ngoremeka:

Many people speak English as their first language. It is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world.
Nigerians are very good at a number of things and one of them is inventing their own version of English which has become popular overtime.
Some of the words and phrases we use often cannot be found in the dictionary. Some are words you picked up from others and they have become quite a norm.
It is not only the uneducated folks that are guilty of using these wrong words as the very educated Nigerians also use the English language inappropriately.
Below are words Nigerians use that don’t exist in the English dictionary.
1. Go-slow: When Nigerians say go-slow, they mean congested traffic, which is wrong. The meaning of go-slow in the English dictionary is, a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down.
2. Disvirgin: This word is used on a daily basis by many Nigerians when they intend to say a woman has lost her virginity. There is no word like disvirgin. The correct word to use is deflower. Disvirgin simply does not exist.
3. Trafficate: Nigerians use the word to describe a situation where a driver indicates to other drivers that he/she wants to take a turn. It is used so often, that it has started to sound like proper English.
4. Flashing: Every Nigerian knows “flashing” to mean when someone calls your mobile phone and cuts off before you answer. The word ‘flash’ is so common among Nigerians and its used at least once daily by many. Flash has different meanings but none has anything to do with a phone call. The word doesn’t exist in that sense in English.
5. Installmentally: Don’t be tempted to use the word ‘installmentally’. Though it sounds correct, it isn’t. There is no such word in the English dictionary as it exists only in the Nigerian edition of English language. The correct thing to say is ‘in installments’.
6. Opportuned: What exists in English dictionaries is ‘opportune,’ without ‘d’ at the end. Opportune means ‘timely’ or ‘well-time, especially convenient or appropriate for a particular action or event. Opportuned is only common in Nigerian English.
7. Cunny: This is a word which Nigerians use to describe someone that is being deceitful or crafty. The right word is cunning not cunny.
8. Next tomorrow: Most Nigerians generally use “next tomorrow” but there is not such word as next tomorrow. Instead you should say, “a day after tomorrow."
9. Packer: Nigerians probably got the word from pack. The right word is dustpan. Since dustpan packs dirt, Nigerians like to call it packer.
10. Pepperish: It is common to hear Nigerians describe a meal that has too much pepper in it as pepperish. The proper word should be ‘peppery’. No native English speaker uses the word pepperish” to describe the burning sensation we feel from eating pepper.
Which of these words are you guilty of?
Not too late to learn something new,I learnt too.. you can add other mistakes below

This is pure and undiluted balderdash. You are simply suffering from colonial mentality and racial inferiority. For, if Americans create American English which is respected, why can Nigerians not create accepted Nigerian English - especially as Nigeria is a far more ethnically historical place with many more indigenous languages than America could ever dream of? ? ?

Section 2, Sub-Section 3 of the EFCC Act

(3) The Chairman and members of the Commission other than ex-officio members
shall be appointed by the President and the appointment shall be subject to confirmation
of the Senate.

End of story.

Nigeria, country of illegalities. . . .

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Ugosample:
Nigerians like to over exagerate the net worth of these politicians......

you people think $15billion is 15 naira?

It's highly unlikely that a politician can steal that amount of money, or even have it,)....

The ones who can manage to have such obscene amount (which I doubt) are the former heads of States ( IBB, OBJ, GEJ dem)



If you are a legislator of state governor, you cannot have such an amount of money.

Dangote does not have that as cash and is probably the most indebted person in Africa.

Go and understand that a TY Danjuma once sold off one oil block asset of his for one billion dollars. Now that's just one transaction. And this man has been hovering around power for some forty years now. Go figure.

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Not one single thing in here makes sense. BS

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