Nigeria's purpose-built capital with striking modern architecture.
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Abuja's Aso Rock is the symbolic center of Nigerian politics.
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Ingathi azithi dadobawo pha apha kuwe wena.
Show me your number is a popular soccer/football skill in South Africa, where the player pretends to shoot the ball and the defender ducks, hence showing his/her number to the attacker.
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They hit him with a “show me your number” and the crowd went crazy.
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Yoh dawg, I partied to hard last night that I missed my dawnie.
A kasi term that is used to refer to an older man. It is borrowed from Afrikaans and has a direct translation of big man.
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Sure grootman, zkhiphani.
Covidpreneurs are those dodgy tenderpreneurs who loot the government money intended for Covid-19 tenders. They register dodgy businesses and win tenders but they either not deliver at all or they deliver below par results.
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Deals that are believed to be worth more than R2.2bn, involving emergency purchases of personal protective equipment (PPE) are being said to be chowed by Covidpreneurs.
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Stop calling our brothers and sisters amagweja!
420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is cannabis culture slang for weed consumption, especially smoking around the time 4:20 p.m., and also refers to cannabis-oriented celebrations that take place annually on April 20th.
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Can't wait for 420 so that I can smoke freely.
A situation where you don't have money and you have no means of getting it.
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I'm so Meneer Magongwa these days.
Are you crazy? Questioning someone's sanity. Short for "mental".
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You dey ment? Why you go do that?
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