hammer567:
Is it only Adetokunbo they spelt in Greek ALPHABET?


Giannis Nko?


Sometimes, i just want to be quiet and laughing at you bigots.

chiagozien:
Because Lagos is no man's land

Pierohandsome:
People born outside, and never have any link with Nigeria aside that maybe one of their parents or Grand parents are Nigerians , will still return back to do something for the country.

But the ones with full Nigeria affiliation will not do anything , rather they buy multiple cars and post on Instagram, bad mouthing Nigeria and be bragging up and down.

Goodwill sometimes stems from our environment rather than blood

ElSudani:


And what exactly does this "Αντετοκούνμπο" mean in Greek?
That woman is toxic, only God knows what the poor man went through in her hands. No wonder he is dead.

Christlike01:


Attached receipt is one of the reasons why you guys are actually running away from your own identity and heritage. But the truth remains what it is,the truth;Lagos has nothing in common with some primitive bushmen whose ancestors were sold in droves into the slavery by their neighbors!

Lagos is YORUBA LAND !

iReddington:

Igbo women are the most educated and empowered in Nigeria? Lmao!! Okay. 🤡

The ones that can't inherit property and guzzle corpse water like a refreshing bottle drink.

Mccullum:


It's you that is crying on their behalf, his mother felt Igbo language is suffering and feeling insecure for its survival. That's why he advised her son for this project.

His father doesn't influence him to do that for Yoruba language, he knows that Yoruba is beyond Nigeria, hence there's no threat for Yoruba language till the world end. Such initiative is inconsequential to Yoruba language in anywhere in Nigeria.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Igbo women don't drink any corpse water.

It's only ancestral land properties they don't inherit.

Brendaniel:
Some people are highly disappointed, after bragging with him on ethnic grounds on the other thread, the guy is even focusing on Igbo heritage.

I know some of them will come and call him bastard as usual....

MrEverest:


I couldn't find his father's name in his name o, except his father is actually a Greek. The name he bears is 100% Greek

Should we give you a rope

Mandate2023:
Dis 1 no build health centre or proper sch na nonsense he dey build.....that place will soon become baby factory

sukkot:
Truth of the matter is that Gianni’s is a simp and a mamas boy but you can’t blame him for that because he is dealing with a battle axe called a mother. What you people need to understand is that Igbo people are very cohesive in culture and yet that culture does not allow the women to have any kind of power and yet they are tied to this culture so within this dynamics are the bull headed strong feminists who still want to be with men but are not willing to submit to being less than in the Igbo culture. You see these Igbo women who seek out Yoruba men to marry are feminists strong bull headed battle axe who are willing to break culture protocol to get what they want. To them feminists is greater than culture and being that they are not lesbian , they seek men from other cultures where they can dominate and be the battle axe that they are. So when you see an Igbo woman marrying a Yoruba man , that’s a battle axe who purposely chose that type of union because she wants dominance and the Igbo culture does not offer dominance. And if you look at the faces of these women they almost look like men. Look at aketis wife’s face or gbadebo mum or Gianni’s mum ? These are battle axes. And so a male child has no chance when even their fathers had no chance against these battle axes. Aketis son and gbarebo and Gianni’s ? All under the thumb of the battle axe feminist. They stood no chance against these dragons. And yet the battle axe loves her culture because she is from it but she just does not want to be subjugated to the fact that she has no power under it but she would port to where she has power but will still impose her culture in this new environment as the boss lady. This why gbarebo and giannis have been beaten into igbodom by the feminist battle axe who ported to a side where she can exude her feminist and cultural power over her spawns

Namaster:
You can ALWAYS count on black people to be especially DUMB. It doesn't matter how wealthy or famous they get.

Imagine establishing an Igbo Language learning school IN Lagos. A language that kids probably ONLY speak at home where they'd already learn it anyway.

It's an EXTREMELY dumb initiative.

Kids don't need to learn a language that is NOT the official language of any country. A language that's spoken by only about 40/50 million people.

Rather, a talent scouting agency or coding school or even trade school would have been a better project.

casualobserver:


the man died in 2017, Giannis was already an adult of 22yrs so stop trying to redefine the narrative as you people always do. the video clearly states that this was when they were kids.

Mandate2023:
Dis 1 no build health centre or proper sch na nonsense he dey build.....that place will soon become baby factory

Princedapace:


As small and tiny as poland is, they teach their kids in their native language. It doesnt matter the size, culture is essential for development and identity. I was shocked to see Estonia, a very small country, smaller than many Nigerian minority ethnic group addressing the world in their native language. Language is power and na why the whites use am very well on u blacks.

africandollar:
I thought his father was Yoruba?

He should speedily change his surname from Adetokunbo to whatever is mother's maiden name was... abi what sort of tomfoolery is this ke? You dey bear Yoruba surname come dey propagate only Igbo language? Why do women like confusing their children like this? You can't even allow the children to do something in the memory of their late father despite all he suffered to bring up these kids with you?

The man don die since and now you are the only one enjoying the wealth of your children yet you are angry when they tried to learn their father's language and preferred them learning yours instead? The man is no longer alive yet you are still competing with him, no be juju be that?

The least you could have done is support them in learning both languages...abi no be one Nigeria again?

flokii:


I guess you won't mind Peter Obi's kids opening school for kids in Anambra to learn Ibibio abi na Efik he (Obi) go marry..

Go through the thread and you'll find where a NLer pointed it out that the guy mentioned in his documentary that his Igbo mom was always frowning whenever they try to speak Yoruba.. I can confirm this bad habit among Igbo women married to our men because I have witnessed several scenarios like that.. Like why will you go and marry from a tribe you can't stand their language and culture?

fregeneh:
thier father is late?

chiagozien:
Yet na your rich brothers dey rush our beautiful ladies.

Konquest:

I want to come in here.

To be brutally honest, Charles Adetokunbo shouldn't have even accepted his children adopting the bastardized family name Antetokoumpo instead of Adetokunbo when the Greek passport folks made that misspelling error. That Antetokoumpo error ought to have been corrected long ago! That name "Antetokoumpo" is a very BIG insult to Yorubas and Africans (because even that name has NO meaning in the Greek language and many Greeks who were interviewed in the media don't know the meaning). African names have meanings. Many Nigerians and Africans in the Diapora proudly rock their Yoruba, Asanti, or Swahili names, so it is sacrilegious to adopt a meaningless name in place of the original Adetokunbo family name.

The name Adetokunbo is a prestigious Yoruba name meaning "A crown brought from across the ocean (or sea)." It is the duty of every father to provide guidance or direction for his family and the mothers too should complement their spouses in a multicultural marriage setting. My BIGGEST wish would be for Thanasis, Giannis, and their two younger brothers living in the U.S. to officially REVERT back to the use of the original family name ADETOKUNBO.

In any event, I'm glad that Charles Adetokunbo who hailed from Abeokuta but lived in Lagos State with his wife and first son, Francis Adetokunbo before their 1991 migration to Greece met and interacted well with the basketball legend Hakeem "the dream" Olajuwon who played for the Houston Rockets, in Texas, and was also the 1994 NBA, MVP just like Giannis became the 3rd ever person in NBA history to win an MVP. Hakeem Olajuwon interacts and trains with Giannis and the rest of his brothers. So, it is hoped that he would learn more about his father's Yoruba folks who number over 55 million people in Africa from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Ivory Coast, with a large Diaspora population of Yorubas in the U.S., UK, Canada, France, Belgium, etc.

Indeed, Giannis has a Yoruba father and an Ibo-speaking mother from the North of Delta State, so he has to gravitate towards both sides and Giannis' mother will do well to introduce her children to her late husband's family so that Giannis and his siblings would get to know their uncles, aunts, and cousins of their father's side of the family.

Last but not least, it wasn't a good PR for her and the family to take the 29-year-old Giannis 'Sina Ugo Adetokunbo to see only her own side of the family in Lagos without connecting with the paternal side. From here on out, there should be all-inclusiveness in embrassing cultural values from both sides of the family tree by the Adetokunbos.

YorubaLord:


I've NEVER seen Yoruba guy running after Igbo women. Na usually the other way.

You dey wonder why... Yoruba guys too premium.

africandollar:


Tey, tey…the poor man didn’t even enjoy their success before he died.

Preferito:
I watched the documentary and I didn't feel good when he said that his mum always frown at them whenever they try to speak Yoruba at home but she was cool with them speaking Igbo. His father is Yoruba while his mother is Igbo. But that doesn't mean that she should shield them from learning their father's culture.

CandidAdmin:


I'm not discriminating.
Antetokounmpo isn't a Nigerian name.

Later learnt it was a greek translation or something.

christejames:
That's so noble of him...



Igbo ga diiii!

casualobserver:


the man died in 2017, Giannis was already an adult of 22yrs so stop trying to redefine the narrative as you people always do. the video clearly states that this was when they were kids.

Brendaniel:
Some people are highly disappointed, after bragging with him on ethnic grounds on the other thread, the guy is even focusing on Igbo heritage.

I know some of them will come and call him bastard as usual....

Brendaniel:
Some people are highly disappointed, after bragging with him on ethnic grounds on the other thread, the guy is even focusing on Igbo heritage.

I know some of them will come and call him bastard as usual....

casualobserver:


watch the video, he said it with his own mouth. His mother would scold him whenever he spoke yoruba. the father tried to get him to speak yoruba but the mother would not allow.

For some reaso. The link is t working just do a search for Gianni’s on Twitter