Delusion of control or Sapless dotage: What should be FFK's diagnosis now?

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has said that Nigeria is experiencing problems because it was built on a ‘satanic’ foundation. Fani-Kayode said further that the country’s first Governor-General, Lord Fredrick Lugard and his wife, Flora were Satanists.
The article reads in part: “It is generally agreed though not commonly admitted that both Lugard and Flora Shaw were Luciferians who practised the black arts and all manner of satanic rituals.”
“This explains a lot. It also explains why Shaw gave us the name Nigeria – a name which has questionable roots. Anyone that doubts this should consider the literal translation of Nigeria into Latin: it means “the area of darkness” and there is a deep spiritual and mystical reason why she gave us that name.”
“Lugard and Shaw were an unlikely couple who had no children. What held them together was more spiritual and mystical than anything else and Nigeria and Sudan are their joint legacy to the world. Sadly, both countries are having major challenges today."

http://pulse.ng/local/fani-kayode-nigeria-experiencing-problems-due-to-its-satanic-foundation-ex-minister-says-id4150719.html

My Rebuttal:
Time and again FFK never fail to disappoints showing why he should be appropriately labeled a rabble rouser and pathetic "Goebbels" from the Nazi era. His fickle attempts at incoherent propaganda is at most pathetic and best fit for comic relief. Right from his days of unguarded utterances at Bianca Ojukwu to misguided rants while cross-carpeting between various parties, he continues to defy any hope of return to intellectual sanity.

Let me tackle this latest illogical and ill-advised passionate argument about the etymology of Nigeria. I do not know the religion practiced by Lord Lugard and his wife Flora Shaw. It's very possible that they could actually have been Freemasons. However ascribing Nigeria's present woes to the naming of the country or it's earliest colonialists' religion is quite hilarious. For sake of comparison, it's also well known that the United States of America USA had Freemasons amongst it's earliest founders. These include George Washington America's first executive president and Benjamin Franklin another father of the nation. So it's now likely that the dark arts favoured America a land of diverse people and cultures (such as our country) but left Nigeria to wallow in ethnic, religious and political turmoils. That's a really interesting hypothesis coming from our Nigerian modern-day Nostradamus Chief Fani-Kayode.

Secondly he erroneously claimed that other British colonies excepting Nigeria and Sudan changed their names after independence. That's totally false and clearly not researched. Countries such as Egypt, Gambia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland and Uganda all retained their pre-independence names.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies

The last part I want to tackle is his claim that both Nigeria and Sudan are experiencing uncommon challenges today because of the retention of colonial names. First of all, the political and economic problems Sudan has been facing since it's independence are clearly different from those being faced by our country Nigeria. Besides some of the countries that changed their colonial nomenclature after independence are not better off than Nigeria. Examples include: Lesotho (formerly Basutoland), Botswana (Bechuanaland), Kenya (British East Africa), Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Malawi (Nyasaland), Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), Ghana (Gold Coast) etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies

My humble advice to our honourable former minister is that he should try to get his facts right next time and not jump online to rant in a petulant manner undignified of a learned/well-versed government official like him. Such kinda whims and caprices are only seen among uneducated thugs and political sycophants.


Below are more veracious and verifiable facts about the true origin of the name Nigeria, Niger and River Niger:

1. Naming Nigeria:
In an essay which first appeared in The Times of London on 8 January 1897 by "Miss Shaw", she suggested the name " Nigeria " for the British Protectorate on the Niger River. In her essay Shaw was making a case for a shorter term that would be used for the "agglomeration of pagan and Mahomedan States" that was functioning under the official title, " Royal Niger Company Territories. " She thought that the term "Royal Niger Company Territories" was too long to be used as a name of a Real Estate Property under the Trading Company in that part of Africa. She was in search of a new name and she coined "Nigeria" in preference to terms such as "Central Sudan" that were associated with the area by some geographers and travellers. She thought that the term " Sudan" at this time was associated with a territory in the Nile basin, the current Sudan. She then put forward this argument in The Times of 8 January 1897 thus: "The name Nigeria applying to no other part of Africa may without offence to any neighbours be accepted as co-extensive with the territories over which the Royal Niger Company has extended British influence, and may serve to differentiate them equally from the colonies of Lagos and the Niger Protectorate on the coast and from the French territories of the Upper Niger."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Shaw
This was before she married Lord Lugard in 1902. Lord Lugard became colonial Governor of Hong Kong from 1907–1912 before appointed as Governor-General of Nigeria from 1914–1919.

2. More on the Niger Etymology:
Commonly linked by folk etymology to Latin niger (“black”), which likely influenced the modern spelling. Some sources give the term to Tuareg roots, deriving it from a claimed gher n-gheren or egereou n-igereouen ("river of rivers" ). Older sources derive Niger , via a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, from Ptolemy's descriptions of the valley Gir (a wadi in modern Algeria), and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir" ) to the south.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Niger#Etymology

3. Another opinion on the Etymology:
The Niger is called Jeliba or Joliba "great river" in Manding ; Orimiri or Orimili "great water" in Igbo; Egerew n-Igerewen "river of rivers" in Tuareg; Isa Ber "big river" in Songhay ; Kwara in Hausa; and Oya in Yoruba. The earliest use of the name 'Niger' for the river is by Leo Africanus in his Della descrittione dell’Africa et delle cose notabili che iui sono published in Italian in 1550. The name may come from Berber phrase ger-n-ger meaning 'river of rivers'. As Timbuktu was the southern end of the principal Trans-Saharan trade route to the western Mediterranean, it was the source of most European knowledge of the region.
Medieval European maps applied the name Niger to the middle reaches of the river, in modern Mali, but Quorra (Kworra) to the lower reaches in modern Nigeria, as these were not recognized at the time as being the same
river. When European colonial powers began to send ships along the West coast of Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Senegal River was often postulated to be seaward end of the Niger. The Niger Delta, pouring into the Atlantic through mangrove swamps and thousands of distributaries along more than a hundred miles, was thought to be no more than coastal wetlands. It was only with the 18th-century visits of Mungo Park, who travelled down the Niger River and visited the great Sahelian empires of his day, that Europeans correctly identified the course of the Niger, and extended the name to its entire course.
The modern nations of Nigeria and Niger take their names from the river, marking contesting national claims by colonial powers of the "Upper", "Lower" and "Middle" Niger river basin during the Scramble for Africa at the end of the 19th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_River
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

With this fact I hope the self acclaimed attention seeking B*stard will have the true picture and meaning of Nigeria! !!

Whao...what an intellectually engaging piece

Nigeria was gotten from the two words Niger and area, right? Op tell me the meaning of Niger ?

The word "niger" is not indigenous to Nigeria

In case you don't know "Niger" is a latin word which means "Dark". The name Niger-ia simply means dark area.

Only a dog answers a name given to it by its master without caring to know wat it means.

wisdomguy4u:
Nigeria was gotten from the two words Niger and area, right? Op tell me the meaning of Niger ?

The name "niger" is not an indigenous word

In case you don't know "Niger" is a latin word which means "Dark". The name Niger-ia simply means dark area.

Only a dog answers a name given to it by its master without caring to know wat it means.

pls read the last two paragraphs again (Nos 2 and 3)

tobimillar:
Whao...what an intellectually engaging piece

thanks bro