There are lots of things we do here in Nigeria, that other people find funny and crazy at the same time. To me extent, these uncommon things to outsiders have become common to an average Nigerian.

Nigeria is a beautiful country with people who are enlightened. Yes, we are educated but there is still one thing that education has not been able to emancipate us from,   which is our lifestyle.

We are the giant of Africa only in population but in a lot of other funny stuff, The trust remains that we need to improve in many places, but for time’s sake, enjoy your reading.

Spraying of money

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Watched an online Nigerian wedding party where money was pouring, money was sprayed like ordinary paper, but what I saw in the comment section was amusing, white people think we’re dumb, some people think it’s a club.

We spray a lot of money on events here in Nigeria, from weddings to birthdays to musical performances. Indeed, most non-Nigerians criticize this act because they see no point in doing so.

But Nigerians actually spray money to show gratitude for a particular performance or individual. It has become part of the culture and is very famous and acceptable among us.

Once you start spaying plenty of money, the MC will begin to announce your name, and your achievement. and boom you are popular on the occasion, many people spray money for mere recognition lol

If you’re ever at a Nigerian wedding or any event in Nigeria, don’t be surprised when you see anything like that. you can equally join the Romans and do the same.

 Eating meat to the bone

Here, we love meat, yes I will say it again, we love meat, and it’s common to see people eat their meat till it gets to the bone.

It embarrassing to eat only shallow flesh from your meat! you sometimes break the bone and sunk the marrow out.  If not, how do you make your mother or wife understand that her soup or stew is delicious?

Please if you happen to be a visitor from where so ever and you see us fighting with our bone, please we are not hungry, we are doing what is expected of us.

A man standing on a moving bus

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are called “conductors.” They spend the whole day on a moving bus, shouting for passengers. Don’t get it wrong, these guys did master this craft. I have never heard before of one dropping out of a fast-moving car. And this is very popular in Lagos Nigeria. Practically every  commercial bus driver has a “conductor” assisting him

Prostrating while greeting

 

Young men display reverence for older adults in the Yoruba community by lying flat on the ground to welcome them.

So scenes like this in Nigeria are very natural, they are just a bunch of polite young people.

As a non-Yoruba person countless times I get harassed by Yoruba elderly people for not showing respect when greeting them.

As a stranger, if you happen to come across such during the period of your visits to Nigeria. Believe me, you have nothing to worry about, is just a way of life and doesn’t make those practicing it less of you

Fighting in the house of Assembly

Yeah, this shameful act has become so popular that most Nigerians are no longer responding to it, and even seeing this act in the assembly house as a natural thing.

It has been since far back as the 1960s

Light outage

Okay, Nigeria’s energy isn’t that reliable so when the lights go out. We are all like “oh they’ve taken the lights” whenever there is a power outage. Unlike other places around the world where power outages can be seen as an emergency.

Ours is usual here, but we’re still doing our everyday jobs, am working on my system  now with a mentality full of uncertainty, and I don’t know when the next power outage would be

UP NEPA!!! Still don’t be surprised if you see the reaction in people when they restore electricity.

Silent prayer

 

How do you pray without making a sound? Your neighbors’ don’t even know you as a prayer warrior?

The witches in your family/village have to beware of you before God even sends them fire. The average Nigerian prays with blood and sweat. The Bible said talk to God but the average Nigerian shouts to God.

You’re considered a weak Christian if you don’t pray that way. In fact, no Nigerian, living in a Christian dominated state will say he hasn’t overheard a neighbor praying.

When you hear people praying in such a manner, its nothing to worry about, just mind your business

If you find yourself in a Muslim dominated neighborhood, then you have to sacrifice your early morning sleep, they have closeby mosque houses that will wake a dead person from sleep with their early morning  chanting noise

 

 Drinking water from a plastic sachet.

 

This is common in the streets of Nigeria. As super-cheap water is sold in a sachet. It is called “pure water” but it’s usually not purer than the ones in bottles. This serves as around 50% of drinking water available to Nigerians. oh, you think only the poor drink sachet water? even our politicians drink from it during an election, it a normal here

Elaborate wedding

 

Nigeria is The only country that could block a government road because of a burial ceremony, thereby causing the most dreadful of traffic. They also have burial ashoebi.

If you are not a Nigerian you began to wonder if we are celebrating death we don’t celebrate death we call it befitting burial, above picture is the burial of an oil magnet Tonimas

Preaching inside a commercial bus

 

Don’t be scared when you enter the bus and see people preaching and praying. It has become part of our traveling culture, especially in the commercial buses us and we are cool somehow with.

They sell their products also you just have to endure it till you get to your destination, we have different means of making a living. We hustle on different levels here

Don’t you think we are awesome people? drop a comment below, I want to see what I missed