agbero

noun

1. (Nigeria)A labourer (manual worker).
2. (Nigeria)A thug, typically a jobless male youth who threatens tourists.

   “In fact, most of the hubs of Lagos’s night life from the last century have disappeared. Mr. Adé’s own Ariya nightclub closed in 2003, when agbero boys (local hoodlums) started extorting the visitors and vandalizing their cars.”