1. When you see your best friend with her ex after swearing she can never go back to him:

“Well done oh! We will see at home.”

2. When you just got paid and you enter your favourite restaurant:

Yes! I’m a big boy

3. When someone is talking to you anyhow because they think you are mates:

“Please is it me you are talking to?”

4. When your weave is more than one month old and is itching in public:

Pat that weave!

5. When your mother comes to wake you up from deep sleep for night vigil:

Someone cannot sleep in peace!

6. When you ask your parents for something and they say “NO”:

Na wa oh!

7. When you see someone who owes you money trying to ignore you:

“ESSSSSSSSSSSS look here!”

8. When your lesson teacher starts teaching you a method different from the one your teacher taught you in school:

Oga don’t come and put me in trouble please oh!

9. When a man you’ve just met is calling you “baby”:

Baba match brake oh!

10. When you congratulate someone on their engagement and they answer “God will soon do your own”:

If you don’t get out of here!

11. When you walk into a spot your ex boyfriend is at:

Look at who is flourishing without you crusty!

12. When your mother-in-law tastes your cooking for the first time and she’s pleasantly surprised:

“Ah this is very nice!”

13. When you see your boyfriend being extra familiar with another girl:

Oga tread gently oh!

14. When you see your account balance after a weekend of recklessness:

So I am going to fast till the end of the month because no more money oh.

15. When the pastor talks about unexpected bank alert happening this week:

Please it’s needed!

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