ZombieBuster:


Our youths don't read

Idiot, the yourba's don't use number but the hausa's do. I don't understand how a huasa man saying Naira hamsin is equivalent to calling the Naira "Awo"

Op give me 20 faiba b4 i go comment...

Cala is 5 Naira.

In the East
N10= red
N20= green
N50=white
N100= awolowo or Zuma rock
N200= two hundred bucks
N500= zik
N1000= 1k

I dont see how those things are funny....those are the names hausa's call the naira notes just like every other tribes have the way they call the naira notes...the only thing when different na wazobia wen every body day call N50........Anyway in warri N20 is green then N10 is Red for example you can say "abeg gimme red there".....have forgotten the others....waffi make ona help me

rano1:


Idiot, the yourba's don't use number but the hausa's do. I don't understand how a huasa man saying Naira hamsin is equivalent to calling the Naira "Awo"

If you want to hide something from a Nigerian youth
Put it in side a book

This is one of the die hard fans of Big brother

here in onitsha.
10naira is called Red
20naira = Grenn
50naira = white
100= 00

N20 naira note is called Shandy NCOs around early 1980s there is this non alcoholic drink called green sands shandy. The drink was very popular back then.

Figo and white. One thousand naira is called Otega.

Street guys called N1,000 note one naira or shile kan.

rano1:
GBENGA ADENIJI writes about the funny names Nigerians give Naira denominations

Nigerians are creative. Whoever is in doubt should check the speed with which they often turn serious matters to grand jokes. The latest being the memes targeted at the incongruous story about a snake swallowing N36m at the Benue office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

From the names given to car brands to churches, the humour cum inventiveness is never in short supply. Nigeria has naira denominations ranging from N10, N20, N50, N100, N200, N500 to N1,000. But the names they call the notes are sometimes confusing and astonishing.

The Hausa for example give ethnic names to naira notes. One has to understand the language to know the naira note being referred to. Same goes for the Yoruba who refer to money as ‘kudi’ or ‘owo’ and the Igbo who call money ‘ego’.

For instance, Hausa call N5 naira biyar; N10, naira goma; N20, naira ishirin; N50, naira hamsin; N100, naira dari; N200, naira dari biyu; N500, naira dari biyar; and N1,000, naira dubu daya. Naira is added at the beginning of each local name to identify the denomination.

Among the Yoruba especially, N50 is called wazo (wazobia), denoting that the note has images of the three major ethnic groups in the country. There is also the image of a lady in the note representing the Middle Belt. Wazobia is coined from how the three major ethnic groups express the English word, ‘Come’. Yoruba say “wa”; Hausa utter, “zo”; while Igbo say “bia.” Funnily enough, N50 is also referred to as ‘white’ or ‘kala.’

A driver, identified only as Akindele, said the name came from the colour of the note. He said, “I hear people call N50 ‘white’ and ‘wazo’. But there was a time I asked to know how the names came about and some boys in our park asked me the colour of N50 and I said it’s white. So, they told me not to ask them silly question again as I could see the colour myself.”

SUNDAY PUNCH observed that the majority of the names given to naira notes in Yoruba came from boys who work at motor parks, especially the ones popularly known as agberos, otherwise called union boys.

The N20 has the picture of the late former Head of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed. The N20 is identified as ‘Muri’, a shortened form of ‘Murtala.’ Apart from that, the note is also called ‘shandy’.

Most of the ‘street boys’, who spoke with our correspondent, were unable to explain how N20 came to be known as ‘shandy.’

But one of them identified as Busayo Ahmed said, “It is a slang. Something can just happen, you know like a brainwave and someone will rename a note. Since street slang is meant to dumbfound people, it will be adopted by those within the clique.’’

Ahmed may be right when one examines the name, faiba (spelt fibre) used to identify N10. This thus translates to the marking of N100 as 10 faiba, indicating N10 in 10 notes.

The N100 note has the image of the late Premier of the Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. They also refer to it as ‘Awo’. The ‘Awo’ is understandably an abbreviated form of Awolowo but referring to same note as faiba can be puzzling.

Similarly, N200 is referred to as 20 faiba, indicating that it is N10 in 20 places or notes.

The next time you hear Figo, know that N500 is being referred to. The note has the image of the late ex-President, Nnamdi Azikiwe. He was popularly called Zik, hence the ‘Ori Zik’ which is used to identify the money.

A Twitter user, @okeyjames, reacting to the slang used to identify N500, wrote, “If only Luis Figo knows that his name ‘Figo’ means N500 in Lagos.” Luis is a retired Portuguese footballer.

A sociologist at the Kaduna State University, Dr. Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf, said people used their dialects to name money in order to identify well with it.

She said, “The Yoruba call money kudi or owo and the Hausa refer to N50 for example as naira hamsin to identify with their own languages and people. It is just to make it blend with their cultural system.

“In Southern Kaduna for example, the people refer to money as krum. Though the money we spend is naira, the 50 in N50 for instance is a borrowed counting system. So, people will just find a common name which their people can relate and identify with.’’

Source :http://punchng.com/amusing-names-nigerians-give-naira-notes/

So what's amusing here?

How can u say in southern kaduna money is krum? U should have tell us what tribe use krum for money.this is totally misleading. Somebody that doesn't know would think southern kaduna as a whole use one dialet .

Faiba is not ( fibre ). Faiba is ( £5 ) five pounds. The street boys changed it to Faiba . In the 1960s, one pound was #2 and #10 is now equated to £5 ( five pounds ). This is why the boys named #10 as Faiba.

Warri:
5 naira - last Card
10 naira - Red
50 naira- Sky
100 Naira - H
500 Naira - 5 H
1000 naira - 1k

These thread is irrelevant, Lagos is now like Kenya and Uganda. People using it to create lies.

I like this thread though the arrangement of the sentences makes more sense that the message contained therein.

snipernigga:
N20 naira note is called Shandy NCOs around early 1980s there is this non alcoholic drink called green sands shandy. The drink was very popular back then.

No twenty naira was called shandy because of the popularity of pasumas song orobo Kibo and lepa shandy , then Pepsi 50cl was called Orobo ,while 25cl was called lepa, and it was sold for twenty naira them.

There was no way a non alcoholic drink could have been sold for twenty naira in the eighty's, not even at Hilton.

The reporter did not research well. There are many other names given to notes that he didn't mention.

Example: N1000 note has names like 1 shandy, 1 grand etc.

Snake food.

OP pls learn to order/bullet your post for easy read. Thx

Jarus:
The reporter did not research well. There are many other names given to notes that he didn't mention.

Example: N1000 note has names like 1 shandy, 1 grand etc.

Oga leave this Danfo riding and face ya range rover.

One day you go enter one chance and those boys go hammer

Rubbish
In ajegunle....100 naira is 2wyt
200 is 4wyt


500 is either zik (nnamdi azikiwe) or 10wyt

1k is 1kpa or 1bay

1500 is 1k5 or 1kpaZick

deepwater:
Lol

#5 - kala or kans
#10 - fibre
#20 - shandy
#50 - white
#100 - ten fibre
#200 - I wasn't in the street when this note was released so I can not relate.
#500 - ten white

Lol your head dey there .

Back in the days when men do go to play Konami . Konami nearly ruin life’s but thank God sha .

benjamin007:
Warri: 5 naira - last Card 10 naira - Red 50 naira- Sky 100 Naira - H 500 Naira - 5 H 1000 naira - 1k

Na d real street terms be this

in warri N50 is called sky(colour of the sky)

deepwater:
Lol

#5 - kala or kans
#10 - fibre
#20 - shandy
#50 - white
#100 - ten fibre
#200 - I wasn't in the street when this note was released so I can not relate.
#500 - ten white

#200~ Feb or February
#500~ Figo.

PH City......
5= 5 card,
10= red,
20= green boy,
50= sky,
100= h,
200= 2h,
500= 5h,
1000= 1k or 1 gees,
Money in general = rubbers, bread, Benjamin, faddin.
Here Owo denotes being broke..... wen owo dey blow you dat means you are broke.

Warri

N5 fiver
N10 Red
N20 green
N50 Sky (from sky blue)
N100. "H" (letter H)
N200 2H
N500 5H
N1000 2face or Skin

oyb:


Oga leave this Danfo riding and face ya range rover.

One day you go enter one chance and those boys go hammer

E no fit leave body jare.

The general name for money in Nigeria is Kpalakpala

N20 is call shandy cos of its green colour...........in d past we use to have a drink in ds country that is called GREEN SHANDY..............N20 .....shandy lomo

gabazin080:
I just need 500 likes, me and my Dad is competing for who is more popular on NAIRALAND

both of una no get better work, useless set of people

Op should remove the Hausa naming of currency notes because there is nothing amusing in that. It is actually the same way you name currency in English. Hausas hardly have other names for currency- those existing, like wazobia and murtala for instance, are widely used all over the country. It should be noted that such difference from other Nigerian tribes arised due to the fact that the Hausa language has an effective and active numbering system that is widely used for every day to day transactions. However, southern languages, Yoruba for example, to my little understanding either do not have a comprehensive numbering system (I may be wrong) or have abandoned it in favour of the English numbering system. I have, times without number, teased my Yoruba friends, both during NYSC and post grad studies, with numbers - like 103, 657 - for instance and watch with amusement how they struggle to name them- and they mostly fail to do so in the end. Such would have been a very easy task for a Hausa speaker. Test yourself and see if you can name the above numbers in your language. Mine is ' dubu dari da dubu uku da dari shida da hamsin da bakwai'.