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It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by BigBashiru: 9:41am On Jul 25, 2020
Why do Nigerians keep referring to power or electricity as "light"?
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by illicit(m): 9:57am On Jul 25, 2020
It is Fire in Yoruba
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by iObEy(m): 8:56am On Jul 26, 2020
I support "Electricity" not "power" because we can have different forms of power.
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by Nobody: 12:32pm On Jul 26, 2020
Because we're Nigerians . That's a unique feature of ours, substituting whichever word we choose for another.
"Nepa has brought the light" grin

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Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by calebify1(m): 3:52pm On Jul 26, 2020
Dew04:
Because we're Nigerians . That's a unique feature of ours, substituting whichever word we choose for another.
"Nepa has brought the light" grin

I see you wink
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by Nobody: 8:49pm On Jul 26, 2020
calebify1:

I see you wink
Lol. Let me hype Nigerians a little grin
You're finally active while online... Yey!
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by calebify1(m): 10:33pm On Jul 26, 2020
Dew04:
Lol. Let me hype Nigerians a little grin

You're finally active while online... Yey!

It's cool to hype our country sometimes.
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by gregyboy(m): 12:57pm On Jul 27, 2020
Imagine shouting nepa has brought the electricity kini matcheew op you get sense


Nepa has brought the light biko
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by BigBashiru: 9:44am On Jul 28, 2020
gregyboy:
Imagine shouting nepa has brought the electricity kini matcheew op you get sense


Nepa has brought the light biko


Nepa has brought the power back.
Re: It's Electricity Or Power Not "Light" by Oldoinyolengai(m): 8:37pm On Jul 28, 2020
Because the primary use of electricity 'was' to provide light.
Other uses of electricity like in cooking, washing and ironing, charging, etc. came after.

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