Skmoda360:

I think it's 1995 or so....

shadeyinka:

Nice words! You are correct! The non-indomie generation destroyed the last of the good days before the "Indomie" generation came forth. The Indomie generation hence does not have any reference to when Nigeria was good.

Unfortunately, the term "Indomie Generation" is used mainly by those who grew up at the tail end of the peak of Nigeria's prosperity. The far much older non-indomie generation would never call you "Indomie generation": they would rather call you children.

Those who call you Indomie generation didn't spoil your world but they were privileged to see, partake but not influence they system. In their life span, they saw things collapse to an unbelievable state. Those who call you Indomie generation are the bridge between the Old Nigeria and the New Nigeria. They were the transition generation who experienced both worlds.

Those who destroyed Nigeria are too old to call you INDOMIE. And it isn't your fault anyway: it's only that many Indomie Generation speak with no reference to standards.

dangotesmummy:
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?

shadeyinka:

Nice words! You are correct! The non-indomie generation destroyed the last of the good days before the "Indomie" generation came forth. The Indomie generation hence does not have any reference to when Nigeria was good.

Unfortunately, the term "Indomie Generation" is used mainly by those who grew up at the tail end of the peak of Nigeria's prosperity. The far much older non-indomie generation would never call you "Indomie generation": they would rather call you children.

Those who call you Indomie generation didn't spoil your world but they were privileged to see, partake but not influence they system. In their life span, they saw things collapse to an unbelievable state. Those who call you Indomie generation are the bridge between the Old Nigeria and the New Nigeria. They were the transition generation who experienced both worlds.

Those who destroyed Nigeria are too old to call you INDOMIE. And it isn't your fault anyway: it's only that many Indomie Generation speak with no reference to standards.

saintneo:


Have you ever used these?




Yes = Not Indomie
No = Indomie

GodSaklek:
Kids born in year 2000 till date.... They are just using it as a slang to differentiate between people born in 1980s and 1990s from 2000s kids,Although indomie has been around for over 3 decades,but it became very popular among the children born from 1999 till date,kids born in 2000s really love it to the extent that,they prefer it than feeder.

Ygrette:


I must have skipped it. Everyday People shouldn't be on that list too. Infact, the list should be changed to

Ripples
Behind the Clouds
Supples
Cockk crow at dawn
Checkmate
Fortunes
Third Eye
Things fall apart

The Invisible Man
Robinhood
Dr Who
Another life

Tales by moonlight
Kiddies vision 101

The Rich Also Cry


Passions shouldn't be there but can be excused.


All that said, why are you insultive? Were you brought up like this?

tmanuelle:


I quite remember Another Life and Checkmate (Kunle Bamtefa and his crew)

ornicus:


Do you have dstv? Do you know channels like cbeebies, and PBS? Those are government funded. What educational channels is this government funding?
The best they could do even then was recycle shows like Sesame Street

Big brother is a for profit reality show. I do not understand how it comes into this.

dangotesmummy:
o thanks for reminding me

Ikebe super,lolly,roses and hints were our own Instagram or instablog and Facebook back in the days

That was what we used in keeping up with the trends those days.its was about 120 naira those days.every Saturday/Sunday afternoon at news stands

All these ones they do on Instagram eg sugar mummy hook ups etc we had it on ikebe super,latest clothes,shoes and all we had it in the magazines.

Hints was like celebrity section of nairaland but they were more discreet eg there's a light skinned Yoruba actress who was said to bla bla bla.we already know who they were talking about

After reading it,it was our topic of jist on campus then

MrPresident1:


American culture has destroyed everything

shadeyinka:

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.

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

shadeyinka:

You didn't add the beach

bolayei:

And didn't see lekki as swamp

unitysheart:


Na Hearts we take dey do soft p**n then

Sewgon79:


Just add it now, seriously I miss those years of fun. Bole kaja, Molue Bus,

bolayei:

Who be this guy? You make a lot of brain.

bolayei:


Can you compare these to what is used now? Yes I used them. I even used to have two radios one plays instrumental and the other I put on record and make my own songs. Now let's compare.... Back then someone with my rap and rnb skills does it for fun and only his friends will listen to it and can't really pursue a career in music. Non indomie

These days download a software on your computer and make instrumental and record your own songs and you can even record a video with a phone and download on YouTube. Indomie generation.

Which one is better?

bolayei:

Very correct.

Alot of the privileged people from the pre indomie generation left the country for education and exposure but by the time they were/are ready to return back things weren't/isn't how they left it hence difficulties in settling down thereby forcing them to return abroad.

What happened to the so-called aje-butters? They are all scattered around the world. A lot of them sold their inheritance to buy houses abroad and live abroad. Naturally people want better lives for their kids compared to what they had. Imagine growing up in a society where you don't have to worry so much about your kid's safety, education was sound irrespective of its government school or public owned. Health care was manageable but now you will spend arm and leg on hospital bills and still not get healed. The list goes on.

We can all play a blame game I. E we blame the generation before us then the generation after us will blame us but the generation post the present one will not blame this present generation but ours and consequent ones.

I saw a good society in Nigeria to the extent that when I first travelled to England I wasn't moved because it wasn't so special well it depends on what part of Nigeria one lives in as for me I lived in city centre lagos with all the modern amenities of that time as attained in any society in the world so I'm pained when I look back and compare. I don't want to even bring my children to visit Nigeria because there isn't anything for them to do or partake in unlike back in the day the family clubs were functioning, we went to Apapa amusement Park which was world standard, Bar beach was a blue sea not the dirt it is now, Mr biggs,UTC, leventis, domino etc now we have blooming shoprite and spar and they are extortionate.

That Nigeria that a lot of children lived in with their American and British passports, some not even knowing they are born abroad, that Nigeria that we had mixed raced children in our schools because pre 1984 Nigerians abroad always moved back home. That Nigeria is dead and all the natural, superficial and spiritual powers does not have the power of resurrection so there is no resurrection for Nigeria let's just take it out of the morgue and Bury it.

This generation forgive us for our inactions

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

Meanwhile the poster below me makes me laugh

If you want to recreate the old times,you can go and buy egg for 10 Naira or tell conductor you are going to mile two from agboju bustop.when you get into the bus,give him 30 naira and come back and tell me your experience

You can go to idumota and buy 6yards of original hollandise material for 1500 naira
You can do night party in ikorodu and stay there with your friends throughout the night,them come back to share your experiences

You can spend 3 thousand naira to do a big parlour birthday party with your friends
Take your kids to amusement park in Ikeja and buy candy floss for them 150 naira

Go to the saloon and do washing and setting for 150 naira


You can enter a cab from mile2 to idumota for 2 thousand naira

You can make Sunday rice and stew for 200naira that will feed the entire family and church visitors

You can buy expression attachment for 350naira and braid it for 700 naira
You can buy chewing gum for 3 ....2 naira,50kobo


You can buy pink oil for 70naira
Talking about music, the millennials have zero taste , power, substance and lyrics when it comes to music.nothing to gain, inspire or provoke deep thoughts from music like back in the days.their song no pass your bombom is driving me crazy,idi Araba,epon todun ,o'ndomilataro komajekinsun.

No let me open Una Yash finish o

That's just a taste of the iceberg,no put hand for my mouth o

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

Meanwhile the poster below me makes me laugh

If you want to recreate the old times,you can go and buy egg for 10 Naira or tell conductor you are going to mile two from agboju bustop.when you get into the bus,give him 30 naira and come back and tell me your experience

You can go to idumota and buy 6yards of original hollandise material for 1500 naira
You can do night party in ikorodu and stay there with your friends throughout the night,them come back to share your experiences

You can spend 3 thousand naira to do a big parlour birthday party with your friends
Take your kids to amusement park in Ikeja and buy candy floss for them 150 naira

Go to the saloon and do washing and setting for 150 naira


You can enter a cab from mile2 to idumota for 2 thousand naira

You can make Sunday rice and stew for 200naira that will feed the entire family and church visitors

You can buy expression attachment for 350naira and braid it for 700 naira
You can buy chewing gum for 3 ....2 naira,50kobo


You can buy pink oil for 70naira
Talking about music, the millennials have zero taste , power, substance and lyrics when it comes to music.nothing to gain, inspire or provoke deep thoughts from music like back in the days.their song no pass your bombom is driving me crazy,idi Araba,epon todun ,o'ndomilataro komajekinsun.

No let me open Una Yash finish o

That's just a taste of the iceberg,no put hand for my mouth o

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

Meanwhile the poster below me makes me laugh

If you want to recreate the old times,you can go and buy egg for 10 Naira or tell conductor you are going to mile two from agboju bustop.when you get into the bus,give him 30 naira and come back and tell me your experience

You can go to idumota and buy 6yards of original hollandise material for 1500 naira
You can do night party in ikorodu and stay there with your friends throughout the night,them come back to share your experiences

You can spend 3 thousand naira to do a big parlour birthday party with your friends
Take your kids to amusement park in Ikeja and buy candy floss for them 150 naira

Go to the saloon and do washing and setting for 150 naira


You can enter a cab from mile2 to idumota for 2 thousand naira

You can make Sunday rice and stew for 200naira that will feed the entire family and church visitors

You can buy expression attachment for 350naira and braid it for 700 naira
You can buy chewing gum for 3 ....2 naira,50kobo


You can buy pink oil for 70naira
Talking about music, the millennials have zero taste , power, substance and lyrics when it comes to music.nothing to gain, inspire or provoke deep thoughts from music like back in the days.their song no pass your bombom is driving me crazy,idi Araba,epon todun ,o'ndomilataro komajekinsun.

No let me open Una Yash finish o

That's just a taste of the iceberg,no put hand for my mouth o

kunmiiii:

This pretty much sums it all up.
And the music, how I miss the classics nothing but din and racket are called songs now.

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?

liberalchick:
Yea, it debuted in 1988 but it didn’t catch on till the 90s. By the mid 90s, Nigerian parents were feeding their kids indomie. The Indomie generation upper limit should be about 20-22y so basically generation Z depending on which stat you use.

The Indomie generation have little to no reference pre 2000s. Nigeria and the world changed a lot after the 90s. I think most older generation Nigerians feel some topics need a good pre 2000s knowledge. E.g. Indomie generation don’t know a Nigeria under the military rule, can’t remember Nigeria without the internet, cell phones, writing and posting letters etc.

Also, it’s just the typical generational war. Previous generations always bash their successors. For instance, on a global scale millennials are being shit on constantly by previous generations.