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i have a friend that bears Peter Pan it makes me remember that movie A MAN CALLED GOD

The Middle Belt and northern minorities should come second. Benue, Taraba, Plateau and Adamawa.

They've very interesting and unique names. On a first glance, one would assume they're non-Nigerians.

Anywhere you go, it's about your miserable life, so people can't discuss about their place and land again. Who feed you a bitter pill from childhood that you think everyone should be sorrowful like you?

slimfit1:
Poor set of imagination only Nigerians think like this. God created the language we speak, terrorist are taking over your land you are talking about funny names try to buy sense if you are not gifted with one pls.

Toruibestate:
If there’s any tribe in Nigeria that takes the crown for having the most unusual, funny, and downright strange names, it has to be the Ijaw people — whether from Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Ondo, Edo, or Akwa Ibom. Especially those from the first three!

I’m from Bayelsa, and honestly, the kind of names you hear among our people will leave you laughing or wondering how they came about. You’ll meet people bearing names like Lifeboat, Emergency, Air, Zinc, and even Table. Believe it or not, I even know someone whose real name is Kitchen!

Now, if you move over to the Rivers Ijaw, especially the Bonny people, their style is purely English — names like Green, Brown, Jumbo, Hart and Fyneface. Then you have the famous surnames from Kalabari like West, Briggs, and Bob-Manuel.

Even among Ijaw politicians, the trend continues — check out names like Heneiken Lokpobiri, James Manager, and Government Ekpemupolo. Tell me which other tribe can compete with that!

But honestly, I’ve told my people before — one day, if you don’t have at least one name that shows the Ijaw in you, people might start questioning if you’re truly Ijaw.

As for me, I’m keeping the culture alive. My two children have proper Ijaw names before their “organized” English names.

My daughter: Olaere Sonia

My son: Ayakpo Richard


@Ditari of Ijaw

Jos people have it

Benue people nko

My daughter: Olaere Sonia

My son: Ayakpo Richard


Sounds like Yoruba names

I agree with you on this,Bayelsa has the most weird names you can think of among the states in Nigeria.e.g are names of people i know...Appealcourt,Liberia,themgotire,passport,whoknowstomorrow,Enugu,Yenagoa,Hotel...all these are names i have heard of.the list is countless.

I know of Mukaila mumuni mufutau......I faint when I heard of Goriolla and idiata!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Go to plateau state and find out something

I recruited a lady in Tudu wada Jos, sometime last two years and guess what her name is ?
NAMPAK FEARGOD.
Sometimes I call her GOD GOD

brain54:
I can't argue with you and the op...

The two are doing competition.

Op what does olaere mean? It doesn't sound like an Ijaw name. It even sounds Yoruba. Also ayakpo!

That of plateau is purely their dialect. Pam is not an English name, it's a native name like most of them.

Are you seriously serious that people answer the bold names please?

Oceanjagaban:
I agree with you on this,Bayelsa has the most weird names you can think of among the states in Nigeria.e.g are names of people i know...Appealcourt,Liberia,themgotire,passport,whoknowstomorrow,Enugu,Yenagoa,Hotel...all these are names i have heard of.the list is countless.

Toruibestate:
Yes Kolokuma.
I'm from the ancestral home of Kolokuma Kingdom that doubles as the ancestral home of all Ijaws.



Agadagba Igbedi.

My father that died last month September 5 was buried on the same land the first Ijaw man lived over 10,000 years ago because our family lands are part of the island .

... and who beget that Ijaw man over 10,000 years ago. Any verifiable written records or just the usual African romanticization of their past.

People just wake up and start manufcturing history because you guys didn't have enough brain power to write things down. Oral tradition has failed african people and they now fantasize about their history which in real sense would have been primitive, backward and dark.

Give it to plateau, Tiv, ijaws, and some parts of Adamawa state.

Can’t argue with the person that mentioned Plateau State. Spent most of my early years there and it had a very calm and serene environment at the time, before them fulani nomads decided to wreak havoc. Anyways, back to the topic…I remember some names that mimic the sound of kitchen utensils clashing, for instance, the traditional ruler of Jos is the Gbong Gwom.

It's really weird and bizarre

Toruibestate:
Yes Kolokuma.
I'm from the ancestral home of Kolokuma Kingdom that doubles as the ancestral home of all Ijaws.



Agadagba Igbedi.

My father that died last month September 5 was buried on the same land the first Ijaw man lived over 10,000 years ago because our family lands are part of the island .

My in-law, I'm Ikwerre but married to an Ijaw woman from kolokuma,opokuma,gbarabiri town,

Toruibestate:
If there’s any tribe in Nigeria that takes the crown for having the most unusual, funny, and downright strange names, it has to be the Ijaw people — whether from Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Ondo, Edo, or Akwa Ibom. Especially those from the first three!

I’m from Bayelsa, and honestly, the kind of names you hear among our people will leave you laughing or wondering how they came about. You’ll meet people bearing names like Lifeboat, Emergency, Air, Zinc, and even Table. Believe it or not, I even know someone whose real name is Kitchen!

Now, if you move over to the Rivers Ijaw, especially the Bonny people, their style is purely English — names like Green, Brown, Jumbo, Hart and Fyneface. Then you have the famous surnames from Kalabari like West, Briggs, and Bob-Manuel.

Even among Ijaw politicians, the trend continues — check out names like Heneiken Lokpobiri, James Manager, and Government Ekpemupolo. Tell me which other tribe can compete with that!

But honestly, I’ve told my people before — one day, if you don’t have at least one name that shows the Ijaw in you, people might start questioning if you’re truly Ijaw.

As for me, I’m keeping the culture alive. My two children have proper Ijaw names before their “organized” English names.

My daughter: Olaere Sonia

My son: Ayakpo Richard


@Ditari of Ijaw

The funniest I ever heard was this girl named Apili. Guess what. That was the short, funkified version, because her name was Appeal-Court.

brain54:
I can't argue with you and the op...

The two are doing competition.

Op what does olaere mean? It doesn't sound like an Ijaw name. It even sounds Yoruba. Also ayakpo!

Vamparous

The funniest and scariest names I ever came across were in Nasarawa state among Mada tribe.

Names like: Gua meaning snake
Bukashi Rabbi house.. others I can't remember now have meanings like Kadon meaning 'drop it'.
Road to the cemetery.


The funniest is that the same fellow is bearing Gua Bukavhi.
I used to call him a snake in rabbit hole.

geezville86:
Can’t argue with the person that mentioned Plateau State. Spent most of my early years there and it had a very calm and serene environment at the time, before them fulani nomads decided to wreak havoc. Anyways, back to the topic…I remember some names that mimic the sound of kitchen utensils clashing, like the traditional ruler of Jos is the Gbong Gwom.

I beg don't killll me with laughter

TLAX:
... and who beget that Ijaw man over 10,000 years ago. Any verifiable written records or just the usual African romanticization of their past.

People just wake up and start manufcturing history because you guys didn't have enough brain power to write things down. Oral tradition has failed african people and they now fantasize about their history which in real sense would have been primitive, backward and dark.

Can you assist me with the writings of the Brits and Germans before Rome?

OneDollarSalary:
I beg don't killll me with laughter

I swear! When I read that!

TLAX:
... and who beget that Ijaw man over 10,000 years ago. Any verifiable written records or just the usual African romanticization of their past.

People just wake up and start manufcturing history because you guys didn't have enough brain power to write things down. Oral tradition has failed african people and they now fantasize about their history which in real sense would have been primitive, backward and dark.

Ijaw left the city of Horus in Egypt, he was of the Horus tribe and by then the people were blacks, not these Europeans that fill there today.
He was a fisherman and he finally settled at Agadagba Igbedi

@op Visit Southern kaduna first then come and review your post

oldguyman:
Are you seriously serious that people answer the bold names please?

I can confirm the Appeal-Court name. They used to call the girl Apili for short.

those bayelsa ppl no suppose follow for Nigeria!

Somebody name na Finecountry!

WTF!

Weird names give to to the South South no contest am.....

One Yoruba name that still baffles me to today is my course mate with the name

AGBOGUNLERI meaning
Carry battle for head
More like wahalaaaaaa is my hobby
The person come short like short put.

One day , she offend one lecturer
The lecturer look her from head to toe
Come talk say
No wonder Dem give you that name
Your battle too much for you to carry.

YoshihideSuga:
The Middle Belt and northern minorities should come second. Benue, Taraba, Plateau and Adamawa.

They've very interesting and unique names. On a first glance, one would assume they're non-Nigerians.

Some languages you will hear there will convince you that you are in Asia or some undiscovered part of the world.

symbianDON:
add Adamawa to the list. My roommate's name was Humpty

Pls tell me his surname was not Dumpty?

AsgardKing:
Have you tried Benue names? Your tongue and pen go first twist. Then your brain go just say, move on... Lol

Leave op nah, hahaha. Then include Plateau names

Daniel058:
Lol every tribe answer such funny names ONLY that they are not translated to English

for example Air ---- IKUKU
LIFEBOAT -----UGBONDU
EMERGENCY ----- MBEREDE




BONUs


NWIGBAKPO------- son Of PEPPER (PEPPER PIKIN)

IGODOMBEKEE ---------- OYIBO KEY

EKPiri -------------- Bedbug

the funny thing about the ijaw is that it is in English so everyone can relate.

Names like Whyte, Green, Black-Duke, George'swill etc