A whole
As a title eg a whole managing director for dat matter.
Abeg
Please (from I beg)
Abi na wetin!
What is it?
Abi?
Is it not? Eg Abi no be so? (isn’t that so)
Acting big man
Deputy exercising power in the absence of the boss
Ah-ah
For goodness sake
Ajebota
Well off (literally one used to butter)
Alau him
Give him a break
All na
It is all a e.g All na wayo
All place
Everywhere
All Weda
Shoes worn all the time, come rain come sunshine
Am
Used in place of ‘him’ or ‘her’ in sentence e.g. ‘Warn am O!’
Any attempt!
Don’t even think about it!
Anyhow
Shoddy 2. Inappropriate
Area boys
Unemployed loitering youths
Area girls
Female Anopheles mosquitoes
Arrange yua sef
Make your own arrangements 2. Everyone for themselves
As
How
As for
That’s the way it is
Aunty
Any older female. Used when not on first name terms
Away
Foreign especially Europe and America
Away Baffs
Imported clothes especially designer lables