• 30 of the Dumbest Things Nigerians Did As Kids

    Drinking disinfectant? Going to bed after setting the house on fire? Hopping on a road trip with goats? Nigerian kids were wilding while some of us were giving our parents peace and light. We’ve compiled all the evidence.

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    The things some Nigerians did as kids have shown me that I might have let my dear mum off too easily. I was the good kid, you see, a bumbling representation of the common Nigerian sayings “He can’t eat anything harder than a banana” and “If you put water in his mouth and travel far, you’ll return to meet the water in his mouth”.

    Things Nigerians Did As Kids

    While people like me were giving our parents peace, other kids were doing the opposite. We’ve combed through X and compiled the most hilarious “dumbest thing you did as a kid” tweets.

    Why are you drinking disinfectant? God, abeg

    Stealing our Lord and Saviour’s body and blood?

    Give this man 20 lashes

    Leemao

    Are you me? Is me you?

    Big side-eye

    Chucky, is that you?

    I stan a selfless giver

    May God have mercy on your soul

    The GOAT

    Daddy was real AF

    https://twitter.com/coffee_puccino/status/1706292965721690141?s=46&t=gV-1mmgH3NC_RQhcgp1x3w

    Parte after parte

    Wetin be this?

    Screams in *ekun egbere

    Not trying to send grandma to her early grave! 

    Are you not embarrassed?

    Very well done, Daddy

    Heavy bombastic side-eye

    Murife, don’t cry

    Folarin Falana, is that you?

    Not a human blender

    The audacity to show up at the crime scene?

    Well, I respect this

    This is dark

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    Kids will embarrass you

    It’s giving “mover and shaker”

    Little miss mischievous

    I beg all of your available pardons?

    Heavy evil laughter

    Oof oof, mummy!

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