Talks that are considered to be important must be made to drag on for so long as to make even the deaf begin to hear it.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.Nigerian
It is the self-love of the king parrot that made him become a talkative.
Nigerian
It is more fun doing evil than putting it right.
Nigerian
An old banana leaf was once young and green.
Nigerian
Dead though the oil-palm may be, the maggot in it lives on.
Nigerian
The eye of a crow boiled at the new moon brings good luck for the New Year.
Nigerian