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Culture / Re: Origin Of The Name Bello?! by bellolwl62(m): 8:57am On Oct 02, 2017
"Few people realize that “Bello” is Nigeria’s most universal “ethnic” name. Fewer still give a thought to how that came to be. By “ethnic” name, I mean a name that isn’t derived from universal religions like Christianity or Islam, which most Nigerians profess and practice, and that isn’t a Western ethnic name introduced to us through colonialism.
Bello is a Nigerian Fulani name that has, over the years, lost its ethnic rootedness. It is the only name that is borne either as a first name or a last name in all Nigerian geo-cultural groups, except in the former Eastern Region, that is, Igboland and southern minorities, minus Edo State (who doesn’t know the Bello-Osagie family?).
If we go by Nigeria’s contemporary geo-political categories, it’s only in the southeast and in the south-south (with the exception of Edo) that you may not find a native Bello. (There are three Bellos among Nigeria’s current governors, and at least one of them has no drop of Fulani blood in him). Essentially, of Nigeria’s 36 states, only 10 states don’t have a native Bello. No other “ethnic” name even comes close to this onomastic cosmopolitanism. (Onomastics is the study of names)"

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Travel / Re: First Aid Group Members Die In Accident On Their Way To Kaduna From Kano (Pics by bellolwl62(m): 12:18pm On Oct 24, 2016
I know them in person they are from my home town , it is a great lost they left a vacant which can hardly be fill. May Allah accept their Shahadat and make Jannat their final abode

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