westlius:
I bear West by name and am proud to b from Rivers state, Kalabari tribe, Such name makes some1 identity ur hometown easily. And is unique.
Any West u hear is from a particular tribe in Rivers state

Afam4eva:

Those name are common specifically with Ijaw people of Rivers and Bayelsa state.

Those names came with colonialism. Some ethnic groups tend to romanticize the colonialist more than others.

Iamgrey5:
Didn't you see Cslabar in my list?

Exmilitant:
Go and ask the people of okujagu, amadi ama, okuchiri etc.

Iamgrey5:
What were Bini trading with Europeans in 1480?

MelesZenawi:

Mr face yorubalaand.

history here is personal and relative and not ur nigeria

Exmilitant:
Go and ask the people of okujagu, amadi ama, okuchiri etc.

etibaba:
Rivers and Bayelsa state have really funny names and surnames sha. Heineken, lyon, Manager, Suffernomore, Inspector, Advantage, not forgetting the chairman of a political party "Secondus".

stonemasonn:
English I guess.

MrOjay1:



i have always thought it was the yorubas(the ones living in Lagos) that first came in contact with the Europeans.

And the Europeans also lived long in YorubaLand(Lagos) before permeating other regions.

They stayed long enough in Lagos to establish the first mission school(Badagry and CMS)...so why weren't their surnames influenced?

MrOjay1:



i have always thought it was the yorubas(the ones living in Lagos) that first came in contact with the Europeans.

And the Europeans also lived long in YorubaLand(Lagos) before permeating other regions.

They stayed long enough in Lagos to establish the first mission school(Badagry and CMS)...so why weren't their surnames influenced?

AreaFada2:

Pepper, Benin cloth, ivory, etc and of course they Brought European goods. Europeans were shown in bronze castings back then. Benin way of documenting things.

At that point Europeans had twin motives in Africa : Trade and missionary work. The foundation of West Africa's oldest cathedral, the Holy Aruosa Cathedral dated from 1470s

The Americas (North, Caribbean and South) were not even discovered yet, so no slave trade yet.

deepwater:


Oil ke?
When was oil discovered?
There are talking about things that happened when human trade was in vogue
Oil was just yesterday na

Allen102:
Which Okrika people speak igbo?

Deborah98:
Following, noticed Same too

etibaba:
Rivers and Bayelsa state have really funny names and surnames sha. Heineken, lyon, Manager, Suffernomore, Inspector, Advantage, not forgetting the chairman of a political party "Secondus".

MrOjay1:







Such as , Taylor, William's, George and
Silva and
i have always thought it was the yorubas(the ones living in Lagos) that first came in contact with the Europeans.

And the Europeans also lived long in YorubaLand(Lagos) before permeating other regions.

They stayed long enough in Lagos to establish the first mission school(Badagry and CMS)...so why weren't their surnames influenced?

MrOjay1:



i have always thought it was the yorubas(the ones living in Lagos) that first came in contact with the Europeans.

And the Europeans also lived long in YorubaLand(Lagos) before permeating other regions.

They stayed long enough in Lagos to establish the first mission school(Badagry and CMS)...so why weren't their surnames influenced?

Esji80:
Ok, but slave trade was abolished since early .18th Century now

Iamgrey5:
History that goes against Logic

Why did you think Calabar was selected as the capital of the old Southern Nigeria ahead of other cities.

MelesZenawi:


You and this your fictitious southern nigeria...I tire.

What is logical is not always right.

etibaba:
Rivers and Bayelsa state have really funny names and surnames sha. Heineken, lyon, Manager, Suffernomore, Inspector, Advantage, not forgetting the chairman of a political party "Secondus".

oneeast3:


So how come it is English, but you said Portuguese were in the Niger delta much earlier than British. Keep deceiving yourself

stonemasonn:
bro the Portuguese were the earliest explorers in our coastline take it to the bank. The English only came when the Portuguese had done all the dirty work.

oneeast3:
Europeans came to Onitsha and settled down long before going to Niger Delta. Europeans established so many premier colleges in Onitsha like DMGS, CKC, CRK, etc, before even looking to the direction of Rivers state, but it didn't make the Onitsha people that started having contacts with Europeans way back in 1500AD to threw away their origin.

Even the oldest missions in the old eastern region comprising of Rivers state were established by the British in Onitsha. It proves another point that they settled more in Onitsha than anywhere in the present day Niger delta, but still yet the people the British met in Onitsha never threw away their origin.

Iamgrey5:
How can you keep saying this nonsense with confidence?

How can they leave behind their first site of civilization to journey into an unknown place?

These are the oldest schools in Nigeria by the way..

(1) Baptist Academy, Lagos : 1855
(2) CMS Grammar School, Lagos: 1859
(3) Methodist Boys High School, Lagos : 1878
(4) Methodist Girls High School, Lagos : 1879
(5) Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar: 1895
(6) Saint Annes School, Ibadan : 1896

ENIF:
This is not true, the first University graduate in Nigeria is from warri (Dom Domingo) a prince( later was a king) who schooled in Portugal from 1600 to 1611 and married a Portuguesse. I think they were easily westernized that's why their names changed. They don't have deep cultural heritage.