kobos

Noun

kobo (plural kobos or kobo)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Nigerian naira.
   • How much would those ones drop in his bowl? Tattered, dirty, sellotaped five-naira notes? Those coins that had just been reintroduced but were useless, because not even bàbá dúdú was sold for fifty kobo or one naira anymore? Was one naira actually money if you could not even buy sweets with it?2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 182
2. (Nigeria) A coin with the value of one kobo; (by extension) a very small amount of money.
   • The new kobo is the same size as the old Nigerian shilling and carries a depiction of cocoa seeds.1972 October 9, The Times, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Nigeria Supplement, page viii, column 4; quoted in “kobo”, in R[obert] W[illiam] Burchfield, editor, A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary...