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Friday, August 28, 2015

Nigeria's Memory Lane .....

Do you remember these?Any household that didnt have Stella Pomade back then was not happening...hehhehehehhe.

My Dad used to insist i rub all over,especially my face with Stella Pomade ,I used to hate the shiny look and the smell eeen...lol
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The days of these things were the days that Nigeria was Nigeria oh,not now!


152 comments:

  1. Lol.... I can't remember any. Except dat siwe game.

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    1. Yea I remember all with fond memories. Growing up was so luvly and interesting for me. I wish I can go back then. Kai when I dont have to jusy worry about anything. My childhood rocks mehn

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    2. Stella pomade!!!! Choi when you use that pomade, you will shine better tha the morning star. Anybody that does not remember all those item belong to Indomine generation.

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    3. I remember almost everything.
      That tv set was in my maternal grandfather's house.
      We were like the cool kids.
      People would peep through the window to watch TV while we lounge on the couch eating fried OKIN biscuits.

      Those old days.

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    4. For real?! You must be very young oo.

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    5. Uhh I guess am too young for dis

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    6. Chai;na stella pomade i rub tire oooo,cos my mum just likes it A lot..

      The black and white Tv eeehh;person wey get am then ma bigman oooo

      That whistle,chai!!! I remember when i use to blow mine with water poured inside through the hole;then when i blow it;the water would just be splashing all over my face and i would be laughing like i won lottery...choi!! childhood eehhh..

      That peugeot 504,thats the strongest car for taxi now ooo..

      The lady playing "swell"(thats what we call it at the east here) and the guy watching;mehn i love that game biko..then in primary school i would leave other male game to play this with my fenale classmates..even after school dismissed self!

      The 50kobo;epic! Would still find much of them if i search wella here..cos thats what we use to play the game "AYO" whenever our ayo seed was missing

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    7. NNext time u see me...I old pass you. -____-















      DatCrazyCalabarChic

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    8. I miss planta, that butter was so 9ce, i remember everything. Then there was a nice Omo advert then.
      I miss Okin, gogo chei
      Sprint chewing gum

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    9. That means you are still a baby at Chick Felix...

      Choi!...
      That television and stove is still in my mums house...
      We don beg her tire to throw it away but she refused...
      That woman can hoard things sha...

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    10. U must be a millenia kid

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    11. You be Tata oo.

      I really miss planta and that salty blue band butter. The ones they produce now is just creamy without taste.

      This old blue band ehee even if the bread you are eating it with is an old baked bread it will taste yummy.

      Oh! Lord bring back my old Nigeria.....

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    12. Tandi garanda everybody say;
      Tandi goranda everybody say;

      Nasco biscuit- I hated it.
      SDK stella pomade still dey oh. They use it to pay bride price in my mom's place.

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    13. Taaaa Chick Felix can lie for africa.Even my younger sister who is 22yrs still remember most of these things and aunty gwegz like u is here claiming small pikin.Abeg go siddon for potopoto with ur lies.

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    14. I remember all. Hahaha!
      Who remembers Cocosheen? Hehehe.
      I so loved Planta but hated Blue band.
      I was crazy about fido dido.
      Nta 7, boring station ever. Nta 2, channel 5, ur reach out station. Nta channel 10 still dey? I remember clapper board tv station. They can show films ehn.
      What again... omg, those were the days. Okin biscuits? Yum yum deliciouso.

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    15. Omg!
      I emember everyyyyy!
      That bird whistle, I blew till thy kingdom come. Sometimes we put water inside sef and it produces a funny noise
      The teevee, the 504! Oh my days!
      Stella pomade and Jet? Ohhh! My fav was stella pomade. The smell I still remember.
      Kikikikiki
      The good ol' days mehnnn...when mamas were girls.
      Oh mehnnn!

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    16. Chic felix, I sure say na play u dey play...even a 20 yr old pesin go rember more than 4

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    17. OMG. I would so anything to have planta ooo bit was my favorite. And the square Okin biscuit. Chai. Nostalgia.

      I remember the NTA...Ahahah

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    18. Can any body direct me to name of the maker of this? An email or phone number?

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  2. Make I hear say I no remember those! Back then at Zaria I was really small!! Fun days growing up tho.

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    1. Mz sparkle, you lived in Zaria?.... Did you by any chance attend Therbow School or Zaria Chiildren's school. Wow! I'm feeling nostalgic...

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    2. Chai that stove remains me of those days! Chai chai. Smh

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    3. Hahahahaha I remember everything, except for plantas. All epic.

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    4. I had like 3 of that birdie stuff, we used to put water inside so it makes one kind of bubbly sound when u blow it, I played suwe like mad in primary school, I remember NTA channel 5 too well.i didnt spend one naira note sha but my parents kept one for me to see.I done old with style sha.hehehehe!!

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  3. Chai wen money was money! Wen u can buy ice cream and puff puff with #1! Remember okin biscuit, the modern version is now coaster bt dem can't fit copy it! Lol. Also d birf whistle lol, den I wud take it close to my younger ones ear and blow it loud and dey end up crying lol... stella has really taken me bk to d memory lane lol

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    1. Asin ehhee...
      That Ice cream they put in a white small waterproof that has many colours...

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    2. That colored ice cream was bae## that year, I remember all except stella pomade o!!! Planta, okin, that blue band advert my elder bro will lay down on the floor crying for bread once that advert comes up! Chaiiii

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    3. Does this mean I'm old??

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    4. Ada Onyema, is it d one we call lolly pop, lolly for short? Lol

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  4. Lol. We call Stella pomade'mgba nwafo' in my place. The Planta butter has one funny advert then:'ifu papa I kpoo ya mama,planta'As in after eating planta if you see mama you go call am papa.

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  5. I use d jet cream o. Dat na fine cream

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    1. You didn't use nku cream. Used to use the empty nku cream bottle to catch fish in our local stream. What of Dan Fulani pomade

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    2. I use Nku die. My mum always bought it for me. My complexion was bae then. I was glowing

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  6. I can c boobs on d Stella pomade...and wit d way parents are acting now one wud think porn neva existed back den....mtchew. At least dey r not saggn lyk myn


    Signing out in 3.....2.....1~~~~

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    1. Lmaooooooooo, but seriously. What was the rationale behind the breasts?

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    2. So na d breast bother you. LMAOOOOO. You're crayayyyy. Port, sagging, ur mind wanders in a wonderful way.

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  7. See Stella pomade,. Plants butter.. Standing television ( Old skool).
    Peugeot 504,.blue band tin chaiii.
    Old skool things

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  8. See Stella pomade,. Plants butter.. Standing television ( Old skool).
    Peugeot 504,.blue band tin chaiii.
    Old skool things

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  9. Yea I agree with u totally. Dt Stella n Jet cream. I love dia smells or fragrance though.

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  10. Yes oooo Stella all those things there my papa dey buy am for us. That Planta na former Lever Brothers dey do am but now it is Unilever.

    I really enjoy those things. That stella pomade na my pomade be that ooo. once you rubb it you go just dey shine dey go.

    Wish this day will just turn back time. Old school rocks.

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  11. Hehehhehehe...Stella wia did u get dse pix?

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  12. Awwww! Feel like playing suwe and tente right now.

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  13. Memories...

    I feel nostalgic about almost any memory nowadays, always seem to be close to tears all the time and I'm usually not a crying person.
    Is this old age or emotional breakdown or what...?

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    1. Same to me. Are you away from your family? I miss mine.

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    2. It just brings d memory of my mum back. I totally get d feeling. Sigh

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  14. Hahahaahahahahah

    Stella thanks for the old memory lane jor....

    Stella as a matter of fact, that Stella pomade is still in the market and WELL USED.

    That was part of the things my hubby was asked to buy for women when he came to marry me. 20 for that matter lwkmd.

    Easterns can never leave this cream alone.

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    1. My dear it was in my own list too hehehe

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    2. Nne, we still use it in my place too. It was part of the items in the "list umunwanyi". but ours is btw four and eight pieces

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  15. Hahahaahahahahah

    Stella thanks for the old memory lane jor....

    Stella as a matter of fact, that Stella pomade is still in the market and WELL USED.

    That was part of the things my hubby was asked to buy for women when he came to marry me. 20 for that matter lwkmd.

    Easterns can never leave this cream alone.

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    1. Isssalliee adonbilivit, lol, so your hubby actually bought the cream? Good old tradition....

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    2. I remember all. Good old days. There was Nku cream, Royal baby powder also. D days of using Slate & Chalk.

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  16. I remember some of them
    Hum 504 my dad's car then

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  17. I can stil remember the good old days.
    But
    Now.Things has fallen apart.

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  18. Awwwwwww Stella ... You bringing back old memories!!!

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  19. Oh how I miss goody goody

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  20. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
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    Onpoint pics..... I remembered many though..... #NowPlaying>> demonstrate: uzi....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  21. I loved my Planta and Okin biscuit back in the days. Chai!

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  22. Choi, okin biscuit o. I had dreams.

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  23. I experienced all. Hmmm

    Thank God for d gift of life.

    Let me add some. Unfortunately, no pics to show.

    1. Pamalat yogurt by Sona brewries
    2. Smarties chocolate
    3. Bata shoes
    4. Amusement Park, Apapa
    5. Elephant Blue detergent
    6. Tree-Top drink
    7. Go-go sweets
    8. Bazooka chew gum
    E.t.c.

    God bless Nigeria. #Sweetmemories.

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    1. Goody goody sweet
      Trebor sweets
      chopper bicycles
      curtina shoes
      those where the days!!!!

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    2. Na waooooo u Na real old school, Bazooka with d pictures

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    3. Choco, choco milo.

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    4. You must be a 1980 baby

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    5. You are so on point. I even asked my mum about 3 top drink. She said I must be dreaming if I think I can ever find them and to call her if I do .

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    6. Dr Pepper drink (or is it Mr Pepper), ginger ale, short cake biscuit. M&K.

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    7. We use to live in a school environment when I was young, I use to buy all these biscuits and sell to HSC students in d hostel then. Toffee sweet, nicco sweet, tomtom etc. Chocobite, sweet alagbon, balewa. Childhood is sweet cus I really enjoyed mine. Seeing these bring back sweet old memories.

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    8. Yea..
      Dr pepper and crush were the Pepsi and mirinda of those days.
      Bazooka chewing gum. Hahhahhhahaa
      Memories!!!

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    9. Green Sands shandy nko? (who knew it contained alcohol) l loved Goody-Goody and Big Dip ice-cream like kilode! Kai, those days were gooooood. Days of Mirror in the Sun and Andrew-checking-out. Veno Marioghae, Mandy Brown-Ojugbana and Dizzy K Falola *omojeje*

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    10. Nostalgic already. Good old days

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  24. Wow
    See 10 kobo
    Old school things

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    1. Lol..
      Same here, I can remember just few things here..

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    2. Oh shut up! The more reason you shuld mind d way to talk. Or maybe you are dat old but haven't achieved anything so you decided to live in denial.

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    3. If all dis things r strange to u,den u r a smallie...put uncle infront of my name wen u wanto address me next time

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    4. Na fight? Is anyone forcing you to be old? Mgbeobuna ina ako ka onye ara.

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    5. Make una sofri dey lie for dis blog.I'm 23yrs and still remember most of these things..Yes i have vivid memory.Eka u never reach 25? Abeg make we hear word.Small pikin indeed..Come and suck breast.

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    1. U remember all ... Old tin like you!

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  27. I did that swell sotey.....
    That whistle...yes
    We use 2 watch blank television (audio tv) with just the voices.
    Hahahahahahhhahah

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    1. Hahahaha...
      You remembered the name of the game...
      Swell!!..
      Lmao...

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    2. What of that one. Two groups,then one girl in front,you fall backwards,they catch u,throw u up,u dance,fall back.
      We use to sing
      Dede wa
      Dede wa
      Dede wa
      Etc.

      That swell,I do am tire.
      Koso nko?.
      My naughty older bro nearly use koso kill back of my hand.

      I was quite sporty as a child. Table tennis,courtesy of my late dad n goalkeeper for my bro's team. U no go even know say I be gal. I go wear trouser dey jump like Enyeama. I was quite good.

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  28. I didn't meet planta.. But everything else 90's baby

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  29. Wow, m old o! I know and remember every item, I even won a Fiddo Diddo t-shirt once. Thanks Stella

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  30. We never got to use any of the above, they were too much luxuries and meant for 'big man childrean' like my mom always told us.

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  31. I can't remember stella pomade, but i remember seeing venus pomade kikikiki. I played suwe taya. I remember you have to put water in whistle for the bird to sing. NTA 2 channel 5 ela oju ko kikikiki, remember the colored chalk to make those colored drink, baba dudu, sisi pelebe, congealed honey. Sprint chewing gum 2 for 50kobo. It have teyed. I be madam play play representing surulere.

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  32. I can't remember stella pomade, but i remember seeing venus pomade kikikiki. I played suwe taya. I remember you have to put water in whistle for the bird to sing. NTA 2 channel 5 ela oju ko kikikiki, remember the colored chalk to make those colored drink, baba dudu, sisi pelebe, congealed honey. Sprint chewing gum 2 for 50kobo. It have teyed. I be madam play play representing surulere.

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  33. I can't remember stella pomade, but i remember seeing venus pomade kikikiki. I played suwe taya. I remember you have to put water in whistle for the bird to sing. NTA 2 channel 5 ela oju ko kikikiki, remember the colored chalk to make those colored drink, baba dudu, sisi pelebe, congealed honey. Sprint chewing gum 2 for 50kobo. It have teyed. I be madam play play representing surulere.

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  34. Jet cream was so nice. Planta my planta
    Where is big dip, I love

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  35. Awwww


    Feeling nostalgic.


    #WhiteDiamondOut

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  36. On my goodness!!! What a memories. I remember almost all of them. That Okin biscuit makes me laugh out loud, My mummy's shop suffered in the hand of my sister, Okin Biscuit and Fanta.

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  37. Lol,, I remember that grundig TV wella, that TV usually in the cupboard and with its k.leg......buhahahahahaha

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  38. Ahhaa, I remember ALL of them! What of midnight blue powder that smelt so nice and had a lovely white princess lady on the front of the container? Every evening after my mum bathes us, she rubs it around our neck and shoulders.

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  39. I don old oo I remember all.....

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  40. Thanks for taking me the memory lane. My eldest sister name is Stella. She attended Stella Marris college. Our household cream was Stella Pomade. So when my sister dress up in the morning for school, we use to scornfully sing at her, that She attend Stella, She wear Stella uniform, She rob Stella cream and she even bear Stella. It was all fun.

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  41. Wow.....
    I remembered all o.. in the 80's and early 90's
    #nostalgic ,,,

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  42. Kai...okin biscuit o, my favourite okin biscuit was d rectangular shape ..whistle bird with water in it,,hnmm suwe game!
    Gush!

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  43. Square aka suwe, good old days indeed

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  44. Oh Lord. That whistle. And yes, I played 'suwe' o. Always

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  45. Except planta, I know d others

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  46. I so remember d planta advert! #singing children is breakfast time, breakfast time is planta time, planta. Lol, gud old days

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  47. wen was blue band ever packaged like that? the only ones i can remember are okin biscuit and suwe

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  48. Wow those pictures bring so many beautiful memories.
    Thanks Stella for reminding me of my growing up days. Sweet old yesterday.

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  49. Chaiii. I remember all wella. Miss those good old days. I hated the smell of that Stella pomade too. But no by force to rub am oooo with my mama

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  50. Old school tinz. Jet cream fine die, love the okin shortcake than the round one.

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  51. The 7up fido dido came much later than the rest,good old days

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  52. I remembered every... Stella pomade is very much around,saw it at Bariga market .

    RayJay

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  53. Stella pomade and Jet cream are made by PZ Industries and are still in the market. Only that the southerners (the 3regions) prefer bleaching cream so they are sold up north and exported to Neighbouring countries

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  54. My mum still has that stove in her kitchen o. Everlasting stove lol

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    1. But that stove can over float tire o!
      Expecially those ones with bottle in Btw for the kero!

      Echetam the day we ate jollof rice aja aja because the stove started over floating(i guess that's the right word) and we all had to quench the fire with every every o both sand o, water plus even stone...lol

      Chaii! Uwa même ntughari! Thank you Jesus for my today..

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    2. Hahahaha.
      Chai. Abakaliki rice 🍚 ,rubbish rice filled with stone. Everyone ate that rice

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  55. We always broke the Stella pomade bottle before we used it half way. Memories.

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  56. Stella pomade was on the list my husband was given when I was getting married. I was shocked they got it from owerri market.

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  57. Lol.....planta puts more life into you and aaahh it taste so good.....good ole days...

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  58. Chai;na stella pomade i rub tire oooo,cos my mum just likes it A lot..

    The black and white Tv eeehh;person wey get am then ma bigman oooo

    That whistle,chai!!! I remember when i use to blow mine with water poured inside through the hole;then when i blow it;the water would just be splashing all over my face and i would be laughing like i won lottery...choi!! childhood eehhh..

    That peugeot 504,thats the strongest car for taxi now ooo..

    The lady playing "swell"(thats what we call it at the east here) and the guy watching;mehn i love that game biko..then in primary school i would leave other male game to play this with my fenale classmates..even after school dismissed self!

    The 50kobo;epic! Would still find much of them if i search wella here..cos thats what we use to play the game "AYO" whenever our ayo seed was missing

    @MARTINS ABOY

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  59. I remember all.. that stove was my mum stove then.

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  60. Plus my mum loves planta so much. ...

    Chai nnem oma I miss u daily.

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  61. Good old days........... Stella just refreshed my memories...... When Nigeria was Nigeria

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  62. Choi, I no sabi them.
    Aunties and uncles, una doh

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  63. Stella Pomade.lol. my mama will buy two of it and take kitchen spoon, tell us to bring our co trainers and share for us all. Good ol' days .That one that resembles nku cream,na only my mama dey use am..see that stove and plenty others. Chai.

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  64. My father still uses d 'jet' cream oh! That 1 still dey market oh! Choi! I don old oh! I remember almost all of them sha.. Thank God for life!

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  65. This is the kind of post I expect to read Nwunye generals stories. Lol
    Nne hope your good, miss your comments here lately...

    Genny la babe love, where are thou for crying out loud!! Tried sending you a mail recently but it bounced back...

    Stella you need to see the way I read this post smiling sheepishly..
    I remember all!! Except for few which are peculiar to people that grew up in the west..

    Mgbe Uwa di nma!!
    *smilling out*

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  66. I remember all.
    We use to cover our TV with lucozade paper to make it coloured tv
    Hahaha

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  67. Love the Okin biscuits...Yum!

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  68. Asin ehn, I rmmb dat planta advert very well. Jet cream still dey market oooo. I'm old mehn

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    1. And the teevee jingle back then goes:

      Children! It's breakfast time!
      Breakfast time is planta time...planta!
      La la la la la la la......planta! ( can't remeber the words anymore) lol

      Good ol days really!

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  69. I remember everything and also.remember how my grandpa.used to shoult " e gbe ki ni yen si channel 7 ! ( change the station to.channel. 7 !.) on Sundays when we are.watching Fantasy Island on NTA 2. My sisters and I. will get.angry.and leave the living room for him .

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  70. The Horlicks advert nko? abi na Ovaltine. My name na Mary. Chei, I remember how they used to lock the Ovaltine and Horlicks. We still found a way to thief and lick sha. Good old days. I do miss the goody goody though.

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  71. I rember all; I stil have the one naria note and 10kobo coin. Planining on showing them to my kids. O boy person don old tooo ooo.

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  72. Wow!i remember all.my fav jingle back then was planta. grandma will force us to rub stella pomade mixed with palm kernel oil anytime we came visiting. The smell of the mix na die ! Lol

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  73. Waao! Stella u really tried fort this journey bak memory lane,mmm Planta what happened to it,stella pormade I hated so much that I wuld always find a way to push it off the table,and trust my mum even after I must have been beaten,we will stil end up using the spilt pomade even with some little pieces of glass int it,

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  74. Dan Fulani pomode and royal baby powder. Sch den was with slates and chalk.

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  75. Did anyone used that soap they called "ncha Lagos and ncha green" even that sweet they call chocomilo and papament,apart from swell there's another we used to play mostly in the east we call it "ugah" and there's a very famous play then everyone was entitled to we call it" ororo" it goes with a song ,as I sing now (ororo Oro, onye mjidere, jide,okpo na ishi oko)this is the best I can remember on the song .there are some interesting films NTA use to show then on Saturdays, the names are wiliwili, checkmate, jaguar,seven lucky stars, home alone,the rich also cry, Maria de alindelis,hard target,shawolin temple, the killer, romio must die,tells by moonlight, and many more,

    Those days there's what we call"egwu onwa,it goes with lots to dancing, story tells and at times toasting of girls, during the egwu onwa we stay out till 11pm at night because it's always on weekends we come out for it,

    There are so many stories our fathers told us then that remains one of the must significant guidance on us till now.stories like

    Ojadili the great warrior, from this story you will understand how man gets that long line on our back, another story was obidike, ije odumodu jere na obodo finda, the story of amadi oha and there are so many stories our parents told us about the totoise we call it nnabe,

    Mehn,Choi I remembered all these cos I played a lot then, those days we don't use to wear clothes we only wear Nika . and there are some games the boys play then some are

    Players which we use the cock of minaral bottles to play.

    Another is boiress ,a wooden motor we construct .
    And riding of wheal and many more.and those days in school there's a name the use to call us then ,the name is "umu ota Akara"

    We sang so many songs in school then, songs like
    Old rogger is dead and gone to his grave heeeee haaaaa gone to his grave.

    Another song is, infact if I sing this song the way we sang it then and you getting to know the actual meaning, hmm you will laugh tire , the song really means"standard living standard living" but for us we sing it this way"sanda Lilili sanda lili" hahahaha, chai, when men were boys, when we use to write love letter. Chai thank you Lord for your long life and health..

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