For 30 years of their marriage, the wife has never showed her face to her husband, in conformity with the tradition of their native village Khamis Mushayt in Saudi Arabia.

The husband had to apologize, promising to never do such again.

I was explaining to my non-Nigeria friend how we use our language when I made this discovery.

I found 10 reasons;

In Nigeria, the word "Abeg" means "'Please" but "Abeegi" means "Don't say that!"

In Nigeria, the word "Mad" means both "insane" and "amazing." When you now add "Mad o," it means "So, so amazing!"

When a Nigerian says "Na you sabi" they mean "I don't care," but when they say "Na you know," they mean "You're the one who knows."

If a Nigerian tells you "I'm coming," it means they're still where they are, but if they say "I'm almost there," it means they're close to where they're going.

It's only in Nigeria that someone says "I'm telling you" to someone who is telling them something when actually, it's not them doing the telling.

Only in Nigeria, the phrase "Come & eat" is different from "We have food o." One is an honest invite to someone to eat with you, but the other is a coded language that means they have food, but even though they're telling you to join them, they don't expect you to accept it.

If a Nigerian tells you "You don't mean it," it doesn't mean you don't mean it, it means they're shocked at what you told them.

In Nigeria, the question "How far?" means "How are you?' not "How distant?"

Nigerians use the same phrase "I dey" to mean both "I'm doing okay" and "I'm around."

And finally, whenever we Nigerians say "God abeg o," we're making a prayer and a statement at then same time.

Tell me why the Nigerian language isn't the greatest of all time?

Nigeria my country