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Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Fesco: 10:26pm On Apr 15 |
That list was equally expensive even at that time because some people earned below N100.00 as salary. So for that person to afford N100.00 on those items means he/she belongs to the category of people they called Senior service then. The difference between now and then is that the Naira was very powerful and prices of commodities were affordable. With N10.00 you could prepare a delicious meal. I remember earning N50.00 as a teacher in a private Secondary Commercial School then and life was good. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by tommy589(m): 11:00pm On Apr 15 |
Ngaljau11: The only good thing about life then was that most people live within their means,eat well with less show off.Most Iive modestly in face to face apartment,fewer private schools when public schools care for primary and secondary educational needs. Fueling of generators,cable subscription,data subscription were non existence.Marriage solemnization was cheap and simple before Ojora nouveau rich marriage opened the flood gate of expensive marriages in Nigeria. I no longer see kids in cities walk barefoot, in torn underwear or tattered clothes.Nigerians of today are richer but wasteful,showy and don't eat well. Truly they don't eat well,repeating same type of food like every day. Hotels and other entertainment outlets spring up daily to collect the little they have |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by COP419(m): 11:04pm On Apr 15 |
KingLennon: Just me and my wife it’s not funny |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by IntelLord: 11:07pm On Apr 15 |
nairalanda1: @nairalanda1 hello, please do you have a soft copy or link to that book you talked about earlier, written by Adichie (Americanah)? |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by cosade(m): 11:27pm On Apr 15 |
ekitimanalways: In 1980, the minimum wage was N45 if my memory serves me right. My monthly allowance at the Polytechnic was N35 per month and lived like a king. From Abeokuta to Oshodi, bus fare was 40 kobo. A carton of 33 beer was N1 and a bottle was sold for 10 kobo. Five Geisha was N1 and other brands, you’ll get six. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Kaido: 12:21am On Apr 16 |
CodeTemplar:I still have some of my late dad's notebooks from the 1980s and diaries...there are records of stuffs with unbelievable prices. When I travel to my village, I get pissed reading 1980s newspapers. It leaves me furiously mad with questions like "Wetin happen to Nigeria?" "Who did we offend?" "Our slave really jealous and had to mess our economy up?" "Maybe our leaders became greedy with time?" |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by jazzman7711: 12:28am On Apr 16 |
Cantonese: Abeg make we hear something! ''There was this there was that!'' There was NOTHING! Fela was singing all those stuff because he was imagining them in his head, abi? Look at Lagos today - BRT, air conditioned trains, Uber, even market women with Iphone. How many people had telephones (landline) back then? Only the creme de la creme of society! So if you wanted to see a business partner on the Island, you will ENTER MOLUE with heavy go-slow of 3 hrs before you reach Island, and when you reach your guy's office, they will tell you he has travelled! Back to Molue for return journey to mainland. Whole day wasted. Does that happen today? NO. You will call to confirm. Simple thing. And before you credit 'technology', remember that in developed countries, EVERYBODY had a landline telephone back then. But in Nigeria, only the very rich had it. So no communication, except you move around by DANFO or MOLUE. If you find sitting space, you're a lucky man (49 sitting 99 standing, apologies Fela) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y--5IlljO78&ab_channel=Hogan523 |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Kaido: 12:32am On Apr 16 |
Ngaljau11:Please, look for 1980s newspapers and read. Meet old and learned people to tell you how life was then. People lived more happier and even eat healthier meal. There was a time Nigeria was way better. The naira rate was strangest in the 80s. Our fathers, mothers, Uncles and Aunts rocked life in the 1980s, bro. I dey envy them sometimes. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by jazzman7711: 12:42am On Apr 16 |
Kaido: Anywhere you go in the world, the old folks will tell you the same thing. That things were 'much better' in their time. It's just nostalgia, and human nature. It's an illusion. Most young Nigerians today if sent back to the 1980s, could not cope. Back then I remember meat was so expensive. We only had one or two small pieces of meat per plate, and we were middle class o! So I don't know how the poor coped. Today, guys buy plates of food with ''assorted meat''. Or 2 big chunks of meat/pomo etc that would cover the whole plate! Nothing like that in those days bro. Na one or two small meat, unless you be rich man. Even rice was a special thing you ate only on Sunday. Abeg forget mehn... |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Osanoghodua1: 1:48am On Apr 16 |
Everything here is too expensive, they are all fake, in 1980, you should use maybe just #20-40 for everything and they still will be too much. All fake, don't believe everything in social Media. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by nairalanda1(m): 3:58am On Apr 16 |
IntelLord: AMERICANAH PDF COPY (May require registration to download.) |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by nairalanda1(m): 4:07am On Apr 16 |
Blitzerz: They could with the aid of something called a car loan which had to be paid back. (I know, after all I was there). Cars are in a way more expensive because of all the fancy electronics in them. Plus, eventually the reason why we don't manufacture cars in Nigeria is largely because all the cars assembled in Nigeria...we had to bring in all the parts from oversease. We don't have a large number of people across the country making the small parts needed to go into a car, and as cars have gotten more complex, we may never have them. That is why making new cars in Nigeria is more expensive than importing second hand Toyotas and others. Innoson is trying, but he still has to import small parts and other things from oversease. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by MyAmericandream(f): 6:03am On Apr 16 |
jazzman7711: Minimum wage back then was 80naira, Your pocket money was 500. You must be from a very wealthy family then. So how much was now your school fees? |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by IntelLord: 6:24am On Apr 16 |
nairalanda1: I have acquired the book now. Thanks so much. 🤝👍 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by ekitimanalways(m): 6:43am On Apr 16 |
cosade: Please note that the first national minimum wage Act of 1981 prescribed a minimum wage of N125 per month. This was revised in 1991 to N250 per month, revised again in 2000 to N5,500 per month, and in 2011 to N18,000 per month… |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by femi4: 6:50am On Apr 16 |
CodeTemplar:1984 |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by headboyprince(m): 7:26am On Apr 16 |
inoki247:you sound so foolish and childish. how can you say everyone was building face me and faceyou in the 1980s when you were born in th 2000s. my friend go back and read your books. you're still a kid |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by headboyprince(m): 7:32am On Apr 16 |
jazzman7711:you werent middle class. your parents were poor. speak the truth, what was their income and how much was rice and meat. you're just saying nonsense. and how many people today can afford rice and meat on a steady. . yo're speaking like a village illitrate and generalizing rubbish |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by headboyprince(m): 7:44am On Apr 16 |
jazzman7711:lol tech is the most cheapest thing today. you can buy a chinko techno iphone for 20k. nothing special. in the 80s it was expensive because it was new and it was very heavy. a landline was as expensive as iphone 15. tech is so cheap now. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by headboyprince(m): 8:09am On Apr 16 |
jazzman7711:you're defintely an arrogant and ignorant kid. which one is travel to see a bsiness partner? just send letters to him or her. people used to send letters that has been replaced by calls and sms. that is nothing special. those who lived in both times are telling you so and you're saying it's a lie when you've only lived in this era how can you know how things were.? children on these days are just too rude. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by cosade(m): 9:06am On Apr 16 |
ekitimanalways: You meant to say the first negotiated national minimum wage through collective bargaining by labour unions, government and other stakeholders. Before 1981, governments have been fixing minimum wages. Search for the “Wage Board and Industrial Council Act No. 1 of 1973” where statutory minimum wage was clearly defined. As a result of this Act, “Udoji Salary Award” (Owo Udoji) was paid to government workers and some of the private sector employers also did same.
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Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by drimzsmoke(m): 9:15am On Apr 16 |
Omoawoke: Days when husbands used to beat their wives like nursery 1 pupil!!! |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by princefunm: 10:22am On Apr 16 |
voiceoftheupcom: If any of you had the consciousness to be aware of the 80's you would understand that even this prices, as little as they look now, where actually quite expensive. Imagine buying yams at 14 naira. Brand new Volkswagen Bettl was 1,440 naira Peugeot 504....2,450 naira (Brand New oooo) Just so you can have things in proper perspective. No be today Nigeria begin spoil. E don taaaaaaayyyyy |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by ekitimanalways(m): 10:31am On Apr 16 |
cosade: The public sector monthly minimum wage in Nigeria in 1970 was ₦18 ( or $25) and by 1974 it had been raised to ₦60 (₦1/$228) when Nigeria’s economy was doing well during its first oil boom. ₦60 in 1974 was equivalent to about ₦90,000 in 2017. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Malawian(m): 1:57pm On Apr 16 |
700k built a 2 storey building then. I use the same amount to pay one year rent now. Yoruba and Hausa don liquidate this country beyond measures, and them no wan comot hand still |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Love800(m): 2:26pm On Apr 16 |
Okay. You sound right. But he said in Eroupe(over-seas), their ecoomy still maintain their prices over the years. Why is our own always the opposite. jazzman7711: |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Love800(m): 2:55pm On Apr 16 |
Why is inflation increasing in nigeria? But in europe, their economy presently is almost the same thing with 1980s economy. Fesco: |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Love800(m): 3:17pm On Apr 16 |
Sombody should tell me why nigeria inflation is going up and that of european countries are still stable over the years. What are the white-men countries doing that we are not doing? Anybody pls? |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Mike008(m): 5:13pm On Apr 16 |
Damn! Yam was so expensive 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by BeeNG3: 5:50pm On Apr 16 |
Before BABANGIDA and co scattered it. |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by Owologbo(m): 6:39pm On Apr 16 |
jazzman7711: can your present minimum wage buy those stuff on the list? |
Re: Nigerian Housewife’s 1980s Grocery List Goes Viral by emelda86(f): 7:19pm On Apr 16 |
Wetin make we use the list do, forward ever backward never... |
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