Hnmmm Nigeria... i rmemba buying a bottle of coke then for 5kobo and okin biscuit for 2kobo

Ijogz K: I didn't spend much of the Kobo's but i could remember when N5 would buy me rice N3, beans N1 and meat N1.....

smallie!!

engr j: Yes i use it then most time if i don't want to go to school my mum will give me 50kobo.

Where is the old 50k note . I remember the beating of my life in 1979 december when my uncle came home from London and gave me 50k to buy sweet. I went to mama Risi selling sweet and gave her the money and gave me a pack of nico sweets...I have distributed the sweets to my friends cos i dey feel like Dangote then not knowing I will get some spanking from my no nonsense mom.

i felt old for seeing this

alexola20: Anytime I remember those days in the 80s,I weep for Nigeria.Because things have really gone bad.
My dad use to give us 1k each to school in the early 80s and we used to spend this at break time.
Then from 1k to 5k to 10k to 50k to 2 naira to 5naira to 10 and 20naira.
May God punish all our selfish and greed politicians,most especially the maradona of 9ja(IBB)may God punish him and his family.

Ami!

Boy o boy!!! Memories!!! You will not understand d extent of damage to our economy if u never used these notes and coins! Smh

yes o!

There was half a kobo?

Wow

freecocoa: There was half a kobo?

Wow

yes, but i didn't use it. people stopped accepting it around 1975.

microgiant:
yes, but i didn't use it. people stopped accepting it around 1975.

hmm

I think the only money i remember vividly here is the 50kobo.

In 1979 the cost of a new airconditioned peugeot 504GL with tinted glas and floor gear was 6,500 Naira. This is about a thousand fold increse in tjhe price.what currency value you will use to buy the car now you will buy 1000 of the same type new cars!

microgiant:
yes, but i didn't use it. people stopped accepting it around 1975.

It's not true! I used it in the 80s

freecocoa: There was half a kobo?

Wow

there was half kobo back in those days...

And way back in 1977, even before I was born, the one naira was red in colour.

@ poster thanks for this gr8t memory.
Naija our beloved country b4
Its now diluted with boko blood

Then i buy ojukwu finga nd get change..red biscuit as i call it (cabin)....gone are thosf sweet dayz....

I have just remembered something
May be naija wasn’t so good o as at then
We only thought it was good because we were still children and all we needed was provided for us just like the way we provide for our kids now and they may not know if things are difficult.
But now we’ve all grown and now cater for our immediate family responsibilities and now feel naija is very very bad. Though u cant still compare now to before according to our parents

may God help us

ACM10:


I remember when I stumbled on my mum's money. They were about 5 bundles of 20 Naira notes(highest denomination then), 10 bundles of 5 Naira notes and about 10 bundles of mixed 1 Naira and 50 kobo notes. I took only 4 notes of 50 kobo(N2). I went out with my friends painting the town red with kulikuli and sugar cane with only 50 kobo. Some people reported me to my mum, who promptly ordered some hefty men to bundle me back home. Thereafter, I was given a beating of my life. Well I took solace in the fact that I have N1:50K left to do big boy for the rest of the week.

u b Lawan dat time o! hw cld u hv taken sch huge amount of money? And u were able to exhaust N5? Hm! I jst needed 10k to b motivatd 2go 2sch 4d week. Jst buy 2 agidi jollof wrapd in thos leaves wt bone inside and yellow or red icecream nd u ar a big boy.

Those days we used 2 see coins on d street even d rusty coins can be cleand wit foot. Dat tym wetin we sabi na kulikuli, danguiya, kulier evn sugar kain u can buy dem wit 10k or 5k, 50k na big moni dt tym, i rememba my primary scool dem, scool fees na btw N20 or N25 den corpers way served in my scool na only white dem dey wear.

mummy3: I have just remembered something
May be naija wasn’t so good o as at then
We only thought it was good because we were still children and all we needed was provided for us just like the way we provide for our kids now and they may not know if things are difficult.
But now we’ve all grown and now cater for our immediate family responsibilities and now feel naija is very very bad. Though u cant still compare now to before according to our parents

may God help us

It was definitely better before SAP, trust me.

Ebony my first female friend gave me that one naira note - very clean like this one when i was in primary two, but i refused that my mom will kill me. Na waoh for life. Thanks for sharing. I mean that note with reg no. 730122 which is on front page.

nagoma: In 1979 the cost of a new airconditioned peugeot 504GL with tinted glas and floor gear was 6,500 Naira. This is about a thousand fold increse in tjhe price.what currency value you will use to buy the car now you will buy 1000 of the same type new cars!

my mum bought her brand new suzuki 80 in 1985 for 150 naira

bknight: Boy o boy!!! Memories!!! You will not understand d extent of damage to our economy if u never used these notes and coins! Smh

my school fees den was 10naira for a private school

That 1 Naira note was a classic... The best note we ever had..

I remember those days very well..

Even the 50kobo note..

I wonder how we ever lost that... Today our monies are Polymer.. Children use 1 naira coins to play and amuse each other.

I remember buying buscuits with 50koba and getting some change as at 1989. This is absolute bullshit!!

We need a revolution.. Give me some of that Old time money..

When a graduate had hope..

Most of you here were not born when these monies were in circulation. So don't cm here and form one kind level oo

the 1/2kobo was stopped in the late 70's
i remember because i started primary school in 76
and i did not spent it

Can our economy ever come back top this sweet memories

yes, i remember vividly,interesting thread for us, but made me laugh at and weep for nigeria, anyway, e go better!

Never knew the half kobo or 1 kobo coins although I may have seen them stored in my dad's drawer at some point years later...not sure. But the 50kobo coin and later 50k notes - mos def. A bottle of coke was 50k in 1988 and that was the first thing I would try to go purchase immediately and Aunt or Uncle dashed me money then. Kai....loved those days. Such nostalgia!

meedx:
You are right. And it was a brownish note.

not brown but more of ash. was my favourite note.

Remember those niko sweets and malta sweets, naija go better sha

I remember the days of the 50k note particularly during primary school because if you bring it to school, then you must be a thief. No sane parent back then would give you 50k for breaktime lunch.