For the record, people give themselves their parents' name for a variety of reasons.
Larry Echiejile is a famous broadcaster. His father was not famous. He renamed himself Larry Izamoje when his father died. Izamoje was his father's name.
I have a friend who gave himself his mother's name when she died. He did it to honour her. She was not famous.
JuanDeDios: Oh, you mean his papa and mama may have written Hakeem Muri-Okunola on his birth certificate. (I've struck out "why" to make your meaning clearer.) Fair point. The way these things work, it's highly unlikely. I doubt he'd be a supreme court judge when the kid was born and our people usually just do these to show off when they've acquired "the name". In any case, the blame goes to whoever named him. Poor Hakeem.
So to answer you directly, I don't know. You've won. Naptu 1 - 0 JuanDeDios
That's another funny thing that you do. You type a lot of meaningless gobbledygook when you know that you can't defend your position.
Nobody said that his parents named him that way and you know it. I specifically wrote that he named himself that way. You know exactly what I was referring to, but it's OK. I understand, you can't defend your position
JuanDeDios: How you name yourself (in this case, going around with your justice-papa's name dangling around your neck) isn't a part of how you conduct your life? Abi if you see a tiger going around screaming "I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger,", won't you find it distasteful?
And thank you for being a good sport.
You ran away from the question but you are now back to it. You are implying that he named himself that way in order to show off and I asked you how you know why he named himself that way and you've been running away from the question.
JuanDeDios: Which kweshun again naa? I said I don't trust people that hyphenate their names in this manner and I stated what the distrust is premised on. You can read the post again.
If your father's name is Field Marshal Napti Maptu (former CGS) and you go around calling yourself Naptu Napti-Maptu (instead of Naptu Maptu), I'd start out not trusting you too - until you prove you're a sensible and trustworthy person. Sorry, it's personal. Well, not sorry. People should know these basic things.
It's not just your opinion, but you extended it to "how he conducts his life". Those were your exact words and they go beyond personal opinion to the conduct of the subject.
Anyway, this has been very amusing, from the nomination of Aganga to the avalanche of assumptions.
JuanDeDios: But that's not a statement about his entire life. At least, it's not intended to be. In a previous post, I already referred specifically to what I meant.
Hyphenated name? How do you know why he hyphenated his name?
Oh, I missed something there. Isn't this contradictory? You know nothing about him, but you know how he conducts his life?
JuanDeDios: Yea, I know nothing about HMO. He could be better than Aganga, for all we know. I only said I don't trust people who conduct their lives like him.
JuanDeDios: I actually get the argument you made about ACCEPTANCE. Yeah, it's politics - brilliance isn't enough. I know politics will win, but I've made my nomination anyway. Hopefully, the godfathers are reading.
Yea, I know nothing about HMO. He could be better than Aganga, for all we know. I only said I don't trust people who conduct their lives like him.
Lol. Yea, I only said what I'd do if it were up to me. I'm not one of THEM, so it's not. I'm one of the masses, but I'm allowed to muse randomly and speak my thoughts aloud, am I not? You're taking this too seriously.
How do you know that I am taking this too seriously? How do you know that I am taking it seriously at all?
But if they're looking for the best (they say Tinubu is good at headhunting the best), I'd personally nominate Aganga. And not that I'd trust someone who hyphenates his father's first name to the last to form a compound so everyone would know whose son he is without asking. But that's just me.
Since you said that he is the best (according to you) and you've told us what you will do, simply create a political party and nominate him for the governorship position and we'll all see how he will win and perform.
JuanDeDios: Isn't Ambode from Osun or something? Aganga was nominated to the federal cabinet from Lagos. What's not in doubt is his brilliance. I followed the news closely in the Jonathan era and he was easily the best minister even though Akin Adesina got all the media spotlight. Arthur-Worrey used to hold important post in Tinubu's Lagos, so I'm a bit bit surprised. Who's HMO?
Aganga is from Edo and Fashola protested against his appointment
Fola Arthur-Worrey was solicitor-general and then chairman of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund.
Hakeem Muri-Okunola (HMO) is thr son of Justice Muri Okunola. He was the head of the civil service of Lagos State before Tinubu appointed him as his principal private secretary when he became president.
There have been rumours for many years that HMO will be the next governor of Lagos.
'Not my father': Miss SA finalist Chidimma Adetshina dispels rumours following viral video
⚫️ Miss SA hopeful Chidimma Adetshina has denied any connection to an unidentified man interviewed in viral clip from the Ben Stesh podcast.
⚫️ The interview extract featured a Nigerian man that was mistaken for her father speaking about his time in the UK where he met his South African wife.
⚫️ Kenny Kunene, in his capacity as the deputy president of the Patriotic Alliance, said the party was exploring its legal options to determine Adetshina's citizenship.
Miss South Africa 2024 finalist Chidimma Adetshina who has been at the center of controversy, clarified that her father was not the person featured in the widely circulated clip from an interview on the Ben Stesh podcast.
"It has been brought to my attention that there is an alleged interview going around about my father. The individual in question, claiming and impersonating to be my dad, is not my father," she wrote on social media.
The snippet has added fuel to the ongoing frenzy about the top 11 finalist's eligibility to participate in the pageant because of her Nigerian father and South African mother's Mozambican descent.
In the interview, the unknown man stated he was a Nigerian man with a South African wife whom he met in the United Kingdom.
He said they first came to South Africa for the World Cup in 2010 and left a few weeks later before returning to the country in 2013 and tying the knot with his wife in the same year. The man also said he lived in the country for 10 years, without disclosing the years, and had children who lived in South Africa.
Several people who had heard the clip thinking that they were listening to her father speaking highlighted how his timelines went against what Adetshina shared with Sowetan's SMag and the Miss South Africa Organisation about herself and her parents.
She told the publication that her parents met in Johannesburg in the late 1990s and settled in Pimville, Soweto, at the maternal grandmother's home. The 23-year-old was also born at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in the early 2000s.
Addressing the matter related to Adetshina's citizenship, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Nzuza said South African citizenship was obtained by birth, descent or naturalisation earlier this week.
Per the government, one automatically qualified for citizenship if they were born in South Africa to at least one parent who was a South African citizen or South African permanent residency holder and if they were adopted by a South African citizen.
Weighing in on the matter again on Wednesday evening interview with Robert Marawa on 947, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie said while he was still waiting for all the facts, no foreign nationals should participate in the Miss South Africa pageant.
"I hold the view that no Nigerian, no Zimbabwean, no Italian and no American should become Miss South Africa," he said.
"Why? There's Miss World for those things, and there's Miss Universe for those things, but Miss South Africa is an ambassador of the country, a person who will export our culture and way of life to the world, a person who will go and make sure people want to visit the country."
Meanwhile, Kenny Kunene, deputy president of McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance, said the party was considering its options to establish Adetshina's citizenship.
"As the Patriotic Alliance, we are therefore pursuing legal avenues to get to the bottom of this matter, including Adetshina's participation, if necessary," Kunene said.
Some Nigerian athletes were disqualified from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics because Nigerian officials failed to ensure that they underwent the minimum required drug tests.
Nigeria had been put in category A in the drug testing schedule and this meant that athletes from Nigeria had to meet certain criteria. Specifically, an athlete from a ‘Category A’ country must undergo at least three no-notice out-of-competition tests (urine and blood) conducted no less than 3 weeks apart in the 10 months leading up to a major event. Only then do they become eligible to represent their national team at the World Athletics Championships or the Olympic Games. Nigerian officials failed to inform the athletes or ensure that they were tested.
Consequently Knowledge Omovoh, Ruth Usoro, Favor Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, Glory Patrick, Yinka Ajayi, Tima Godbless, Chidi Okezie, Chioma Onyekwere and Annette Echikunwoke could not participate in the games.
This is what a South African tweeted last week.
Kwena Molekwa @Miz_Ruraltarain
She was set to represent NIGERIA in 2020 Olympics but Her Name Annette Nneka Echikunwoke betrayed her and was disqualified along tribal lines with nine other athletes, The Nigerian Athletic Federation claimed she didn't meet the requirements and omitted her name.
This year 2024, she changed her allegiance to the United States to compete at Paris
Now, she made history for herself, becoming the first woman in America to win an Olympic silver medals in the women's hammer throw. A country so divided along tribal lines can not make headway. Nigerians want to unite in South Africa while tribalism kills their rotten country.
This video went viral in Nigeria during the End Bad Governance Protests. It showed some people eating and drinking. They were speaking in Igbo Language and they said that they were not joining the protest and this (eating and drinking) was their own form of protest.
The video also went viral in South Africa days later. Some South Africans claimed that the video showed Nigerians in South Africa talking about the Miss SA contest and saying that they would protest if Chidimma Adetshina did not win the pageant.
Footage does not show Nigerians planning protest in support of Miss SA contestant
AFP Nigeria / AFP South Africa Thu, August 8, 2024
With only days to go until the crowning of Miss South Africa 2024, much of the talk leading up to the final has centred on the eligibility of Chidimma Adetshina, a contestant who was born to parents from Nigeria and Mozambique. On social media, a video circulated with a claim that it showed a group of Nigerians in South Africa making plans to stage a protest if Adetshina was disqualified. But this is false; the footage is unrelated and shows a group of men speaking in Igbo about demonstrations in Nigeria against President Bola Tinubu and his government. “Nigerians in South Africa say that they are planning to protest and fight if their Nigerian Chidina (sic) is disqualified from entering Miss South Africa pageant, even if it means through blood and sweat,” reads an X post published with a video on July 31, 2024.
The footage, taken at night, shows a group of men, some in West African attire, preparing to have a big meal. A man addresses the group in Igbo and says the word “protest” several times in the short clip.
The post’s caption also claims the men said they had the backing of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) — a radical leftist party which won 39 parliamentary seats in the South African presidential elections held on May 29, 2024.
The EFF is often associated with immigration issues because of its favourable stance on pan-Africanism and dismantling borders on the continent.
The party condemned “afrophobic attacks” against Adetshina but it did not announce any support for such a protest
Unrelated footage
AFP Fact Check’s Nigeria correspondent confirmed the men in the video are speaking Igbo and sarcastically lauding Tinubu’s leadership.
“We are protesting against the leadership of Tinubu. We are having our protest here. Protest of one person, one full chicken. His leadership favours us. We Igbos say Tinubu’s leadership is good…The highest protest you can ever see.”
There is no mention in the video of either the Miss South Africa beauty contest or Adetshina.
Igbo people are primarily from southeastern Nigeria and are traditionally subsistence farmers
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – a separatist group pushing for independence in Nigeria’s southeast region – warned Igbo people on July 31, 2024, against joining anti-Tinubu protests planned for August, not as a show of support for the president but rather to further their calls for a referendum on secession from the country.
Nigerian security forces cracked down on rallies spurred by economic hardship after thousands of people began taking to the streets on August 1 to protest government policies and the high cost of living.
Pageant controversy
As reported by AFP, Adetshina, 23, who was due to compete in the Miss South Africa finals this weekend, suffered a torrent of online abuse over her Nigerian heritage.
She previously told local media she was born in Soweto to a Nigerian father and a South African mother of Mozambican descent.
Her participation in the pageant stoked anti-foreigner sentiment in the nation, which has witnessed violent, and at times deadly, attacks on immigrants in the past.
On August 7, the pageant was thrown into further turmoil when the government accused Adetshina’s mother of fraud and identity theft.
An investigation into her citizenship by the Home Affairs ministry uncovered “prima facie indications” that Adetshina’s mother might have committed fraud and stolen the identity of a South African woman after the Miss SA hopeful was born, the ministry said.
“Reasons exist to believe that fraud and identity theft may have been committed by the person recorded in Home Affairs records as Chidimma Adetshina’s mother,” said Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber.
The ministry said it was obtaining legal advice on the implications for Adetshina’s citizenship, adding the contestant did not participate in the alleged unlawful actions as she was an infant at the time.
A day later, Adetshina announced her withdrawal from the competition.
“I have made the difficult decision to withdraw myself from the competition for the safety of my family and I,” she wrote on Instagram.
Today, Governor @jidesanwoolu received his predecessor in office, HE @AkinwunmiAmbode who came on a courtesy visit. The two leaders held a deep conversation around the development of Lagos State, her economic trajectory and position as socio-political stabiliser in the sub region. Mr. Governor continues to receive support and encouragement of well meaning Lagosians and Nigerians on the way he’s been handling the different vertical of development, including security, economy, culture and tourism.
Today, I welcomed my brother and predecessor, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, back to Lagos House on a courtesy visit.
Our conversation centred around the future of Lagos and building on the solid foundation already in place. I value his perspective as we all work together to ensure that Lagos remains on the path of growth and development.
Politics › Re: Akinwumi Ambode Visits Babajide Sanwo-Olu At Lagos House, Ikeja by naptu2(op): 9:28pm On Aug 13, 2024
You didn't answer the question, how do you know why he hyphenated his name?
