10 Nigerians narrate the craziest rumours they've heard about themselves

Rumour and gossip mills never stop running, and with Nigerians, you can expect the most colourful and most dramatic. But what happens when a nasty rumour about a person somehow gets to them? We asked @PulseNigeria247's followers on Instagram about this, and here are 10 of the sickest responses we got:

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The classic gay gist

They said that I'm gay because they don't see me with girls. It wasn't funny then sha [@steph_en_o]

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Demonic spirits

I heard that I was possessed with demonic spirits - [@vivylawv]

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Incest with my twin brother

They said that I sleep with my twin brother and that I have even had an abortion done before [@veraalex6059]

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Pregnancy rumours

I have once heard that I was pregnant. It was my friend’s handwork. She liked the guy that was asking me out, so she decided to lie about me. [@jenngovernor]

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Lesbian relationship with a co-worker

Omo, e plenty oo. But the one that hit hard was that I am a lesbian patner of a particular female colleague of mine whom I am very fond of. [takimblessing]

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A money ritualist

I’ve been rumoured to be a ritualist and that I use girls for rituals back in my university days. Simply because I bought Corolla sport [@Connielynn435]

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I must be gay because I got no chicks

Back in uni, most people thought I was Gay because one of my hobby being cooking and for the fact I never seemed to show interest in ladies. People sha [@al.frezco]

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I have a 7-year-old child out of wedlock

They said that I have a 7-year-old child out of wedlock so that's why I had a small wedding with my husband. Of course, I don’t have any child. I wonder who cooked that up. [@Bukky44show]

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A man chaser

The guy that was toasting me up and down and disturbing my life; spread the rumour that I’m the one who’s been bothering him. He didn't know one of his friends told me, chai, e pain me die. [@sylviaakorah]

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Sleeping with my married friend

They said that I was sleeping with my friend, a married man. It literally just dawned on me how useless and jobless humans are, really. The fact that they could devise something as hideous as that blew my mind to bits. It affected my friendship with that friend sha because such rumours could ruin his marriage. It’d have been only a matter of time before his wife got wind of that and I didn’t like the idea of what could have happened. [Jane [Offline]]

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*Words have been slightly edited from the original comments on Instagram, to aid readability and article cohesion.