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  • How to Trigger Your Nigerian Parents in 10 Easy Steps

    TBH, even your existence can trigger them, but doing these things will add icing to the cake.

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    If you鈥檙e thinking, 鈥淲hy would I even want to trigger my parents?鈥 Congratulations, you鈥檙e the perfect Nigerian child.

    On the other hand, you don鈥檛 even need to do anything specific to trigger them. If you鈥檝e grown to this old age with typical Nigerian parents, you鈥檝e probably already triggered the hell out of them at some point.

    As a Nigerian, here are the most common ways to trigger your parents.

    Just be yourself

    Imagine being yourself when Daddy Divine鈥檚 third child graduated from Stanford and got married the same day. Strive to be better.

    Try to correct your parents

    Why would you tell your typical Nigerian mother that it鈥檚 WhatsApp, not Wazzup? Smells like disrespect.

    Become smart

    Oh, so you now know how to argue in Queens English? You鈥檝e grown wings abi? Child of perdition! 

    Say you don鈥檛 believe in marriage or children

    This one may or may not sentence you to a lifetime of family meetings, guilt trips and extensive prayer sessions.

    Allow them access to your social media

    Anything your eyes see, take it like that.

    Become a content creator

    So you really want to use your life to dance in front of a camera?

    Have a healthy attitude to rest

    Because only lazy people wake up after 4 a.m.

    Press phone

    It doesn鈥檛 matter if you鈥檙e using it for work. Why does your own work have to be done on phone? Shebi you should have just studied medicine.

    Eat well

    You too, why do you want to finish all the food in the house?

    Don鈥檛 eat well

    Are you trying to fall sick and have them give their money to doctors? 


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