There was this man who went to ask the price of a video set in a shop. He was told that the price was N15,000. He told the seller that the price was too high for him to afford and that when the price comes down a bit, then he will come to buy it.
But the seller told him to try to buy it because in a few days time, the price will go up rather than reducing. As anything that goes up in Nigeria doesn't come down but rather up, up, it goes.
A month later, he went back to the shop only to be told that the price has gone up to N20,000.
He said he can't afford it and that he would come to buy it when the price comes down to N15,000.
Two months later, he came to the shop and he was told that it was now N30,000.
He said he can't afford it and that when the price is down to N20,000, he will then buy it.
Five months later, he returned to the shop and he was told that the price was now N100,000. As he was about to go as usual, the seller told him that this was his last chance because if he fails to buy it, in two days time, the price would soared to a million naira.
He became afraid and he bought it. As the seller was about to issue a receipt to him, he asked him his name. And he said, "My father's name is EKPA and my name is WAWA". The seller asked him his ethnic group and he said, "my father is an Hausa from Kano state and my mother is an Urhobo from Delta state".
When he was asked the meaning of his name and that of his father, he said that he was born in Warri and he neither understand the Hausa language nor the Urhobo language as well.
An Hausa man and an Urhobo man were called to tell them the meaning of the names.
The Urhobo man said that EKPA means "a fool" and the Hausa man said that WAWA in Hausa language also means, "a fool".
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