Anyone who attended public schools in Nigeria would know, we are very notorious in giving people wicked/funny nicknames, while it caused so much grief for the victims, but it was so much fun and anyone could be a victim, your actual name could give an inspiration for a nickname or your body part.

They use to call me iru-obo, 'monkey-tail', which was an adaptation of my actual name, i learnt to live with it and when i remember now, it makes me laugh a lot. i had a classmate we call Enugu, he has a protruding mouth/jaw

A younger cousin told me that they had a classmate that they call 'Etisalat', because he has very big ears, that made me laugh so much,

So please lets have some more and some fun.

Very funny, you remind of a boy we do call Head of State bcause the boys head was so, so BIG.

Hi Blueice4re,

We had a boy too whose head was quite massive, we call him 'ori goes to school'. Ori is head in the yoruba language and there was a school literature book with the title 'Eze goes to school'. so we just change it to 'ori goes to school'. It was very wicked turning a whole person into a single part.

I had a friend who goes by the name Kayode Olosunde he chose k-olos as his nickname and it was subsequently modified to k-oloshi

I'm not tribalistic but i think dis funny nickname thing is more common among the Yoruba's

findu-pindu, asampte nose, mighty man jaja.

My nickname was 'Jugunu' cause I tell a lot of Indian movies at school. I think I remember my mates calling someone "Eeyin" (teeth) cause he had a potruding front teeth.

Do you know that Peter Rufai (Ex-super eagle's goalie) is a.k.a DODO MAYANA?  The name sticks till today.

omobadan:

My nickname was 'Jugunu' cause I tell a lot of Indian movies at school. I think I remember my mates calling someone "Eeyin" (teeth) cause he had a potruding front teeth.

Jugunu,do i know you

Yeah, they named me IRON MONKEY when I shaved all my conspicuous eybrows to school (I promised never to shave it from that day).
Luxurious - The guy has extralarge head.
Dare Eba- He eats eba even in school.
First Eleven - This guy made mouth that he was in his formal school's first eleven, he cant even play ball!
Eku keku.
Information We believe - this guy lies alot, u both can witness something,then wen u see other guy to share the gist, he adds his own lies, marging what never happened with the real tale, u be be like, Wtf?
Kokoro Ewa - An albino guy.
Abiamo - he said thats the festival done is his home town, is it a crime to name him that as well? Haha!.

Meeennnn LWKMD for here,cos I just flashed back now and I can't help but keep laughing as I remember those days,let me start with my friend,his name is segun and the mum sells bread and he always assist his mum in the biz,so we all call him sege-bread,today he's a very big-boy doing very fine as the C.E.O of a company and some of us still call him that,then my friends also call me big-yansh,me I don't know why o,then there's this my friend we also call oju-epa (ground nut eye) cos the guy eyes small ehn,but today forget o,gbogbo bigs boy,the guy don chop money,then some teachers sef were given some funny names like mr-touch,pankere,akobi-were,ade-burger,elewure,elewedu,titration,sausage mistress etc

One guy with a scrawny frame was nicknamed "Okpo Ifot," which means "bone of a witch."
Students were wicked.

thanks for the correction, jmaine.

Hehehe All very funny.

I guess boys in my school weren't very inventive. I remember there was this boy that must have been the missing link between Ape and Humans as he was built like an ape down to a T. Anyway, my school mates didn't bother being imaginative, but cut to the chase and called him 'Adaka'. Of course you said it either behind his back or made sure you were a safe distance from him when running your mouth as dude didn't only look like an Ape, but was as strong as one too .

Eruku,topdog,red eye,baso.

Oh this is for the teachers: Dende, Okoro, Ikoko, Low Lame (this low lame teacher always calls 'L' for 'N' and 'N' for 'L'. So he came to class one day, someone didnt remember to write his name in Exam, instead of NO NAME, he said LOW LAME)

Oriegbo,

Crazyly funny stuff from the good old days.

When we got to part 1 in the UNI, we were allocated rooms in the freshers hall - angola hall - but one of our colleagues was going round to steal fans from the rooms and sell it to others that don't have. By the time we caught him, there was ferefe shishi (mild beating) and we promptly gave him the name - Toofan -.

Later he became the president of the Student Union and one of the best students from his class.

Do anybody knows a guy called 'ominukun' meaning (water in the tommy' ?

used to call a guy POSI (COFFIN) cos of the size and shape of his head.
also used to call a girl MUCI (presumed plural for mucus) cos she always had cold
God forgive us!

mine was erosion given to me during an agric class by my classmates nd pope cap by my maths teacher
because i really had a major case of bald hair 4 a gal

also,their was a guy who surname was 'pupu' nd pupu means shit(to defecate),so we calld hm shitishit,nicknames r all part of the fun of secondary skuls,although not much fun 4 the bearer

In the Eighties: Old Soja - Nitori I was one of the oldest in Class
In the seventies: Afiomiopolowe - nitori no matter the cane the "Tisha" caned me, I never cried. Infact, our class "tisha" was so tired, that she asked the class captain to continue the beating. So all the pupils assumed thereafter that I bath with frog invested water.

funny names you got there,

Back then in school, one guy was called ojimako, cos dude was very dark in complexion, another was called isi-igba cos his head was shaped like moi-moi wrapped in waterproof bag, another dude was so ugly we named him fine boy.lol


One teacher bragged that he will flogg us till his cane tore our skin so we gave him the nickname tear

In uni we gave the oldest guy in our class the name elder, really funny.

DARKNESS Men! that boy was black. P$$$$$YY That guy will follow anything in skirt. TALLEST He actually was the shortest dude of the set

There was this good footballer we named JAY JAY WIRELESS because he wore his sneakers without the lace.