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Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by mkoabiola: 12:18pm On Jun 06, 2013
Good job

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Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by blink(f): 1:10pm On Jun 06, 2013
sumboty: that my guy is simple because those a account of people living there, population censors is mainly about were u come frm, meaning ur state of origin. 75% of people living in Lagos are not origin of Lagos. because the last 2006 censor exercise i was in lagos bt never register my name in Lagos it was register to my state which i came from. hope u understand nw why Lagos is second on the list.


You are wrong population census is about you been counted where you reside not necesary you travel to your home state
Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by TheGeneral1(m): 2:49pm On Jun 06, 2013
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Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by pazienza(m): 7:03pm On Jun 06, 2013
Ndjones: No there's a mistake there. Anambra and Imo where created in 1976 from the East Central State. which one is Anambra created from old anambra State?

He is right. The current anambra was created from the old anambra state,which was made made up of current anambra,enugu and a larger part of ebonyi states. The capital of old anambra state was Enugu city and not awka.

Old anambra and old imo both were gotten from the east central state.
Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by somegirl1: 1:32am On Jun 07, 2013
Too many south eastern states. One or two states would suffice.
Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by cheruv: 9:04am On Jun 07, 2013
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Abagworo:

That's part of the errors I noticed. Adamawa and Taraba were created out of the old Gongola same way Enugu and Anambra were from old Anambra. Imo and Abia were created out of the old Imo State while Delta and Edo were created out of the old Bendel State etc.
[quote][/quote]some states should not have been created at all while some like bendel should ve been split into edo,delta and anioma
Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by VMLTDSMS(m): 8:26pm On Oct 25, 2013
Naming Nigeria - Flora Shaw and Sexism
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Flora Shaw and Lord Lugard

By Robert Ojediran

It is an unfortunate consequence of our innate sexism as a people that when we hear the name Flora Shaw as the lady who named Nigeria, we see not a person - with a life, with achievements and with faults - rather we see the mistress/ wife to be of Lord Frederick Lugard. Ask any Nigerian and this is probably the only fact they know about Miss Shaw.

Our culture is one where a woman’s legacy is not a factor of her character or her achievements but simply by who her husband is. So when we think of the woman who named our country we cannot think beyond an ordinary mistress whispering ideas to her man in bed because that is her domain of control and of course it the man who carries out the act of the naming because only men can do important things. This could not be further from the truth.

Nigeria was named by Flora Shaw but not as a consequence her relationship with Lord Lugard as most people believe. She wrote an article in the London Times of January 8, 1897 suggesting that the territory around the Niger, which was then controlled by the Royal Niger Company, should be called Nigeria.

At the time she was the colonial editor of the London times in the 1890s. She had a column titled the colony, it appeared weekly. She wrote many articles about the acquisition of territories in Africa in the 1900’s and was considered as an expert on the issue. Her achievement in becoming the colonial editor of the London times was quite extraordinary. The paper was the leading voice at the time and widely regarded as one of the best.


Flora Shaw was unique in the way she wrote particularly about economic matters affecting the African Colonies. To be a serious female journalist in those times in a field dominated by male journalists meant she had to be really good at what she did. It was for these reasons that when proposed the name Nigeria people considered it seriously.

The Royal Niger Company was instrumental in bringing the British Protectorate to the area we now know as Nigeria. Flora by virtue of her job knew on a personal basis all the major players involved in the extending of the British Empire to this region and she came to think of herself as a critical player. Her credibility as writer and economic/political commentator was without question. There have been some suggestions that by virtue of her feminine charms she was able to develop relationships with empire builders like Lord Lugard and Dr Joseph Chamberlain that afforded her in-depth knowledge which she used to write her articles. Her letters would suggest that she was no leech though as she also advised them on a range of issues given her knowledge of the area.

Now this is not to say that Miss Shaw was perfect. Many of her ideologies as represented in her articles were imperialist, she was a firm crusader for the British Empire. She saw Africans as inferior, uncivilised beings compared to the British. She believed colonialism was a benevolent construct of the empire, spreading good wherever it went and incapable of evil. She also put forward as a trial name Goldiesia, named after the head of the Royal Niger Company, Goldie. In the manner which Rhodesia was named after Dr Cecil Rhodes.

The main reason I even decided to find out this much about Flora Shaw and rid myself of complicity in the accusations of the first paragraph is because I wondered, if she was just an irrelevant mistress then why didn’t our founding fathers attempt to change the name at our independence? The answer is they did. The name Nigeria Songhai was considered, a tribute to the famous ancient Songhai Empire in Western Sudan. The name Nigeria was practical for a myriad of reasons but in the end most agreed that the argument put forward by Flora Shaw was good enough to retain the name. The river Niger, the great river of Africa, with its over 20 tributaries and channels touched the lives of Nigerians one way or another thus we all feel connected by it.

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/04/naming-nigeria-flora-shaw-and-sexism.html

Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by tpiadotcom: 9:19pm On May 16, 2015
anonimi:
Good job.
It could be better presented as a user-friendly showing how the states were gradually divided from the original three/four regions.
Cheers.

true.

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Re: Nigeria's States And The Dates Of Their Creation. by tpiadotcom: 4:59pm On Nov 25, 2015
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