Why do some Nigerians have English surnames?

Did you not do History in school?
Their forefathers are descendants of runaway or freed African slaves who found their way back to Africa. The English surnames passed on from generation to generation are those given to them by their masters who found it condescending to call them by their African names.

please why is this oh i've been wondering all my life i'm ready to change my surname mehn but its sometimes a plus when i'm looking for a job, where do these names come from, both my parent side came from osun state and have foreign names

Thank you for your enlightenment. I just asked my mother. She said that some Nigerians use a saint's name as their surname. My friend said that the first / Christian name of an ancestor may be used as a surname. My question has been answered.

whiteroses:

please why is this oh i've been wondering all my life i'm ready to change my surname mehn but its sometimes a plus when i'm looking for a job, where do these names come from, both my parent side came from osun state and have foreign names

oturugbeke

Aloy+Emeka:

oturugbeke

oturugbeke, what does this mean oh

Many Nigerians answer white names because they had early and enough contacts with the white people mostly from Efik, Calabar, Cross River etc while most people preferred to answer these names because they adopted new faith and they feel that their former names will dedicated to idols. for example name like Nmor, Alusieke, Nwaeke, eke, etc
why some people are outcast who just migrated to other location and decided to change their names. while some people just bear the name because it is foreign

whiteroses:

oturugbeke, what does this mean oh

she [aloy emeka] is insulting you for daring to say you have an english name and you're from osun state. long story which i wont get into.

when she was a female nairalander, aloy emeka used to claim osun so she feels she has exclusive monopoly of the place, for certain reasons.

now she and her fellow beer guzzlers have shifted to kwara but still have their crooked eyes on osun.

she wants to move on to ondo next but that particular bone may scratch her.

anyway, aloy emeka is your "friend" and will always "defend you when necessary"

^^^ oh ok seen tanks

A surname could be native or english; it does not really matter.

It's no big deal as long as that's the family's surname(as obtains in most parts of Rivers state) and not when someone with an inferiority complex just decides to do away with their traditional family surname to answer a western surname

Sometimes i wonder where stella damascus got the damascus from

I never liked my english surnames. I have often wanted to disgard it like Malcum X did.

ITbomb:

Sometimes i wonder where stella damascus got the damascus from

It's actually Damasus. I think their real last name was Ojukwu but their father wanting to separate them from the other "Ojukwu" so as not to draw the attention of people that might want to do them hard decided to go with his other name which is Damasus

I think I read that somewhere. Can't remember where though