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[quote author=dimples*]I asked som1 to give me a yoruba name, he said itunu!

I know it means somtyn about peace! But it sounds like a curse word to me.

E.g look at this girl, itunu like you

Pls I need a sweeter name,ejo [/quote]

How about Morenikeji? Your friends can call you Nike, or Nikky or Renny (Rihanna).

It means, I have found a friend. Or, I have found my better half. Or, more contemporarily, "You complete me!"

Nigerian movie: What of iya Bambo?
Baba oloriburuku?
iya alamala?
Baba oloshi?
iya oloti?
omo elemu?
I hear these names always

Made-up names on Nollywood shitty moves don't count.


P.S. It would be nice to bump the Oriki thread - if I can find it. I love those names.

humblesteve: Can't find Kayode@ op

Well done oh

But your name is Steve.


The OP didn't indicate that he/she is responsible for compiling the list. A Facebook page is credited.

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA][size=14pt]OP YOU ARE USELESS!

YOU LEFT ALL THE OLD PAGAN YORUBA NAMES LIKE OGUNSEYI, SANGOLEYE, IFASEYI, IFADOJA, IFABEMIGA, IYAIBEJI, IYAMI, OSUNLADE, ESUBIYI , etc.


YOU ARE BIASED!
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Passing Shot: Not attempting to discredit your effort but you've given literary meanings to many of the names. It doesn't work like that in many cases. For instance, "Yewande" cannot be literally translated to "mother looked for me". I'm sure you know it doesn't really mean that. It's actually a name given to a girl whose grand mother just passed away shortly before her birth. Yorubas use it more as a symbol and remembrance of the event rather than anything else.

Cheers.

Correct. Yewande means the same as Yetunde and Iyabo.

There are Yoruba names that have different spellings but actually mean the same thing. E.g., (Omo)Taiwo, Taiye(wo).

Nice thread.

Seun: Heh. Ok, that last post was a joke.

I hope your previous 3 posts were all jokes.

Seun: I'm so sorry about this ma. I promise to not be a pussy anymore.

I'm worried about you.

Yes, provided it is agreed we can raise the children in a faith of my choosing.

Seun: There was some training but they refused to complete it because they felt they did not need it and other mods kept derailing the training thread until I got fed up and gave up on it.

Seun: When I try to control them, people call me a tyrant and accuse me of chasing away the moderators that refused to be controlled. I don tire.

Goddamit, Seun. You are such a pússy.

shymexx: Rossike, you and Isale_gan2 should be barred from talking about black consciousness. You're both coons!!

Hotep!

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Oloshi!

Leave her alone!

So she has a crush on a footballer? Nothing wrong with it. She's a fan-girl (which is perfectly innocent). It's an old and respectable tradition, okay?

shymexx: Err...those guys look relatively young except the GK and Mohammed.

Fifa has always allowed 3 or 4 senior players in junior tournaments. I'm not sure of the exact number or limit.

I remember CRonaldo playing with Portugal under 21 after he was already older.

It's too bad some of our people are tormented by self-loathing, they just keep bringing up this age cheating thing. I don't mean you, Shymexx. I just happened to see your post.

Enigma17: guy put the link make I go destroy their ancestors there.....people dey talk mexico self dey follow talk....if not for our bad leaders....mtscheew I don vex

Go destroy them!

Fck it! Let's all go get them! I'm going on Yahoo and Bigsoccer to go find the kokoye asswipes!

Chaaaaarrrge!!!

Edit: ok i was just kidding the fact we beat them is punishment enough.

naijababe: Meaning?

The baaaad part of you is learned, not inherited. Good girl gone bad. Why must I explain myself?


OAM4J, You sure are getting the one-week birthday celebration you asked for. HBD Thread lives!

Ola one: Egungun eja for you. Choke on it

So that's the team you're on - Mukina+Ola? Good to know.

naijababe: Thinking?!!!! I'm going to let that slide, but you won't get off so easily next time. I have never denied my slum origins

Ara oke (or ara oko) does not mean "slum"?

OAM4J: Why asking when you can find out for yourself? Give the place and time, I will be there.

N gbo? Omo ita Mushin by way of Agege.

Payback is a so-n-so!
https://www.nairaland.com/816612/o-ye-people/56#18919441

Boy oh boy! Am I petty?

Great Fantastic stupendous news to hear!
Clear and convincing wins at all levels!

I heart these kids!

Let's go let's go let's go!!! Let's kick some Mehicano butt! Let's make the country proud. Good boys! Future multi-cultural Super Eagles!

Game hasn't started and thread already has 30 thousand views!

naijababe: Isale, what can i say? Naija ni mo ti ko ABC

You mean A B D E Ẹ . . .
Yoruba has no C.

SMH. Always thinking you know Yoruba better than me. The only way you surpass me in that language is that you have a bigger vocabulary - mostly agbero slangs and ara-oko ara-oke idoms. Mtsheew!

naijababe: I am my father's daughter

But your baba is a good guy.

naijababe: Power na good thing o! A whole thread for Mr Orange juice's birthday?! I yam jelousing o

Baaaaad Naijababe! Lots of NLers get HBD threads. Every day! Jealous girl.

We need to once and for all address the purpose for the subsection, Ethnic, Racial, Or Sectarian Politics.

Is it:

A) A place to discuss regional politics, intra/inter-ethnic issues, etc.
(This means there should be no hesitation to open threads there and have as beneficial a debate as we do in the main Politics section. lol.)

B) A place where threads that devolve into "tribal" fights and acrimonious discussions are dumped!
(This gives that area a very bad image, where some posters prefer not to engage.)


If a thread deteriorates into ugly name calling, finger-pointing and posting of degrading pictures of poverty-stricken communities or starving children war refugees, is the right thing to do:
1) send it to the ethnic subsection?
2) hide posts and lock it temporarily until sanity prevails?
3) delete it completely?


If I create a thread in the Politics section, with the intention of having a fruitful and enlightening discussion about a controversial topic, and I step away for 5 hours, come back and find that the thread has been turned into ethnic bashing, should the resolution be to move/dump said thread into the dungheap of tribal politics? Is that fair to me and to those who are interested in continuing the discussion? Who is to say the discussion is no longer worth pursuing because some got hot under the collar?


Are we moving threads to that subsection because of the subject-matter OR because the discussion turned unpleasant and acrimonious?


Make a clear rule and stick with it!


Or get rid of that subsection altogether.

‘Gitmo a black hole where no laws apply’ – former detainee

Australian citizen David Hicks suffered torture and brutal beatings at the hands of guards at Guantanamo prison. Breaking the gag order that was a condition of his release, Hicks spoke to RT about his ordeal and how he was coerced into pleading guilty.

38-year-old David Hicks spent over five years in Guantanamo Prison accused of aiding terrorists. He was eventually convicted under the 2006 Military Commissions Act for “providing material support to terrorism” and released in 2007 after pleading guilty. Hicks has filed to have the convictions overturned, alleging his plea was made under duress and he had no other choice but to confess.

During his six years at Guantanamo, Hicks says he was subjected to both mental and psychological torture, forced to take injections and brought to the brink of suicide by the prison staff.

“Myself and everyone else were tortured on a daily basis,” Hicks said. “That ranges from typical physical beatings to a whole range of psychological ploys. There was medical experimentation that was very scary to be subjected to.”

The staff at Guantanamo forced inmates to take pills and injections, and they would face beatings if they resisted, Hicks said. The prisoners were never informed as to the nature of the drugs they were made to take.

Hicks said that being white and Australian gave him a privileged position in the prison, allowing him to avoid some of the physical abuse that went on.

“Being white and, more importantly, English being my first language, that allowed me to communicate with the guards and probably talk my way out of being beaten and tortured more – this is the guards, so it’s separate to interrogation – versus some of the Arabs and Afghans, who couldn’t speak English at all.”

He described the guards as having “no patience” and when they were frustrated they would beat the inmates until their “bones were broken.”

http://rt.com/news/david-hicks-appeal-guantanamo-349/

Oh. Never mind. I just remembered something.

What more evidence do you need to be convinced that Naijas love Arsenal more than pidgin English.

Katsumoto:

Katsumoto: Fujitsu ko, Siemens ni. Nonsense.

What's the matter, blud? Why so hostile?