Port Harcourt - , the guy Port Harcourt is named after has absolutely nothing to do with the betterment or welfare of the people who inhabited and still inhabit the area. Apart from this name being a European supremacist imposition, the man it is named after has a mucky and controversial story behind him that I will allow you to research for yourself, which includes tales of perversion, rape, and ultimately suicide. Is this what you want yoru city to named forever?

Lagos - Eko, now this one doesn't seem much of a priority or the name seems to be appropriate seeing as it is centuries old, and Lagos, after all, was a colony, but it's still a case that should be mentioned and decided. Just do it.

Benin City - Benin or Ubinu. It's only 100 years ago guys!

Onitsha - Onicha - Onica - there is less of an issue on the naming as there is the spelling. Why do people especially in West Africa just take things from Europeans as sacred? Why keep an outdated spelling of one of the most important cities of you country? what purpose does it serve to spell Onicha as Onitsha and have the nerve to tell those that spell it onicha that they are illiterate?

Asaba - Ahaba, again, another case of Europeans shitting and Nigerians storing it in a cooler.

Abakiliki - Abakeleke - dumb, dumb, dumb, just dumb. There are no words that can describe this type of subtle display of inferiority.

Owerri - what the **** do you think it should be?

Awka - Aw esome example of backwardness.

Anything in igboland that uses the letters AW instead of O for Ogu.

Nsukka - Nsuka, I've never heard an Igbo word like Nsuk, that mus be Efik.

Bonny - Ubani, come and fight me nau!

I really do believe these names haven't changed because Nigerians find them sexy.

Anymore suggestions?

do you need to see your madam?

How did I know you'd say something without value when I said you watching?

Anyway, any suggestions?

no, just browsing.

I don't understand the Benin city example. Benin and Ubini are probably exonyms, but since they are recognized/acknowledged by the actual Edo people, it's not something that really is in need of changing in my opinion. If we don't have a problem with using the name and nobody else does, I don't think there's really a problem there.

Also, what are you saying about the names Owerri and Nsukka? What's the problem there exactly?

PhysicsQED:
Also, what are you saying about the names Owerri and Nsukka? What's the problem there exactly?

He's referring to having them changed to their Igbo spellings. In the Igbo language, for the most part, things are spelled exactly the way they sound. For example, Owerri would be 'Owere' and Nsukka would be 'Nsuka'.

Ezeagu, I think there's a need for change also, but that would definitely require a large amount of resources.

Here are some more places that need to be changed:

Enugu to 'Enugwu'
Igbanke to 'Igbo-Akiri'
Igbuzor to 'Igbo-Uzọ'
Anambra to 'Ọmambala'
Orlu to 'Ọlu'
Ogwashi Uku to 'Ọgwashi Ukwu'
And possibly Arochukwu to 'Aruchukwu'

Not that it's relevant to the thread, but it seems Igbanke has always been called Igbanke. This "Igbo-Akiri" stuff seems to have come about because of the drive to get them to join other Igbos in Delta state and leave Edo state. However, if the Igbanke people themselves corrupted "Igbo-Akiri" to "Igbanke" at some remote time in precolonial history, then people/scholars have failed to record that in official publications. But the point is that there's nothing to suggest that it's some sort of colonial corruption/misspelling or something.

PhysicsQED: I don't understand the Benin city example. Benin and Ubini are probably exonyms, but since they are recognized/acknowledged by the actual Edo people, it's not something that really is in need of changing in my opinion. If we don't have a problem with using the name and nobody else does, I don't think there's really a problem there.

Also, what are you saying about the names Owerri and Nsukka? What's the problem there exactly?

Benin City to just Benin. Owere being spelt Owerri not only makes no sense since people pronounce it as Owere, but ignores the changes in orthography since 100 years ago.

Abeg next topic.

I really don't think it's necessary except for a few of them.

Much ado about nothing,IMO.

We should then be ready to change nearly the whole cities as most of the city names are corrupted.and that includes Nigeria.

Naijiria. . .Igbo man.
Nayeria. . .Hausa man.
Naijeria. . . Yoruba man.

Supported.
Same reason the Indians changed 'Bombay' to 'Mumbai' and 'Calcutta' to 'Kolkatta'.

Owerri to Owere
Awka to Oka
Onitsha to Onicha
Lagos to eko
Portharcourt and Asaba should remain the same...

Front page don dey turn showcase. It attracts you to the shop, but you have to go in(a section) to get things of value.... smh..

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. This is simply putting the cart before the horse. When our people are enlightened enough, things will change.
I mean our president is called GOODLUCK JONATHAN, his wife is PATIENCE, and then there's DAVID MARK... should they all change their names too?

lafile: Supported.
Same reason the Indians changed 'Bombay' to 'Mumbai' and 'Calcutta' to 'Kolkatta'.

But till date the former names are still being used.

ifyalways: Much ado about nothing,IMO.

We should then be ready to change nearly the whole city as most of the city names are corrupted.and that includes Nigeria.

Naijiria. . .Igbo man.
Nayeria. . .Hausa man.
Naijeria. . . Yoruba man.

Hahahaha nice point... Uche gi di ya...

@OPS, when last did you change your surname?

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Can't believe I opened this s h i t. So annoying and coupled with the fact that I ate beans this morning. GusHhhhhh

I think op is simply jobless. What u just typed makes no meaning considering the meaning of a name.

Lekki maybe - Most don't know it was named after a Portugese slave trader called Mr. Lecqi.

Some may disagree...

#yawns#

OK

imagine Umuokoro in Portharcourt called Rumukurushi, Rumuogba to Umuogba, etc Rumu, Rumu stuff. from Obigbo to Oyinbo Shame! Shame!! but the Ikweres are Ibos etc wake up you cant run away from your shadow. Even the present Labour Minister called Nwogu is mispelt Wogu!

Forgive me lord for clicking on this thread.

Changing d names of towns won't ameliorate living conditions there, so whats the essence??

Ezeagu to Eziagu

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