₦airaland Forum

FROM ASO EBÍ TO ASO ÈBI
Stop buying Aso Ebí
To avoid Aso Èbi ( Taiwo Abiodun)

Beg them to lend you some money to pay for your child's school fees . The response would be " Sorry I don't have".

Go to them early in the morning and ask them to take your car as a collateral to lend you money for a good project , the response would be " You came late, someone came before you".

Tell them your ward or son won American Visa Lottery and he's traveling out, Response is " God will assist you. I have just bought an item". No one will give you a cent!.

Now, tell them you want to bury your aged parents then they will flood your house with all kinds of business proposals or feasibility studies.They would ask you how much you need. They will come to you early in the morning to borrow you money. They will even give you 🐐, 🐄 🐔🍗🐔 on credit .Your house will be jam-packed by clothing retailers for aso ebí begging you to patronize them on credit.

Have you noticed that those collecting money pasted on the celebrants' foreheads at parties are creditors who are 'assisting' the celebrants to collect their money?. Don't mind them, the pickers are the celebrants' creditors trying to recover their money as agreed.

Today Friday, many are at the Bus stations wearing aso ebí, ankóò ( Family uniform ) traveling to various places to celebrate . Then on Sunday morning or early Monday morning you would see them struggling to go back to their various stations .

The Family uniform/ ,aso ebí will be won for only two or four hours for the celebration after that day it becomes useless. Those who got them on credit will be thinking about how to pay back. When their phone ring they won't pick because the creditors are calling. They start evading their creditors.

Some would borrow money to buy the Aso Ebí , Family uniform clothes as if their lives depend on it.

In 1985 when my father kicked the bucket our house was besieged with all kinds of retailers selling all kinds of stuff from clothes to food materials . When these women couldn't convince us to buy uniform,/ aso ebí clothes and for our friends they went to our mother to convince her but our mother knew the kind of stubborn twins we were, she said '' you know my twins are stubborn and nobody will pay". That was how they all left with their tails tucked in-between their legs. Yes, we warned our mother not to have hands in aso ebí because it is gbèsè!!!!!

I was chatting with a Bursar years ago who told me that one of the students' father came to the school to plead for more time to pay for his son's school fees and when he asked him why the man didn't pay on time ,the man's response was embarrassing,he said " I am one of the Chiefs in my town and I just celebrated my Special Meeting( Àjo) meant for Chiefs . That is why I cannot pay his school fees"..

A woman whose daughter gained admission to read Medicine was going from house to another begging for money to pay her daughter's school fees when asked what she spent her money she saved on ,she said she used it to buy aso ebí from her friend whose son had just wedded .
Here the subject of Economics comes in :Opportunity Cost and Scale of preference.
Why should you place priority on aso ebí to your ward's school fees?

Some would at all costs buy aso ebí in order to fulfill all righteousness from his / her friend yet if they ask the friend to assist in paying your children's school fees they will not! .
A lot of women/ men have hundreds of headgears and caps , to them it is not ideal for them not to buy the Aso Ebí materials.
I have turned down many aso ebí telling them I didn't have the money .
One of my friends told me he has over 500 caps made for occasions in his wardrobe. I asked him how many heads he has.
As I am writing this piece , many are still buying Family uniform,aso ebí, ankóò, buying clothes to satisfy their friends and above all not to be seen as being poor.
Don't let aso ebí be more important than your children's school fees.
Stop or reduce buying Aso Ebí so as not to be guilty of the garb.
Stop wearing Guilt Clothes because of Family Uniform .
Mase wo Aso Èbi nitori Aso Ebí .

pocohantas:
This message is not for 2026.
Nobody is lending you money or buying your aso ebi in 2026. Except you have a rich circle.

We are all saving our money to start akara business. Na survival mode we dey.

enemyofprogress:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=27234975132836414&id=100002518839338

Haydens:
All theze internet in-laws and warriors defending Remie Teanubu go tire sha, cos how much are they paying them to do this art of defense?

Time for them to go and learn the art of akara frying they are wasting their typing muscle to war on the internet. Go and learn how to roast corn and fry akara to please your Dom Mistress.

BiziNaija:
Telli person, dem no go hear. Low self-esteem and peer pressure are some of the reasons for this burgeoning Aso Ebi culture.

helinues:
Make you people grow up. The Akara frying message was directed to those the first lady gifted money to start a business which the Akara frying was part of the suggestions

I really don't know how petty some of you can be

pocohantas:
Helinues, whatever your issuss are that made your ultimate defender of this government. Please keep it away from me. Thank you.

helinues:
Make you people grow up. The Akara frying message was directed to those the first lady gifted money to start a business which the Akara frying was part of the suggestions

I really don't know how petty some of you can be

helinues:
Use your sense and be logical about this. Was the Akara frying directed to the genera public of the people the first lady empowered?

And if you are talking about defending the government, which if you have condemned them constructively the way I do?

Or do you want me to post so many threads I have created proffering solutions to some of the issues we are having in Nigeria

How did the Akara frying even take enter this thread, like what's the correlation if not pure pettiness.

GHoJes:
Keep quiet there! Has your first lady or her husband empowered any business whatsoever with more than 50k since they came into power? The people Jonathan empowered with you win are still standing firm till date. Even many of Buhari's covid loan etc show me proof who your Tinubu and his family bent on impoverishing the whole country has empowered with more than 50k?

helinues:
Old cargo lady, Madam Remu Tinubu did not direct the Akara frying to you or to the general public. Stop being petty about it and stop derailing thread with junks irrelevant
Hian

helinues:
Quarter is better than nothing. You have no idea how that N50k can turn some people's life around.

During tertiary, my school was in somehow outskirts of the main town. There was a woman selling food, all her life dreams was to see someone giving her just N20K, her feelings of richness won't be different from Bill gate.

Is there even anything you people want to appreciate about this government apart from nagging?

You guys are actually missing on the international social media space. Go to any foreign social media, I don't care which country and read what they are saying about the ongoing reforms in Nigeria. Things that others are trying to emulate unfortunately, some Nigerians like you are sounding ungrateful.

Are you people expecting 100% perfection from the FG?

pocohantas:
This message is not for 2026.
Nobody is lending you money or buying your aso ebi in 2026. Except you have a rich circle.

We are all saving our money to start akara business. Na survival mode we dey.

GHoJes:
200k today can not buy that 20k's worth of goods in your tertiary days yet your president father and mother will rather die than empower anyone he is not directly benefiting from with more than 50k.

You mean foreign social media looking at your deceiving decorated shoes, telling you it's beautiful yet only you know how it pinches?

Btw, which foreign social media and reforms exactly? And since when did foreign social media became the authority that vets Nigeria's experience?

greatiyk4u:
Hahahahahah
Very soon the akara frying business will be overcrowded that many will diversify to corn roasting and kuli kuli frying

There are many things one don't need to be warned about in the year 2026

helinues:
Make you people grow up. The Akara frying message was directed to those the first lady gifted money to start a business which the Akara frying was part of the suggestions

I really don't know how petty some of you can be

helinues:
Go to rural areas, our relatives in the village , some of them don't even need up to N50K in order to be self employed

The last CEO summit in Rwanda, I don't care which country social media or media you want to pick, go and read what the foreigners who are not bribed with corns are saying about the ongoing reforms and policies in Nigeria.

Shell Rushed out immediately we stopped the subsidy payment as it wasn't business as usual

They came back voluntarily with big investment after seeing how the reforms are working gradually

No be mouth, president Tinubu as my president worth something to brag about, I can shade any foreigners, again I don't care which country. I have shaded so many foreigners about current president of our countries. They can never win us with that arguments. Ko possible

GHoJes:
Your president and his wife are empowering people in capital city Abuja and other major cities with 50k to set up business and you are asking me to go to rural areas to do sampling?

Are you aware Wike can't allow you do makeshifts for business in Abuja and cheapest shop rents cost nothing less than 600k and this is in Abuja villages?

You talking about the same foreigners that don't want you in their countries or anything to do with you since your daddy's economy won't let people stay at home in the first place?