Naija Gist...

File this under totally random gist.
Do not discuss monetary policy with a Nigerian grandmother..
She walks in and first thing out of her mouth is, "so they are going to change our money ehn?", So I proceed to explain the re-denomination palaver to her. Twenty minutes later, I was totally miffed. The level of enthusiasm of the average Nigerian about economic theory topics is impressive. You can not help but smile at the number of armchair economists we have in our country.
No gra gra...
Okay a friend of mine gets this inspiration to build his house in Nigeria. He take a month long vacation to speed up this project, not bad at all. First three days in Nigeria, dude has not been able to do anything. First it was the 'block' making guys that disappeared with the motivation fees. Then the machine suddenly broke on the way to the site, hm mm interesting. On the third day, these contractors loaned his truck to speed up some delivery, the truck was returned with the headlight missing. The day after, gangs from the Odua Peoples Congress broke a bottle of coca-cola on the head of the contractor. All in one week. Nigeria why? Now for the best part of the gist, this friend of mine is a self proclaimed Nigerian underground kingpin who knows the in and out of Lagos. Aka Ajepako.
Holy Nigeria...
The other day I was watching NTA and then a music show (Naijamix) came on air. I feel like we are just a different breed every time I watch NTA. Aren't we just a set of blessed people. Okay, the gist. There was this concert on TV, and a dude (one of those crooner types) jumped on the stage, he sang a song about making love to this chic, complete with the hip movement. Things were Okay up to this point. Alas! the next group jumped on stage and they were a gospel group. I was amazed that the same crowd whoo-ing and haa-ing to the sex themed song a minute ago suddenly turned holy. Lifting up holy hands. Hm.. Nigeria.
Don't you just love us. Have a great work week.
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