there). It was a top loading VCR and although we got other more modern VCRs, this one lasted until 1993.


That VCR had a remote control, but it came with a cord that you had to attach to the VCR before it could function.

Here is a picture of that exact type of remote control (second picture).


I made that remote my microphone.

I remember the cord. We still got this at home too. It just become obsolete as the years passed. The VHS tapes my Dad bought back then are still at home till this very day. He's got so much stuffs from way back. Still figuring out what we might do with them. You just brought back all those memories.

naptu2:
Binatone TV Master

This was the first video game that I ever saw.

This is the Binatone Tv Master. I don't even know when we got it.

I remember realising one day that this thing had been in my house for as long as I could remember and I didn't even know what it was.

That's when I began experimenting and investigating and I discovered that it was a video game. Can you believe that this thing could work on the gigantic black and white TV as well as the colour TV??

 I only remember the tennis game. Can't remember any other. It was a white dot going back and forth across a white line (yes, the games were in black and white). There were no cartridges, CDs or anything like that. The games were on a chip that was embedded in the console.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfVZ9YtzuiE

Am beginning to have a tinge of nostalgia. We played this growing up. The console is still at home till today.

naptu2:
Hi-Fi

We also had a hi-fi system. It consisted of a record player (with the hook that allows you to stack records), a casette player and an 8 track tape player (cartridge). It also had a radio and I remember that the radio dial was iluminated with green light.

This (the photo below) is not the exact type of hi-fi system, but it is similar. Ours had the same kind of glass cover over the record player and cassette player. I think the 8-track tape player was more central.

There were little shelves at opposite ends of the sitting room and they were for the speakers for the audio system (I assume that it produced better stereo sound in those locations). The telephone was on a similar but lower shelf at another end of the sitting room.

The good old days! Funny enough, we still got this at my parent's house. Still lying there with two big Kenwood speakers.

madridguy:
You didn't get my message clearly bro

Oh. I think I just got it. You were being sarcastic

donleo92:
This your propaganda no go take you go anywhere......

No be only drone centre....

Guy @op when you dey lieeee ehn, remember say tomorrow dey ooooh, so you fit lie again

I think you should have checked the source. It's no lie. It was reported by an Israeli news agency. The writer of the news is also an Israeli.

madridguy:
Another lies from Iranian regime Israel has Iron plastic dome

It's no lies. The news came from an Israeli source, Ynet global.
(Ynet global is an Israeli news and general-content website, and the online outlet for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper)

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masterfactor:
Israel and United States of America are really paranoid.

Let even do the math, what is the distance between Iran and USA, even if Iran lunch drone and ballistic missile, it will pass through other countries AIR space, which will be brought down by their allies. This is just a case of giving a Dog a bad name just to hang it. Israel and the West are really paranoid. A DAY WILL COME WHEN ISREAL AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL SAY NIGERIA HAS WMD, and they start attacking Us.

They are really paranoid o.
They are just looking for excuses to justify the attacks and killing of innocent school children.

jimmyolasun:
Actually I believe there is an agenda going on behind the scenes that we ordinary people do not know... Countries like Russia and co understands, and I believe even third world countries leaders like Nigeria don't know too. But you see all these illiterate on nairaland shouting war, by the time the repercussions starts we go see who go get data come online

Lol. You are actually right. Shebi we don kuku deh face the repercussions small small. Look at the rising prices of fuel.

jimmyolasun:
All an excuse to bomb Iran and form dominance.. even tho I'm no fan of Iran, even other European countries knows it's impossible for Iran to strike first. It's common logic.. Iran knows they can't win the war if they do anything senseless as the whole world is against them. So why put yourself in deeper shiiiiiit

Exactly. It's about dominance and it's Israeli dominance we are talking about here. Israel just dragged them into a senseless war. Iran attack U.S. ke! Dem no born dem well. They can't even think about that.

mynd1:
See this one... So because they're the world supper power means they can behave any how? Your Almighty Donald Trump is completely confused and regretting why that devil Satanyahoo deceived him to attack Iran.

Very confused. In press conferences now, he now looks like a confused idiot...I remember the press conference on the bombing of the girls school in Tehran, he couldn't provide a coherent answer. He actually regrets the move from all looks of it, but pride won't make him come out to declare that that the U.S has been floored and that they got it all wrong.

FreeStuffsNG:
His advisers counselled him against going to war with Persia but he rejected their counsel

But he just said that some of his advisers (Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, his son in law Jareth Krushner provided the intel that Iran was planning to attack the U.S., so they had to act fast by striking hard (I really find it laughable. What a stupid intel!).

Hemanwel:
Nigeria - Sunday Igboho

*Hides under the table*

Modified:

Where is Singapore's Lee Kwa Yun?

Togo's Gnassingbe Eyadema?

Libya's Mammar Ghadafi?

That guy from DR Congo?

Russia - Mikhail Gobechev

Yes o. Patrice Lumumba of DR. Congo

Topman7:
MR MAN, KNOW THIS AND HAVE PEACE:

If you want to end terrorism in Nigeria today, there's no better foreign country on Earth than IRAN to do it for you.

IRAN is Shia Islam, and supports Hamas and Hezbollah, which are militant or terrorist groups set up to resist Israeli occupation and aggression in the middle east.

IRAN has ZERO to do with Sunni Islam terrorist groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram.

IRAN hates these groups with a passion, and recognises them as groups clandestinely formed by US/Saudi/Qatar/Bahrain and other Sunni Islam gulf countries, to serve western interests.

The job of those artificial 'terrorist groups' is to create mayhem in resource-rich countries, for the west to invade them as "saviours", or destabilise them for easier exploitation etc.

So LEARN TO DISTINGUISH these groups and their agendas, instead of your simplistic "Iran = Terrorists".

Great analysis

Quelme:
pain is that you 😂

As how?

Quelme:
they just named a new leader. Do your worse.

Lol. Abi. Let's wait and see what the US and Israel will do.

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