8 Things Nigerians Say……and What they really mean

These are some few words you might hear thrown around. Some of them I was recently introduced to while I was doing my NYSC in Nigeria...For my real proper, proper naija folk, please feel free to add to these and i'LL slot them in.

   

   1)           It’s not your fault.

Translation:  It’s completely and totally your fault but I really don’t know who I can attribute your level of incompetence to.

2)      Are you ok?

Translation: What in the bloody hell is wrong with you?

3)      I have been awarded a contract

Translation: My company will be supplying computers that cost $600 a piece for $4,000 a piece

4)      Am I your mate?

Translation: We are not even the same age so how dare you talk to me like that

5)      You are a witch

Translation: your behavior is so disgusting that your birth must have taken place in the rivers of dark shit

6)      God dey

Translation: May you suffer a millon times for what you have done to me

7)      Which way forward?

            Translation: Are we going to continue to fight every time we see each other or are we gonna act              

             mature and move on

8)      You have fallen my hand

Translation: You have disgraced me and brought my level of trust in you to a record low