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“I Had A Divine Encounter With God”-Former Belinda Effah reveals reason she changed her name

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Nollywood actress, Grace-Charis Bassey formerly known as Belinda Effah has revealed the reason she changed her name to Grace.

The Cross River State born revealed that her encounter with God made her change her name. She said this in a press conference held on the set of the “Nollywood Queens” show.

Belinda Effah

 

 

She said,
“I had to change my name and the only thing that can make me change my name will be the most supreme being which is God.

A lot of people will not understand that. So I don’t bother to explain to people when they ask me why. On the 15th of August last year. I had a divine encounter with God to change my name to Grace. Nobody changed my name, God did.”

Belinda Effah

 

She continued,

“A couple of years ago, I wanted to change my name when I found out that I could not really grasp the meaning of my name. Some people said it meant ‘beauty’ some other people said it meant ‘beautiful serpent’.

So I was caught in between not knowing what the right meaning is and I wasn’t quite comfortable with that. Also, Belinda was not the name my parents gave to me.

My birth name is Uyu.” “I came across Belinda in secondary school, when my brother came up with the idea of changing my name and my sisters’ names because we were all bearing native names. He came up with different names and asked us to pick.

Funny enough, I picked Melinda but I didn’t like the name because people started calling me Mirinda in school. So I decided to just go on with Belinda because they could not twist it to something funny like Mirinda. I didn’t check the meaning, I was just carried away because it sounded cool and funky.”

 

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