We are planning a trip to Dubai and I was doing some research and I came across several videos of the Princes Spraying millions of dollars on singers.

I must admit this Nigerian tradition pisses me off especially when they are dropping money on my body while dancing and my pores our open. Some will even paste it to your face, that is so unhygienic.

Money is too filthy to put on your body. Market women will even put it in their bra and keep it there all day. Come on where did we get this stupid tradition anyway

During Buhari regime spraying money was a crime and I still think it is.

Why must we disrespect money in that way. The best is to put it in an envelope and pass it to the receiver, not flaunt your wealth. So called big men love to do this and it makes me feel dirty. I participate in cultural events and usually I am the lead dancer, so I get sprayed the most. Why are we so inflicted with show-offism My father said that Igbo's just started this nonsense following other tribes, I wish it could cease.

Is this where we learned it from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NXDYDlhksI

This lady looks completely bored with the whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBTIBrNjKoA

Nonsense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFoB9280Enc

Yes I think agree with you,esp the unhygenic part...BUT there are two things involve if you find yourself in such situation,either you stay or walk away in disgust.As for me,my waist will nor allow me esp when money dey fly East West,North and South, to walk away,FOR WHERE!!!Na that time I go even "gomole"and "gbesoke"while I clear my money...As long as my TV still advertise how dettol gives me 100% protection from "unseen" germs.(cos germs or no germs I prefer to be bathed with money during my trad)Biko kwa

Dirty notes will not be a good idea for that purpose as depicted.

But, new notes would do.

Its a sign of showing off in which I also compromisingly delight in.

And it also gingers the performers to doing more.

Who no want make dem spray am money!

Never knew the Arabs are fans of this wrong, but not a sin tradition.

I thought na only the Nigerians, especially we the OWAMBES!

lynpetra: Yes I think agree with you,esp the unhygenic part...BUT there are two things involve if you find yourself in such situation,either you stay or walk away in disgust.As for me,my waist will nor allow me esp when money dey fly East West,North and South, to walk away,FOR WHERE!!!Na that time I go even "gomole"and "gbesoke"while I clear my money...As long as my TV still advertise how dettol gives me 100% protection from "unseen" germs.(cos germs or no germs I prefer to be bathed with money during my trad)Biko kwa

hahahaha

Whats the difference

ayobase: Dirty notes will be a good idea for that purpose as depicted.

But, new notes would do.

Its a sign of showing off in which I also compromisingly delight in.

And it also gingers the performers to doing more.

Who no want make dem spray am money!

Never knew the Arabs are fans of this wrong, but not a sin tradition.

I thought na only the Nigerians, especially we the OWAMBES!

Me too I was surprised when I saw this

lynpetra: Yes I think agree with you,esp the unhygenic part...BUT there are two things involve if you find yourself in such situation,either you stay or walk away in disgust.As for me,my waist will nor allow me esp when money dey fly East West,North and South, to walk away,FOR WHERE!!!Na that time I go even "gomole"and "gbesoke"while I clear my money...As long as my TV still advertise how dettol gives me 100% protection from "unseen" germs.(cos germs or no germs I prefer to be bathed with money during my trad)Biko kwa

Trust me I am not going to pretend I did not appreciate the thousands I made at my Traditional but I would have prefer the way they do it in Godfather movie a fat envelope or even a ghana must go handed over discretly. Why all the show offism and creepy men just make it excuse to get close to you

Look how she hold dirty money to her face ewww


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeq96eCn-ZY

biafranqueen: Trust me I am not going to pretend I did not appreciate the thousands I made at my Traditional but I would have prefer the way they do it in Godfather movie a fat envelope or even a ghana must go handed over discretly. Why all the show offism and creepy men just make it excuse to get close to you

We aren't Mafians na.It's a cultural thing.I can imagine telling my mom"Nne,I don't want any spraying of money during my traditional marriage,o digho mma",I bet her reply wud be "okpo okpo nsi I na anu n'toilet,obuho jermesi ?if you should try that nonsence no omugo for you"

My Grandmother said they did not use to do this in her youth. So when did spraying money become the norm?

lynpetra:



We aren't Mafians na.It's a cultural thing.I can imagine telling my mom"Nne,I don't want any spraying of money during my traditional marriage,o digho mma",I bet her reply wud be "okpo okpo nsi I na anu n'toilet,obuho jermes?if you should try that nonsence no omugo for you"

hehehhehe am just saying where did that tradition come? from when did it start? and why?
did we get it from American strip clubs

lynpetra: Yes I think agree with you,esp the unhygenic part...BUT there are two things involve if you find yourself in such situation,either you stay or walk away in disgust.As for me,my waist will nor allow me esp when money dey fly East West,North and South, to walk away,FOR WHERE!!!Na that time I go even "gomole"and "gbesoke"while I clear my money...As long as my TV still advertise how dettol gives me 100% protection from "unseen" germs.(cos germs or no germs I prefer to be bathed with money during my trad)Biko kwa

LOL!

You must be a typical yoruba lady....OWAMBE all the way!

biafranqueen: hehehhehe am just saying where did that tradition come? from when did it start? and why?
did we get it from American strip clubs

It's an old trad.And of course there isn't any TV then,so its not a borrowed culture from the west.We don't strip to get cash in our traditional parties,we dance to get it.

ayobase:

LOL!

You must be a typical yoruba lady....OWAMBE all the way!

Am from the East o.But was born and bred in the West. . Lol

biafranqueen: My Grandmother said they did not use to do this in her youth. So when did spraying money become the norm?

Really!!!I guess the ibos borrowed it from the owambes then

lynpetra:


It's an old trad.And of course there isn't any TV then,so its not a borrowed culture from the west.We don't strip to get cash in our traditional parties,we dance to get it.

I know that but did it start as soon as we started dealing with paper money because throwing shells or coins or cows at each other definitely is not ancient culture. How did this become our culture? We even see it as cultural. I really have tried to figure out how did it originate, I know the Arabs have been doing it for decades but only to singers that worked in the who're houses. Is this where we picked it up?

lynpetra:


Really!!!I guess the ibos borrowed it from the owambes then

pretty sure it is borrowed and actually recently because my grandparents were pretty well off so if they wanted too they could have made it rain. Honestly I don't think it shows respect for money, to me it's like throwing money to the wind. I Will continue with envelope or checks

Got nothing to do with American strip clubs. It's all in the party spirit. Where it started from, I don't know.

stillwater: Got nothing to do with American strip clubs. It's all in the party spirit. Where it started from, I don't know.

Surely.I think its something that sprout out social events.In Nigeria,there is this mentality that giving out money to someone is expected in other to show appreciation(same goes for drinks too),the idea oginef throwing monies at parties might also be a way of telling and showing(Ofcourse there are people who wanna show off)the host that they are appreciated.

Am sure old people didn't see that as a culture tgen cos there was no paper money.Can't imagine spmeon throwing coins on my face.If na woman I go suspect say hubby been kpoki am,and she wants to blind me

primitive is using 2 stones to start fires. come on...no insults here. its a way of giving gifts or rather showering someone with gifts in a very public and grand way. of course its a big man that loves to do that because he is big enough to shower people with gifts.

yes, it is the same thing as tipping at a strip joint the difference is..guys shower gifts on those ladies in the hopes they take more off. the showering is not bad or good. just like kissing...some people kiss to make the other feel good, some people kiss in the selfish hopes someone will sleep with them. the same thing, 2 different motives.

Im not sure why we need to respect money. what is money? our master? if we want to keep money clean, we would stop stuffing it in our bras and back pockets and neatly fold them into wallets. but i dont see people doing that so money will continue to be dirty. oh and money will be dirty because we dont burn the old money at CBN when making new money, someone just carts off the old one and tells his oga that it has been burned.

last time i went to a spraying event, not one person stepped on money and they picked it up very quickly and lovingly folded it their stash. not like at bodija market where my 50N change stayed on top of fish blood while the lady was cutting up my catfish

Ochiban: primitive is using 2 stones to start fires. come on...no insults here. its a way of giving gifts or rather showering someone with gifts in a very public and grand way. of course its a big man that loves to do that because he is big enough to shower people with gifts.

yes, it is the same thing as tipping at a strip joint the difference is..guys shower gifts on those ladies in the hopes they take more off. the showering is not bad or good. just like kissing...some people kiss to make the other feel good, some people kiss in the selfish hopes someone will sleep with them. the same thing, 2 different motives.

Im not sure why we need to respect money. what is money? our master? if we want to keep money clean, we would stop stuffing it in our bras and back pockets and neatly fold them into wallets. but i dont see people doing that so money will continue to be dirty. oh and money will be dirty because we dont burn the old money at CBN when making new money, someone just carts off the old one and tells his oga that it has been burned.

last time i went to a spraying event, not one person stepped on money and they picked it up very quickly and lovingly folded it their stash. not like at bodija market where my 50N change stayed on top of fish blood while the lady was cutting up my catfish

your so funny yes I am all for giving too do you know when this started in 9 ja though?

stillwater: Got nothing to do with American strip clubs. It's all in the party spirit. Where it started from, I don't know.

I agree it was all in party spirit my big sister said that she remembers it starting in the 70s among men that were rumored to have ill gotten wealth. That she heard it was part of money ritual I was not born then so I always remember it being done but my Grandfather a very spiritual man looked down on it and my family only started doing it when he passed. I wish I could find out how it became our culture!

This is a very good question. Where and how did this tradition start?

In Nigeria, this tradition of spraying money started in the 60s in West. In the 70s it expanded to include other things. I shall explain what those other things are shortly. This was all at a time when we spent pounds sterling.

In the 70s in West the Ijebus and Egbas were notorious for merriments. This also coincided with lace importation and Eleganza was just a one store front in Idumota. The country changed from pounds to Naira and from left hand driving to right hand driving. Plenty of changes in the country at the time, a new awakening.

Tunde Nightingale, Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Lefty, IK Dairo and a handful others....these were the musicians that entertained at most night parties.

My mom said Nigerians have lost their pizzaz for partying, we forgot how to party.

She recounts how they would go from Lagos to Ijebu Ode to party all night or to Abeokuta for an all night owambe and stop over in Ijebu Ode and from there at Ikorodu and then head home and crash. Each party is a different aso ebi and is lace so they packed suitcase, plus assorted gifts to be shared at table stands and coolers filled with food.

By the time they get home my father had emptied his pocket on the dance floor and would be begging her next day to reimburse him.

So dear biafranqueen, this tradition of money spraying started in 60s, according to what i was told and into early 70s and took a new turn. At the event itself there is abundant food at each table, eba, amala, pounded yam, lafun, white rice, jollof rice, moinmoin, goat meat, malu meat, ese baban kano, hen, fried, stewed, mixed with vegetables, efo dey there, ewedu dey, egusi dey. ahhh, wetin you want wey you no find?
Cocacola, fanta, schweppes, pepsicola, star, gulder, heinekken, top, apple cider, brandy, johnny walker. na wetin you want? you approach the iced drum dip hand in and grab what pleases you. you eat jollof here, turn to next table and grab pounded yam and vegetable with fried goat and bokoto on top.
Hin never finish my sista.....

After all these yeriyeri, then it will be followed by the afefeyeye, that is the name calling on the loudspeakers. Remember when your classroom teacher call your name you answer present! For Ijebu party when the musician call your name on the speaker you answer with your money. When you approach the stage you do so with your gang of well wishers. This where the roll call begin. Each member in your gang waits for his or her name to be announced so they step forward and start their own money spray and as the money rains so the praises bellowing out of the speakers. Now, let that musician begin sing the family praisesong, the oriki of the family gangan, thats it! you go look ground and you no fit see soil because that oriki has opened the gate and the celebrity will not leave dancefloor or stop spraying until the pocket is empty. Thats not all.

After eating, dancing and spraying, now they must share and exchange gifts. My mom told of how at certain parties in Ijebu Ode and even Ikorodu invited guests went home each with live goat as gift. Im not kidding! Live goat was tied to the chair of each invited guest to take home. No be dead goat o. Ewure wey still dey breathe, yeah, was gifted to each person wey come invited and each invitee also had on an expensive lace aso ebi that was only obtainable at a designated store contracted for the occassion. Im not even going to talk about the eleganza coolers, the thermos flasks, the dozen milks, planta, bournvita, sugar, lipton, and so on so forth that is freely distributed not just to invited giests but anybody on location period.

Total Largesse of the first order!

But how and where was the precedence to this?

I am not familiar with the other Nigerian cultures but in Yorubaland, gifting for a dramatic output or display by a performer was ancient and was done usually with token gifts such as woven clothing or beads or tie and dye, this was the popular way of appreciating and rewarding public performance and even this practice was often done by a king or a noble or elite member of society. I will not be surprised that this ancient practice is common among each ethnic tribe. The Yoruba people just took theirs to a new dimension.

I dont believe we copied it from Arabs but i believe America and the rest of Africa copied it from Nigerians.

For your efforts to enquire and understand this tradition, make you enjoy this abeg. Honestly, i dont know if thats police uniform or aso ebi, but I salute that dancer on the ground.

^^^Lol. Your post makes sense how it started. The way our parents act now you'd think they never partied.

MetaPhysical: For your efforts to enquire and understand this tradition, make you enjoy this abeg. Honestly, i dont know if thats police uniform or aso ebi, but I salute that dancer on the ground.

ROTF hahahahahahahahahahah

MetaPhysical: This is a very good question. Where and how did this tradition start?


Tunde Nightingale, Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Lefty, IK Dairo and a handful others....these were the musicians that entertained at most night parties.

My mom said Nigerians have lost their pizzaz for partying, we forgot how to party.



So dear biafranqueen, this tradition of money spraying started in 60s, according to what i was told and into early 70s and took a new turn. At the event itself there is abundant food at each table, eba, amala, pounded yam, lafun, white rice, jollof rice, moinmoin, goat meat, malu meat, ese baban kano, hen, fried, stewed, mixed with vegetables, efo dey there, ewedu dey, egusi dey. ahhh, wetin you want wey you no find?
Cocacola, fanta, schweppes, pepsicola, star, gulder, heinekken, top, apple cider, brandy, johnny walker. na wetin you want? you approach the iced drum dip hand in and grab what pleases you. you eat jollof here, turn to next table and grab pounded yam and vegetable with fried goat and bokoto on top.
Hin never finish my sista.....

After all these yeriyeri, then it will be followed by the afefeyeye, that is the name calling on the loudspeakers. The Yoruba people just took theirs to a new dimension.

I dont believe we copied it from Arabs but i believe America and the rest of Africa copied it from Nigerians.

ok it's true that's why they will call the names of the big boys like in the Oriental Brothers songs and that is why they call it high life. So it is a type of giving back to your community, and enjoying the fruits of your labour with others. Makes sense give and ye shall receive. Most definitely the A A picked it up from us!