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Sassy, you and your beauty friend summed it up well. I agree with all. There is an 8th point o; sometimes you have to disguise your foreign accent!! Actually there is a 9th; if you enter a market you must be ready to bargain hard.
It took me awhile to get used to the SHOUTING. My husband speaks to his good friend that way & it really bothered me. Finally I said STOP shouting at him, he didn't even do anything. He said IM NOT😂. So yeah....lesson for me😁
Ensure your car has a very good working horn should you decide to drive in Nigeria. I drove for the first time in Anambra after 13 years in the UK and almost got in trouble for not using my horn. In the UK, you can drive for 20 years without ever using your horn. On average in Nigeria, you will use your horn ten times while driving. To overtake, to pull out on a road, to stop, to alert another driver pulling into you, to call a street hawker, to inform another car (especially big trucks) that you are around. It took few days of driving to get accustomed to it.
Yes! I love this! When I visited Lagos in February I noticed that my host had to pay people for assisting me at airport and also I was addressed as Ma or Mam. Nothing is free. My host was very protective of me and I was really impressed with the Nigerian culture! Traffic was absolutely nothing like here in USA lol! I was ecstatic to be in it because I watched video on RU-vid bug to actually BE there is phenomenal lol! I love your videos!💕
I drove in lagos when i was growing up in lagos but after almost 20 years away i don't know if I can drive in Lagos i just managed to drive in NY for a day 😃
@@SassyFunke honestly I was more shocked at my self... like there were things I didn’t think about that all of sudden I knew I couldn’t manage without. Like here in Enugu. It’s running water. I was shocked at having to fetch water. Made sure my APT had running water so I can re claim my sanity lol
haha! The yelling I really had to get used to as a Canadian citizen. When I visited Owerri, my husband and family speaking to fellow Nigerians, I was always asking "are they yelling at each other, like they're going to fight?" Or when they would address the children, it's in a very stern voice when trying to correct their behaviour...it scared me straight, haha!! At restaurants, the same thing...I was all soft spoken, please & thank you but my husband and friends were pretty much the complete opposite, haha! To me, being raised in Canada, I would consider it rude but I soon realized, it's the culture. I still couldn't bring myself to raise my voice but I was only visiting. Might be different if I was living there, ha!
I think if you spent any time in New York city pre-pandemic, you will see that life there is just as much on a fast track. The major difference is that there isn't any grid-lock per say. It is more of a slow-go on the Long Island Express-way(LIE). The subway lines are packed during rush hour but, there is continuous flow of traffic. Gridlock in Lagos is especially terrible but not unique. Most large cities are faced with similar issue to varying degree. Here in Austin TX, traffic is no joke!
@@SassyFunke Well, it is a city that has grown rapidly over the last 10 years. People moving in droves from Cali and NY, unfortunately, the city's infrastructure wasn't setup to cater to such rapid population growth. As a result, IH35 is packed not only during rush hour on Mondays, also at noon on any given Sunday. Na so we see am o!
Every point so valid, lol. You forgot to add traffic regulations o, the only part of Lagos where traffic lights are really obeyed is the island. People look at me light a fool when I stop at red lights or stop for pedestrians.
My friends Sister Just showed up one Saturday evening . She had just flown in from NYC. And hadn't let him know in advance that she was coming to visit Lagos. She slept in a hotel that night.
@@SassyFunke my Friend was upset his own sister didn’t give him the heads up she was visiting. Most Nigerians do that for fear you might let slip to criminals that you are visiting😂
I don't agree with No 1 I lived in America and we're always in huge rush. We've no patience at all. No 2) Nothing is free on the west either. No 3)- Ridiculous, you must not be a Nigerian at al tol be shocked by the way you're addressed.
Please sassy Funke. I would like you to address this matter I'm about to say. At the Lagos airports MMA and Mulatala Muhammad Airport. The trolley. People do you know that the trolley at the arrival or departure cost 150 Naira when you asked for one they will tell you is 400 Naira. No people. The 400 naira is included with assistance (help) 150 naira is do it yourself. See people i have no problem if you tell me the truth by saying 400 if you need help and 150 is do it yourself and after you paid 400 Naira and somebody will then ask you if you need help and the end you knows what it's means. Do you know extra 250 Naira charged for every one passenger that arrived or depart from Nigeria that needed trolley is a huge amount of money pocketed by somebody not the government. Now that I knew I am not been cheated anymore. I made sure everybody that arrives the same time with me pays 150 Naira. I will ask some people how much they have paid if paid 400 Naira they will ask for their refund and immediately got their money back. I have one principle do not cheat or think you are smart. "This is stealing by tricks" Please passengers take a note of this, Trolley is 150 Naira not 400 Naira unless you need assistance period. Sometimes they will tell you we don't have change ooo when you give them 200 Naira. 50 Naira is a bit reasonable than stealing extra 250 Naira by tricks. Thank you.
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Good tips again Funke... Seriously, these are the present and actual attitude of most Nigerians especially in Lagos.. The practices are not part of us as people, not our ideal way of life, not our culture... It's unfortunate that these are what we go through in Today's Nigeria... I remembered last year when I had to stay in queue in a branch of GTB bank for over 1 hour and people including staff and bank security guys, acting as fronts, walking over the official queue to the counters and were attended to... I didn't know when I shouted my plight and anger as the lady behind the counter as the audacityto ordered that we stay in single file. My reaction, though unusual, attracted attention from everyone including the managers. They ended adding two more staff to attend to us...
Good tips again Funke... Seriously, these are the present and actual attitude of most Nigerians especially in Lagos.. The practices are not part of us as people, not our ideal way of life, not our culture... It's unfortunate that these are what we go through in Today's Nigeria... I remembered last year when I had to stay in queue in a branch of GTB bank for over 1 hour and people including staff and bank security guys, acting as fronts, walking over the official queue to the counters and were attended to... I didn't know when I shouted my plight and anger as the lady behind the counter as the audacityto ordered that we stay in single file. My reaction, though unusual, attracted attention from everyone including the managers. They ended adding two more staff to attend to us...
