ignis:
Source please

@Nigeria stories

BigBankBlack:

And he gave references and credit..copy and paste urs too

don't mind him he doesn't want to learn always looking for fault

Drabeey:



You've done well.

This was why i fell in love with Nairaland since 2011, but @Seun when would Nairaland be like Quora (intelligent people full that quorum sha)

walahi though most of their stories are fake sha. Especially those told by Indians. I still think reddit is better.

.22. Kogi

Since the popular confluence in Nigeria is located in the state, Kogi is said to have been derived from ‘kogin’, the hausa word for river

Not hausa word ok kogi got its name from something more complex

DelottaBrown

Delotta Brown

Now i see the reason why Anambra pple pronounces it as anambala

whyteteeth:
Akwa Ibom is not named after the Qua iboe river. I don't know why I keep hearing this from some persons. Akwa Ibom means Great Ibom. Ibom is the ancestral home of the ibibios. It can also be interpreted in full as Akwa Abasi Ibom state" meaning "The state of the Great God of the Ibibios or the state of the almighty God". In other words "God's own state".

"Qua Iboe" is the English corruption of the word "Akwa obio" which mean a large town. Akwa Obio is a coastal community in Akwa Ibom state. Qua Iboe or kwa Iboe was used by the British colonialists and early missionaries to describe the area during the precolonial era maybe because of the difficulty they end encountered in pronouncing the word "Akwa Obio"

The Qua Iboe river which is a tributary of the Atlantic and a distributary of the Cross river is named after the coinage "Qua Iboe". Qua Iboe Church which is popular in Akwa Ibom state was named after the same community by the missionaries.

ON POINT. VERY VERY VERY VERY CORRECT. Ignorant people should stop misinforming people.

olamikunle213:
I understand the fact that some of us knows all these but let's try and educate some people that have no idea how these state names were formed.



https://www.nairaland.com/3255550/how-states-nigeria-derived-names

It would have been much fun if only you made mention of the years they were created.
Nice update though.....At least I have known what I don't know about some State myths and Legends!

I disagree with the OP about origin of the name Akwa Ibom. The state is named after the almighty God (Ibom)...It is believed that Ibom owns the river (qua iboe) or lives there. So the complete name is Akwa Abasi Ibom State... meaning state of the almighty God...

Holycity:

Keep quite... what are you saying self, i dont understanding.

Akwa iboe... Fake Igbo people

najib632:
I don't agree with some of the information you gave.

Modified.

Reasons?

Wolgrace:



Wrong information! Was there Nigeria before almagamation? How can Nigeria coined from a river by the colonial thieves? Are they refering to river Niger and Benue? Programmed lies!

Niger-Area

rummmy:
Its Afikpo...op is correct, arochukwu is part of bende.
I want to know the origin of NAIRA.

NAIRA has no meaning!

efembaba:
Oh and I thought Adam named them all

he only named one state,; Adamawa

Asampetem:



Niger-Area

Niger means black/rudy race.. Paul and Barnabas were called Niger in book of Acts. Hence the word "nigga" or "black nigga." Even Jesus, Moses, Joseph, and Paul were once mistaken as Egyptians because of black race identity. 12 tribes of ancient Israel are black and rudy race. Mistaken identity because ancient Egyptians were also blacks too.


Yorubas and Igbos have strong root with the lost black tribes of Israel. Our brothers are scattered among the heathenous (white) nations and also ends of the earth. Jamaicans, haitans, other latinos, rudy hindus, ashantis, west coast of africa, igbos, yorubas, ss, etc... AFRICA is a name given by the Romans, so are the countries in the continent. Romans who ruled and still ruling the world shared the lands to their puppet countries who became colonial masters. ROME OWNS ALL BOUNDARIES (Rev 17)


The colonial criminals through the executive Roman Catholic and Vatican Order knows this very well...

Tirips:

Reasons?

The origin of the names of the nothern states are just not satisfying enough and what made me more suspicious of the write up is what it states about the origin of the name of Bauchi state, which is Baushe (a Fulani name). Baushe was the one who conqured that region under the banner of bin Fodio(corrupted version of Fodiye), nothing like southern plains of Hausa land.

olamikunle213:
I understand the fact that some of us knows all these but let's try and educate some people that have no idea how these state names were formed.



https://www.nairaland.com/3255550/how-states-nigeria-derived-names

Afikipo is in Ebonyi state not Abia.

Audio states in a Audio Country.

You certainly wrong in Ebonyi. There is nothing like “ABONIE” River in Ebonyi. What we have is EBENYI RIVER thus EBONYI STATE

Kogi with Hausa name, and Hausa are just little faction above Lokoja

Not Igala, not ebira, not okun
No wonder the state is confused

Hmmm

Dreyton36:

Share your own bros

Ebonyi has always been ebonyi and not anglicised

serverconnect:
ABIA stands for Aba Bende Isiukwuato Arochukwu not Afikpo

Get your facts right.It's Afikpo not arochukwu

May your days be long and peaceful for impacting us with this useful article.

olamikunle213:
33. Sokoto
Sokoto is the anglicized version of the Arabic word ‘suk’ meaning ‘market’ or ‘place of commerce’. The state itself was named after the defunct Sokoto Caliphate
34. Taraba
Taraba state got its name from the Taraba River.
35. Yobe
Komadugu Yobe (Waube or Ouobe) or River Yobe (or River of Yo) inspired the name of the state.
36. Zamfara
This state was named after Zamfarawa, one of the subdialects of the Eastern Hausa group.
FCT: Abuja
"Abuja" was in the earlier 20th century the name of the nearby town now called Suleja.
The indigenous inhabitants of Abuja are the Gbagyi (Gwari), with the Gbagyi language formerly the major of the region language.
Culled from Nigeria stories @Nigeriastories

Ebonyi is Ebonyi. There's no word called Aboine in dialects of Abakaliki people. Besides, Abia wasn't got from the three groups you mentioned. Some people bear Abia as a surname.

majamajic:
Yes

When Anambra was created in 91 , enugu state tried so much to collect the name Anambra, but cos the omambra river didn't get to their area , we retained the name Anambra !

I disagree. Enugu people didn't do that. They never tried it. Oma mbala river isn't in Enugu as you rightly said. So, they didn't struggle for the name at all.

ukukaegbu:


Anambra was created in 1991?

New Anambra and Enugu States were created in 1991, while the old Anambra State comprising the new Anambra (ijekebe or agba enu people), Enugu and Abakaliki people was created in 1976.

It is Enugu that was created from anambra, not the other way round.

majamajic:
Yes

When Anambra was created in 91 , enugu state tried so much to collect the name Anambra, but cos the omambra river didn't get to their area , we retained the name Anambra !

24. Lagos

In 1472, the first set of Europeans to set foot in Lagos were the Portuguese. Due to the many lagoons and rivers in the town, they named it Lagos, which is the Portuguese word for 'lakes'.





how yoruba people come take run da name EKO

maestroferddi:
So Abacha abii na Babangida consulted you before creating the states?

You are just recounting a lazy tale told to you by an older aunt or uncle...

There is no how Enugu people could have opted to be called Anambra because it is clear that Anambra as a geographical and cultural identity pertained to the western half of the old Anambra State.

In any case, the deliberations of the state creation committees were not made public so what you are suggesting is just a figment of an unengaged imagination...

See don't use insultive words , my aunty told me about something that happened in 1991 ? I've got my second gonorrhea far before 1991

Let me tell u again, babangida then cos the wife is from odugwu family in asaba , made asaba capital of Delta State, if not for riot in Anambra , them nearly join onitsha to Delta State. Awka now got the nod ahead of onitsha cos of all that drama and was made capital , umunze and ekwulobia all put up a good fight too

So educative. Thanks!