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Revision as of 15:52, 20 August 2021
Naija
Alternative Form
Etymology
From: an ironic reference to the Better life for Rural Women in the Babangida regime which preceded the Central Bank's release of the new 50 naira note at a time of austerity in Nigeria
Pronunciation
- bɛ̀tá laif
Noun
Fifty naira note for Nigeria.
- Make una help me tell dis mumu man make e pay me my beta life before I disgrace am for inside dis molue. — (NSC_2021, Please assist me to appeal to this foolish man to pay his fare of fifty naira so that I will not embarrass him in this single-deck transit bus.)
- Everytin don dear for Naija sotay na common biscuit na beta life. — (NSC_2021, Things have become so expensive in Nigeria that even biscuits now sell for fifty naira.)