There was no country called Nigeria, before 1897. Therefore, it is exactly 125 years ago that the name “Nigeria” was coined by Miss Flora Louise Shaw, a British correspondent, who later got married to Lord Lugard..
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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called for the scrapping of the name, ‘Nigeria’.
HURIWA called on the National Assembly to consider a new name for the country in its proposed Construction amendment.
The group claims the name has no root in the country since it was given by a white lady who came all the way from England to visit her boyfriend and along the line coined the name.
Recall that a British journalist and writer, Flora Louise Shaw, popularly known as Lady Lugard, is credited with having coined the name “Nigeria” in 1897.
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, noted that the name is one of the major reasons some people are referring to Nigeria as a zoo.
Jeremiad of Northern Nigeria
Thu Dec 31 2020
Since the flowering of portmanteau word ‘Niger Area to Nigeria’, by Flora Louise Shaw fondly called Lady Lugard, Northern enclave is a land of striking historicism, economy, scholarship and distinct linguistic background. North is like any other region in the global chronicle with pros and cons that require imperative revivalism.
It’s sad events of six decades of Nigeria’s sovereignty for a realm that produces the good, the bad and the ugly of 10 presidents out of 16 presidents in the history of the most populous black nation on earth. Hitherto, Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto and Samuel Akintola were killed brutally in 1966 military coup by the bigotry army.