I was born in 1980.
Some say that means I belong to the
Generation X. Others believe this
makes me a millennial and thus a
member of Generation Y - a
frustrating state of affairs if you are
like me and prefer things to be all
neat and tidy.
Anyone born between 1977 and 1985
will know this problem. These nine
years are not enough to qualify as a
separate generation, but many who
are born during that time never quite
feel like they belong. And they have
every reason to think that.
Those born in the early 1980's
- call them "Xennials" - had an
analog childhood and a digital
adulthood
The years of our birth lie between
two huge generations. We had to
bridge the divide between an analog
childhood and digital adulthood and
we are reminded of this day after
day. We live with one foot in
Generation X and one in Generation
Y. This is an uncomfortable position -
and we aren't fond of it.
But there is a simple solution: We
can call ourselves a micro-
generation. We are not Gen-Xers. We
are not millennials. We are in
between, we are Xennials.
Nobody quite knows who first coined
that term. For a long time it was
falsely attributed to the Australian
sociologist Dan Woodman . Author
Sarah Stankorb claims first use of the
word in an Essay for the Magazin
"Good" in 2014. But whoever came
up with it, the term really nails it.
Young Xennials played
outdoors and couldn't text their
friends
Like the Gen-Xers, as children we
played outdoors, engaged in games
we made ourselves, a long time
before the advent of gaming
consoles. We made macramé
bracelets for our friends and wrote
each other postcards.
We couldn't coordinate meetups with
friends by text, chat or WhatsApp.
We had to pick up the receiver, call
their house, introduce ourselves to
their parents and persuade them to
hand the phone to our friend. This
sometimes felt like dodging obstacles
in Mario Land's boss fights.
I once had the father of a friend tell
me: "I'm sorry but I can't bother
Susan right now. She's watching
Emergency Room." I spent nearly
half an hour explaining the one-
sentence message I wanted him to
relay to her.
Xennials may have used
Hotmail, but also navigate
social media like they were
born into it
But then they arrived: The first
cellphones.
Finally we had a way of contacting
our friends without having to go
through their parents first. We
joyfully commenced texting and
texting and texting. That led to a
horrendous phone bill, which was
met with less than joyful responses
by our parents, but that is a story for
another day.
Our fist computers were either Intels,
286 or 486, or the Commodore
Amiga. Our first video games came
on floppy disks. They were played
with the keyboard or a joystick. Oh
how I loved the Winter Games or
Prince of Persia!
My first email address ended with
@hotmail.com. And do you
remember the racket the old
modems used to make!?
Nowadays we use social media like
we were born to do it. But we can
remember a life without them. Our
earliest childhood is recorded on
Super-8 tapes that are barely even
legible today. I feel for all the kids
who will have to relive their potty
successes and failures in full HD in a
few years.
paullhammonddavies
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We grew up without the stress of
being constantly photographed,
filmed or location tracked. Pictures
of our childhood were never posted
on Facebook.
As we were growing up, technology
matured along side us. We had time
to get used to it and were still young
enough to feel right at home with it.
Those born in the early 1980's
are neither depressed like Gen
Xers or overly optimistic like
millennials
Our childhood was peaceful. The
Cold War that had terrified
Generation X was already almost
over by the time we were born. It did
not concern us. We heard of the Iraq
war and the conflict in the Balkans,
but both of those still seemed very
far away. It was nothing compared to
the war in Afghanistan that was very
present in the mind of young
millennials.
Our most important conflicts were
about whether we wore Buffalos or
skater shoes, or if we listened to
Green day or Oasis.
It follows that the psychological
makeup of the typical Xennial should
lie somewhere between the typical
millennial and the members of Gen
X, according to Professor Woodman
of the University of Melbourne. He
told Mamamia that they were
"between the Gen X group - who we
think of as the depressed flannelette-
shirt wearing, grunge-listening
children that came after the Baby
Boomers, and the millennials - who
get described as optimistic, tech
savvy and maybe a little bit too sure
of themselves and too confident."
Or in other words: Xennials are
neither depressed nor overly
optimistic. We hold the optimal
balance.
All things considered, it's not
frustrating to be sandwiched
between two generations. In fact, I
would say we managed to be born at
the perfect time.


http://www.businessinsider.com/people-born-between-gen-x-millennials-xennials-2017-11?IR=T

From the interview,I ask, How do you ban exportation for 3months and then sign CITES permits for the same given period?

She said she signed 2992 permits in one day,16th Jan which a quarter of it wasn't used by the exporters.How do you sign about 800permits that are not used since the ban dates Dec 31st 2016?

Good thing the case is closed since the UN sec gen is backing her fully.They have to take one for the team.Good for Nigeria too.

Or were you expecting her to come out and accept?

nestic:
$300 million... infact am living this country... lemme go and spend my own first

This is 135th naira abi?

Na wa for this kind of topic.

We all know yes we all know that all abbatoirs in Nigeria all look exactly alike.
We all put extra effort in washing the meat we buy every time.

But nairaland even knowing how tribalistically sensitive everyone is in the country these days put this up to front page.Goes to show how divisive a lot of us can be and help in brewing more hate.
Some people on here just made themselves believe there are very hygienic abbatoirs in other parts of Nigeria.

If you like buy meat no wash am well.even the one you kill at home

HealthWealthy:
Only perverts see her as a distraction.

View my signature if you want to get a sexy body before Christmas

the word pervert means a different thing to you

oyatmicah:
perverts everywhere smh

Go and look up the word pervert..or tell me what's abnormal in liking a pretty girl

ATIKUisCOOL:
United go chop am today. First UCL defeat

Do you even believe yourself or you just have to talk?

Isn't it 8.45pm?..Thought time zones have changed to +1 for Nigeria

How many versions in 1 week?
Kachikwu : They signed $25bn contracts Baru : We followed due process and PMB signed it Baru : No,Osinbajo signed it VP aide : Osibanjo signed contract Osinbajo : I did not sign any contract Presidency : There were no contracts.
All these while na dem dey talk,na dem dey answer.

ArmedRobber:
at times it is better to keep quiet and pretend like genius rather that making fool of yourself with stupid comment

Why usher yourself in with insults?

Remember you are not so well paid for this your media job.

I know that you sef don confuse these past two weeks

jpphilips:


What makes you think its a secret contract? It is not fun talking in public when you are poorly appraised of a situation, one of the contracts DSDP was packaged by Kachikwu when he was the GMD of NNPC, what qualifies it a secret contract?

Does this job really pay well?

Biko let's be serious..it could be one of the new career jobs in Nigeria

chngebeginwthme:


I guess you are still confuse, This is just a contracts award and no money is missing, Kachikwu never mention anything about corruption or that money is missing, He never say the contracts are scam or those awarded to are not suppose to get the contracts. What Kachikwu is saying is that he should be the one to award the contracts as a Minister of State for Petroleum..

Now all the departments under NNPC like Pengasan, Nupeng etc are in support of baru go online and read..

You are really not well paid for this job

Toketimt:
Because it's Obvious to all now that it lacks substance.

Hope you have been following till now
I'm very sure you are not well paid for this your media job

Guys I find it difficult opening the fantasy website.
It appears so disjointed that the page features don't even show.
is it only me? I have very good network

I don't think it's specifically a Glo thing..

Been happening to me in the past two weeks and I use MTN.First thought it was just d device.

Some sites loading is disjointed most times(eg fantasy pl website),expected highlights on the site don't show.
I wonder what the problem is.

I no trust these Telcos, them fit don remove something to gain more

ItsMeAboki:
Where are the regional and tribal champions too quick to twist the whole matter into something else from their usual bigoted perspective; what will they now say after this revelation?
When some ppl believe they are always smarter than everyone else and therefore feel they have a licence to look down on others; they sooner or later often get floored by the least person they ever expected and instead become the very big fools they ironically thought others were.

Kachikwu, seems to be one big example of such educated but foolish persons and a hypocrite as well; because he upheld one of the rules he is now implicitly challenging when it favoured him as then MD.

It is also interesting to note that he is not entirely clean himself and already under EFCC investigation over clandestine siphoning of over 1billion Naira through shady contracts between him and his brother.

Also currently circulating through various platforms of the social media is secretly filmed short clip of his alleged Lagos garage full of exotic cars (mostly Rolls Royce s) easily worth billions.

Leave Kachikwu alone and focus in the two thieves caught red handed,Baru and Buhari.

To simplify it for you lots:

On your way back home,your wicked,jealous and hated neighbour stop you for road,tell you say 2 thieves jump fence enter your compound. You park your motor,begin attack the man say e dey jealous your newly painted fence.

If you like,no go house go find the thieves.

monex:


by the NNPC, act they can go to the substantive Minister without recourse to the Minister of State. Ministers of state are incosequential unless powers are delegated to them.

Kachukwu's grouse is being sidelined as chairman of the board and not as Minister of state. however the correspondence from BPE clarifies. As funny as it may seem, it is likely that BARU acted within the law. Kachukwu has been sidelined by his principal (Buhari) so I agree with your last statement that he should resign. he should have resigned long ago

All of you saying Kachikwu should resign for uncovering the biggest heist in the history of Nigeria.
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU.

Do you wonder why China is so developed now.?
Do you think Africans are more corrupt as Asians?

But if this was China,Baru would get a straight death sentence and Buhari would do a "walk of shame" + Death sentence.

Baru and Buhari are the clear thieves.

babaolofin:
I feel really sorry for Kachikwu. I know this is what is going to happen to him. He should have remained as the executive vice chairman of ExxonMobil Africa. When he was brought into the government to stabilise business with American oil partners when oil price was very low & patronage from US also low, little did he know that cabal will frustrate him out.

They frustrated him out of NNPC as the GMD to make him a minister of state without PORTFOLIO. That's Nigeria for you. This is a lesson. Even when the president is sick or without any technical knowledge of the oil business & deals, the cabal will still use his name. The other one said the president is the minister, you can get access to him & get approval without the VP. This is when his minister of state cannot see him, when he has spent cumulative 14 months on sickness locally & abroad .Yaradua's case is an example here, I remember Andoaaka & his Yaradua's cabal.
Thank God, trasgender & every sort of things are possible in medical world now.

Until Nigeria restructures , there can be no positive result. We are back to the era of PTF where Afri Project Consortium (APC) manages projects without accountability. What happens at NNPC during Abacha is similar to what is happening now.

Kachikwu is as good as gone. He may wait for some time. Tendering letter of resignation is not the best for him now.

Don't feel for him.He's a great man already for exposing such level of official corruption by a whole Mr Integrity

Even if he gets the sack, he's done a wonderful job and would leave with his head high

anibestlala:
And that's true. the man made efforts to reach the President and when he was denied access ,he wrote to him since August only for the letter to be leaked in October. suddenly Kachikwu was granted audience with the President after the leakage.Sherlock Holmes would say that no matter how good an egg looks ,if it smells there is something wrong.

Don't mind the BMCs here on nairaland doing a very bad job.
This is the height of corruption to casually leak.

Prof Sagay has been quiet.
Lai Mohammed has been quiet.
Omojuwa has been discussing only super eagles for the past two days on twitter.

chngebeginwthme:


GO back and read again, Kachikwu also use the same method when he was GMD NNPC..

it's a case of Kachikwu not wanting Baru to outsmart him because he is a Minister of State..

OK
According to you,Kachikwu used the method before and probably sent it through the substantive Minister and FEC subsequently....and he's not in jail yet?..Think again

As a great method and order of the day according to you....So Bubu should adopt a method and an amount that surpasses that of all past administrations in such a short while..$25Bn

The man beat IBB,Abacha,OBJ n GEJ

Prove me wrong

BetaThings:


But was Kachikwu truly innocent. He was GMD of NNPc when he announced unbundling of the group into 30 companies before quickly backtracking after outcry by NLC and NASS
Everybody wants free hand

http://www.nnpcgroup.com/PublicRelations/NNPCinthenews/tabid/92/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/625/FG-Moves-to-Unbundle-NNPC-into-30-Companies.aspx
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/reps-tackle-kachikwu-over-unbundling-of-nnpc-into-30-companies/

What matters is that Baru n Bubu have been got red handed at this moment.

You BMCs don't understand the amount we are talking about will run Nigeria for a year n leave 2 trillion naira change.
There's no getting around it

jpphilips:


Since you have sense, what is the due process that was not followed? Where was the president in the last 4months? Please stop talking about sense, you have no clue how it feels to have one.

The substantive Minister for Petroleum got report on on awarded contracts from Baru
Or if he didn't, he definitely got the petition on the awarded contracts (not proposals o) from Kachikwu
And he did nothing about them...until the letter leaked.

Bubu is fantastically corrupt!

jpphilips:


Since you have sense, what is the due process that was not followed? Where was the president in the last 4months? Please stop talking about sense, you have no clue how it feels to have one.

Past 4months you said.

I said August...31st August.

Keep running around.
Why wasn't he put to order since August 31st?

jpphilips:


Did you read Kachikwu's memo or you did but the usual low IQ interpretation wont let you put it straight.

No need for the low IQ talk.Im not angry

So I still ask.Why wasn't he called to order?

it's a secret contract and it's theft.

If the contract has been approved, do you think there's another big event for disbursements?

So what was the initial plan?

jpphilips:
When a group of illiterate elect a thug to lead them thats the crude interpretation he gives to a memo written in simple English. Where in the memo did it say $26b was stolen?
Does it mean that Wike's level of reasoning doesn't know the difference between stolen funds and contract sum, damn!!

BMC aka Soulja..jeffphilips

We know you.

chngebeginwthme:


You still don't understand the situation i guess..

The contract mean giving some oil companies access to buy oil from Nigeria through NNPC..

You guys think Baru awarded contracts and gave money to contractors right? The Answer is NO..

If it was for good why not attend to Kachikwu's letter since August?

Why not put Kachikwu in order since August?
Why did it become an emergency when the letter leaked?

But if you insist on understanding upside down(for the gain of the nation),ill leave you to bask in your sea of ignorance, deciet....etc

chngebeginwthme:



No he did not know about until now..

My question.. Is any money missing? Did they release any money for the contracts? Maybe you need to ask about the contract and them i will explain how it's beneficial to Nigeria is we don't spend kobo instead adding $26billion for us..

Thanks
With this your assertion, can anyone be convicted for corruption in Nigeria?
Do you think governments steal money by driving multitude of bullion vans to CBN?


Even Omojuwa, a well known, well paid BMC member on twitter has been quiet on it for days...hes been discussing only super eagles for the past two days.Then it's you,that I don't know if you are paid with your 165mb brain they sent to come an protect the biggest corruption case in d history of Nigeria.

Truth is nothing will happen for now..it would be swept under but don't come here with half smartness.

chngebeginwthme:


Because his question make no sense same as your poke-nosing too.... baru has awarded the contract and Buhari has given his consent yesterday.. Oya go and kill yourself..

I am happy no money is missing like that of GEJ and no trace of contract scam here..

What is matter is to get result, How they get the result is not what matter..

You just accepted that Buhari gave consent.

Summary (the one u never wanted to accept) is: Bubu was caught in d pot of corruption for giving consent without due process.

And I hope you don't think Deziani committed any crime? Or do you?

And what results are you talking of?..funny you

chngebeginwthme:


We are talking about contract under NNPC which Baru is the GMD, Is Kachikwu minister of NNPC? lol just trying to make you laugh..

But on a more serious note no money is missing and no contract fraud here, Kachikwu is just mad that he should have be the one to take the glory hahaa..

Nigeria will be making a whopping $26billion from that contract and Baru will take the glory and that will add to his CV..

My question remains, Is the substantive Minister aware of these contracts that sum up to $26Bn(2trillion > 2017 budget)?

No need patronising me, just go straight to the point.

chngebeginwthme:


Due process how? the GMD is a carrer NNPC official for now and Kachikwu is just an appointee which can be sacked any time..

Someone asked you A, ....You are talking Q

Wetin concern due process with career n appointee?

chngebeginwthme:


I still repeat lack of understand is killing many people, Did Kachikwu mention any fraud or corruption? he is only angry because did award those contracts to the oil companies with letting him know.. It does not mean anyone stole money or money is missing.

Beside Buhari is the minister of Petroleum and he has since ask them to to maintain sanity. ..

Kachikwu is only playing fast one maybe he is expecting kickback from the contractors.. hahaha..

So therefore as the substantive Minister, Buhari is aware of the contracts since the minister of state has no say in it?