Thread by @DrJoeAbah

All that Fela did was to yab government o. They threw his aged mother from the top floor of a building, burnt down his house and locked him up on trumped up charges. Now, you can abuse and curse anybody you like all day long. Try you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken.

In the past, if you as much as look at someone older disrespectfully, a STRANGER will “konk” your head. Now you can abuse your father’s age mate daily, curse them and both your friends and strangers will hail you. Yet, you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken.

In the past, to buy anything, you must go to the market in the sun. People will push you. You’ll be splashed with dirty water if you are not pushed into a gutter. Now, you order online and it is brought to your house for you. Yet, you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

Before, to learn anything about the world, you had to join a queue in a library to read massive encyclopedias and gather at newsstands to read newspaper headlines. Now, you can google anything. The news is delivered to your phone. Yet, you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

Telephones were a complete rarity. You could compare it now to owning a Range Rover. You could travel from Berger to Ajah and the babe is not in. You had no way of knowing. Now, you carry a phone in your pocket and can call anytime. Yet, you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

Our parents had many children as an insurance, because they expected some to die. That’s why we celebrated milestone birthdays. Now, life expectancy has gone up and if you die at 60 years of age, you died young. Yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

The wave of migration out of Nigeria in the 80s and 90s was so much that government ran a campaign to dissuade people. “Andrew, don’t check out” was the slogan. Yet, you think they were begging us with jobs and paying us millions, and you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken.

At no point did we have constant electricity. There was a powerful bleaching cream affectionately called “NEPA”. We are still in the same situation with NEPA, but now you have “I better pass my neighbour generator” and inverter. Yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

I dey come. I’ll continue soon on what we benefitted from government and whether that meant we drank milk and ate #fullchicken. 😀

The older generation only had two local TV stations. They start broadcasting only from 4pm. Most TVs were black and white. You could cover it with Lucozade rapper to give it some colour sha. Now you have hundreds of chanels in HD. Yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken.

Free education was only in the West. In many other parts of Nigeria, your entire village will need to contribute money to send you to school. You would need to work for many years after secondary school before thinking of university. Yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

We only read about foods like noodles and steak in novels. When Mr Biggs came, it was THE place to take your babe for meat pie. Now, you people are eating shawarma anyhow, drinking latte, popping champagne and ordering chicken thigh. Yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

When we protested hikes in school fees while at university, soldiers would shoot at us with live bullets. SARS wants money. Those soldiers only wanted blood. Decree 4 meant you could be detained indefinitely if you make “pim.” And you still say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

At university, there was only accommodation for first year and final year students. There was 4 people to a room with 4 corresponding squatters. Only big boys and big babes lived off campus. I don’t think this has changed too much. Yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken.

Every so often, they’ll screen films for us. It was mostly Chinese and Indian, with the occasional “porno.” The “porno”s too were like Chinese: “fight” will just start. Now, you are watching series and Z-World, and sending nudes. Yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken.

Nobody washed my clothes. We bought meal vouchers so that even when your money finishes, you can at least eat in the refectory. If you don’t read, you don’t pass. Now, you people are going to eateries and “sorting” lecturers. And yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken.

In our time, if somebody made a First Class, it will be in the newspapers and the whole country will know. It was so rare that it was only one person every few years. Now ONE uni, Covenant, is graduating 238 1st Class IN ONE YEAR! Yet, you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

We only had a handful of unis. Competition was brutal. Now there are nearly 200. Very very few people made 1st Class every few years. With Covenant alone dashing 238 Firsts in 1 year, you people still say we were better educated than you and that I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

When we finished from Law School, many of us had to do charge-and-bail because there was no work. We had to become economic migrants. Not much has changed on that score. Yet you think they were begging us with work while at university and that I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

As kids, the chicken we ate was the head & the toes. Milk was the horrible condensed milk, not fresh milk. My 1st full chicken was in London, not Nigeria. I just sat & admired it. Couldn’t eat it. You people have Chicken REPUBLIC and yet you say I drank milk and ate #fullchicken

As you can see, they had finished drinking the milk and eating the full chicken before I got there. I drank a little condensed milk sha but I didn’t eat #fullchicken. I am not one of them. 😂😂😂

In a few years time, TODAY will be “The good old days.” Make the best of everyday that the Lord gives you.

“Do not say ‘Why were the old days better than these?’ For it is not wise to ask such questions.” - Ecclesiastes 7:10.

Madam is calling me to eat #fullchicken. End!