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Over the years across different cultures and backgrounds, some locutions have somehow found their way into the vocabulary of the Nigerian language. One of such phrases is “weather for two” which is even more popular among the youths. Nigeria weather is of two types; the dry season and the rainy season, both are usually of extreme nature like there won’t be any other season afterwards. The dry season is usually characterised of scotchy sun rise that penetrate your skull sending signal to your brain to remind you how not good the weather is for two except you are opportune to afford an air condition to help cool the ambience. the peak of this dry season could make one pray for “weather for two”
This expression “Weather for two” is used to describe a rainy cold-weather that leaves your body filled with the wintry chills that find a way of activating in you, a desire to engage in whatever bodily acts of pleasure you can with the opposite sex, hence the saying “weather for two”. According to the people who use this expression, such times give them an opportunity to engage in the cuddling and kissing and every other activity that culminates in the act of sexual intercourse.
This three-word phrase “Weather for two” has gone on to become a mentality that is becoming a sad reality because of the danger it poses to population control drive of the government in ensuring that the country’s population does not expand beyond manageable reach. Many Nigerians have come to believe that with every cold weather comes an opportunity to have sexual intercourse, and in the case that it is done indiscriminately (which is usually the case most of the time), it results in yet another child, and a consequent addition to the teeming populace, thereby compounding the government’s challenges in proving basic amenities and infrastructures for its citizens. It is interesting to note that in other climes, even those with more number of cold-weather months of the year than Nigeria, the people don’t share such sentiment. For example, countries like Finland and Iceland, in which you can almost count the number of times the weather is hot in a year, have recorded a steady and reasonable population growth over the years.
I’ve had to inquire a couple of friends that reside in such parts of the world how they are able to cope with the extreme cold temperature and the feedbacks I got were quite different from what obtains here. Those folks actually rather choose to spend the cold weather days in fecund ways by engaging in activities that were left undone during their busy schedule.
Today in Nigeria, we have so many child beggers, popularly called “Almajiris” in various nooks and crannies of the country, who are most likely to be products of the “weather for two” bug. We also have the ones we refer to as “agberos”—young men who stay in motor parks to collect what they feel they are entitled to because they refer to themselves as “omo nile”. The recent call by the emir of Kano, his eminence, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido, for a radical re-orientation of the northern settlers, considering the high negligence of parental duties leading to high number of child beggars on the street, surprisingly received quite a number of mixed feelings. This is an indication that the menace is not leaving us anytime soon.
Going forward, as another “weather for two” season approaches, I want to challenge everyone out there to destroy this vicious trend and cycle that continues to eat deep into our collective sanity as it places a strain on our already insufficient resources
– Amb. Aliyu Mahmud Amoto
Spokesman Concerned Kogites Forum
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