When the next house is on fire, ’tis high time to look to your own.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
He who boasts much can do little.Nigerian
If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
Nigerian
When you are sick you promise a goat, but when you are well again make do with a chicken.
Nigerian
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you.
Nigerian
If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?
Nigerian
Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.
Nigerian