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U see say this thread dry.I know this leg but I didn't use it.na only senior men Wen use am go fit comment.Awon agba firiyoyo

Ah, AIR FORCE PRIMARY SCHOOL THAT YEAR WE ROCK AM DIE

My kids still use this shoe to date. Although my Aba brothers have taken over the brand.

I wore it during my primary school in the early 80s when Nigerian was flooded with foreign quality products. I miss those days.


Those days, if you chop bread, you go know say na bread you chop. Not what we have nowadays

Racoon:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CTKZwsFBG/

This is a Nigeria.shoe sir
We dint were this kinda shoes here in london!!(no oofencsse)

nairalanda1:


( Someone can give a better story)

Bata became Famad sometime in the 1990s, and not long after,.the shops started closing down. I guess losses were high. By 1999, it had ceased to.exist.

There was some attempt by the original company at relaunching shops at Silverbird galleria in Abuja central district a few years ago, don't know if they are still open, but it's not the Nigerian Bata we knew.


Someone can tell the tale better, this is from my own perspective


Modified

Thread from 2015 :https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/2080837/how-bata-shoe-company-mismanaged

Bata isn't Nigerian, Its a Czech Republic company

They are in most countries and all think Bata came from their country, lol. Marketing genuises

Umuaka Indomie right now..

Okay.

I appreciate.

Dpaulie:

Well, I'd say yes, but I buy from FAMAD STORES... and all BATA stores in Ibadan has changed to FAMAD STORES in the past 15 to 20 years or so....and they claimed formerly BATA.

omo them settle down finish this country . Bata use to be in oregun in lagos

Still widely used in the southeast till date.. infact like 85% skls

ired and wished for a bata that year. But never had one.

It aids brilliance.

Dpaulie:
My children still using it

na Aba version dem dey use...bata left naija long ago

Racoon:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CTKZwsFBG/

Hi Racoon, I think the source is wrong with the date of brith and death too.

See below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Bata

chai, as a school boy,I use this shoe march sh!t tire that year

Racoon:
Rocked these nice strong shoes back then in primary school from Kingsway stores @ Lagos Island. Nostalgic times! Don't know if BATA still exists

You are one of us. They call us old skool but we really rock our time...80s, 90s and early 2000s. We are the last generation of sane humans to walk the earth.

Racoon:
Rocked these nice strong shoes back then in primary school from Kingsway stores @ Lagos Island. Nostalgic times! Don't know if BATA still exists

Lennards should also get an honourable mention.

I love my Dad, he got me that, It was like a lambogini and then BMX came,
Oh lord I need money to buy my Dad a nice car

YourNextLevel:
I rock am in my 70s

#1 Factory road Aba

Correct person. We are on this together. We rocked our world.
Dre's Day
Gin n' Guice
OPP Naughty by Nature

Racoon:
Rocked these nice strong shoes back then in primary school from Kingsway stores @ Lagos Island. Nostalgic times! Don't know if BATA still exists

If you know anything about this shoe you don 40 or 50 guaranteed

Good old days.

Ali and Simbi

Wealthoptulent:
aaah, DUGBE SHOWROOM for IB

I only know the one at Queens Cinema in Ibadan.

The only reason you discard them is because you just wanted another one. It lasts forever!

Use and give to your younger ones to a third generation 😀

shoodboi2:


I didn't attend a public school, and there is absolutely nothing wrong in attending one. That said, those Cortina shoes were expensive and was generally out of the reach of public school students.

It might not be public school in the real sense of it but I never had it called container in my school even when we rocked it we were all aware it's a bata cortina and on the ment on TV back then we sing along," run to school with a bata cortina"

Niok:
Wore it in my days at mcss
My dad used to buy the shoes for me from famad stores at ojota

Yeah, bata later became famad plc. I don't know if their office is still at ojota, but I just checked, their website is functional with products on display.

sweetkev:
Bata, Dunlop tyre, Leventis all left this God forsaken country long long time ago.

And more have came in too and local aren't doing bad too Bata replaced with aba made and co while leventies are still around with multiple competitors

I rocked it weller. Bata by choice

Awwww the good old days... we use to wear it to school!! Thanks for bringing this...

Is this still very much available

My mum bought my own at Bata shop at Itoku market in Abeokuta back then. May her gentle soul RIP.