[User] I’m not fasting. I’m not eating

[Assistant] Oya sorry, oya sorry


[User] I will call Anonymous to buy this thing for you, you will send him. When they said we should not be sending Anonymous message 		again so… I’m sending copper

[Assistant] What are you doing?


[User] How many of you wants to eat something… no appetite

[Assistant] From food coke, okay nah


[User] Sooooo… You said it’s what, because I don’t have…

[Assistant] Shey they sell eba there or fufu? Awa, do they sell fufu there? Help me buy fufu 2, help me collect egusi and efo and help me buy twenty naira water


[User] If my mother could see the ball, if my mother could open the ball, emiowanimo… ah, ah…

[Assistant] Maybe is just, maybe it’s worth it so as to cook it.


[User] Noooo, like…

[Assistant] How far, boboyi, nkantiegbek’ina


[User] _The thing is in the blood

[Assistant] It’s in the blood actually but you can…


[User] But it’s very easy for you…

[Assistant] Shey the video is on YouTube


[User] I want to watch video

[Assistant] See eh, they are all on YouTube


[User] They have all of them

[Assistant] Are you on YouTube?


[User] Yes

[Assistant] They have, okay, they have…


[User] There’s a free WiFi in my phone

[Assistant] They have Chelsea, they have Arsenal…


[User] Don’t tell him, you are not here

[Assistant] That’s what I’m saying…


[User] Doctor… Mr Anonymous

[Assistant] I don’t do show off, you know I don’t do show off but currently I’ve used more than 9gig and I still have like hundred and 		forty something gig left and is free o. Here inside here, I will use the password on this place I mean there is password


[User] There is password as well, there is, I say password, there is network

[Assistant] Enyia you don finish, let me connect and use


[User] See, there is no network, that’s the, that’s the issue

[Assistant] Who is sounding that thing nah?


[User] Oya ooo, please o, this thing…

[Assistant] Mtchew, E get one event like that, na only big brother when I dey for school


[User] Sooooo face of UI?

[Assistant] No, no, no, no be face of UI. Hmmmmm… we wan do our media workshopfila.


[User] When you for do that job?

[Assistant] Make I go fetch water come….


[User] Ahn, ahn, this people dem no, na song work wey I dey do errrm, face of UI, I even wan vex for them I been ask ahn, ah, tell you say nah April May errrm, March April. Una come postpone am, una no tell me say una postpone anything. Na… as I dey here, I dey like to keep my word. Wey the…

[Assistant] December is too fast but e go make sense make person start something for this period…


[User] I know guys wey dey hustle sha

[Assistant] How much dem dey get?


[User] Dem dey get 3k

[Assistant] You are going to final year… Wao!


[User] Are you one of them?

[Assistant] How many, what, what department are you?


[User] CLA

[Assistant] CLA?


[User] Yes ma

[Assistant] Communication…


[User] Yeah and Language Art

[Assistant] And Language Art, okay. So, you’ve been in UI since when?


[User] 2015/2016 session

[Assistant] Wao! So, can you tell me about Communication and Language Art? Errrrm, like my little nephew… that’s why I’m even here. Is it something…


[User] Okayyy…

[Assistant] That will encourage the younger one to come?


[User] Errrm, talking about communication

[Assistant] Are you busy?


[User] Not, no, I’m just checking my…

[Assistant] Okay


[User] You can sit ma ooo

[Assistant] No problem, we are fine…


[User] I can’t, I can’t be talking while you are standing

[Assistant] Haba, haba, Alright, we should sit here


[User] Okay then

[Assistant] Thank you


[User] You are welcome

[Assistant] Yeah. So, errrrm, sorry, why is it so empty, we can’t find anyone?


[User] Yeah, the session is over, so students are actually going home on 8th

[Assistant] Okay…


[User] Okay…

[Assistant] People have gone home


[User] Okay. So, because you are in Communication and lang… … do you speak other, do you speak pidgin, do you speak any other language?

[Assistant] Yes ma, we speak; like culturally accepted languages


[User] Okayyyy

[Assistant] So, communication and languages is all about Communication, Language and Art. It’s a combination of different fields in one.


[User] Okayy

[Assistant] So, in terms of communication, we are taught broadcasting…


[User] Ohhh!

[Assistant] Yes. Media studies… Okay, media, there, there is print, there’s online media and then there is on a normal the broadcasting like radio station, TV station and all that…


[User] Okay

[Assistant] That’s for communication


[User] Okay

[Assistant] So, in terms of language, they taught the language skills; so, the reading, writing, listening and speaking. So, we take courses throughout the four years for the errrm…


[User] Okay, it’s a four year programme?

[Assistant] Yeah, four years programme. So we take listening, we take writing, we take speaking and then elm… reading, yes, basically for the language for the language aspect


[User] So, they want us to be groomed in all the aspect of language,But basically using English Language. So, is initially that we used to like to learn those errm part two English Language

[Assistant] Ehhhhen…


[User] So… Reading, Listening Speaking and Writing, they are the Language tools that and the only tools that we were taught. And then about Art, that one is going to be a kind of elm… just making us to understand how to appreciate language, so in terms of literary skills, literary values, literary acquisitions, then we will be applying that into the language that we are learning and then reflecting it in the communication aspect of it.

[Assistant] Wao!


[User] It is the combination of…

[Assistant] It’s interwoven…


[User] Yes ma, yes ma

[Assistant] Interesting!


[User] So when somebody learns how to write…, to listen very well, if you are a broadcaster it will reflect on your work, if you are writing for the newspaper, it will reflect on your work, if you are writing for the online media, it will reflect on your work there…

[Assistant] Hmmm…


[User] So, that’s what that…

[Assistant] So, which area are you looking at?


[User] Awwww, there is also another area, there is marketing, there is public relations…

[Assistant] Okay…


[User] Under it too. So, I’m more of the public relations and marketing… yes

[Assistant] Okayyyyy


[User] Like customer’s service…

[Assistant] Ehhhennn…


[User] That’s where I’m looking at

[Assistant] Wao! That’s good. So, you would, you would actually encourage my little nephew to come, right?


[User] Yes of course, it’s a very interesting course ma and, and the person would actually appreciate the course

[Assistant] It’s okay


[User] There is graphics design too like people, some people are in the Art aspect too there is graphics design too like… okay from 100 level.You will be taught how to… design all these graphics, these designs…

[Assistant] Which one?


[User] Like pa-pa-paper

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Like the graphics there

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Different graphics

[Assistant] In Art?


[User] In, in this department

[Assistant] Okay, in… Okay


[User] Until right from 100Level

[Assistant] In under Art


[User] Under Art

[Assistant] But not under Language


[User] Ye…s under Art; that’s the creative aspect of it. They want to like improve creativity and innovation. So, when you learn about these things, if you have, like we’re into design, drawing art and everything, we will be able to reflect it using different tools like corel draw and everything.

[Assistant] Ehhheeennn…


[User] And it can also be a kind of benefit because there are some companies that take like graphics designs graduates too, yes. That’s it.

[Assistant] Hmm, hmm; especially all those eh manufacturing company


[User] Yes ma, Yes ma, so is a good one.

[Assistant] Wao!


[User] I never saw it from this angle you know… so, it was nice. You didn’t, you didn’t tell me your name o, where are you from?

[Assistant] Oh! I’m sorry ma, I’m …


[User] From Yoruba?

[Assistant] Yeah, I’m a Yoruba, I’m from Osun State.


[User] Okay, so you are in your mid… sorry to ask…

[Assistant] Yeah, elm, are you talking about…


[User] Mid twenties, Mid-thirty?

[Assistant] Yeah I’m, yeah, I’m just twenty one


[User] You’re just, uh!

[Assistant] You’re just… Uh!


[User] Almost graduating

[Assistant] And you are… When did you enter?


[User] Yes, elllm, 2015. I was errrm, 16years when I entered… So I’m graduating already

[Assistant] Yes, to this place ma


[User] How was it, your experience, university, you know, excitement, did you, like… you, you know, you’re just like a baby, you know finishing secondary school…

[Assistant] Yeah, just coming down to this place…


[User] And not matured and you’re coming into… you know what tertiary institution is you know…

[Assistant] Yes, of course ma. I, i was actually young when I came in and then I… hopefully I met good people in my room, so they were almost in their final years when I got to the room. So, they were doing like tutor me, mentor me, sometimes we go to, we will go to the library…


[User] Honestly…

[Assistant] You are so lucky…


[User] You will read, you will go to fellowship, you will socialize…

[Assistant] Hmmmmmmm… You are so lucky…


[User] That kind of things and it actually helped me a lot

[Assistant] Yes…


[User] Good people

[Assistant] To actually mentor you but usually a lot of people will mess up the first year…


[User] Yeah…

[Assistant] Not mess up per say but… the need to take new direction…


[User] They won’t be able to cope with the stress and everything…

[Assistant] Hmmm, hmmm… That’s interesting!


[User] Alright…

[Assistant] So, thank you sooo, sooo much!


[User] Ah, you are welcome ma

[Assistant] I, your name again…


[User] Yes ma…

[Assistant] So, by this time next year, you will no more be here


[User] Ahn… yes. We’ve seen the calendar proposed so by… by January next year we will finish exam, so by maybe March or June, we should be going for NYSC

[Assistant] For your youth service…


[User] Okay, what’s, what’s your plan after NYSC, Masters?

[Assistant] Errrrm, I’m thinking in two ways, so I’m, if possible I get errrrrm, I’m thinking of errm Customer Service and Public Relation too, I’m thinking of actually looking for a job like just to start something first before I go for professional elm certificate. And on the other hand is Academics, I also want to go into Academics so…


[User] If I have a chance of being… at times this kind of thing they do for students, if you finish with a first class, there’s a possibility that you will be taken into the department…

[Assistant] I was going to ask you that. what’s your… CGPA?


[User] My CGPA… Eh, 6.2. So, I’m hopeful…

[Assistant] What?


[User] 6. Yes

[Assistant] 6.2


[User] Yes ma

[Assistant] It’s first class


[User] Oh my God!

[Assistant] Yes ma. So, I’m hopeful like that i will finish with that grade, so I’m thinking of being taken to the department


[User] Ah no, your this thing is so good and very impressive. I was going to ask you…

[Assistant] I thought, first, first class is 4.5


[User] No

[Assistant] Our grade is 7.0. We are using 7.0 scale. The new ones are…


[User] You are using 7.0 scale?

[Assistant] The new ones are using 4.0 scale


[User] Ehhhhenn… Okay, because when we were, errrrm, errrrm, err, graduated ours was 5.0 scale…

[Assistant] Okay ma


[User] Then. So, 4.5, is first class…

[Assistant] Okay, yes ma


[User] During my own time because I finished from here, it was 4.5 ranging for about…

[Assistant] Yes, yes because we used 5.


[User] Yes

[Assistant] 5.0


[User] So, now they’ve…

[Assistant] They’ve raised…


[User] They’ve changed it to 7.0 scale

[Assistant] Okay


[User] So, it’s from 6.0 to 7.0 as first class

[Assistant] So you have to maintain it o…


[User] Yes… that’s the…

[Assistant] You must not drop


[User] So errrm, how do they now read A, B, C, D, E, F, you still have it that way?

[Assistant] Yes, that’s what we still use


[User] You still have it that way?

[Assistant] Yes ma


[User] Okay

[Assistant] They just change the scale to now, is now to errrm, 5.0. So, 4.5 to 5.0 is first class now for the 17/18 session upward


[User] Okay, okay

[Assistant] Oh, 4.5…


[User] Yeah

[Assistant] Is still first class?


[User] Yees, yes, yes ma… To 5.0 for the new ones. Starting from 17/18 session upward but ours is, you know we resumed… So, we are using 7, 7.0 scale

[Assistant] 2015-2016 their own scale is different from 2016-2017. So, that means people doing 2017-2018 too will differ?


[User] Yes ma, yes ma

[Assistant] So, their own will go back to how it used to be?


[User] Yes, it used to be…

[Assistant] So, your set is now the last set there using…


[User] Yeah, using the 7.0 scale. Yes ma, yes ma

[Assistant] Okay, that’s lovely and you are on 6. …


[User] Yes ma

[Assistant] Oh my … that’s lovely


[User] At twenty, you sure do know what you want you know?

[Assistant] Yes ma


[User] It’s good to always know what you want

[Assistant] It’s even written all over you


[User] Yes. So, asides from… the English you just spoke now, do you speak pidgin, are you good, though you communicate with your friends, how…

[Assistant] Yes. In the hostel we speak pidgin in the hostel… So that’s another opportunity and I speak Yoruba when I’m at home


[User] It will be nice to hear you speak pidgin. Someone who is a bookworm You expect that there… when you will hear like… Ahhh! Really!

[Assistant] I’m, I’m not a bookworm per say I just try and read and then I socialize too. Ah, I’m a member of sigma club in UI. So, a philanthropic club that will just look out for… we do charity deals and then, then look out for members who are once students of UI and then try to bring them to the club and we give out to people like schools, charity homes and everything…


[User] So that it will not be academics alone. Then aside that, there was in, when I was in 200Level that was when I started…

[Assistant] Okayyyy. Ah, you’re very active…


[User] So now in the hostel, nobody yes…

[Assistant] Yes, there are still some people in the hostel; those who are on IT


[User] Okayyy, Okay

[Assistant] Okay thank you so much


[User] You’re welcome ma

[Assistant] Thank you so much eh!


[User] You’ve actually convinced me. So…

[Assistant] So, if he comes tomorrow, you will…


[User] Let him come to the house, I will meet them in the house, they will do what they want to do

[Assistant] As in, you will be where he is working


[User] Ehen, I will sit down; because is as if when you, you know when you give someone that take my car, go and fix it, bring it back, they’ve, they are relaxed. So, it has also taught me a lesson. Take the key, take my car, fix it up, now… it is very annoying

[Assistant] Is that his father?


[User] No, that is… baba driver; That drives my husband

[Assistant] Ohhh


[User] Hmmm. So, maybe he came to repair a car or something

[Assistant] Ohhhh, he drives your husband?


[User] Hmmm but not all the time

[Assistant] Okay, the one that checked it in the morning


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Okayyy. Was that why he was blessing you, blessing you, blessing you, you give him free things?


[User] Ehen, I give him stuffs, yes

[Assistant] Okayyy


[User] that's the park, these parks

[Assistant] Okay, okay


[User] That’s the fare, this mass transit, that’s it

[Assistant] We are stopping somewhere here?


[User] No, we are going, she said there’s a place that someone can sleep.

[Assistant] Okay


[User] But this’s where I will meet her, her church. I will call mama, let me know where she is. I stop by this boy to buy time small

[Assistant] You no  dey speak pidgin?


[User] We dey speak sha

[Assistant] why I come talk something, una dey, dey do like say una no dey speak pidgin English.


[User] exactly!

[Assistant] but then…


[User] you say?

[Assistant] ...we are  dragging food.


[User] ...we are dragging something.

[Assistant] I don’t think everybody…


[User] everybody here, yes

[Assistant] but in campus, it is somehow when you.. like one girl told me that she doesn’t know how  to speak pidgin.


[User] there are people like that naw

[Assistant] I said… who does not know.. who doesn’t know.. pidgin is a natural thing. It comes naturally. That’s the way I feel.


[User] when Nigerians  are around … like our conversations in class among the guys eventhough we are outside,  was purely pidgin.

[Assistant] even  in our class.


[User] only when...

[Assistant] yeah..  in our class


[User] even  in your class?

[Assistant] yes.


[User] yes.

[Assistant] so when you are talking  to the boys you...


[User] speak pidgin…

[Assistant] speak pidgin?


[User] you guys speak pidgin?

[Assistant] sometimes we speak English if we want some people  …we would just have to respect ourselves… please can you help.


[User] ok.. but when you  want to like…

[Assistant] beg money…


[User] make fun..  make fun..

[Assistant] how far naw .. how far  naw


[User] So when  you need something

[Assistant] when you need something.. you  go in English..


[User] yeah.. we go in that level.. like how far about that stuff

[Assistant] just for research…  ok..bye..


[User] you are ok now,  right?

[Assistant] ok…  bye bye


[User] No.. I can speak in pidgin..but.. I speak it. I don’t  know how to…

[Assistant] why are you ah ah..


[User] I don’t know how to provide..

[Assistant] but do you know how  to speak pidgin?


[User] yes  naw

[Assistant] why not you people talk in pidgin Let’s hear you…


[User] where are you from.. where are you from?

[Assistant] I’m  from Imo state.


[User] of course.. are you  Igbo too?

[Assistant] yes…


[User] ah ah.. Igbo people speak pidgin a lot naw; especially when you see them in campuses and … that’s the way to show 					that they are campus girls, you know…

[Assistant] I dey tell you.. but dem no sabi speak…nobody dey speak Igbo..  I swear


[User] I no hear you,  you say wetin? you say wetin I been tell you that time.. blessing.. ok.. no no no. ok. 		Na because of the light. Na because of the light. But him come talk say dem don take light. Him 		don dey comot? 	Ok. Dem just bring back light now. Ok. Ok. Ok. Make e do light  naw

[Assistant] And e dey rain o.


[User] make e do light naw. Make he do light now. Eh.. no worry naw. you go do the light naw, No worry. 		Ok. alright

[Assistant] … or two…


[User] You wanted the…

[Assistant] My parents don’t even know when I was going to Abuja, I had to tell my mum alone …, I went to write Jamb, I passed my Jamb and came to Abuja. They said I should come and write post ume, I couldn’t that post ume I missed it. So, I went to, that day, that  period aunty Anonymous was still on seat  … she was still on seat and my, my maternal aunty, then the senator then, she was still on seat. Then I went to, like just told her that … Abuja. … what hap_PEned to Uniport? … I don’t like Uniport aunty, disturbance Uniport is too much and I just need change of environment.  That’s what she told me,I shouldn’t disturb her if I come to Abuja. I said I will not disturb you.Ehh, just give me that ehen… ehen… what do they call it again? Ehen… mtchew, they will recommend you to…


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Any school like if you want to, if you, if you are looking for a job now, they will still give you that recommendation later, just go to any place and drop it there, they will give you the job


[User] Ahn-ahn, have you not done that?

[Assistant] I’ve, she’s no longer on seat again nah


[User] Ohhhhhhh, you missed something o

[Assistant] I missed that. Then, even the guy that she hel_PEd then, the guy, I helped one guy, the guy schooled in ABSU.  For four years, this guy never get job.


[User] Have you done that?

[Assistant] I’ve called the guy severally, if I call am im go tell me say, I will call you back, I will call you back


[User] Kai

[Assistant] Did you explain yourself?


[User] people!

[Assistant] Yes, he knows me, he has, he even had my, he even called my name TG how far nah?


[User] Okay

[Assistant] You understand? As in the guy’s, you know say dem dey, dem dey send am go abroad now like… O boy, the guy’s accent don change finish, you go know say yes ;You know…


[User] Waoh!

[Assistant] Since that time and everything, the guy now, no dey pick my call so I stopped calling him


[User] You are not his problem

[Assistant] _That’s life


[User] That’s your problem

[Assistant] You understand nah.


[User] Yeah…

[Assistant] I stop, I don, I don stop calling him


[User] Waoh!

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] But why do people always like, I don’t know, most of, most of the time _PEople do like this

[Assistant] My brother… you go go quarrel them?


[User] After you hel_PEd them and then…

[Assistant] I stopped calling him immediately. That’s why I got, I got admission that very first day I came to Gwagwalada. In VC’s office, VC stand for, as in mtchew Nigeria, chai! God! If dem dey write post ume, dey write this thing, I no write anything.


[User] Hai! Mtchew

[Assistant] I just go meet VC. VC look me, ehen okay, from Senator, okay, okay, okay. Ajiya! Ajiya just came. My son, I want to advise you on something, in University of Abuja we don’t do Engineering, this Engineering they will soon scrap it. Though Hausa man, the man just had to ah, open up, tell me the whole truth


[User] He said I should go and read BSC Physics

[Assistant] See me nau


[User] Is that what you read?

[Assistant] E/E Yes. BSC Physics


[User] Physics is very, is a very big this thing, hot cake

[Assistant] Are you serious?


[User] Physics?

[Assistant] Abroad there or in Nigeria here? In Nigeria here dem no value am nah


[User] Abroad it’s hot cake o. Have you ever tried to, don’t you want to do Masters?

[Assistant] Hmmm, apply o, it’s hot cake


[User] You understand? So, like, that was what the woman told me, just that same thing, the way I want to do it. I said let me call my aunty and confirm. I now called her she didn’t pick, I now called my mum, my mum said anything, I should just do Physics. I now came back, I now told him he had to doubt it, I gave him my offer letter… that was how I started. He gave me, gave me accommodation o, hostel o. I refused staying in the hostel that time. I now went to rent house off camp…

[Assistant] Chairman good evening, good evening


[User] Good evening

[Assistant] How nah?


[User] Fine o

[Assistant] We come say you no see chike yesterday?m


[User] chike?

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] Who be Chike?

[Assistant] Na lecturer, HOD for Physics Department Uni-Abuja


[User] Now you come sit down here like all those… now we go just free you because of one thing o

[Assistant] Mey you go bed, mey you go bed, today na your day


[User] I know you nah, you no know me?

[Assistant] Eheh?


[User] Go jare, go

[Assistant] You no know my face?


[User] Go, don’t…

[Assistant] You know am?


[User] I no know am o

[Assistant] Ehn?


[User] Scamming

[Assistant] You see these senior dresses you _PEople wear eh.These senator dresses can…


[User] That’s the way nah ehen. Ah… Excuse me, there is something inside here

[Assistant] Let me get it


[User] Okay, my phone is ringing.Thank you

[Assistant] It's not ringing anymore o


[User] Wetin, wetin the guy begin chase?

[Assistant] I don’t know o


[User] It's no more ringing

[Assistant] See another one


[User] It's my mother

[Assistant] E be like say im see another one


[User] is alright

[Assistant] Let me put the cover back


[User] Thank you very much ma

[Assistant] Talk nah


[User] Bro

[Assistant] You can’t shout with them nah


[User] it’s Man City…

[Assistant] It’s Man City


[User] Bro, bro, bro

[Assistant] Dem dey tell you something


[User] What they’re battling with is Man City. Either Man City or they loose but Man City will win

[Assistant] This is their, this is their…


[User] And Man City will win

[Assistant] Man, Man City? Dem don win sef


[User] Even if, see, if, if

[Assistant] Even your Arsenal they give Arsenal 3 Opel staff.


[User] See, hear this talk,

[Assistant] What’s the meaning of that rubbish?


[User] Hear this talk see…

[Assistant] What’s the meaning of that rubbish? 3 Opel staff


[User] Wao

[Assistant] You came to my house that day, you came to my house that day


[User] What kind of rubbish is that?

[Assistant] A real model, a real model, a real model


[User] So, so, which, which, team did they give 3 Opel staff?

[Assistant] See how embezzler embezzle the girl


[User] Una, una go get fine, una go get fine jersey, fine jersey. Aba Mayern, mumu people

[Assistant] Comot…


[User] See una, person tell me say before

[Assistant] That guy, that Aba …


[User] What if they’ve not found the… spouse

[Assistant] My brother o, At least you understand my situation


[User] How go, how dem go come fine like this

[Assistant] The ones that, the ones that I found couldn’t found me


[User] How these ones go come fine like this

[Assistant] Ma, they will fine  nah, ahn-ahn


[User] Come dey look where, where, come dey wear eh, eh, Senator every time

[Assistant] Na money be Na money be fine bobo nah


[User] You know ma, that’s, that’s the…

[Assistant] Na money be fine bobo, na moneyyy, Na money be fine bobo


[User] Ehen, how these ones no go fine?

[Assistant] Na money be fine bobo


[User] See how dem fine, see how dem come dey wear, Senator every time eh.

[Assistant] But you know that, that time wey dey…


[User] See those girls, I was looking at those girls, they were doing hihihihihihihi…

[Assistant] Ma, you see…


[User] seriously

[Assistant] Ma, you see, that’s why they have to be ex…


[User] You know I was looking at them. Their body dey, go dey sweet dem; especially that one at the center

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] Her body, she was just doing body, body. I told myself, you don see fine boy shey?

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] See as body dey sweet am.

[Assistant] Ma, but you know, you see that’s where the problem is. They can, is difficult for them to find the… Genuine…


[User] I’m telling you brother

[Assistant] Ehhen, the genuine one


[User] If I tell you my experiences I’ve had

[Assistant] The genuine one


[User] Ehhen

[Assistant] I’ve had too many experiences eh


[User] If they want, if they want to find genuine one they will find

[Assistant] Then after a while, they will all just seem the same .After a while, you will find out that they are all the same, it will just take some time


[User] The only one now, Aunty…

[Assistant] To find good, to find good woman now hard o


[User] The only one I like now eh,

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] I won’t lie to you, that understand me very, very well

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] That I like so much, she went to Madona University now eh,

[Assistant] Ehen. Ah-ah, what’s the noise all about?


[User] Sorry, where is this noise coming from?

[Assistant] Park stand


[User] Park…

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] That one is in Madona University

[Assistant] Ehen no, she’s, she is done with Madona; she is working in town, she's staying in Abuja here too


[User] Okay

[Assistant] I wanted to bring her to you, I wanted to introduce her to you today


[User] Ehen, are you people still coming?

[Assistant] In fact she is in my house now sef


[User] Are you people still coming to the house?

[Assistant] Ehen, we, we are coming to the, I told her to, that you wanted to see her


[User] Okay

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] She said she will come and see you


[User] Okay

[Assistant] You understand. So, but, the only, she’s the only one that my mind have already accepted but now, my parents


[User] Ewoo

[Assistant] Is now the problem


[User] What’s the problem  nah?

[Assistant] I don’t know o,


[User] What is it?

[Assistant] I don’t know o, you know her very well  nah


[User] No, what, what are they complaining about?

[Assistant] As in, my parents said… you know I’m from Abia State. They said ehhhn, Anambra that ehh and she is plumpy


[User] Eheeee…

[Assistant] They are saying that the girl is big, she is old, she is all that, na small girl…


[User] I don’t understand

[Assistant] Na small girl wey I senior


[User] I don’t understand, she is?

[Assistant] She is big, she is old, all those kind, you know as mum mtchew


[User] Okay

[Assistant] The thing come dey serious for where mumsy dey o


[User] So, so, are you going to marry their choice or your choice?

[Assistant] I cannot do that, I cannot do that. This girl dey very, very homely. If I don’t do any ah, ah! You know her very well  nah Fab?


[User] I know her very, very well  nah

[Assistant] She is very, very homely,


[User] I know her very, very well

[Assistant] I don’t know and the ones that dealt with me Aunty eh


[User] Hmmm, are the slim ones…

[Assistant] Slim ones! They dealt with me seriously


[User] Ehen.

[Assistant] Aunty I’m telling you the gospel truth


[User] Ehhennn

[Assistant] We schooled to, we finished school here in Gwagwalada together. That one, she was a Pastor in Christ Embassy


[User] Ahhhhhh

[Assistant] You understand. That one, I was even thinking that after school then everything. Then, I was planning on travelling abroad that period


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] You understand. I said okay after schooling, I will introduce her to my parentsbla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. She went for NYSC


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Now she, she was, she was serving in Anambra, in Awka sorry Awka. that time wey I tell you say I dey go Awka,na she.  Aunty from the little money I had, I paid her this thing o. I don’t really have much but I had to rally round, pay her accommodation. Just in Awka, it’s like 120k  abi? We divided it half, half, she brought half, I brought half, we paid. She now started doing her NYSC, I left her for some months.


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] I didn’t go to visit her in Awka


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] I now said okay one day, let me just go and visit her in Awka, do you get?


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] Getting to Awka, she refused to open her door for me


[User] There?

[Assistant] As in, I, I drove from Abuja to Awka


[User] Waoh!

[Assistant] Only me, I drove from Abuja to Awka


[User] Love ooo, …

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] Just to found out say the boy wey she dey go out with now, that the boy open ear, do dreadlocks. All those kind yoppy…


[User] Chai

[Assistant] NYSC…


[User] She never know wetin she want

[Assistant] Lappy boy and na person weydey do like say na Pastor, so what I’m I going to do?


[User] The girl?

[Assistant] Yes


[User] Hmm. No be say imdey do like say na Pastor,

[Assistant] Na Pastor


[User] E be Pastor for school

[Assistant] For Christ Embassy


[User] Ehn?

[Assistant] Ehh, all those kind things dem.  So, what do you want me to do again? So, that was even when I left everything about woman, as in, everything…...  Even till now sef, woman sef don dey do me one kind. I fit, I fit no talk to woman for weeks, months, I go just dey find money


[User] E/E So, how did you meet this person that you are with now?

[Assistant] Okay this one, I met her through, I met her like ehhhh… how did I even met that girl… it, it was, okay… I think it was in a bank


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Then she was working with the bank or something


[User] Okay

[Assistant] I think so. It was in a bank I met her first. But we didn’t talk


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] For some months. Then, one day I invited her out, she now came to Crush town to wait for me, that day I forgot I invited someone out


[User] Are you serious?

[Assistant] I tell you the truth


[User] He forgot that he invited someone out

[Assistant] Guy, guy…


[User] Aunty, she will tell you if she, if you meet her, she will tell you

[Assistant] My God!


[User] I forgot like intoto that I invited someone. She kept on calling, calling and for my mind…

[Assistant] Guy…


[User] Why this girl dey call me like this? You understand that kind thing? I left her till after 7

[Assistant] But that’s a very bad first impression


[User] My brother…

[Assistant] As in eh


[User] Very bad

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] It happened first, as in, second time I disappointed her too then


[User] Oh my God!

[Assistant] God, I didn’t know what to do


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Elm, that was how everything started and then, okay, okay, when everything now, when everything now started happening like relationship was when I got broke


[User] Okay

[Assistant] I was explaining to her that, explaining that I was just broke okay, she, we started talking once, once on phone. She now say what is the problem? I told her that I don’t have money to do this, I don’t have money to put my light, my bill, this one, that one and she couldn’t say a word, she said that I should send her my, how much do you want, I told her that I need 30k, she said okay that she has some amount of money in her account that the parents sent it to her for accommodation but she is squatting with one of her friends in Abuja here.


[User] Ehh…

[Assistant] But can she lend me the money? After


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] Are you getting what I’m saying, I will refund her, I said okay. I sent her my account number, she sent me Four hundred and thir, fifty thousand or there about then


[User] Four hundred and?

[Assistant] Fifty thousand naira


[User] But you said you wanted what? Thirty thousand?

[Assistant] Thirty thousand, she said that,


[User] And she sent you four hundred and something

[Assistant] She said, she said, yes…


[User] Seriously,

[Assistant] That I should just keep it, that anytime…


[User] We need to look, look very well o

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] That anytime I need ..., I, I, Anytime I need ehhh, anytime she needs the money, you understand?

[Assistant] Hayyyy


[User] I can refund her the money, I gave her back the money o, you understand? But what really helped me a lot…

[Assistant] But eh, my question is… you asked a young lady for thirty thousand naira…


[User] no, I’ve forgotten how the conversation happened so…

[Assistant] And the lady gave you four hundred and something, ha!


[User] Do you know why, do you know why I think,

[Assistant] See,


[User] Do you know why I think that

[Assistant] See what happened,


[User] Do you know why I think that eh

[Assistant] I told, I don’t know even what happened but


[User] No, do you know why I think that ehhh, probably she gave you that four hundred and fifty thousand

[Assistant] To keep for her in exchange


[User] Eh so, she will know that you are in the possession of the complete money because if she gives you thirty

[Assistant] Some people don’t like touching part, part…


[User] She wan ehen…

[Assistant] She has started eating that money


[User] She wanted, she wanted to rent house with the money

[Assistant] If she gives you thirty, she might give another person…


[User] you understand, she wanted to rent house with the money. Ehen, she wanted to rent house with the money of which I gave her back the complete money, she rented her house. You understand so…And the money sef I didn’t even fi, and the money again now

[Assistant] It sounds strange to me. You people are…


[User] The money with me here

[Assistant] You people are …, you people are talking it, … you are explaining it, as in, it sounds strange to me


[User] No, but that does…

[Assistant] A young man asked you for thirty thousand and you gave the young man four hundred and something thousand


[User] No, she told me that …

[Assistant] So that, so that,


[User] This is what she ehen, this is what she has in her account

[Assistant] So that you will have the complete money


[User] You understand? She told me that this…

[Assistant] And instead of giving her back the thirty thousand maybe when she has started squandering the four hundred and twenty thousand that is remaining…


[User] And still go back to square one

[Assistant] Is better to give him the four hundred and fifty thousand


[User] What if something happened and the young man was not able to refund back the four hundred and something thousand?

[Assistant] That is where the trust comes in


[User] That is the thing, that thing eh

[Assistant] That is just the cause


[User] Hope you didn’t tell your mum this story?

[Assistant] No, I didn’t tell her


[User] Because this is one reason she will use and tell you what… a no, no

[Assistant] Why?


[User] Are you serious aunty?

[Assistant] I’m telling you o; somebody you just started a relationship with


[User] A question mark o

[Assistant] Ehh…


[User] No, no, no…

[Assistant] Because there’s a question mark in this thing


[User] We’ve been talking eh

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] She was base, she’s based in Abuja here

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] Are you getting what I’m saying? She was, we’ve already known in Abuja

[Assistant] … which side are we going back? Through bridge abi… which side?


[User] let’s follow uh the way we came from, somehow it’s closer

[Assistant] Okay the way we came from?


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] Okay but are you sure that road is safe in the night like this?


[User] Yes, very safe

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Very safe

[Assistant] Okay


[User] You understand aunty, ehen

[Assistant] Oh, there are some roads that are not safe


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] Abuja is no longer as safe as it used to be


[User] Or should we follow the, the other University Abuja side?

[Assistant] The other, let’s follow that, that side is…


[User] Ehen, let’s follow that airport side

[Assistant] Yes, that airport side is safer, at least I know that there are police at all the check points


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Okayyy


[User] And then…

[Assistant] Abeg safety first ehh…


[User] You understand aunty ehen

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] She explained to me that look at the money she has in her account, she explained to me that period on phone, She explained everything that she wanted to use it for accommodation, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, you understand that kind thing?  And me, I, I had problem that is even more than that 30k sef, but I know you, I barely know you, I just can’t start telling you this, you should come and give me that huge amount of money. She now said okay that she will borrow me the money that when I have, she didn’t dash me the money No, she didn’t, I pay her back

[Assistant] See why she gave you the money…


[User] But she behaved like someone that was really desperate for…

[Assistant] She wasn’t


[User] Nooo

[Assistant] After that periodsef, she didn’t talk to me o. She gave me the money, she forgot me, I forgot her too, after a while when I got the, as in mtchew, that’s why I said the thing just happened. I did not ask her out, she did not ask me out, the thing just happened, you understand aunty? As in, the thing just happened like, we didn’t really… mtchew  how will I put it, we didn’t really ahn-ahn, you know how she behaves  nah


[User] But which one is better  nah? Na who get the money for account e no go gree give you? Na that one good to marry?

[Assistant] Hmm… Anonymous forget that. These days women use their money to buy men o, if you people don’t know; know it now


[User] To buy men?

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] But aunty ehen, I come, aunty… see, see, see wetin

[Assistant] You understand what I’m saying my brother?


[User] I understand

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] See wetin me I feel say wey make am give me the money sef ehen, she don come my house before that time, you understand?

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] You know if someone enters your house and sees how maybe a little bit comfortable you are, the person might think… are you getting what I’m saying?

[Assistant] The person will trust you enough


[User] Okayyy

[Assistant] Yeah,


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Trust you with something


[User] Okay, okay

[Assistant] That was the only thing I, I figured out that period sef


[User] See, the poor, the poor farmer’s way of saving money is lending it to a trusted friend. That is the poor farmer’s way of saving money. At that point if she gives you that thirty thousand,

[Assistant] It won’t even be enough  sef


[User] The money will remain four hundred and twen, the money will remain four hundred and twenty thousand and she would start using it because she has already started

[Assistant] Yeah…


[User] So, the best thing to do is to give you the whole money… Keep, I’m sure that you will give me back

[Assistant] Anyway, thank God…


[User] I’ve given her back

[Assistant] Thank God that you gave her back


[User] I gave her back

[Assistant] Because something would have happened


[User] I gave her back

[Assistant] And maybe you wouldn’t give her back and I wondered what would have happened


[User] I gave her back

[Assistant] Hmmm, thank God you gave her back


[User] And before I gave her back, when she needed the money, That was when I even gave her back  sef, God made it possible like when she needed the money, the day she called, that she will like to use the money to rent a house;You understand? I told her to give me one week,You understand? Before that one week, I called her, gave her back the money

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Even then, we’ve not even started dating too aunty. Are you getting what I’m saying?

[Assistant] That, that girl took a very big risk


[User] We’ve not even started dating

[Assistant] That was a very big risk that she took


[User] If you were a 419…

[Assistant] She said it’s a risk she won’t take


[User] No aunty I can’t do that. A corper, I say a corper, a…

[Assistant] Ehen because you are not that kind of a person ehen


[User] A this thing, a young banker

[Assistant] Somebody has given me her school fees before


[User] A young girl like that

[Assistant] Girl don give me her money but this one give me her school fees eh. Gave me 50k, her school fees nah 80k


[User] Ehhn

[Assistant] She come give me 50k say…


[User] Say mey you complete am

[Assistant] Ehhen say…If I now won pay am back


[User] Make you complete am

[Assistant] Make I give am the 80k nah


[User] You see…

[Assistant] I tell am no problem. I tell the girl no problem, I will. You get? Now she gave me that 50k. Now when she come give me the 50k, as in… the time to pay the school fees has not reached


[User] She come dey ginger for your body

[Assistant] She come dey ginger me say her sisters found out say she give boy her school fees; this that, this that. That I should please send her back the money that I should please that ah, ahn-ahn, the calls were getting too much, I’m like what’s up with you  nah? You have to, you need to relax, you don’t understand? You need to relax. The time you and I discussed has not even reached and you are bugging, she said that her sisters are disturbing her, the next thing they will tell her parents that this, that, that, I cannot put her in that type of trouble. I said come on, you have something to gain out of this. You gave me 50k to give you 80k so you will use and complete your school fees, so don’t act like… Don’t act like you did me all the favour because you’re gaining something as well()


[User] Of course

[Assistant] So, come on. The girl insisted and I said okay, since the time we talked about has not reached and you are insisting on having the money, let me give you back your 50k


[User] Straight up

[Assistant] And I transferred her that her 50k that day wey we talk, I just transfer am her 50k. She come dey call me say how far nah that this is not what we I told her mehn… fuck you there, this thing is not what you and I said at all


[User] but Annonymous you were, you agreed to put 30k…

[Assistant] Were you that desperate for money?


[User] Ehen?

[Assistant] were you that desperate?


[User] No she is my friend, I can dash her the 30k even without borrowing hers

[Assistant] When you were a student?


[User] No, no, no, no, not when I was a student

[Assistant] No this thing, all these thing happened when we were here


[User] Okay, I thought it was when he was a student

[Assistant] No, no, no


[User] When I was a student

[Assistant] One thing there is ehn, all these thing happened when we left school years back, all these thing happen…


[User] That’s why I say marry, marry, when boys don’t, when you people have money and you don’t marry, you waste money. Money you will use to be taking care of your families, see that thirty thousand naira you would have wasted giving a…

[Assistant] Those things are waste, as long as I’m concerned. When you have a family, you put it in your family and it’s moving


[User] The, the girl come dey ginger me later say okay, e get when this girl dey tell me say ahh, say make I help, make I borrow her 120k

[Assistant] You see…


[User] Apparently…

[Assistant] Make she use pay her house rent


[User] Yeah, right

[Assistant] Make she use pay her house, make she use pay her house rent say later she go give me back mtchew, I come tell the girl say… see eh, I don’t think you need a… a… I don’t think you need a partner or a boyfriend or whatever, whatever, whatever. The only thing you need is a cash assurance That’s the only thing you need,


[User] I dey tell you

[Assistant] Is just cash assurance and mehn, is not working with me


[User] Na sooo

[Assistant] I tell the girl life, is not working with me, think of something else, if this is your plan with me, forget it


[User] Na soooo

[Assistant] It won’t work. Because I don’t have that time


[User] And you know say…

[Assistant] I no get that time o…


[User] E get people wey be say, as you dey like this ehn, if you ask them for money ehendem go give you but if I ask dem no go give. You know that one very well?

[Assistant] Why?


[User] I no just know but e dey happen steady. Like,

[Assistant] You know the way here? Okay


[User] That thing wey you tell me that time, you say e get one guy…

[Assistant] This, this one we will now pass through the front, front of that University of Abuja


[User] Eh?

[Assistant] I said we will cross the…


[User] Is it that University side?

[Assistant] Yes


[User] Okay

[Assistant] I come know say wetin this girl need from my hand…


[User] Na money

[Assistant] Na money


[User] Is this place closer than that place that we went?

[Assistant] Abi no, that place is closer. it's a straight way but this place is safer


[User] Okay

[Assistant] And for, according, I, I, that’s why I wanted to know if they have used that road


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] In the night and how many check, check points are there… How many police this thing.At least this one, just up here, there is a military check point first…


[User] _ Okay

[Assistant] Before you even go far


[User] Okay

[Assistant] And then, at the University bridge, Erm… there are some police men that usually stay at the University bridge


[User] Okay

[Assistant] They are even much, is further, I further Mtchew but that road, I’ve not used it in the night so I don’t know mtchew, I don’t know anything about it jare. But with this one, ehen that one is more of out sketch  With this one very soon, you go just… we will reach now, when we pass airpot We will be there already, at least, nothing can happen…


[User] What if they’ve not found the… spouse

[Assistant] My brother o, At least you understand my situation


[User] How go, how dem go come fine like this

[Assistant] The ones that, the ones that I found couldn’t found me


[User] How these ones go come fine like this

[Assistant] Ma, they will fine  nah, ahn-ahn


[User] Come dey look where, where, come dey wear eh, eh, Senator every time

[Assistant] Na money be Na money be fine bobo nah


[User] You know ma, that’s, that’s the…

[Assistant] Na money be fine bobo, na moneyyy


[User] Ehen, how these ones no go fine?

[Assistant] Na money be fine bobo


[User] See how dem fine, see how dem come dey wear

[Assistant] But you know that, that time wey dey…


[User] See those girls, I was looking at those girls, they were doing hihihihihihihi…

[Assistant] Ma, you see…


[User] seriously

[Assistant] Ma, you see, that’s why they have to be ex…


[User] You know I was looking at them. Their body dey, go dey sweet dem; especially that one at the center

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] Her body, she was just doing body, body. I told myself, you don see fine boy shey?

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] See as body dey sweet am.

[Assistant] Ma, but you know, you see that’s where the problem is. They can, is difficult for them to find the… Genuine…


[User] I’m telling you brother

[Assistant] Ehhen, the genuine one


[User] If I tell you my experiences I’ve had

[Assistant] The genuine one


[User] Ehhen

[Assistant] I’ve had too many experiences eh


[User] If they want, if they want to find genuine one they will find

[Assistant] Then after a while, they will all just seem the same .After a while, you will find out that they are all the same, it will just take some time


[User] The only one now, Aunty…

[Assistant] To find good, to find good woman now hard o


[User] The only one I like now eh,

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] I won’t lie to you, that understand me very, very well

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] That I like so much, she went to Madona University now eh,

[Assistant] Ehen. Ah-ah, what’s the noise all about?


[User] Sorry, where is this noise coming from?

[Assistant] Park stand


[User] Park…

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] That one is in Madona University

[Assistant] Ehen no, she’s, she is done with Madona; she is working in town, she's staying in Abuja here too


[User] Okay

[Assistant] I wanted to bring her to you, I wanted to introduce her to you today


[User] Ehen, are you people still coming?

[Assistant] In fact she is in my house now sef


[User] Are you people still coming to the house?

[Assistant] Ehen, we, we are coming to the, I told her to, that you wanted to see her


[User] Okay

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] She said she will come and see you


[User] Okay

[Assistant] You understand. So, but, the only, she’s the only one that my mind have already accepted but now, my parents


[User] Ewoo

[Assistant] Is now the problem


[User] What’s the problem  nah?

[Assistant] I don’t know o,


[User] What is it?

[Assistant] I don’t know o, you know her very well  nah


[User] No, what, what are they complaining about?

[Assistant] As in, my parents said… you know I’m from Abia State. They said ehhhn, Anambra that ehh and she is plumpy


[User] Eheeee…

[Assistant] They are saying that the girl is big, she is old, she is all that, na small girl…


[User] I don’t understand

[Assistant] Na small girl wey I senior


[User] I don’t understand, she is?

[Assistant] She is big, she is old, all those kind, you know as mum mtchew


[User] Okay

[Assistant] The thing come dey serious for where mumsy dey o


[User] So, so, are you going to marry their choice or your choice?

[Assistant] I cannot do that, I cannot do that. This girl dey very, very homely. If I don’t do any ah, ah! You know her very well  nah Fab?


[User] I know her very, very well  nah

[Assistant] She is very, very homely,


[User] I know her very, very well

[Assistant] I don’t know and the ones that dealt with me Aunty eh


[User] Hmmm, are the slim ones…

[Assistant] Slim ones! They dealt with me seriously


[User] Ehen.

[Assistant] Aunty I’m telling you the gospel truth


[User] Ehhennn

[Assistant] We schooled to, we finished school here in Gwagwalada together. That one, she was a Pastor in Christ Embassy


[User] Ahhhhhh

[Assistant] You understand. That one, I was even thinking that after school then everything. Then, I was planning on travelling abroad that period


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] You understand. I said okay after schooling, I will introduce her to my parentsbla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. She went for NYSC


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Now she, she was, she was serving in Anambra, in Awka sorry Awka. that time wey I tell you say I dey go Awka,na she.  Aunty from the little money I had, I paid her this thing o. I don’t really have much but I had to rally round, pay her accommodation. Just in Awka, it’s like 120k  abi? We divided it half, half, she brought half, I brought half, we paid. She now started doing her NYSC, I left her for some months.


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] I didn’t go to visit her in Awka


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] I now said okay one day, let me just go and visit her in Awka, do you get?


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] Getting to Awka, she refused to open her door for me


[User] There?

[Assistant] As in, I, I drove from Abuja to Awka


[User] Waoh!

[Assistant] Only me, I drove from Abuja to Awka


[User] Love ooo, …

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] Just to found out say the boy wey she dey go out with now, that the boy open ear, do dreadlocks. All those kind yoppy…


[User] Chai

[Assistant] NYSC…


[User] She never know wetin she want

[Assistant] Lappy boy and na person weydey do like say na Pastor, so what I’m I going to do?


[User] The girl?

[Assistant] Yes


[User] Hmm. No be say imdey do like say na Pastor,

[Assistant] Na Pastor


[User] E be Pastor for school

[Assistant] For Christ Embassy


[User] Ehn?

[Assistant] Ehh, all those kind things dem.  So, what do you want me to do again? So, that was even when I left everything about woman, as in, everything…...  Even till now sef, woman sef don dey do me one kind. I fit, I fit no talk to woman for weeks, months, I go just dey find money


[User] E/E So, how did you meet this person that you are with now?

[Assistant] Okay this one, I met her through, I met her like ehhhh… how did I even met that girl… it, it was, okay… I think it was in a bank


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Then she was working with the bank or something


[User] Okay

[Assistant] I think so. It was in a bank I met her first. But we didn’t talk


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] For some months. Then, one day I invited her out, she now came to Crush town to wait for me, that day I forgot I invited someone out


[User] Are you serious?

[Assistant] I tell you the truth


[User] He forgot that he invited someone out

[Assistant] Guy, guy…


[User] Aunty, she will tell you if she, if you meet her, she will tell you

[Assistant] My God!


[User] I forgot like intoto that I invited someone. She kept on calling, calling and for my mind…

[Assistant] Guy…


[User] Why this girl dey call me like this? You understand that kind thing? I left her till after 7

[Assistant] But that’s a very bad first impression


[User] My brother…

[Assistant] As in eh


[User] Very bad

[Assistant] You understand?


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] It happened first, as in, second time I disappointed her too then


[User] Oh my God!

[Assistant] God, I didn’t know what to do


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Elm, that was how everything started and then, okay, okay, when everything now, when everything now started happening like relationship was when I got broke


[User] Okay

[Assistant] I was explaining to her that, explaining that I was just broke okay, she, we started talking once, once on phone. She now say what is the problem? I told her that I don’t have money to do this, I don’t have money to put my light, my bill, this one, that one and she couldn’t say a word, she said that I should send her my, how much do you want, I told her that I need 30k, she said okay that she has some amount of money in her account that the parents sent it to her for accommodation but she is squatting with one of her friends in Abuja here.


[User] Ehh…

[Assistant] But can she lend me the money? After


[User] Ehh

[Assistant] Are you getting what I’m saying, I will refund her, I said okay. I sent her my account number, she sent me Four hundred and thir, fifty thousand or there about then


[User] Four hundred and?

[Assistant] Fifty thousand naira


[User] But you said you wanted what? Thirty thousand?

[Assistant] Thirty thousand, she said that,


[User] And she sent you four hundred and something

[Assistant] She said, she said, yes…


[User] Seriously,

[Assistant] That I should just keep it, that anytime…


[User] We need to look, look very well o

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] That anytime I need ..., I, I, Anytime I need ehhh, anytime she needs the money, you understand?

[Assistant] Hayyyy


[User] I can refund her the money, I gave her back the money o, you understand? But what really helped me a lot…

[Assistant] But eh, my question is… you asked a young lady for thirty thousand naira…


[User] no, I’ve forgotten how the conversation happened so…

[Assistant] And the lady gave you four hundred and something, ha!


[User] Do you know why, do you know why I think,

[Assistant] See,


[User] Do you know why I think that

[Assistant] See what happened,


[User] Do you know why I think that eh

[Assistant] I told, I don’t know even what happened but


[User] No, do you know why I think that ehhh, probably she gave you that four hundred and fifty thousand

[Assistant] To keep for her in exchange


[User] Eh so, she will know that you are in the possession of the complete money because if she gives you thirty

[Assistant] Some people don’t like touching part, part…


[User] She wan ehen…

[Assistant] She has started eating that money


[User] She wanted, she wanted to rent house with the money

[Assistant] If she gives you thirty, she might give another person…


[User] you understand, she wanted to rent house with the money. Ehen, she wanted to rent house with the money of which I gave her back the complete money, she rented her house. You understand so…And the money sef I didn’t even fi, and the money again now

[Assistant] It sounds strange to me. You people are…


[User] The money with me here

[Assistant] You people are …, you people are talking it, … you are explaining it, as in, it sounds strange to me


[User] No, but that does…

[Assistant] A young man asked you for thirty thousand and you gave the young man four hundred and something thousand


[User] No, she told me that …

[Assistant] So that, so that,


[User] This is what she ehen, this is what she has in her account

[Assistant] So that you will have the complete money


[User] You understand? She told me that this…

[Assistant] And instead of giving her back the thirty thousand maybe when she has started squandering the four hundred and twenty thousand that is remaining…


[User] And still go back to square one

[Assistant] Is better to give him the four hundred and fifty thousand


[User] What if something happened and the young man was not able to refund back the four hundred and something thousand?

[Assistant] That is where the trust comes in


[User] That is the thing, that thing eh

[Assistant] That is just the cause


[User] Hope you didn’t tell your mum this story?

[Assistant] No, I didn’t tell her


[User] Because this is one reason she will use and tell you what… a no, no

[Assistant] Why?


[User] Are you serious aunty?

[Assistant] I’m telling you o; somebody you just started a relationship with


[User] A question mark o

[Assistant] Ehh…


[User] No, no, no…

[Assistant] Because there’s a question mark in this thing


[User] We’ve been talking eh

[Assistant] Ehh


[User] She was base, she’s based in Abuja here

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] Are you getting what I’m saying? She was, we’ve already known in Abuja

[Assistant] … which side are we going back? Through bridge abi… which side?


[User] let’s follow uh the way we came from, somehow it’s closer

[Assistant] Okay the way we came from?


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] Yes, very safe


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Very safe


[User] Okay

[Assistant] You understand aunty, ehen


[User] Oh, there are some roads that are not safe

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] Abuja is no longer as safe as it used to be

[Assistant] Or should we follow the, the other University Abuja side?


[User] The other, let’s follow that, that side is…

[Assistant] Ehen, let’s follow that airport side


[User] Yes, that airport side is safer, at least I know that there are police at all the check points

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Okayyy

[Assistant] And then…


[User] Abeg safety first ehh…

[Assistant] You understand aunty ehen


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] She explained to me that look at the money she has in her account, she explained to me that period on phone, She explained everything that she wanted to use it for accommodation, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, you understand that kind thing?  And me, I, I had problem that is even more than that 30k sef, but I know you, I barely know you, I just can’t start telling you this, you should come and give me that huge amount of money. She now said okay that she will borrow me the money that when I have, she didn’t dash me the money No, she didn’t, I pay her back


[User] See why she gave you the money…

[Assistant] But she behaved like someone that was really desperate for…


[User] She wasn’t

[Assistant] Nooo


[User] After that periodsef, she didn’t talk to me o. She gave me the money, she forgot me, I forgot her too, after a while when I got the, as in mtchew, that’s why I said the thing just happened. I did not ask her out, she did not ask me out, the thing just happened, you understand aunty? As in, the thing just happened like, we didn’t really… mtchew  how will I put it, we didn’t really ahn-ahn, you know how she behaves  nah

[Assistant] But which one is better  nah? Na who get the money for account e no go gree give you? Na that one good to marry?


[User] Hmm… Anonymous forget that. These days women use their money to buy men o, if you people don’t know; know it now

[Assistant] To buy men?


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] But aunty ehen, I come, aunty… see, see, see wetin


[User] You understand what I’m saying my brother?

[Assistant] I understand


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] See wetin me I feel say wey make am give me the money sef ehen, she don come my house before that time, you understand?


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] You know if someone enters your house and sees how maybe a little bit comfortable you are, the person might think… are you getting what I’m saying?


[User] The person will trust you enough

[Assistant] Okayyy


[User] Yeah,

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Trust you with something

[Assistant] Okay, okay


[User] That was the only thing I, I figured out that period sef

[Assistant] See, the poor, the poor farmer’s way of saving money is lending it to a trusted friend. That is the poor farmer’s way of saving money. At that point if she gives you that thirty thousand,


[User] It won’t even be enough  sef

[Assistant] The money will remain four hundred and twen, the money will remain four hundred and twenty thousand and she would start using it because she has already started


[User] Yeah…

[Assistant] So, the best thing to do is to give you the whole money… Keep, I’m sure that you will give me back


[User] Anyway, thank God…

[Assistant] I’ve given her back


[User] Thank God that you gave her back

[Assistant] I gave her back


[User] Because something would have happened

[Assistant] I gave her back


[User] And maybe you wouldn’t give her back and I wondered what would have happened

[Assistant] I gave her back


[User] Hmmm, thank God you gave her back

[Assistant] And before I gave her back, when she needed the money, That was when I even gave her back  sef, God made it possible like when she needed the money, the day she called, that she will like to use the money to rent a house;You understand? I told her to give me one week,You understand? Before that one week, I called her, gave her back the money


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Even then, we’ve not even started dating too aunty. Are you getting what I’m saying?


[User] That, that girl took a very big risk

[Assistant] We’ve not even started dating


[User] That was a very big risk that she took

[Assistant] If you were a 419…


[User] She said it’s a risk she won’t take

[Assistant] No aunty I can’t do that. A corper, I say a corper, a…


[User] Ehen because you are not that kind of a person ehen

[Assistant] A this thing, a young banker


[User] Somebody has given me her school fees before

[Assistant] A young girl like that


[User] Girl don give me her money but this one give me her school fees eh. Gave me 50k, her school fees nah 80k

[Assistant] Ehhn


[User] She come give me 50k say…

[Assistant] Say mey you complete am


[User] Ehhen say…If I now won pay am back

[Assistant] Make you complete am


[User] Make I give am the 80k nah

[Assistant] You see…


[User] I tell am no problem. I tell the girl no problem, I will. You get? Now she gave me that 50k. Now when she come give me the 50k, as in… the time to pay the school fees has not reached

[Assistant] She come dey ginger for your body


[User] She come dey ginger me say her sisters found out say she give boy her school fees; this that, this that. That I should please send her back the money that I should please that ah, ahn-ahn, the calls were getting too much, I’m like what’s up with you  nah? You have to, you need to relax, you don’t understand? You need to relax. The time you and I discussed has not even reached and you are bugging, she said that her sisters are disturbing her, the next thing they will tell her parents that this, that, that, I cannot put her in that type of trouble. I said come on, you have something to gain out of this. You gave me 50k to give you 80k so you will use and complete your school fees, so don’t act like… Don’t act like you did me all the favour because you’re gaining something as well()

[Assistant] Of course


[User] So, come on. The girl insisted and I said okay, since the time we talked about has not reached and you are insisting on having the money, let me give you back your 50k

[Assistant] Straight up


[User] And I transferred her that her 50k that day wey we talk, I just transfer am her 50k. She come dey call me say how far nah that this is not what we I told her mehn… fuck you there, this thing is not what you and I said at all

[Assistant] but Annonymous you were, you agreed to put 30k…


[User] Were you that desperate for money?

[Assistant] Ehen?


[User] were you that desperate?

[Assistant] No she is my friend, I can dash her the 30k even without borrowing hers


[User] When you were a student?

[Assistant] No, no, no, no, not when I was a student


[User] No this thing, all these thing happened when we were here

[Assistant] Okay, I thought it was when he was a student


[User] No, no, no

[Assistant] When I was a student


[User] One thing there is ehn, all these thing happened when we left school years back, all these thing happen…

[Assistant] That’s why I say marry, marry, when boys don’t, when you people have money and you don’t marry, you waste money. Money you will use to be taking care of your families, see that thirty thousand naira you would have wasted giving a…


[User] Those things are waste, as long as I’m concerned. When you have a family, you put it in your family and it’s moving

[Assistant] The, the girl come dey ginger me later say okay, e get when this girl dey tell me say ahh, say make I help, make I borrow her 120k


[User] You see…

[Assistant] Apparently…


[User] Make she use pay her house rent

[Assistant] Yeah, right


[User] Make she use pay her house, make she use pay her house rent say later she go give me back mtchew, I come tell the girl say… see eh, I don’t think you need a… a… I don’t think you need a partner or a boyfriend or whatever, whatever, whatever. The only thing you need is a cash assurance That’s the only thing you need,

[Assistant] I dey tell you


[User] Is just cash assurance and mehn, is not working with me

[Assistant] Na sooo


[User] I tell the girl life, is not working with me, think of something else, if this is your plan with me, forget it

[Assistant] Na soooo


[User] It won’t work. Because I don’t have that time

[Assistant] And you know say…


[User] I no get that time o…

[Assistant] E get people wey be say, as you dey like this ehn, if you ask them for money ehendem go give you but if I ask dem no go give. You know that one very well?


[User] Why?

[Assistant] I no just know but e dey happen steady. Like,


[User] You know the way here? Okay

[Assistant] That thing wey you tell me that time, you say e get one guy…


[User] This, this one we will now pass through the front, front of that University of Abuja

[Assistant] Eh?


[User] I said we will cross the…

[Assistant] Is it that University side?


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Okay


[User] I come know say wetin this girl need from my hand…

[Assistant] Na money


[User] Na money

[Assistant] Is this place closer than that place that we went?


[User] Abi no, that place is closer. it's a straight way but this place is safer

[Assistant] Okay


[User] And for, according, I, I, that’s why I wanted to know if they have used that road

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] In the night and how many check, check points are there… How many police this thing.At least this one, just up here, there is a military check point first…

[Assistant] _ Okay


[User] Before you even go far

[Assistant] Okay


[User] And then, at the University bridge, Erm… there are some police men that usually stay at the University bridge

[Assistant] Okay


[User] They are even much, is further, I further Mtchew but that road, I’ve not used it in the night so I don’t know mtchew, I don’t know anything about it jare. But with this one, ehen that one is more of out sketch  With this one very soon, you go just… we will reach now, when we pass airpot We will be there already, at least, nothing can happen…

[Assistant] If you don’t win that money, you can come out, people know you for something


[User] Ehen nah

[Assistant] And people will patronize you because you are already popular. Do you understand? You are already popular, people will patronize you


[User] Is that where you picked us that time, this place?

[Assistant] Nooo o, no, no, no


[User] Okay, I saw this bridge

[Assistant] This bridge  bah


[User] People will, people that, people that are into this big, big things

[Assistant] It’s still far?


[User] There are so many bridges o, yes, it’s still far!

[Assistant] That place is still far?


[User] Where I picked you from?

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] It’s still a little, it’s still far

[Assistant] No, Is not too far


[User] Seriously

[Assistant] Not as far as…


[User] Like 10 minutes

[Assistant] But it’s just a little


[User] You understand. So, why not show this thing so that if you go for Big Brother, even if you don’t win the prize money. You are not even sure of entering the house but let’s say you enter the house, even if you don’t win the prize money and you get to an, a errr, level, do you understand?

[Assistant] Yes


[User] You get to a level. Now you are not completely useless because there are people that will use you for what you know

[Assistant] Yes, plenty people


[User] Or… do you understand me? But…

[Assistant] To establish themselves


[User] You just want to go for Big Brother…and you’re saying I’m not encouraging…

[Assistant] Become famous…


[User] And you’re saying that I’m not encouraging you, that I’m afraid if you go for Big Brother that eh, you, you…

[Assistant] Jesus!


[User] Will meet people that are better than me; And this thing, I said, I said look at you, what do you think?

[Assistant] What should go…


[User] As in why, as in, look at you what do you think? Kee onye, onye mu gi? Kee ihe i n‘ako? What do you think I g’eji korom si m that there are people that I’m now thinking that you do, like… I’m dating you is that the reason you are seeing me like that, do you know what I can pull off and what I cannot pull off, are you crazy? If na me won go Big Brother you think say I go dey here dey tell you say I dey won go Big Brother? Na there you go see me. Na there you go see me, no dey tell me nonsense. I dey tell you wetin you suppose dey think, the way you suppose dey okay. … <ITS> <P-E> now, your Instagram page is, is nonsense, is nonsense, there’s nothing about what you do that shows there and now you go for Big Brother. Let’s say you don’t win the money, now if you go for Big Brother, that, that, that, this person is a Pilot, this person is a Musician, this person is this and there is evidence of what they do, now you are just a common university girl that…

[Assistant] Student


[User] That came there. You are just a common student that came there. What do you think you are there for, do you understand? What do you think you are there for?

[Assistant] She is still in school?


[User] Yes

[Assistant] , she still dey university nah


[User] She is still in school?

[Assistant] Yes. So, what do you think you are there for? I’m advising…


[User] Or do they… Do they allow students to go for that?

[Assistant] Yes nah


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Errm Nina


[User] I’m advising you and… Nina was her classmate in school that’s why she…

[Assistant] Ehhen…


[User] Na why e come be am like say if Nina go do am make I go do am.

[Assistant] Is true o


[User] O boy

[Assistant] Do you understand? I come dey tell the girl the girl come feel say… , I no want make she go Big Brother and I say look at you, if you know people that I’ve met in my life


[User] Are you still dating this girl  sef?

[Assistant] I don leave am, I no dey even call am for phone ever since, I don…


[User] .., but did you tell her that you are ending the relationship?

[Assistant] I will, don’t need to tell her


[User] Or you just stopped calling her?

[Assistant] I don’t need to tell her


[User] You have to tell her

[Assistant] I don’t need to tell her. she knows my type of person. I don’t need to tell her. Make she go find boyfriend. The girl piss me off really, like the girl piss me. I dey talk to this guy I know as I’ve… see eh..., I’m, I’m telling you something and you’re taking advice from your fellow girls that are your age mate, what do you think they know? I’ve met girls that are older than you are


[User] That’s it

[Assistant] Come on, I’ve been in school like you. I met girls that are older than you are. I met, I met girls that don’t think the way you think. So if I’m telling you something and you are… and you are… arguing or you are trying to make me think I’m telling you this thing so that they will work to my advantage; you are crazy. As In


[User] As in na problem

[Assistant] Na her problem o, no be my problem, I swear! Mtchew.


[User] Mtchew, o boy, woman don stress person

[Assistant] so this girl now, you, Anonnymous don’t give up on her, don’t


[User] Which one?

[Assistant] This particular one you are telling me about. The one that that works in errrrr Turkey Chambers


[User] Okayyy

[Assistant] Don’t just err, hang the relationship like that. Try to ... before you will be there and someone else will take her o. Because that good thing you are seeing in her other men are seeing it o hmm-hmm, before you know it somebody that is more serious will come


[User] Noooo, God knows I’m…

[Assistant] And you know, she is already 26


[User] God knows that I’m more serious

[Assistant] At 26 a child wants, at 26 every girl wants to settle down


[User] God knows that I’m the best person for her

[Assistant] The, don’t just hang the girl, continue with your relationship since you know that this one at least has sense


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] And the girl get sense die

[Assistant] Eheh!


[User] Na the type of girl wey you an am go dey eh, she no dey even think,

[Assistant] She no go discuss competition


[User] All those kind things dem

[Assistant] No, na how do we make the money because it is when you make it, you eat it


[User] It’s true

[Assistant] If you don’t make it, you don’t have it. So… what are you saying?


[User] Driving in the night is so difficult eh

[Assistant] That’s why you have to be really, really…


[User] Very, very ehen you understand. It’s not easy

[Assistant] Guy e get the time wey my fuel pump no good. I no say my fuel pump get small issue that period. Na this road I dey where… am, am, yes, make I, make i show you where my car stop me that day


[User] For here, your car stop you for here?

[Assistant] Yeeeees!


[User] Eh, eh

[Assistant] Yes


[User] This place

[Assistant] And it was at night


[User] Ah!

[Assistant] Around to, around to, to 11


[User] My God

[Assistant] Abi past 10


[User] Where were you coming from?

[Assistant] Eh?


[User] Ehen…

[Assistant] Like if this car stop for here now, person go come ask us where are we coming from?


[User] At after, at elm 10 o’clock in the night, hmmm, it’s too late nah

[Assistant] So… just here now, this place wey this sand dey now. Okay no, no, no, just here now, just here, just here now, just here now, guy I use…


[User] My own don stop me, don stop me

[Assistant] Guy


[User] No be you come carry me that day?

[Assistant] Ehen?


[User] Okay, not you, not you

[Assistant] No, you no come carry am


[User] Na Sanctus dem, my own don stop me here too

[Assistant] Guy I use leg eh, I use leg, thank God say I get jerry can wey I won use buy fuel for… for generator. I use leg waka


[User] Go that filling station

[Assistant] Go this filling station wey dey that place


[User] But at least thank God say nothing happen

[Assistant] But I reach the filling station don close


[User] You didn’t, you didn’t see keke

[Assistant] I reach there, the filling station don close, I go buy black market


[User] Ah no, is that, is too late for them

[Assistant] Na wetin do me be that


[User] I buy black market. I reach there the filling station don close

[Assistant] Didn’t you see keke like this?


[User] No

[Assistant] No nah, it's too late


[User] It was too late

[Assistant] Okay


[User] It was too late. Even if you are trying to book taxi fare, who will be at, who will be close to that place to…

[Assistant] But it's close to Barican  nah, you might... Barican


[User] Mtchew, I, I don’t know but that time, I don’t even… hai, as in eh, the thing pain me die

[Assistant] Some drivers sef, if you call them at that night to come and help you, they won’t come


[User] Because the road, the road is lonely.  you understand me?

[Assistant] Yeah, the road is lonely


[User] And you know the tariff is even higher at night  bah for taxi fare

[Assistant] E And the tariff is higher I, I, maybe to go there now go back I will pay 1000; how much fuel will I buy?


[User] Is actually, is, is higher in the night and there are lot of factors that are going with it, cons, also considering the risk of safety and everything

[Assistant] We don reach house


[User] Ah, we don reach house o, 2 seconds

[Assistant] So, Thank God, how do you wish to handle your parents?


[User] On the serious part on a joke, I don’t know how to go about it. I’ve tried convincing my parents, talk to them… this one, that one but mtchew

[Assistant] Get your uncles go wed the girl nah


[User] What! Don’t ever do that. It’s a no, no

[Assistant] No


[User] It’s a no, as long as your parents are alive eh, you must wait to, elm, elm get their blessings, it’s very important. Just look for a way to convince your mum, your mum first

[Assistant] We had a seminar in church recently still on this issue. Actually marriage, I attend house on the rock, so then…


[User] Oh, you attend house on the rock?

[Assistant] Yes


[User] Lovely

[Assistant] Not this one, the other one


[User] Built last, that was the seminar and elm there was a relationship talking, someone asked about this thing and she was giving an example of her own this thing. Now, she is Yoruba and she got married to an Edo man and her dad, her parents normally they will not, never agree that, but the way she marketed… in fact, the man that she got married to was not, she was more, she was wealthier than the guy. So, I think the guy was earning about 5,000 naira back then and she was earning way, way more, in fact, he didn’t even have a good …. So, she tushed him up before, before she took him to their house and then she sold, she, the way she sold him to her parents, it was on what, how she presented him to her parents that made them accept him

[Assistant] So, I don’t know like, she was, she was giving advice to them that the issue is that sometimes you even mtchew, sometimes you tell your parents way too much


[User] We can use here, we can use here

[Assistant] Here?


[User] You can use the next one

[Assistant] Okay. That you tell your parents way too much that the information that is not necessary or something, that you should sell them, is it this place?


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Yes. No, no, no, not here sorry


[User] Not here, not here

[Assistant] Okay, this other place?


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Hmm, yeah, this one


[User] They should sell them and highlight the qualities, the good qualities that you see. Eh, that’s what you should…

[Assistant] Hmm but honestly speaking, I think, your girl now, I no know why person no go like am o, anyway, na who know…


[User] Physically, does she look good? physically?

[Assistant] Yes nau


[User] Yeah

[Assistant] Na who no know am wey no go like am o. I swear


[User] And very intelligent

[Assistant] Na who no know am…


[User] Has your, has your mum seen her?

[Assistant] Ehen


[User] Yeah, use here, use here

[Assistant] Left


[User] Your left

[Assistant] Or right?


[User] Ehen, has your mum seen her?

[Assistant] Yes, yes, just once


[User] Waoh!

[Assistant] Let me just go back


[User] Just first impression… Okayyy

[Assistant] After the line


[User] You need to go back right?

[Assistant] Yeah, yes


[User] Wait, chill, chill

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Move now… Olodo. Okay, you can come now, you can come now

[Assistant] Is this where you people buy gas?


[User] No

[Assistant] Ok


[User] Guy if e no be NIPCON wey dey use machine fill gas, I no dey buy

[Assistant] This one gas, dem go fill am, hungry, hungry


[User] I no dey buy, they will just fill am well for you

[Assistant] You go make am rush carry the girl shey?


[User] Eh?

[Assistant] You no go carry am go there, go there?


[User] Hmm, I dey carry am go NIPCON. Marriage eh, heyyyyyy, marriage, haaaaaaa

[Assistant] The main thing, the main thing you need in marriage is, the first thing is God, that’s the…


[User] Yes o

[Assistant] That’s the number one thing


[User] I tell myself say eh, I tell, I tell myself, I tell, I don tell God say eh…If, if e no be your choice, make I no marry

[Assistant] Exactly


[User] Because that one that is good for you for me, is good. That one that you said is good for me, is good

[Assistant] And, and another thing, you people should know that,


[User] There’re people inside this place

[Assistant] You don’t get… eh?


[User] There’re people inside this…There are people inside this tunnel

[Assistant] There are?


[User] There are people there?

[Assistant] Yes nau. See that kid, I saw somebody inside


[User] Hausa people is there now, Hausa people dey sleep there

[Assistant] I saw somebody inside now now


[User] Inside this tunnel?

[Assistant] Yes. Where that bike was


[User] Yes, they sleep there. Dem no get where dem no dey ahn, ahn, this place…

[Assistant] Na wao


[User] Na hotel nau

[Assistant] Here nah, here nah, this place na hotel for them


[User] Don’t tell me this, that people are inside there

[Assistant] Here nah na a big hotel for them


[User] Yes nah I saw it as we are,  now, now, that’s why I’m saying it

[Assistant] This one na hotel nau, heyyyyy!


[User] E/P Really?

[Assistant] People dey sleep, if you sit down, you put your mouth here


[User] Should I, should I take you to, thank you. Should I take you to opposite Efab? Mey you see who dey sleep on top im bike

[Assistant] Ah, ohh Jesus!


[User] On top of his bike. I don see that one before.  on top of im bike, im lie down

[Assistant] But snake could enter there  nah


[User] No! They’ve, they’ve weighed everything and they’ve seen that it’s better

[Assistant] They don’t. they know the, they know where the snakes are there  nau


[User] That this thing is better?

[Assistant] Aunty, I believe  nah,


[User] Ah, Ohhhh!

[Assistant] I believe that’s why they will stay there  nah


[User] Sorry o

[Assistant] Still straight?


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Yes, sure


[User] Anonymous, is this where you came to buy something yesterday?

[Assistant] No, no, no


[User] Okay

[Assistant] ... To twelve, you no go eat for house?


[User] No I dey, I go, I go chop for house

[Assistant] Sure, we go eat for house o, this thing wey we dey use dey cook? We go cook another one


[User] Okay, labobo?

[Assistant] Eh?


[User] That one we made, we pass yesterday

[Assistant] I no follow you o, you go just waka come out this Garradi market, you go come out Garradi market to go, two seconds you carry dem come. If you, I go follow you, no worry


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Me and you go follow, no worry. Mey you eat for house, you know sha


[User] Guy chop…

[Assistant] You can’t stay finish and go out or…


[User] I have a, I have a…

[Assistant] Or only you go waka finish? you no go come eat for house? it's bad biko


[User] No be you, no be house we suppose take chop comot, food still dey house still

[Assistant] Hmmmm, but then come on! we no come reach house before we dey come back here. So… what should we have done? Okay o, unless you… okay see


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] Use here


[User] Here?

[Assistant] Use here,


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Use left


[User] Easy ehh, ehen go straight

[Assistant] No, go straight, go straight nah, go straight. E get one, okay, that Martha girl


[User] Ehen

[Assistant] I carry Martha for motor. Martha dey in front of motor.  she come dey answer her friend call, come dey say… like ARE YOU SERIOUS? The guy bought you an IPhone and you’re using the IPhone like right  now?  I come say if I drop this person for this car, I no go even call am again. Immediately I drop am, I delete her number from my phone


[User] Why?

[Assistant] Eh? Which kind of discussion is that? Are you serious? Like he bought you, like he…


[User] She want to, she want to shout it so you will hear it

[Assistant] Ehen… like he bought


[User] So that, so that you go buy am iPhone

[Assistant] Like he bought you an iPhone and you are using it? You dey, you dey craze, who no go even give person iPhone?


[User] Aunty good evening ma

[Assistant] What is phone? Wetin… All these things dey freak you?


[User] ... sorry

[Assistant] If you see RoseRex, wetin you go do?  iPhone you dey talk like this. if you see RoseRex, wetin you go do?


[User] Right?

[Assistant] Yes, yeah, yeah, just, no, no, no, just, just keep going


[User] Sorry o

[Assistant] Na like my street be this na


[User] I’m studying banking and finance. My course under banking and finance is Insurance

[Assistant] Oh! Oh! This insurance is…under banking and finance


[User] Yeah

[Assistant] Okay! Maybe that’s what i didn’t know during my own time


[User] Yeah

[Assistant] Because then…


[User] … I think  they used to do like some courses if you’re studying banking and finance, they use to do some courses from the insurance errrrm…errrm… department but it’s now it’s a department on its own but it’s still under…banking and finance

[Assistant] Okay


[User] We share the same HOD and the rest

[Assistant] Okay, okay. So…but when you graduate your certificate will read…


[User] Errm the… It will read errm banking and finance alternate insurance.

[Assistant] Sorry…?


[User] Alternate insurance. Like the ones I’ve seen in the previous session, that’s how it is on their certificate

[Assistant] Ohhhhh!


[User] Yes ma

[Assistant] Your set is..errm


[User] Coz… errm our, bulk of our work is banking and finance. We do like every semester, we do like three banking and finance courses then four insurance and other from, others from business or just business banking, business banking, business. That’s what we borrow from.

[Assistant] Okay


[User] But straight up  sha, like this my four hundred level now, I’m doing, I’m doing two banking and finance courses, I think; marketing services and… I’ve forgotten the other one then the, the insurance proceeds; we have errm, we have Law of insurance Nigeria, errm…, pension schemes, errm, property and pecuniary insurance. I think in second semester, we have deviation insurance, errm… mtcheew… i can’t remember enough. I think we, i know we, i’m very sure we have vision insurance. Then pecuniary; we look at the other parts of pecuniary insurance as well.

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Then we drop, I think we are gonna be doing just one combine course for us. Probably, part two of marketing, eh, bank eh, banking and finance courses.()

[Assistant] That’s good! Are you from here?Are you from Edo?


[User] Yes, Yes

[Assistant] AhAhn…


[User] I’m from eh, Esan west

[Assistant] From where?


[User] Esan west

[Assistant] Eastern west


[User] E…san west local gov…

[Assistant] …san… west


[User] Yes! Esan west local government area of Edo State

[Assistant] …of Edo State.


[User] Yeah

[Assistant] Okay. That’s good! And you are in what level?


[User] 400 hundred level

[Assistant] 400 hundred level is the final year?


[User] Yes

[Assistant] Okay


[User] Final year

[Assistant] That’s good and you can’t wait, you can’t wait to graduate


[User] Yes, I can’t wait o. Even this semester is is… getting too long. Although I spent like, before resumption, like i spent like two weeks at home just for school and to for me to settle down.

[Assistant] But it’s still too long. I’ve been in school for two months now or less. Let me say like six weeks now. A semester is too big, I don’t know why! like, I just want to end


[User] When are you su…, when are you supposed to end this semester?

[Assistant] This semester. Probably…July, middle July or middle July, middle July.


[User] That’s in the next erm…two months

[Assistant] Yes, middle July


[User] How come erm the school system is not the same in every university here or what because if you go to touniben; I think they are done with the…

[Assistant] This is Uniben


[User] Sorry! U…niversity of Ibadan

[Assistant] University of Ibadan


[User] They are done with their exams

[Assistant] Errrrrrm… I think University of Ibadan they are not part of this errrm… union ASUU


[User] The University of Ibadan?

[Assistant] Ehhn


[User] Really?

[Assistant] I don’t think they are part of this ehn yes, i…i’m not sure but I know errm, my brother, my brother schools at…


[User] Okay

[Assistant] They are not part of it; he’s at home now, he’s preparing for second semester. Same as eh Abraka. I heard Abraka, I think they are back to school for second semester. Those are…I think I am very sureAbraka is not part of ASUU


[User] O…k

[Assistant] The reason why I was just beginning is because of the ASUU strike that started last year and ehhhh election. You know there was election, February. So, we had to wait till…March. We had to wait till March for us to resume. So, a lot of things sha


[User] So, when you people were at home; they were studying?

[Assistant] Others, other students were studying


[User] That’s what, maybe people in Ibadan and people in Abraka…

[Assistant] They were studying


[User] Okay…

[Assistant] Yes. I think eh, I think as at February or so, my cousin in Abraka was already done with first semester exam, I’m not really sure  sha but February, March he was already done. My brother just finished I think errm, two weeks ago or thereabout at...


[User] Okay

[Assistant] So that’s it


[User] Okay

[Assistant] Well, with the new calendar now, probably, God willingly, we will be grad, i will be… graduating now, ending  this section by November. That’s if, i…i heard there is this ehhhh threat from ASUU that they are embarking on new strike. So… but as at…


[User] And i know you’re praying seriously that they will not

[Assistant] That’s why I said God willingly


[User] I know you’re praying seriously that they will not embark on it until you graduate

[Assistant] _ No, Yes, I’m, I’m, I’m praying because so far, I g…I guess I’ve observed like three strikes. .. just it won’t take long  sha like one month, one week when I was in hundred level second semester, when I was in two hundred level, two hundred level going to three hundred level. I think that was the, I think is the longest and since I’ve been in this school six months


[User] Wao!

[Assistant] We had to resume last year January. Then the other, this one that just passed now


[User] Wao!

[Assistant] Let’s just say put together like, we’ve actually been at home since I gained admission, I’ve been at home because of strike for like, mtchew, let’s just say nine months. Nine or between seven or nine months, between seven or nine months.


[User] And you’re still graduating the normal time you are supposed to graduate

[Assistant] Just… we didn’t know


[User] Because they didn’t add the, eh the nine months you stayed at home. Did they add it?

[Assistant] They didn’t add it


[User] ehn! You see… that’s the problem with our education system!

[Assistant] If, if, if, errm these strikes now, like, when I was in hundred level, by the time, by this time hundred level, I was already resuming second semester; we’ve already started second semester. So, by July, we were done with second semester. So, which means by July, if those strike didn’t occur, by July, I should be graduating. But it’s different now.


[User] Okay! I pray that you graduate. That no strike will hold you back

[Assistant] No… no strike, no strike. We pray almost every day. Per Sunday’s special prayer


[User] Thank you so much for giving me your time.

[Assistant] Thank you ma!


[User] I was like,.. I want to seriously record it

[Assistant] Ah! Omo we don forget wetin we dey talk just now sef


[User] just continue wetin you dey talk abeg

[Assistant] Mey we continue?


[User] abeg continue, I can even follow una go, come meh we dey go jareh

[Assistant] ehn… meh we dey, meh we dey waka dey go ehn nah no problem. it will be, it will be better that way


[User] mey we dey go jareh

[Assistant] But languages…


[User] so… are you from here?

[Assistant] hmmmm… not really, onwa


[User] from where?

[Assistant] onwa


[User] Ah Ah! Where is onwa?

[Assistant] Still in Edo State


[User] awwwww in Edo State and you are from here?

[Assistant] E Edo State, yeah


[User] Edo State too? Okay and eh you people speak eh pidgin so well there? Seriously

[Assistant] So well


[User] Okay that’s lovely

[Assistant] mama that one eh,


[User] the thing no gree click o

[Assistant] e no just, e no just enter again


[User] As in eh

[Assistant] why e no enter nah, eh wetin come happen?


[User] Like say you just dey follow us for back ehen

[Assistant] ehen you for


[User] dey record am, e for even good

[Assistant] you for deydey record am we for no even know say you dey record am sef ehen, you for just dey record am quietly quietly


[User] ehnnn but, but if I, if I dey follow una like that una go think ah ahn; this one weydey follow me like that wetin come happen

[Assistant] ehen, no pro_BLem, after wey you don record am ehen, you just tell us ehn, o boy we been record una ehen


[User] Bros, how far?

[Assistant] _ hey how e be bros?


[User] wetin dey happen naw?

[Assistant] bros nothing much o, we just still dey nah


[User] no be lie nah, no be lie. Nna which side you dey go?

[Assistant] Me? I just dey excort you


[User] ah ahn!

[Assistant] make I go see person there


[User] na excursion you dey do so?

[Assistant] ehn nna na excurse, na my guy nah, e just wan see me off  nah


[User] eh how come e be like say una no dey together, this one you dey excort am?

[Assistant] no


[User] no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Assistant] You are separate


[User] yes

[Assistant] yeah


[User] okay. Errm, which level are you?

[Assistant] 3


[User] 300 hundred and you?

[Assistant] 4


[User] 400 hundred! Ohooo! Graduation level. Which subject?

[Assistant] Errrm… Geology


[User] Geology! Oh my God! You want to work in Oil Company eh?

[Assistant] yeah


[User] this boy! In the next two years…

[Assistant] yes nah


[User] look for this boy

[Assistant] Ah, sure, sure


[User] This boy will be one big boy

[Assistant] save my number o


[User] well well

[Assistant] Ah ahn!Abeg!


[User] I’ve saved the number o

[Assistant] Give me the num…ber!  Abeg!


[User] I’ve saved the number

[Assistant] I wan save the number abeg! Ah, no forget give me that number o


[User] No wahala

[Assistant] Because I know say the next time I go ask of this boy, this boy be one big boy for shell…


[User] Yes nah!

[Assistant] …like this:


[User] Sure, sure, sure!

[Assistant] ah ahn!


[User] Is a must nah

[Assistant] Eh…yah!


[User] Na there we dey ooo

[Assistant] That’s lovely!


[User] it’s everybody’s dream, oil Company.

[Assistant] if it’s not Oil Company, it’s nothing


[User] And you, what are you studying?

[Assistant] Survey


[User] Survey! Survey!

[Assistant] yeah


[User] Seriously? What are you surveying? Which area of survey? As in…

[Assistant] Land…


[User] Oh! Land Survey!

[Assistant] Agro…


[User] Ohhhhhh! Okay! That’s lovely!

[Assistant] Yeah


[User] I will like to turn back from here o. you too much nah

[Assistant] mama don do am


[User] Mama you fit, you fit follow am dey go back

[Assistant] bye bye Oya come meh I follow you go back. Where you dey go so sef?


[User] Back

[Assistant] Back, this way or this way?


[User] This way

[Assistant] Okay! See boys dey here dey speak pidgin eh, dey blow the thing eh!


[User] But if you come like tell them say okay! idey record am;mtchew, the… dem go com dey conscious of speaking it.

[Assistant] Eh…eh! That is what has been happening to me o. Anybody I approach, I will say at least I’m doing research, this and that, they will be so conscious of whatever they are saying


[User] yeah

[Assistant] But if you just record it without their knowledge, you will just see them in their natural form. but it’s so difficult to record without their knowledge.


[User] Yeah, yeah!

[Assistant] So difficult. You can only do it if you get a student that is in their midst but no student has agreed to help me. I don’t know if you will help me.


[User] Errm, like how do you want it?

[Assistant] what I want? Anything! I just want to get students talk in their natural form. You understand? And it can only happen when a student helps me. Like, you are in the, you are one of them now. You just come in their midst and put on your recording, do you understand? That way you can get me just natural conversation, you understand?


[User] Like maybe, football argument or?

[Assistant] Anything…


[User] But in pidgin

[Assistant] ust anything. Not only in pidgin. Just natural way you people talk. They mix English and pidgin. Just let me have it the natural way it is, don’t be conscious of it , the language, just give me how the discussion is. You understand? Please, I will be so happy if you help me.


[User] ehn… that means, I will have to give you…

[Assistant] Porter jam me when, when we dey enter… Block B; na im Porter see us. When Porter, come stand, come say we go enter  man o war this thing, Porter just waka comot. Wetin the Porter wan talk? On a norm sef, red cross suppose know say girls dey enter.. dem dey enter their room.