Wizardofoz:

Thats not even his name.

His name is Jacob Tiao Cruz

Where the OP got that name from is beyond me. It is ridiculous how we just make things up for no other reason than to make ourselves feel good.

Almost every successful American has been given one Nigerian name or the other. This is ridiculous and shameful. One wonders the kind of future Nigerians we are raising. Now I understand how it was easy for the White man to colonize us.

It is ridiculous. Even more pathetic is the fact that this thread is on the front page. Just imagine the side of us we are presenting to the world. Clowns, that is what we all are.

"Nigerian beat Rihanna?" what a deluded title. The admin of NL is just too childish and thoughtless, time to have some adult supervision. It is getting too ridiculous!

Wizardofoz:

Thats not even his name.

His name is Jacob Tiao Cruz

Where the OP got that name from is beyond me. It is ridiculous how we just make things up for no other reason than to make ourselves feel good.

Almost every successful American has been given one Nigerian name or the other. This is ridiculous and shameful. One wonders the kind of future Nigerians we are raising. Now I understand how it was easy for the White man to colonize us.

It is ridiculous. Even more pathetic is the fact that this thread is on the front page. Just imagine the side of us we are presenting to the world. Clowns, that is what we all are.

"Nigerian beat Rihanna?" what a deluded title. The admin of NL is just too childish and thoughtless, time to have some adult supervision. It is getting too ridiculous!

denzel2009:

Stop being stupiid on a Sunday morning, you said he doesn't have an 'Ibo' name, and I showed you he has.

denzel2009:

^^^^please nitori Olorun read about how he got the middlename http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne-Yo  Chei! and I never said he is 'Ibo'.

denzel2009:

omg omg omg somebody call 911.  

Even P Diddy's name is not Sean Combs. His first name is P and his family name is Diddy.

Seal's parent are living with sharks, that's why he is called Seal.

Can you please stop this your early morning ignorance?

denzel2009:

^^^^please nitori Olorun read about how he got the middlename http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne-Yo  Chei! and I never said he is 'Ibo'.

omo_to_dun:

It never mentioned how he got his name. It just mentioned his name. And Neyo has said in an interview that he has no connection whatsoever with Nigeria. Chimera is also a French name; does that make Neyo French? Nigerians sef.

Wizardofoz:

Obviously, you ability to think is still at the third grader's level.
Gross generalization like you've done here tells us a lot about you and your ability to think. But more than that it it tells us about your education. I admit that It is unimaginably hard to think broadly, to stay conscious and open minded, especially for someone who has a high and utterly baseless impression of himself. I submit here that you are in Nigeria, and schooled in Nigeria, Which means yet another grand cliché about Nigerian graduates being sub-standard/ half baked turns out to be true: your education really has been a waste of your time, a waste of your parents meager resources and a drain on the Nigerian economy.

You should ask for a refund!

denzel2009:

^^^^please nitori Olorun read about how he got the middlename http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne-Yo  Chei! and I never said he is 'Ibo'.

denzel2009:

His full name is Shaffer Chimere Smith. Is Chimere an American name?

denzel2009:


Stop being stupiid on a Sunday morning, you said he doesn't have an 'Ibo' name, and I showed you he has.

Where did I say he is from Nigeria?

Emmz:

All i have to say is that its obvious the guy dosent want to be associated with Nigeria. If he wanted to, we would have known what country he originally hails from.

I found out last year that taio cruz is Nigerian thru a friend who went to school with him. Apparently Adrao. Taio cruz went to Adrao so where his british lineage came from i really do not know. Maybe he was born there but he is of Nigerian decent and i do not know pple who are not Nigerians that send their kids to Nigeria to school when pple who are actually Nigerians are trying every means possible to send their kids abroad.

It is not by force to associate oneself with someone who dosent want to be so associated. The first time i checked to verify what my friend said, he was down there as born Adetayo Adewale Onile-ere but now it says Jacob tayo cruz obviously sum1 edited it but if you look down to his early life, It says he was born to a Nigerian father. So ure all right. He is a Nigerian that dosent want to be Nigerian.


Check this out for starters. Oct 18, 2010

Adetayo Adewale onile-ere aka taio cruz aka taio jacob cruz is an !
I just read somewhere that he was born and raised in england
What a load of crock.
I'm a 26 year old nigerian female and tayo was a dark glasses wearing boy a couple of classes ahead of me in secondary school(high school)
I don't get the point of the name change, the age change(he's at least 28!) Or the lies about where he grew up!
Tayo we were in adrao tgether oh!
Stop pretending


pulled from-   http://www.topix.com/forum/afam/T6LC83TEKFR0CJPA5/p2
 

Emmz:

All i have to say is that its obvious the guy dosent want to be associated with Nigeria. If he wanted to, we would have known what country he originally hails from.

I found out last year that taio cruz is Nigerian thru a friend who went to school with him. Apparently Adrao. Taio cruz went to Adrao so where his british lineage came from i really do not know. Maybe he was born there but he is of Nigerian decent and i do not know pple who are not Nigerians that send their kids to Nigeria to school when pple who are actually Nigerians are trying every means possible to send their kids abroad.

It is not by force to associate oneself with someone who dosent want to be so associated. The first time i checked to verify what my friend said, he was down there as born Adetayo Adewale Onile-ere but now it says Jacob tayo cruz obviously sum1 edited it but if you look down to his early life, It says he was born to a Nigerian father. So ure all right. He is a Nigerian that dosent want to be Nigerian.


Check this out for starters. Oct 18, 2010

Adetayo Adewale onile-ere aka taio cruz aka taio jacob cruz is an !
I just read somewhere that he was born and raised in england
What a load of crock.
I'm a 26 year old nigerian female and tayo was a dark glasses wearing boy a couple of classes ahead of me in secondary school(high school)
I don't get the point of the name change, the age change(he's at least 28!) Or the lies about where he grew up!
Tayo we were in adrao tgether oh!
Stop pretending


pulled from-   http://www.topix.com/forum/afam/T6LC83TEKFR0CJPA5/p2
 

Siena:

I can almost see the poison dripping here.

People are allowed to claim citizenship from their countries of birth, where there parents are from, or where they spent most of their time growing up. So, some choose not to represent Nigeria, so what? Sade Adu, Seal, Ne-yo, Lighthouse Family etc have chosen not to represent Nigeria, big deal! It's their choice, and today, they're successful in their own right. As for saying bleep them, do they care? I doubt it! Spend that energy and time, and become successful as a person, wherever you are, and represent any country you choose to.

Why criticise someone who has Nigerian / Brazillian parents, if he / she chooses to relate to the Brazillian side? It's the height of sheer arrogance to feel such a person must lean more to their Nigerian lineage. To me, it's all about the country that works best for your career. If it's Nigeria, good. If it's Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Iraq etc, then so be it.

Wizardofoz:

Both of you 'iz' deluded

So he is Ibo just because his middle name "sounds" Ibo?

So that means "Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price" is Nigerian too?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimere
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/chimere




When are we going to stop all these crap that has eaten too deep into our lives so badly. The point here is that I think we all have to exercise restraints in our thought and haste to always want to claim some sort of connection to every successful person, even when it is obvious they arent Nigerians. Some have even claimed here on NL that Obama is Ibo, and his wife Michelle, from some goddamn clan in Ibo land. This should teach us all to be a little more introspective, to be just a little less arrogant about what we think we know. To have just a little critical awareness about ourselves and our certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that we tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.

NEYO is not Nigerian. And lets be honest with ourselves, he is way better and more refined to be Ibo, Fact! Lets cut out this childish crap and face reality.

Jiah011:

It's not an issue of whether you want to or don't want to associate with whatever country, in this case Nigeria. It's about your upbringing and where you feel most comfortable. It's about where you know. Some people born abroad can "associate" with Nigeria if they have strong ties and can identify with the culture. Others may not have the same experiences and hence they take what they know to be their home. Just because you have the name  and ancestry doesn't automatically mean that you are bound to Nigeria, or any place for that matter. It's funny how Nigerians want to claim all the good things but we can never own up to the problems. We should ask our selves if we have more to be proud of or to be ashamed of. Abroad and within Nigeria, the few (or many depending on how you see it) rotten apples in the bunch have given the whole a bad image. It makes it hard want to "associate" with Nigeria. And incessant tribalism doesn't help these problems too.