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ZODML's 12 Favourite Funny Nigerian Proverbs

Submitted by admin on 7 September 2014

Happy weekend all! To get you in a relaxed mood, check out ZODML's 12 favourite funny Nigerian proverbs. Share yours with us in the comments and for more proverbs as well as amazing facts about Nigeria, be sure to follow @Discover_NG on Twitter.
1. The price of your hat is not the measure of your brain.

2. The person on whose head a coconut is cracked does not eat from it.

3. What is a bald man doing in a barber’s shop?

4. It is illness that makes one eat the food of one’s enemy.

5. The door of a miser does not close with the sound gba!;It sounds mu wa, mu wa.

6. Poverty is named "who knows you before?"; prosperity is named “I am related to you”.

 
7. A woman who lost her good character was lamenting she was not destined to have a husband.

8. The rod that is used to beat the senior wife is kept in the ceiling for the junior wife.

9. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.

10. No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yam.

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

12. However much the buttocks are in a hurry, they will always remain at the back.