joseph1013:



It reminds me of an interaction I had offshore on a Samsung Heavy Industry site. There was this Delta guy I hear everyone call Money. I just felt it was his nickname. Then one day, we were talking and I said he should tell me his real name as calling people by their nickname is not my forte. Then he said that's his name. I was taken back.

I said, "Really? If your first name is Money, what is your surname?"

"Government!"

I laughed throughout the day.

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Na for Benin I see where people dey bear names like Effort, Evidence

ChrisKels:


Chai bro who do us this thing? Na there u go c names run, d funny thing b say the names diz days dey come in pidgins ; GodDey, FineFace, NaYouHoldMyDestiny Chai

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And there is a particular group also that bear English names like: Badmus, Coker, Williams, Craig, Johnson, Thomas, Beecroft, Smith, Joseph etc.

soetanoreoluwa:


LMAO

Tears... Monday government!!!!

Have seen “ Saturday” too I always laugh at those names... God!!!!

Seeing people bearing BEAUTY

joseph1013:

It's not even Monday, it's first name is Money. So inadvertently his name (Surname first) is Government Money.

ChrisKels:


God c sweet names nah. Just imagine an Hausa melanin damsel with the name Yohanna. Choi licking my lips

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I have read that journal and a couple of others.

Scientifically speaking, a system or procedure that has a reliability rating of 90% is very reliable and so very acceptable.

Until proven otherwise MRI results for cubing of age cheating is very reliable and FIFA and the entire football community will continue to accept the ages of players that have gone through this scanning process.

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You know this African belief that names follow people.

An Ijaw man will name his son "Shell" or "Chevron" so that when he grows up he will eventually work with Shell or Chevron. Another one gives his son "Manager" so that he will eventually become a Manager. The other one gave his son "Government" so that he will be in Government.
Just like the story Joseph shared about the guy that bears "Money". That father wanted him to have plenty of money when he grows up.

But do these things actually play out? Like the guy I saw that bears the name "Giant" happens to be the shortest and skinniest member of the crew.

jihday:
Our players are cheat, as long as they are not born in the UK. my Oga you should know this by now

Curtisaxel7:


Lol. Superstition plays a large role in the naming of people in Africa. Some even go as far as changing their native names deemed to be "satanic" to foreign names that they don't even know the meanings of. .

I know someone who changed her name from "Nnennaya" meaning "her father's mother" (a reflection of the Igbo traditional belief in reincarnation) to Cecelia. Imagine her shock then, when I told her that "Cecelia" means "the blind one" .

Abeg, pikin dey go make am go make am, the one wey go useless go useless. If you like name am "Christ Jesus".

Nonsense and superstition. .

soetanoreoluwa:


Some Yorubas bears these kind of name.. Those returning from slavery... During colonial era... But they will definitely put their Yoruba name beside those english names

tbaba1234:
Nazifi Yahaya & Alhassan Ibrahim on Trials With Brondby, Denmark

Danielnino00:
Una dy laugh for Niger delta names ?/

Go to southern Africa especially Zambia and Zimbabwe and u will hear the weirdest names... See the names of their footballers self
Knowledge Musona, Rainford Kalaba, Talent (forgotten the surname), Fashion Sakala Fuckson Kapumbu ..

jihday:
Our players are cheat, as long as they are not born in the UK. my Oga you should know this by now

Danielnino00:



Isaac Success looking at Southgate like .

junnyjake:

Someone from Gambia called "Roadblock" another one "wheelbarrow"

junnyjake:
Back to football!

Had a dream, Akpeyi started for us and he had a great game.

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'' Izon"!

Curtisaxel7:


Lol. Yohanna is not a Hausa name. It's an Arab/Coptic Christian name derived from the Biblical name "John" whom the Arabs call "Yohan". Yohanna is the female form (like Paul and Paulina.)

That's where Yohan Blake the Jamaican athlete got his name.

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Common amongst native Lagosians (Isale-Eko).

Clementoke:


For Akpeyi to av a great game while in goal for us, that means SA really troubled us. Chai!. Bad dream!!!.

Danielnino00:



Isaac Success looking at Southgate like .

soetanoreoluwa:

Mikel agu and Isaac look so young!

soetanoreoluwa:


Mikel agu and Isaac look so young!

Earthquake2:


I bet it was you that noticed Jamilu Collins, Uzoho, Idowu, Semi Ajayi and Ebuehi

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Come to think of it , there is an ethnic group that also like bearing names like: Alloysius, Vitalis, Innocent, Eucharia, Clarus, Donatus, Remigus, Juvenus etc