If you say Sambo's from Edo State,I'll not be moved.I'd a girl friend at Abuja then,she's from Edo State but speaks hausa very well.She said her mom's from Kano State and she lives in Kano.Her Dad got angry and started forcing them to speak Edo.The girl even bear an hausa name and she has never been to Edo before.Probabily,that might be anybody's case.

Namadi is the short form of Namadina. A hausa synonym for Muhammad. The VP's full name is Namadi Nalado Sambo. Both Nalado and Sambo are traditional Hausa names not Islamic names. So I think the article should be taken with a pinch of salt. Yes many Northerners have their origins in the south. Some little known examples are Hamza Al-Mustapha and Nasir El-Rufai, both of which have Yoruba ancestry. My point is that being a Northerner is not strongly tight to your ethnicity like some people think. It's more about how well one is assimilated into the society.

From being a hausaman (bauchi), to being from Edo, and now Igbo? Which one should we accept? I think the burden of proof is on the accusers. The VP owns nobody no explanation. He is a Nigerian (at least that is not disputed).

Namadi is the short form of Namadina. A hausa synonym for Muhammad

a hausa synonym for mohammed should be muhammadu or muammar.

IG:

Some little known examples are Hamza Al-Mustapha and Nasir El-Rufai, both of which have Yoruba ancestry.

give more details plz.

Yes many Northerners have their origins in the south

true.

i'm starting to wonder about the name sambo.

was it used for returnees, slave traders, what exactly?

Tpia,

Namadina, meaning the "one from Medina (Saudi Arabiab city)".

Similar to the Yoruba synonym "omoluabi", the "one of Noah's ancestry".

Whoever things David Mark is not Igbo is fooling themselves. GEJ, Nnamdi Sambo, and David Mark have succeded in carrying out a hidden Igbo agenda. It is actually an Igbo coup, ask katsumoto. Goodluck Jonathan and David Mark have converted their sirnames to english names in order to jump ship. Goodluck Jonathans actual name is Jonathan Goodluck(Ihuoma) and David Alechenu<---an igbo/idoma name. Goodluck jonathan is from Otueke,Bayelsa,which is an Igbo-speaking area of Bayelsa and David mark is from Otukpo, which is where the indigenous Igbo-speaking people of Benue State is located,hmm . I get it now, GEJ- from the Igbo outskirts of the SE, Otueke, Bayelsa State, Sambo- originally from the Igbo outskirts of the SE, Igbanke, Edo state, and David Mark- from the Igbo outskirts of the SE as well, Otukpo, Benue State! So David Mark's continuous wearing of the Igbo rap cap is just a big "fukc You, I'm Igbo and we still runnin shyt" to the northerners.


The Igbos have done it again!!!

Tpia,

Sambo is the younger sibling, a second born male following a female first child.

dem_people:

Kai. SMH

Ife umu nwoke ndigbo na-ala n'otu nwanyi, 2 adiro eke ya at all.

Just yesterday, my Fulani friend said to me that his father was an Igboman from Okuzu who then cos of business, migrated to Kano, prayed alahu akbar and was "fulanized" before he became a huge fulani businessman and contractor . 

He was then respectfully "turbanized" as he managed to "scope" Northerners that his ancestors escorted Fodio's jihadi quest in those days.

Beat that!

Go to the sexuality section and express yourself better.

who cares?

Nigerians are the most tribalistic and ethnocentric in West Africa.

I see now why you guys are in the predicament your in.

May be this is why BUHARI want die to be president lol,I think igbo ppl should give thank to OBJ now for his modern coup plotting

@Odunnu,

Nnenne m, anyi a na-esezi okwu?  

bollocks

but no one has ever told us the full meaning of Namadi in hausa language, can someone interpret please, if not then the article is 100% correct, waiting

Non - issue. Useless waste of time. This is a classical case of Yellow journalism.

decency requires that the people you represent know the truth behind who you are without any reservations.

as far as i know vp is representing nigeria no specific group of people


@topic:
im beginning to like nigeria,thru what i read here, seems some people are nigerians than being hausa,igbo,ijaw /yoruba etc and this will go along way uniting nigerians(as i pray so),

Nnamdi have any meaning in hausa

His 'ancestoral home' in Zaria is at Sabon-gari(meaning new town/settlement in Hausa)  which is clearly a settlement that evolved historically for non-northerners/indigenes,Sabon gari is  just like ama-hausa in Igbo land.

Let him show us his father/grand father's house in the traditional areas of Zaria city i.e outside Sabon gart true that his father was a railway worker who lived
in the railway quarters before moving to Sabon-gari area of the city?. Where are his siblings, uncles, cousins and Aunts.

Any way he is a Nigerian but let him own up to his identity if the story is true.

Late Murtala Ramat Muhammed (R.I.P) is originally from Edo state, Auchi town  but is known with Kano.

But the Ibo's have played a fast one on us all. with OBJ., G.E.J and Nnamdi (Namadi); they are still asking for more like Oliver twist.

Sambo is the younger sibling, a second born male following a female first child.

how did it come to exclusively mean slave in the americas?


just wondering.

His 'ancestoral home' in Zaria is at Sabon-gari(meaning new town/settlement in Hausa) which is clearly a settlement that evolved historically for non-northerners/indigenes,Sabon gari is just like ama-hausa in Igbo land.

Let him show us his father/grand father's house in the traditional areas of Zaria city i.e outside Sabon gart

good points.

his father was a railway worker who lived in the railway quarters before moving to Sabon-gari area of the city?. Where are his siblings, uncles, cousins and Aunts.

hope there are answers to these enquiries.

Any way he is a Nigerian but let him own up to his identity if the story is true.

i agree.

Africans would neva sease to amase me over who gets wat, or who is qualified for wat! Selfishness is realy "arthriatic" in our thoughts and actions! Whether an housa man or not lets for once learn to encourage people who can make a difference! If mr president knew or didn't know he(sambo) was either an ibo man or hausa man but found in him a worthy companion to work with devoid of the " obasanjo-atiku" styled government, wouldn't or shouldn't we grant him(GEJ) a peaceful atmosphere with him(sambo)! Wat crime did anorld swaz commit as an austrialian holding the governor's office in california far away in d USA?

^^correct me if i'm wrong, but i think gej was the one who publicly discovered his "igboness" when he was campaigning the other time.


trotting out different igbo names ranging from ebelechukwu to azikiwe, at various odd times.

so, he intentionally fueled the fashion of  "becoming igbo" and neither did i hear anyone complaining.

so, kindly allow others to find out more about sambo, if you dont mind.

How many of those northern politicians are true indigines?

When will Nigerians throw away tribalism and focus on national development?
When he was a governor they did not say he was Igbo

why dont the hausa fulani tribe go and join Niger republic or Chad and leave Nigeria so we can progress/develop

Sambo is a fulani name ,you can find it all over west Africa.

Gayigaskia:

Sambo is a fulani name ,you can find it all over west Africa.

If the bolded is true, then it supports the article even more because the Vp is said to be a full-blooded Hausa man, meaning not a drop of Fulani blood. In that case the sir name "Sambo" would be look at as a cover-up of his real identity.

Gayigaskia:

Sambo is a fulani name ,you can find it all over west Africa.

Sambo has a Fulani name, born to Igbo father. Grasp that.
Some or even most Igbos tend to not give their children Igbo names. Yorubas, even if just born to Yoruba mother, will give their children Yoruba names.

So. . . . . now that we know that Sambo, GEJ and Obasanjo are Igbo, what happens now? What happens come 2015?

Namadi is the short form of Namadina. A hausa synonym for Muhammad. The VP's full name is Namadi Nalado Sambo. Both Nalado and Sambo are traditional Hausa names not Islamic names. So I think the article should be taken with a pinch of salt. Yes many Northerners have their origins in the south. Some little known examples are Hamza Al-Mustapha and Nasir El-Rufai, both of which have Yoruba ancestry. My point is that being a Northerner is not strongly tight to your ethnicity like some people think. It's more about how well one is assimilated into the society.

the bolded part is true, but are nasir el-rufai and hamzat al-mustapha of yoruba ancestry too, cos that al-mustapha guy hates youruba ppl with so much passion

he does indeed.

I see ppl hinting on this thread that this is all about tribalism. haba, where do you get that idea? We just wanna know our VP a lil more, that's all. Is that too much to ask? And the VP keeping quiet about this matter is not helping either. Even if he's from Burkina Faso, he should come out and say it, he's still a Nigerian and no reasonable person will expect him to resign. So, why the secrecy?

IG:

Namadi is the short form of Namadina. A hausa synonym for Muhammad. The VP's full name is Namadi Nalado Sambo. Both Nalado and Sambo are traditional Hausa names not Islamic names. So I think the article should be taken with a pinch of salt. Yes many Northerners have their origins in the south. Some little known examples are Hamza Al-Mustapha and Nasir El-Rufai, both of which have Yoruba ancestry. My point is that being a Northerner is not strongly tight to your ethnicity like some people think. It's more about how well one is assimilated into the society.

yeaaa! another bombshell. which one be dis again? do u have some explanation or proof of this?

tpia@:

a hausa synonym for mohammed should be muhammadu or muammar.

@tpia, there are many synonyms for Muhammad but I don't think Muammar is one of them. Others you can find across different ethnicities in Nigeria are Mommodu, Mamadi, Mamman, Bomoi, Modu, Momo etc. There are other Muslim names with local synonyms for example Bukar, Garba, Abatcha, Habu all mean Abubakar. What Southerners do not understand is that the North was never about ethnicity but about the various multi-ethnic nations that made up the pre-colonial empires. That is why even today it's easy for settlers to be assimilated over time in many parts of the North. And don't forget, there is more about the North than just Hausas and Fulanis.