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Choosing the right names for twins can be a very difficult task, especially if you were expecting just one child. But don’t panic. That’s why we are here for you. Here’s a list of names you can consider giving your twins:

1. Goodness and Mercy

Don’t you want them to follow you all the days of your life?

2. Terms and Condition

This will make it easier for them to get jobs. How? Every where they go, they will certainly see this: “Terms and Condition apply.” Get it?

3. Praise and Worship

Give them a spiritual name, please.

4. Yes and Amen

You can even turn it to prayers. Yes? Amen.

5. Yesterday and Today.

This is for twins that were born on separate days. For example, if one was born by 11:59 the day before and the second was born by 12:10 the day after.

6. Tithe and Offering

In case you get fed up with them and want to return them back to God.

7. Front and Back

This is for parents who want their children to go into tech. One will go into frontend, the other will go into backend.

8. Pause and Play

Use the name to dictate which one will be serious and which one will be playful.

9. Victor and Victoria

Let it not be like we didn’t add the names you know.

10. Paul and Pauline

You know how this goes.

11. Aki and Paw-Paw

Are they really twins if they don’t answer the name of the OG twins? Think about it.

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Kunle Ologunro

October 24, 2021

Inside Life

Humour, names, twins
Are you a twin in Nigeria? Chances are that you have heard so many things that you just want people to stop talking.

Here’s a list of things you are probably tired of hearing.

1) “You aren’t identical so you aren’t really twins.”

Sorry ohh.

2) “Kehinde sent Taiwo to see the world.”

Pls stop.

3) “Who is more stubborn?”

You.

4) “Can you read each other’s mind?”

Arrrgh.

5) “If you fall sick does your twin also fall sick?”

How??

6) “You people should thank Mary Slessor.”

Really?

7) “Will you marry on the same day?”

How should we know?

8) “I want to be a twin too.”

Okay ohhh.

9) “Do you people wear the same cloth?”

No.

10) “Kehinde is the senior.”

“Explain your thinking, if any.”

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Hassan Yahaya

March 9, 2020

Inside Life

Nigeria, twins
Remember Ava and Alexis MCclure, who are basically the cutest twins on the internet?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BME5E7JAnL_/

And the hilarious memes people made out of their videos?

https://twitter.com/I_am_doxa/status/793775923581620224

Well, these adorable twins have taken their cuteness from Youtube to the runway, when they walked for children’s clothing line, Jordan, at the New York Fashion Week.

https://twitter.com/fardore/status/832036824012955648

Of course, they had to be extra cute while at it, Alexis didn’t even want to leave the runway.

Awwww! We hope to see the twins in more amazing projects in the future!

Maryam

February 17, 2017

Gist

Fashion, mccclure twins, runway, twins
On February 1, right when the world was celebrating the end of the tiresomely long January, the one and only Queen Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter announced her pregnancy with twins on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BP-rXUGBPJa/?taken-by=beyonce

It was only normal for this news to shake the internet by all its edges.

How Beyonce will perform at Coachella.

Beyoncé at coachella https://t.co/FNZOZlKEdu
— beyonka, mother of three (@beyheelss) February 1, 2017

Can she adopt us please?

I move to adopt nathantriska's comment as my position on the subject of Beyonce's pregnancy. pic.twitter.com/Y6Htl1K76f
— Big Daddy Jay (@0lajide) February 1, 2017

Some people have already started fazing the babies o.

I know you're busy being perfect and everything but can I just say that Jola is a great name for one of the babies @Beyonce
— Jola (@Jollz) February 1, 2017

https://twitter.com/zikokomag/status/826870473812275200

Mummy B is just a Yoruba woman lowkey.

Beyoncé acts so Nigerian and Yoruba. Literally read her IG post as "ewa bawa yo o, oluwa ti fun wa ni ibukun meji".
— Tobi (@TheTobiSmith) February 1, 2017

Nigerians are not loyal sha.

https://twitter.com/Kingwole/status/826870529785208832

And her new name will be BEYTWICE.

https://twitter.com/Mfmkzi/status/826870529072197632

How beyonce slays the world every time.

https://twitter.com/kingsleyyy/status/826874537136394240

We’ve already named the twins Taiye and Kehinde, you’re welcome mummy B.

https://twitter.com/Christiana1987/status/826873956900614153

https://twitter.com/abcdavidb/status/826872012794642432

Maryam

February 2, 2017

Gist

babies, Beyonce, pregnancy, twins
It was no surprise this video of these seriously adorable girls, Alexis and Ava, went viral- everyone loves twins.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BME5E7JAnL_/?taken-by=mccluretwins

People even made memes out of their pictures, but that’s not why we’re here.

https://twitter.com/I_am_doxa/status/793775923581620224

These beautiful 3-year-olds are the children of Justin and Aminat McClure, who happens to be a beautiful Nigerian woman.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMKvziYD8_P/?taken-by=mccluretwins

It’s hard to get over how cute they are.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMumGfXg7Db/?taken-by=mccluretwins

When their mother told them they were twins.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL_z7q6Al_C/?taken-by=mccluretwins

When they were dragging their daddy for eating all their food.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLwnLB_j521/?taken-by=mccluretwins

When they wished him happy birthday.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLbx9BYgASF/?taken-by=mccluretwins

When they were doing amebo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMZT1XGgC9L/?taken-by=mccluretwins

Maryam

November 17, 2016

Gist

biracial, Children, twins
1. When people don’t believe you’re actually twins because you’re not identical.

Hian! Identical twins are not the only kind.
2. When people constantly refer to you as “the twins”.

We have names sha.
3. How people stare whenever you go out with your identical twin.

You can’t tell us you’ve never seen twins before.
4. The stupid questions:

https://twitter.com/El_swaGz/status/637774481923145729

5. When you first learnt about Mary Slessor.

God bless you, ma.
6. Your face, whenever someone calls your mother “Iya Ibeji”.

Hian!
7. When someone wishes your twin “happy birthday” and forgets you.

Ouch!
8. When your parents still try to buy you guys the same outfit.

You people should behave.
9. When you just let people call you your twin’s name because you don’t have energy to correct them.

I can’t, abeg.
10. When someone you’ve never met starts acting familiar and you realize it’s your twin they know.

Well, this is awkward.
11. You and your twin, whenever someone makes a P-Square joke.

Do better.
12. How you feel when you play tricks on people and they actually chop it:

Winning!
13. Whenever people ask “who is older?” and “…by how many minutes?”

How e take concern you?
14. Whenever someone tells you “I wish I had a twin.”

Why are you now telling me? Am I Jesus?
15. When you’re trying to convince someone that you’re you and not your twin.

STRESS!
16. When you do something bad and sharply blame it on your twin.

What are you now there for?
17. How you feel when even your own parents confuse you for your twin.

No be you born us again? Co-written by Zikoko Contributor, Obeyaa Atta

Daniel Orubo

June 7, 2016

Oldies

Africa, Ibeji, Nigeria, Twin, twins
This post isn’t here to bore you about how Nigeria has the highest rate of twins in the world. No, seriously, it’s not news.
It’s about a video that will definitely leave you in shock.

According to these British twin vloggers, there’s a “little place called Yoruba” which has the highest birth rate of twins in the world. Wait what?

After trying to explain how/why the Yoruba people name twins and pronouncing the twin names, Taiye and Kehinde, in the most ridiculous manner…

They ended the video with some “Yorubian folk music”.

What’s all this yama yama?

When foreigners try to explain African culture but fail at it.

In all honesty, they almost had it sha. But their reference to Yoruba as a place and description of Orlando Owoh’s music as “Yorubian folk music” is just unbearable.

Watch the full video here.

Maryam

June 6, 2016

Gist

hilarious, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerians, ridiculous, twins, yoruba
Well Steve Harvey has done it again. He gave two beautiful ladies, Keh and Tai, the opportunity to find love by getting them to go on a date with two guys.

But things didn’t click for them, because it wasn’t what the twins were expecting.
The ladies, whose real names are Kehinde and Taiwo, who consider looks an important criterium in whom they date didn’t take the guys seriously.

But it was their loss because, it turned out that both guys were actually hot and had really successful careers to boot, with one being a pro-footballer turned top real estate professional and the other a principal consultant at a tech company.
The men met the physical requirements of the twins, but their looks were simply altered to make them look geeky.

Watch the outtakes below. It’s even more ridiculous!

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chioma

February 17, 2016

Gist

kehinde, physical appearance, steve harvey, superficial, taiwo, twins