northvietnam:
Change it from

nIGERIA


to



Hades ( go to Luke 16:24)

papaejima1:
From Nigeria to Benueria abi?

Destined2win:
What's the meaning of "benueria'?

papaejima1:

What's the meaning of nigeria?

ogawisdom:
Misplaced priority
Even if Nigeria accepts zoological republic as given by Nnamdi Kanu what matters is security n welfare of citizens

ZeroUnity:
A British man and his bitche were both drunk one night and as they wake up in the morning, the woman said let us name them Nigeria... .

chiagozien:
Why will a white man just come and give you nigeria,and you people are jumping up shouting we are nigerians.why niger area when we have two rivers.why not name you people benueria.

elantraceey:
I've not really thought about this before....

Brooklynsouth:
you already have the name ZOO WHAT EKSE ARE YOU EXPECTING

wingman:
Zoolandia republic

Goodlyhrt:
Lets restructure and term it the United States of Africa

Destined2win:
The name 'Nigeria' was coined by British journalist and the wife of Lord Lugard, Flora Shaw. I may not have a lot of information on the personality of Flora Shaw but Lord Lugard's words showed he has personality issues and is racially prejudiced. Check out his words;

"Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has fomented strife and bloodshed in the
hinterland. I have spent the best part of my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the
natives for whom I have been ready to give my life. But after some 29 years, and after nearly 12
years as Governor here, I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are
the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money
motives of any people I have met.”

As if that were not bad enough, two years later, on September 25th 1918, in a letter to his
colleague Walter H. Lang, Lugard wrote the following: “The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no
ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is
gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he
seeks to attach himself.”

Lugard’s words are utterly reprehensible. They represent the most appalling examples of racial
stereotyping that I have ever seen. Yet he didn’t stop there. In his book titled ‘The Dual Mandate’
(pg. 70) 1926 he wrote the following:

“In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable
person. LACKING IN SELF-CONTROL, DISCIPLINE, AND FORESIGHT. Naturally courageous, and
naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music
and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry. HIS THOUGHTS ARE CONCENTRATED ON THE
EVENTS AND FEELINGS OF THE MOMENT, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the
future, or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European
or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the
State he has reached. Through the ages THE AFRICAN APPEARS TO HAVE EVOLVED NO
ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS CREED, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious
sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a
vague dread of the supernatural . HE LACKS THE POWER OF ORGANIZATION, and is conspicuously
deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. HE LOVES THE DISPLAY OF
POWER, but fails to realize its responsibility… he will work hard with a less incentive than most
races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue… In brief,
the virtues and defects of this race-type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it
is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy…Perhaps the two
traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are HIS LACK OF
APPREHENSION AND HIS LACK OF ABILITY TO VISUALIZE THE FUTURE.”

The fact is the British came here to satisfy their own interest and any offshoot of their being here should be revisited.

Now I tried to find out the motive behind naming this country 'Nigeria' which means 'Niger area'. Some articles I have seen claims that the Latin word 'niger' which means 'black or darkness' is erroneous. That left me wondering, why would a people numbering more than 150m be answering a name they have no solid background of its true meaning or the genuine motives behind its naming ?

Decades after independence, we are yet to define our concept of nationhood, we are yet to make headway even with all the resources at oir disposal. It is either we rebrand the name of our country to reflect the core values which we stand for OR we create our own meaning of what the name 'Nigeria' means. Because as it stands now, that name has no values attached with it only the knowledge that one woman and her husband from far away came and gave us the name.

Destined2win:
Hmmm. I got you thinking. So what do you suggest?

cumbak60:

Nigeria, as its stands now, is a perfect example of what Lord Lugard wrote hundred years ago. Do we have visionary leaders? How has the country fared since independence? The problem of Nigeria is beyond the name....

Jengem:
Animalfarmistan


Bokoharamce

United Animal Kingdom

Monkeyville

orisa37:
NIGERIA is good enough or change to HIY.

nelson16:
Nigeria! Nigeria!! Always treating the symptom while ignoring the disease! What's in a name? Call a rose by any other name and it will smell as sweet! Call Nigeria by any other a name and it will remain...
Don't forget NEPA to PHCN though!