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Sapasenator:
As kids growing up in Nigeria, Christmas was the most important celebration for us and we eagerly looked forward to it.

I came from a very poor background so rice was not what we eat regularly, Christmas was an opportunity for us kids to eat rice and chicken to our fills.

Christmas usually started around November, this was when my parent would go to Balogun market to buy Christmas clothes and shoes for all of us.

We never went along, it was only our parents who would select Christmas clothes and shoes and we had this curiosity waiting for them to come back so we can inspect the clothes and shoes.
Once they were back from the market, we locke the doors and windows to test the clothes and shoes with some of our friends peeking from the windows to see our special Christmas clothes.

I remember wiping the bottoms of my shoes after testing them so they remain brand new on Christmas day. That was the only day we got brand new clothes, the rest of the year, my mom would send us to Sylvanus store to select used clothes to compare and see who got the best clothes. Hehehehe.

Two weeks to Christmas, my mom would go to the market and select about three chickens to feed for slaughter on the eve of Christmas day. So, at 6 pm on the 24th December, we would kill the chickens and start preparing for Christmas, we kids never sleep in the night as we kept dreaming of the next day.
I and my friends we used car plugs, wood and matches to create knockouts for the celebrate as we could not afford banga.
Wr would wake very early in the morning of Christmas, bath and put on our Christmas clothes, shoes and attires and, off we went to our friend's houses, together as a group we knock on the doors off all our neighbors and random strangers.

The rule then was anyone who comes to you house on Christmas, you have to feed them even if the were strangers so, we just randomly knock on doors, walk in , eat rice and chicken and ask the adults to " do Christmas for us".

We walked all around town eating from strangers, blowing knockouts and collecting Christmas money.

After we are done eating outside, then we would come to our house, by them my mom's food was ready and I eat together with my friends. We also dished out foods in trays to share to our neighbors and the neighbors in return will offer us trays of food and drinks.
We had this family friend that worked at Coca Cola and every year end , we always received about 4 crates of Coca Cola for this family reserved for our Christmas day feast.

At the end of the day, I would be so full that I would not be able to lie face down for all the food I had eaten that day.

What was your experience growing up on Christmas day, was it similar to mine?
Did you guys go about eating food from strangers and asking for Christmas money?
Is this practice still continuing today?

Thinking back, I must say it was very fun every Christmas and on new years days, we carried on with the celebrations.

Share your experience growing up in Nigeria on Christmas days. Forgive my typos as I am on my second champagne bottle with my Jamaican Dragon Sout beer.

kossyablaze:
I posted these on few threads
"I just need 10 people to do small Christmas for. N.B...you must pass all the 3 hurdles wey i go use screen the lucky peeps"

If you are mentioned in this post, kindly drop your Accs for the alerts to rain... Remember I didn't mention the 3 hurdles,but you guys surprisingly passed all i had in mind.

1. Dundalk
2. Adeoyekay
3. Manduwem
4. Kindmman
5. Jojothaiv
6. Yemike
7. Frontend
8. Sam4noow
9. Orikoku
10. Zyzxx10

P:S.... If you didn't make it to my list, follow me for more updates, especially Xmas, New year, Easter Celebrations. I could choose to do same at any giving time outside the Festive seasons.

kossyablaze:
Isoright...... I just need 10 people to do small Christmas for. N.B...you must pass all the 3 hurdles wey i go use screen the lucky peeps.

akwesenana:
Yeah, but I don't think it's the most important...

mayorall:
We stopped accepting intakes from bet sections. We've exceeded the numbers of recipients from sports sections.

DieRich5:
S2 will likely be out in 2025 or 26, I heard dem have plans on it already so we waiting.

I didn't know bae Suzy and the actor don act together before Vagabond the actor is the main lead on mouse serie

If you like the actress, check out this her series

Anna
While you were sleeping
Doona

snowland:
Those that are saying I should do a giveaway, for now, I've stopped doing online giveaways for the simple reason that most people that actually need the help do not get them but majority that receive them don't really need.

My giveaways are now offline and are targeted towards those that do need them.

DieRich5:
K-drama

Mouse
Vagabond (most watched, this my favourite)
Vincenzo
Lawless Attorney
City hunter (old but still good to watch)
The Devil judge
Reborn rich
the judge from hell
Again my life

I mostly watch romance sex/nudity J-drama like

Kuzu no Honkai
Fishbowl Wives

Gistmedia10:
Have You Ever Won the Biggest Balloon? Share Your Experience!

mayorall:
New winners.


LIVE08
Podium
Obinnanelson4
Newborn27


Kindly send your bank details here. Please do not put space. Thanks.

SpiritualWealth:
That's Some Helpful Wisdom There.


I'm Sure Some People Would Have Gained Financial Insights From Your Simple Analysis - Already.



Have You Cultivated Oil Palms And Cassava Before Now, Or It Is A New Venture That You Would Like To Go Into In Year 2025 ?

Babamide:
Do they deserve genuine happiness or the type of pity manipulative happiness the OP is offering. So because I be sicklers now, make I dey jubilate for offer of person whey wan marry me. Is that all life and happiness is about??

snowland:
This will be my first Christmas in Nigeria in 15 years but sincerely it does not feel like Christmas at all.
Besides the cold harmattan weather in the morning that normally characterizes this time of the year, nothing else smells festivities.
I remember with nostalgia what Christmas used to feel like. Seems a whole lot has changed.

Apart from the economic situations, what else could have caused this?

Babamide:
This is quite dumb. We are trying to reduce the number of sicklers in the world, but you want to generate more carriers. Why??

Jamiuokolaa:
●Amad
●Mazroui
●Ugarte
●Bruno
●Martinez

I thought the general consensus is that the aforementioned players are good enough.

BTW, we are currently one of the few clubs that are lucky with injuries...

mayorall:
I will add the last list by Monday and give whatsoever is left to the community where our office is located. The security, the food sellers and neighbours .


I will continue from page 10 where I stopped last time.

Thanks to everyone that participated.

Account123:
I don't also watch porn

Account123:
Good day nairalanders
I don't really know wats wrong with me but,I've been having frequent wet dreams lately.
Having wet dreams is normal for a guy.....but the problem is its becoming constant.

The most recent one... I woke up and discovered my underwear was fully soaked.

My fellow nairalanders pls come to my aid.....pls wat could be the problem

opes:
So bad of them if this is true, but they mentioned WINGS as the organiser, even the venue?

opes:
Agidigbo FM just issued a statement denying to be part of the organisers..They were just one of the media outfits where the event was advertised and promoted..

whytediamond:


children Christmas party by an islamic school?

Make I read again o.

DenreleDave:
You can transfer right?

Merry100:
Please kindly respond if you know how this issue can be resolved. I'm not satisfied with this situation.

CapitalCee:
I am fully in support of Rashford sales. But one of the key reasons why players don't succeed in Man Utd is because of the toxic fans and toxic media against our players. we have. Man Utd fans over the years have proven from assessment to be the most dumbest and clueless fan base in world football. Whenever a player, especially a young player does well, he will be hyped to high heavens and then within months a lot of people will begin to develop agendas on the same players.

Few months ago goals from Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo gave the win in the FA cup final, both teenagers at that time, the whole fanbase were waxing lyrical about them. Fast forward 5 months later, the same idiotic and foolish toxic fans are turning on on them abusing and bullying them despite their age, not regarding that they still have some aspect of their games they need to upgrade on and they also have few professional traits they need to acquire for their all round abilities.

I use to remember Sir Alex Ferguson banning journalists from press conferences who reports rubbish about our players, or who ask him stupid questions. In 2015/16 season Hazard scored just 1 league goal the entire season, Diego Costa was completely out of form, after winning the league the previous season, yet Chelsea fans were not bullying and cursing them, they came back the next season to put world class performances and won the league, If na us we will be asking that they should be offloaded for free and their contract ls terminated, costa later was sold at £55m Hazard later went for over £100m, later we will be crying that our board no sabi sell.

If I am a young player Man United will be the last place I will consider playing football. If Amad knows what is good for him this is the right time for him to leave the club because they will soon come for him, once he string together 5 unconvincing performances. If I am Mainoo I will be leaving this toxic fan base. Garnacho who is now the devil and the worst player on the planet If I am him i will be looking for a new team, like Dortmund or Leverkusen, Man United is not the right environment for young players to develop. Look at Hojlund, came to the club at just 20, at deadline day so missed like 4 weeks of actions, no pre season, he scored 21 goals even though he was out for some time due to injury and he is joining a new league, in one of the worst Man United teams ever. The boy went to Euros for his country missed a few chances, for his country oo not in the club, the stupid fan base started calling for us to sell him.

If Amorim want to succeed he need to protect his players from the toxic fans, If a player performs badly either in match or in training, or having disciplinary issues he should treat it internally. Rashford deserves to be sold, but which other black player is in line to be the villian? Amad? Mainoo?or both? Chose your pick.

mayorall:
Nope. You were selected. Ai helps alot and someone just learnt that ai writings could be detected if the wordings wasn't changed by the user.