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LordBiden:
And they speak the best undiluted pidgin English.

Yes oo, my guy. Na so the matter be.

Here are some surugede and gbudugbudu proverbs from the streets of Warri.

1. Chameleon nor get wardrobe but na em sabi change clothes pass.

Meaning: There are people who do not possess your talents and potentials, but enjoy life's pleasures more than you.

2. "The food nor sweet, the food nor sweet", nor be for Ukwuani weed.

Meaning: Ukwuani is a town in Delta State. It is notoriously known for its strong weed which has a knocking effect and aggrievates hunger.

3. No matter how yansh make yanga reach, legs must first am enter house.

Meaning: Whoever that is greater than you is greater than you, no matter how fast you think you can move.

4. Small pikin wey use agbada take start life, go talk wetin em go wear when em turn old man.

Meaning: When a child wants to put the cart before the horse, such a child will become confused when the time comes.

5. Nor be the same eyes wey dem dey take find money dem dey take share money.

Meaning: People usually chase money with one mind, but problem usually arises when it comes to sharing formula.

6. Na the appearance of a table for beer parlour dey determine the club wey man wey nor get money for beer go support.

Meaning: People usually pitch their loyalty where favours and benefits are coming from.

7. Man wey nor get money, em house dey always dey far.

Meaning: People will hardly visit you when you are poor. They will complain that your house is far. If you are rich, no matter how remote your house is, people will always visit.

8. E nor good make all monkey hang for one tree branch.

Meaning: When too many people partake in a business, it becomes saturated and collapses.

9. Man wey nor sabi dance go say the ground too rough.

Meaning: People who do not know how to do things will always blame unforseen forces.

10. Na wood wey bend na em dey show say carpenter sabi em work.

Meaning: It is hard task that shows the skillfulness of a person.

11. Dog wey nor get mama go scratch em own back.

Meaning: People without support will always do whatever it takes to succeed on their own.

12. Coffin fine, coffin fine nor mean say death dey sweet.

Meaning: That something is beautiful doesn't mean that it is suitable for you.

13. When you tell palmwine tapper say em palmwine sweet, e go tell you say na because of say you nor taste yesterday own.

Meaning: Some people will always magnify their abilities when you acknowledge such abilities in them.

14. Na too much groundnut oil make puff-puff shine pass buns.

Meaning: Packaging can sometimes make one thing to appear better than another.

Abeg add yours if you get any surugede or gbudugbudu proverbs.

nairalanda1:
And you cannot ask a company to charge for its services at a price below what it costs to provide those services. It will not be able to do so efficiently

Plus all of you paid for the poor GSM services in the early days of MTN and Econent when at one point you could not call between network. With high prices. It was because of that that the GSM were able to make enough profits to improve things. Same thing happening in the petroleum sector

Power sector has historically had most people underpaying for power and even now band A that pays full price are a minority. And at least 20% of customers do not pay

So what do you expect?

It's like expecting a 17 year old who has not eaten well in weeks and is malnourished to pass JAMB with a score of 400

Must you support the inefficiency of the system just because of ethnic or political sentiments?

Believe this news at your own risk

SpaceX:
YouTube is now the new university, stop wasting your money on this half baked so-called institution

Also make sure to collect your certificate from YouTube.

Nicotinekills:
Life is not always calculated like this ooh
Have seen a girl who had two children at home and still went ahead to marry the richest man from my place then she changed her family's story

I have seen a stark illiterate get opportunity to work for a woman as a maid and then the woman took her abroad and she married a white man

I have seen a bricklayer whose very poor wife from a very poor background changed her husband's story after her brother made it and remembered her.

I as a person is a testimony of the fact that life has no calculation

That is the problem with some of you. 'I know one man who did this, I know one woman who did that'. It shows you lack knowledge of the complexities of a modern society. Life deals with reality. What you see everyday. Not one man who you know who did this, or one woman you know who did that.

Life knows no emotions or sentiments. It deals with you irrespective of what you feel.

REALretep:
Your problem is that your mind is wired to worship money... that money is the answer to all things

So you see and explain everything away from the viewpoint of money.
You think life is all about making money...

Just be ready for the shocker life will give you

You must not comment on every thread you see. If you feel the content of a thread is beyond your mental capacity, just move to the next thread, because it seems you do not understand a single bit of what I posted.

Nor be by force to make comments.

Many people in Nigeria still think that the expectation of a man to hustle and carve a nich for himself is exclusively a male thing, but times are really changing, and it is either you embrace realities, or you get stuck in the murkish waters of despair.

I will illustrate the theme of this writeup with a short true life story of someone I met some years ago in Enugu.

I met a man about 5 years ago in Enugu. He was a brick layer (Legbuke worker) working at a site close to my house. This man would always come to the shop in my compound where I sometimes relaxed in the evenings. We talked sometimes and I got to know his wife and children. He is from Ondo State while the wife is from Asaba. I used to see six children in his abode. I thought they were all his children until I got to know that only four children were his. The last two were given birth to by his first daughter, a 17 years old girl! She got pregnant for a fellow brick layer like her father, who cannot even cater for the kids. She had to bring them back to her father's house. They weren't well cared for, neither were they attending school. The daughter did not attend school, neither was she skilled in any know craft. This is how poverty is multiplied. This is how social misfits are produced to become menace to the society.

As a young girl from a struggling home, whatever burden that is placed on your male counterpart to strive and become useful in the society, is also placed on you as a female. Don't be deceived or else, you go suffer well well.

First, coming from a humble background, life dey win you 1:0. Your parents' financial condition is not a curse. It is a sign that you should work hard on adding value to your life. If you cannot go to school, learn a good craft. Valuable men are always attracted to valuable women. If you have no education, skills, goals in pursuance, or trade expertise, you will become a prey to NFA (No Future Ambition) men. Getting pregnant for or even bonding with men who have no plans, blueprint, or resources to cater for family is a disaster and a direct multiplication of poverty in geometric progression.

The era of women sitting and waiting for already-made men to come and rescue them from lack is long gone, because if he is valuable and you are not, you will never have value in his eyes. He knows your worth.

Mothers should teach their female kids that the same burden that is placed on a man to strive and succeed is the same burden that is placed on a woman too.

Behind a successful man that wins the bread, stands a successful woman that wins the akara.

runningriot:
If not because you are a bitter person dying of animosity why will you record police officers for content creation. Why will you do so to make mockery and caricature of their personalities! If people think it is easy of being a police officer let them join or encourage their children to partake in it after all everybody is a Nigerian citizen and part of citizen participation entails security participation by everybody that is why conscription is one of the only mandatory laws of the country!

It is so unfortunate that someone who calls himself a youth would have such low way of thinking in 2026 when the world is advancing rapidly.

Police officers who go against the ethics of their profession are recorded everywhere in the world. Nigeria cannot be an exception. This man doesn't know what he is saying.

Noisy neighbours with their surplus children. You nor fit sleep during daytime, even on weekends! You could only sleep at night when the noisy kids of the noisy neighbours would be sleeping.

Nigerian politics and the abracadabra system.

BrickandLace:
Fine. That's ok.

Any other business ?

Just leave him alone. He doesn't know

Youths in Uzo Uwani have strongly opposed the House of Representatives aspiration of Mathias Ezeaku, citing his attacks on Christianity and Islam.

The NDC aspirant, known for burning the Holy Bible and criticising religious leaders, faces backlash from community members who fear rising intolerance Concerned Uzo Uwani Youths insist that political leadership must promote peaceful coexistence and unity, not division and hostility

Mr Ezeaku, who hails from Nrobo in Uzo Uwani, is a traditional African Religion worshipper. He is seeking the NDC ticket to represent the Uzo-Uwani-Igbo-Etiti Federal Constituency in the 2027 elections.

Source: https://www.legit.ng/politics/1711995-enugu-youths-uzo-uwani-oppose-mathias-ezeakus-house-reps-bid-denouncing-christianity/

Patrick Okoye was a professor in Theatre Arts Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

God rest his gentle soul.

Ace Nollywood actor Patrick Okoye, popularly known as Energy, has reportedly passed away. The passing of Okoye, also a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), was announced around 11:00 am on Thursday, May 28, 2026.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/883535-nollywood-actor-patrick-okoye-is-dead.html

Alaigbo:
That is because peter obi is criminal n failure n not an option.

Keep using different accounts to respond. Shows how low you can descend to.

That is how you identify them. They cannot engage in meaningful arguments without name calling and small cheap partisan talks.

Image123:
It's clear to see how bitter the truth about Pit Obi is. You don't want him touched, so touching. Meaningful discussion wey no want truth about him fav.

Why are you so timid? Anyone who talks about Nigeria's issues is automatically a Peter Obi supporter to you. I rather argue with a child in Pry 3 from a village school than argue with you. Bye.

nairalanda1:
With all due respect, I am going to disagree with you. I am not here to support any politican by the way, because Nigeria is bad now, we all can see it. But the 1980's and 90's...lol

First security. If you lived in the North in the 1980's, as a christian, you had to be watchful, because at any time t...there could be religious riots breaking out. I can remember 1987, which was so bad in certain parts of the North. Add the fact that there was a Boko Haram variant in the North called Maitatsine...which took five to six years to put down (back then, LIbya and many other countries were stable, and the modern concept of jihadism was not around then)...and so forth.

Then student riots. Today, student riots and protests are peacefully put down. BACK THEN...Oh my effing g-d. They would just send in MOPOL and the Army, who will go in and open fire and kill, kill, kill. 1986 was a really godawful year for student riots.

Armed robbery. Mein Gott..it was so bad, that my mum used to tell my dad ...don't travel at night, and my dad too would be like..no need to tell me I know. Armed robbers were on the roads, shooting and killing and robbing people. Especially on the night flight. And armed robbery and raids on private houses self were live. Unless you lived in a sorta gated community, you were in deep soup. Burglary, etc. You locked your doors. And it seems you have forgotten Anini...and he was not the only one. There is a reason why SARS was set up back then...it wasn't for fun. THere was a serious crime rate back then. Despite all the executions and so forth.

KIdnapping was not bad as it is now...but it was there live and direct. Kids were told to be careful. Do not talk to strangers, do not listen to them. A child I knew was kidnapped in 1990...THIS is not fairytale, this happened to someone I knew...and if he did not manage to escape, he would probably have been dead, or worse. Kidnapping for rituals, live and direct.


I even see you mentioned fraud. Internet fraUD in nIgeria is descended from an old fashioned fraud that has existed since the good old colonial times. 419 was live in the 1980's. The internet fraud you see today came from there. It has always been there.

And get rich quick was there...it has always been there. It did not start yesterday, it was there even before 1966 self.

Please do not romantisice the 1980's and 1990. I was there, and it was godawful. Even now some things are better...and things can get better...but because most of you guys do not want a producitive economy, but a share share money economy...yes including emilokan geng...that is why things get worse.

Your last paragraph shows the warped way you see things. You talked about things getting better, right? I laugh. Things get better when people in authority do things differently that will improve situations. But here, we have same people doing things even worse than the way they have been done, and you are still adding 'things getting better' in your statements? You must be sleeping.

Kemetian:
GO AND UPGRADE YOUR SKILLS AND STOP WASTING TIME TYPING RUBBISH ON NAIRALAND.

If you had skills at all, you won't be on every thread on Nairaland looking for who to argue with, but what can a jobless and unskilled person do? My sympathy for you, it will be okay.

Kemetian:
YOU ARE A LIAR.

SMALL BOY BORN YESTERDAY.

DON'T GO AND GET SOMETHING DOING WITH YOUR LIFE, YOU HEAR?

Okay. I am a small boy that is same age as your father.

Image123:
i didn't mention any party. i pointed to how Pit Obi has greatly changed people like you to bitterness and hatred for others.

You must be living in delusion and falsehood. You need to be checked properly because I don't see how someone like you would cope in a civilised society where things are done based on merit and needs.

That you cannot engage in meaning discussions without mentioning the names of one aspirant or the other shows how low some of you think.

Kemetian:
SO WHAT I POSTED SOUNDED TO YOU LIKE A PERSON BORN IN 2005.

YOU MUST BE REFERRING TO YOURSELF.

SMALL BOY TALKING RUBBISH.

I have been here far long, even before your eldest uncle was born.

Kemetian:
SO WHAT I POSTED SOUNDED TO YOU LIKE A PERSON BORN IN 2005.

YOU MUST BE REFERRING TO YOURSELF.

SMALL BOY TALKING RUBBISH.

If you like type in EXTRA CAPITAL LETTERS, nobody send you.

Image123:
Explain how it's tribal talks mr shift. You don't know the damage your fav has done yet. You'll understand soon enough by God's grace.

I created a thread to discuss reflective issues, but the best thing your brain could help you do is to convert the issues to small talks of party politics.

ThunderFireAgba:
Bingo.
So you don't know the world is evolving and still evolving and transforming?
When did industrialization start?
The next 200yrs you will be here to write how humans have evolved to robots but back in 2027 we were acting normals as humans.

Your jargon writing about 1980 & 1970's like you know a proof of incidents that happened then. Nonsense

Bingo? Is that what you call your father?

You should be ashamed of yourself that in 2026, you still cannot make a post of 10 lines in a coherent manner. See your life.

Kemetian:
ABEG SPARE ME ALL THIS NONSENSE.

EVEN BACK THEN IT WAS NOT SAFE.

WERE THOSE NOT THE DAYS OF ARMED ROBBERS?

WERE THOSE NOT THE DAYS OF GBOMO GBOMO? CHILD KIDNAPPERS THAT THEY USED FOR RITUALS?

WE ARE EVEN SAFER NOW.

TODAY YOU CAN SLEEP IN YOUR HOUSE COMFORTABLY WITHOUT FEARING THAT ARMED ROBBERS WOULD SMASH THROUGH YOUR GATE, STORM INTO YOUR HOUSE AND DEMAND MONEY AT GUNPOINT.

THIS WAS A DAILY OCCURRENCE IN THE 80s and 90s.

MANY TIMES YOU WOULD GIVE THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANT AND THEY WOULD STILL SHOOT YOU.

I PERSONALY ENCOUNTERED AND ESCAPED ARMED ROBBERS ONCE OR EVEN TWICE BACK IN THOSE DAYS.

IT'S NOT LIKE TODAY WHERE YOU ONLY HEAR ABOUT KIDNAPPERS AND BANDITS ON TV IN SOME FAR CORNER OF THE COUNTRY AND YOU START SCREAMING "INSECURITY!"

BACK THEN IT WAS A LIVED EXPERIENCE.

The thread is not for people born in 2005. You must not comment in every post you see. When you see posts that are above your mental comprehension, just move on.

Image123:
Pit Obi and insecurity largely happened. That man's ambition has done immense damage to many young minds psyche. i remember that video of him saying he's going to six burials and has packed his food. That guy tore any religious and tribal fabric laced together before. As for insecurity, the chicken has long come to roost. Irresponsible parenting and religious banditry have yielded fruits.

Shift immediately with your tribal talks. If you do not have anything meaningful to contribute, you can swerve to the next thread. Everything to you people is cheap politics and ideas of unnecessary hatred.

muyico:
Nothing
Progress continue

The type of progress that you have defined in your head based on your personal and selfish interests, right?

Modified:

Each time you talk about Nigeria's problems, some set of kids online begin to attack you by name calling. It shows that they know the person who occupies the seat is incompetent. To them, any issue that brings out the incompetence of leadership in Nigeria is a direct attack on their paymaster. That means the paymaster is equivalent to failure.

Nwaokunkpara:
US is the devil of the world causing problems here and there and perfectly convincing dumb people to people they're saints

One of those that were denied visa spotted. Lol.

Times and seasons have past. In these present times, It looks like each day in Nigeria comes with its own series of complexities, distractions, and troubles. Sometimes, I look back with an immeasurable level of nostalgic feelings to how life used to be in the 80s and 90s. I don't really call people born in those eras millennials, I call them the last set of people who witnessed a peaceful and socially balanced Nigeria.

Even though those eras were mostly characterized by military administrations, we still had a decent level of sanity in the society.

SECURITY: In the 80s and 90s, you could literally travel from Warri to Kaduna, without knowing anyone, and still find a decent place to sleep. A young man could easily travel from Akure to Owerri, without knowing anyone, and still find someone who would assist with accommodation.

Today, Nigerians cannot travel from one part of the country to another without praying and fasting. In these times, travelling by night is like a suicide mission. Something we used to do previously. We used to move from Warri to Bauchi on night buses from 1993 to 1997. In 1999, Brazilian ex-football star, Ronadinho Gaucho and his teammates toured northern Nigeria. Can that happen today?

SOCIAL LIFE AND EDUCATION: Before the advent of kidnapping, organ harvesting, internet fraud, etc, young people had a better social life. Today, people are extra careful with one another. We have heard and seen too many cases of dismembered bodies of young women in gutters, drainages, septic tanks, and on roadsides.

The things we place value on today is sometimes shocking. From the early 90s to the early part of 2000s, it was a milestone to aspire and gain admission to study in the university. Today, it is a milestone to purchase a 50,000,000 Naira Benz at the age of 17, with no known source of income.

The most lethal problems of Nigeria are multifaceted. They cut across religion, ethnicity, value system, culture, and both the old and the young in the society. And like I stated initially, as the days roll by, the demons eating into the fabric of the society multiply.

If we could have a generation of old people who are not sympathetic towards the young and the unborn generations, and a set of young people who neither understand their collective roles in the society nor concerned about real changes in the system, I wonder what the future generations would turn out to be.

A former Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has resigned from the All Progressives Congress.

Omo-Agege announced his resignation in a letter dated May 22, 2026, addressed to the APC chairman of Orogun Ward 2 in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by his media adviser, Sunday Areh, the former senator said his decision followed recent developments within the party in Delta State and consultations with political associates and supporters.

According to him, his political aspirations and the interests of his constituents would be better pursued outside the APC.

“I will not remain a sitting duck in a party where I cannot advance the interests of Delta Central, Delta State and Nigeria,” Omo-Agege said.

The former lawmaker also expressed appreciation to the APC for the opportunity to serve as Deputy President of the 9th Senate.

“I thank the APC for the opportunity to serve as Deputy President of the 9th Senate. I wish the party well and have requested that my name be removed from all membership records, registers, and communication lists,” he added.

Omo-Agege further stated that he remained committed to pursuing development and effective representation for Delta Central and Nigeria.

His resignation comes after his defeat in the APC senatorial primary election for the Delta Central Senatorial District.

Incumbent Senator Ede Dafinone defeated Omo-Agege in the direct primary election conducted across the eight local government areas of the district under the Option A4 voting system.

Announcing the results, Secretary of the APC National Assembly Primary Committee, Nusa Amagbor, said Dafinone scored 116,252 votes, while Omo-Agege polled 3,643 votes.

Amagbor stated that the exercise was conducted in line with the party’s guidelines and subsequently declared Dafinone the winner of the primary election after securing the highest number of valid votes cast.

Source:
https://www.punchng.com/omo-agege-resigns-from-apc-after-delta-primary-defeat/%3futm_source=auto-read-also&utm_medium=web&amp

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