Chief, Dr, Professor Lakasegbe,
Architect Johnbull, mnim, fellow(inst. of Highrise Architects)
H.D lapalapa, D.Sc, P.hd (Honoris Causa), pfc, psc, JP (for Jerusalem Pilgrim)
Alhaji (Dr) Bature Shinkafa; Fmr Minister of Petroleum, out-going Executive Governor of Gambari State,
Igwe Ewu Beke, Ogbuefi 1 of Mgbadaland
Barrister (High Chief) Kokori Okoripoto, B.L, LL.M, SAN, QC; Defender of the People
Accountant Otolorin, GCE, A'levels, B.Sc, M.Sc, P.Hd, D.Sc, Fellow(Institute of Husslers)
His Gracious Eminence, Bishop (Dr) Papa God Dey; Founder, Owner and Presiding Bishop Of Church of Miracles

Do you know of others not mentioned?

I'm yet to learn of Barrister Barak Obama or Lawyer Hillary Clinton - except of course I'm missing something.

Sigh, The Guardian newspapers at it's launch decried this craze and tried to adhere to addressing everyone by simply 'Mr' or Ms/Mrs. They failed.

WHY ARE WE SO ADDICTED TO TITLES?

Your friend,

Feelgood
(Poster,NL,FB,Twitter)

Archbishop, Bishop, General Overseer, Prophet, Apostle, Evangelist, Elder, Pastor, Deacon, etc, etc

Pride, Ego, complete lack of compassion for our fellowman in a nutshell the absolute enthronement of the SELF

Its called the 'Ego'

Something we must learn to overcome.

Nigerians have it bad!!!

good question

I think it is all inferiority complex . . . . cos the title is not what makes a man

Fhemmmy:

I think it is all inferiority complex . . . . cos the title is not what makes a man

Correct! It is the man who makes the title.

Alhaji, Chieft, Doctor, Mr ABC Ibrihimah.

Rt.Hon.Dr,Lawless(Hon.member HSA),His eminence,Rt,Rev,Pst,Bisp,Fr,Prof,elder,e.t.c, inferiority complex of the highest order

Rich Dad:

Rt.Hon.Dr,Lawless(Hon.member HSA),His eminence,Rt,Rev,Pst,Bisp,Fr,Prof,elder,e.t.c, inferiority complex of the highest order

Lol

Oko oloyun worldwide

Do you know that the official title of Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia is:

“His Excellency the President Sheik Professor Alhaji Doctor Yahya Jammeh.”?

Do you also know that he is currenty working on adding "king" to the title?

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Butty-Gambia-Jammeh-Seeks-New-Title-Darbo-09november10-106938983.html

These is even a joke of an illiterate rich man, who in trying to add to his title. He see an obituary in a newspaper with 'Late'. He thought that is a new title, so he add it to his already bloated name

johnie:

Do you know that the official title of Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia is:

“His Excellency the President Sheik Professor Alhaji Doctor Yahya Jammeh.”?

Do you also know that he is currenty working on adding "king" to the title?

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Butty-Gambia-Jammeh-Seeks-New-Title-Darbo-09november10-106938983.html

what a clown

empty barrels.

British colonialism, they started it and we embraced it

As long as the person merits those titles, I see nothing wrong with it.

feelgood:

Chief, Dr, Professor Lakasegbe,
Architect Johnbull, mnim, fellow(inst. of Highrise Architects)
H.D lapalapa, D.Sc, P.hd (Honoris Causa), pfc, psc, JP (for Jerusalem Pilgrim)
Alhaji (Dr) Bature Shinkafa; Fmr Minister of Petroleum, out-going Executive Governor of Gambari State,
Igwe Ewu Beke, Ogbuefi 1 of Mgbadaland
Barrister (High Chief) Kokori Okoripoto, B.L, LL.M, SAN, QC; Defender of the People
Accountant Otolorin, GCE, A'levels, B.Sc, M.Sc, P.Hd, D.Sc, Fellow(Institute of Husslers)
His Gracious Eminence, Bishop (Dr) Papa God Dey; Founder, Owner and Presiding Bishop Of Church of Miracles

Do you know of others not mentioned?

I'm yet to learn of Barrister Barak Obama or Lawyer Hillary Clinton - except of course I'm missing something.

Sigh, The Guardian newspapers at it's launch decried this craze and tried to adhere to addressing everyone by simply 'Mr' or Ms/Mrs. They failed.

WHY ARE WE SO ADDICTED TO TITLES?

Your friend,

Feelgood
(Poster,NL,FB,Twitter)

You took the words out of my mind.Almost every Nigerian male i meet these days is a Chief or  a prince.Honestly it is so annoying.South Africans make fun of us Nigerians here.One of my SA friends once jockingly told me that he believes all N50 million Nigerians come from a royal family.Even the Nigerian quack pastors refer to themselves as Dr .

The other day i was at the Nigerian embassy to renew my passport and this clueless  started preaching even though we were told to remain silent.After his sermon a lady asked him what his name was and if he had a ministry,he replied in his own words " I am Dr Evangelist Micheal okonkwo of the blessing Light ministries INTERNATIONAL" . I immediately burst out in to laughter and everybody started staring at me like i was crazy.I just couldn't help it,the guy was so ridiculous.One look at him and i could tell he was just a guy-man pastor,his sermon was total crap and made no sense whatsoever.


Even when i go to the Nigerian restaurant where i normally get my weekly dose of Nigerian food, i see a lot of these uneducated riff raffs walking from their car into the restaurant with their protruding bellies while their minions trailing them are hailing them as thus "chief ,chairman, otunba ,Alhaji ,dangote ,ezego,abiola ,Doctor,Attorney,maga must pay,igwe, regional coordinator.They make me sick to my stomach because they sound so silly and mentally underdeveloped.

I believe it stems from poor upbringing and inferiority complex. Most Nigerians feel that if they have not attached a title to their name they won't appear important to other people.

A Simple example of this ridiculous mentality is the way the Nigerian president is introduced as compared to the way The US president is inroduced to the public.

In the white House when they are introducing  obama ,the announcer simply says: Ladies and Gentlmen ,the president of the United States ,Barack Obama

In Aso rock or Abuja the story is the different ,the announcer will say: Ladies and gentlemen ,honorable distinguished members of the senate, distinguished members of the ruling party,foreign dignitaries ,members of the press and viewers at home ,i present to you the grand commander of the federal republic,Guardian of the niger ,commander in chief of the armed forces, ggg,ccc,vvv, ttt, ftt,professor ,dr ,President Ebele Azikwe Goodluck Jonathan.

This bullsh*t pisses me off to the bone.Why can we just keep it simple,why the carnival?  

playmode:

You took the words out of my mind.Almost every Nigerian male i meet these days is a Chief or  a prince.Honestly it is so annoying.South Africans make fun of us Nigerians here.One of my SA friends once jockingly told me that he believes all N50 million Nigerians come from a royal family.Even the Nigerian quack pastors refer to themselves as Dr .

The other day i was at the Nigerian embassy to renew my passport and this clueless  started preaching even though we were told to remain silent.After his sermon a lady asked him what his name was and if he had a ministry,he replied in his own words " I am Dr Evangelist Micheal okonkwo of the blessing Light ministries INTERNATIONAL" . I immediately burst out in to laughter and everybody started staring at me like i was crazy.I just couldn't help it,the guy was so ridiculous.One look at him and i could tell he was just a guy-man pastor,his sermon was total crap and made no sense whatsoever.


Even when i go to the Nigerian restaurant where i normally get my weekly dose of Nigerian food, i see a lot of these uneducated riff raffs walking from their car into the restaurant with the protruding bellies while their minions trailing them are hailing them as thus "chief ,chairman, otunba ,Alhaji ,dangote ,ezego,abiola ,Doctor,Attorney,maga must pay,igwe, regional coordinator.They me sick to my stomach because they sound so silly and mentally underdeveloped.

I believe it stems from poor upbringing and inferiority complex. Most Nigerians feel that if they have not attached a title to their name they won't appear important to other people.

A Simple example of this ridiculous mentality is the way the Nigerian president is intorduced as compared to the way The US president is inroduce to the public.

In the white House when they are introducing  obama ,the announcer simply says: Ladies and Gentlmen ,the president of the United States ,Barack Obama

In Aso rock or Abuja the story is the different ,the announcer will say: Ladies and gentlemen ,honorable distinguished member of the senate, distinguished members of the ruling party,foreign dignitaries ,members of the press and viewers at home ,i present to you the grand commander of the federal republic,Guardian of the niger ,commander in chief of the armed forces, ggg,ccc,vvv, ttt, ftt,professor ,dr ,President Ebele Azikwe Goodluck Jonathan.

This bullsh*t to the bone.Why can we just keep it simple,why the carnival?  

I can't stop laughing cos it is sooooooooooo true

In Aso rock or Abuja the story is the different ,the announcer will say: Ladies and gentlemen ,honorable distinguished member of the senate, distinguished members of the ruling party,foreign dignitaries ,members of the press and viewers at home ,i present to you the grand commander of the federal republic,Guardian of the niger ,commander in chief of the armed forces, ggg,ccc,vvv, ttt, ftt,professor ,dr ,President Ebele Azikwe Goodluck Jonathan.

that is so true

It has become self evident that this quest for title by any means necessary has corrupted our academic and professional institutions.

People are literally buying degrees and accreditations both honorary and academic as if off the shelf examples abound off PhD holders unable to articulate and advocate vision, concept etc, etc in just plain English language particularly by our political appointees.

I guess it makes work for the thousands of speech writers.

Cases of certificate forgery at the highest level are well documented but not surprisingly nothing happens in terms prosecution and conviction (remember controller of customs) unfortunately we will never know the extent of this problem.

GCFR, C-IN-C, STD, MTN, STV, BBC, CNN, MON, OON, LOL, LMAO, and of cause RIP

Why should someone prefix his name with 'accountant', 'surveyor', 'engineer', etc?

Chief, Dr, Barrister, Sir Sylvester Dubem Odumegwu Ojukwu (Akpunwa Nnewi)
This is how our own Ikemba's son is addessed as.

I honestly cannot hold my hand where the obsession for title among Nigerians comes from. Here in the U.K all my collegues had at their doors or desk addressed as Mr and nothing like a doctor or a consultants.

Its even most pathethic among the Igbos who don't naturally has a title and I knew for sure that before the dawn of the 70s, you can count on your fingers, number of Igbos that has the title of a chief and in those days its abormination for an Igbo man to wear a red hat while his father is still alive but not it like a fashion.

Don't even go to the religious side. His grace, his eminence, the supreme pontif of the order of something something. The moslems are not left out too.
Why is it that only Nigerian moslems goes with the ALHAJI/ALHAJA titles?
How many Saudis, Malaysians, Pakistani, Egyptian, Libyan or Palestinian Alhajis or Alhajas do you know? Like Alhaji Muamar Ghaddaffi or ALhaja Benaisa Bhutto of Pakistan.

Really pathetic!

apparently the title fad is not limited to Nigerians. Check out that of the newly wedded Prince williams:

Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge, Early of Strathearn, Baron Carrickfergus, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Master of Arts.


http://www.officialroyalwedding2011.org./blog/2011/April/29/Titles-announced-for-Prince-William-and-Catherine-Middleton

@op

that is our culture and way of life

if a man is a doctor, general, engineer, etc

then it is rightful for him to be adress by his title as it is a sign of his achievement

but it is wonly wrong when the preson in question adresses himself with his title

for example

I am chief doctor eng Umar ,.,., then i think that is pride

Its like branding - everyone wants to be a unique brand.

playmode:

You took the words out of my mind.Almost every Nigerian male i meet these days is a Chief or  a prince.Honestly it is so annoying.South Africans make fun of us Nigerians here.One of my SA friends once jockingly told me that he believes all N50 million Nigerians come from a royal family.Even the Nigerian quack pastors refer to themselves as Dr .

The other day i was at the Nigerian embassy to renew my passport and this clueless  started preaching even though we were told to remain silent.After his sermon a lady asked him what his name was and if he had a ministry,he replied in his own words " I am Dr Evangelist Micheal okonkwo of the blessing Light ministries INTERNATIONAL" . I immediately burst out in to laughter and everybody started staring at me like i was crazy.I just couldn't help it,the guy was so ridiculous.One look at him and i could tell he was just a guy-man pastor,his sermon was total crap and made no sense whatsoever.


Even when i go to the Nigerian restaurant where i normally get my weekly dose of Nigerian food, i see a lot of these uneducated riff raffs walking from their car into the restaurant with their protruding bellies while their minions trailing them are hailing them as thus "chief ,chairman, otunba ,Alhaji ,dangote ,ezego,abiola ,Doctor,Attorney,maga must pay,igwe, regional coordinator.They make me sick to my stomach because they sound so silly and mentally underdeveloped.

I believe it stems from poor upbringing and inferiority complex. Most Nigerians feel that if they have not attached a title to their name they won't appear important to other people.

A Simple example of this ridiculous mentality is the way the Nigerian president is introduced as compared to the way The US president is inroduced to the public.

In the white House when they are introducing  obama ,the announcer simply says: Ladies and Gentlmen ,the president of the United States ,Barack Obama

In Aso rock or Abuja the story is the different ,the announcer will say: Ladies and gentlemen ,honorable distinguished members of the senate, distinguished members of the ruling party,foreign dignitaries ,members of the press and viewers at home ,i present to you the grand commander of the federal republic,Guardian of the niger ,commander in chief of the armed forces, ggg,ccc,vvv, ttt, ftt,professor ,dr ,President Ebele Azikwe Goodluck Jonathan.

This bullsh*t pisses me off to the bone.Why can we just keep it simple,why the carnival?  

You've not completed the title for nigerian president o!
GCON MNI PHCN MTN ECONET NITEL very soon they will add HIV to it.
To make things worse the clueless president will come out and start stumbling on his own speech, glue his eyeball to every word written down.

INFERIORITY 1BILLION PERCENT.
You'll see more of these when you travel to villages.

TOUTS ARE CALLING THEMSELVES COMRADE.
VERY FUNNY.

I am comrade this and that.