Correct Bro.Proudly Nigerian

Oh

Proudlyngwa:
My fathers favourite

1. Eme'ma onye akidi, ya gworta odu(ozu)








2. If you are in a hole, and you don't raise your hand, people will think you are playing there.
i.e. if you are in a bad situation and you don't ask for help , people will think you are enjoying your situation.

LOL

21) if u tell a woman to sit well, she go say u dey look her toto

It is only when there is stampede that a fat-bottomed woman realises what heavy loads she carries.

MrFly:
dnt be an ethnic chauvinist! Interpret ASAP

LoL
In English,
Anybody that eats Fish without eating the fish's head, the thing he ate isn't a complete fish

if tortoise cannot tumble doesn't mean that it can stand.

Prof. Wale Soyinka. lion and jewels

jeeqaa7:



Wrong quote.

In a village where the Lion is the Barber, the goat must learn how to groom beards

Meaning - in a country where the leaders don't care about her security, every citizens must learn to ________?

AlexDeedat:
I have come across several funny proverbs, adages and Sayings but Nigerian versions are the best.

When I use some of it during dialogues, people look at me like......

Permit me to share some here as you may add yours as well to appreciate ourselves as Nigerians.

1) A boy who want to scatter market will first kick his mother's stock

2)He who goes to sleep with an itching anus wakes up with smelly fingers

2) A man who wrestles with a pig should not complain of his dirty cloth

3) Ashort man is not a boy

4) Nobody tells a blind man that the market is on fire

5) No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams

6) The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market

7) When a man wakes up in the morning and finds himself being pursued by chicken should better run for his life cos who knows if the chicken grows teeth overnight.

If you swallow Alomo bitters without squezing your face, then you are capable of commiting murder

9) A man who throws up a public party because his wife buys and enamel washbasing is capable of anything

10)A person who sells eggs should not start a fight in the market.

11) Na when soldier slap you, you go sabi say police na your friend!

12) When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.

13) The one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a blind man.

14) Fishing without a net is just bathing.

15) If you can’t dance well, you’d better not get up.

16) He who marries a beauty marries trouble.

17) A snake will always give birth to something long.

18) Fine words do not produce food.

19) The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.

20) It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise to carry his house along with him wherever he goes.

A Na ejide Ibe ji n'aka were tupu asaa aguru okwu

NO BE PERSON WE CALL POLICE DE WIN CASE O

1)When a river joins the ocean,it becomes bouistrous (2)whatever you wear is bigger than you

1)In a village where lion is the barber the goats must learn how to maintain smooth skin from the milipede.(2)The vulture has no buziness wit de barber

Igbo si na enechaa anya noo ike ka mma iji gbu opi mana kedu onye gewenyite nkeya kewere gbuo