Port Harcourt was named after Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt

"Harcourt was known as a sexual predator attracted to both sexes. He attempted to rape Dorothy Brett, the daughter of Lord Esher, and followed this by an attempt to seduce his son. Dorothy Brett wrote of him that "it is so tiresome that Loulou is such an old roué. He is as bad with boys as with girls ... he is simply a sex maniac. It isn't that he is in love. It is just ungovernable Sex desire for both sexes". His behaviour was known and tolerated in certain private quarters, however, after attempting to seduce a 12-year-old boy (Edward James, who grew up to become a great collector of surrealist and other contemporary art), the boy's mother began making the matter public. Harcourt committed suicide by taking an overdose of a sedative[7] at his London home in Brook Street on 24 February 1922, aged 59.[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Vernon_Harcourt,_1st_Viscount_Harcourt

They should change the name to Port City

What about Nigeria that was named after a river? What is it with Nigeria and naming people after something to do with a body of water? They came to the land of the western Igbos and called them "Delta-Igbos", they went across the River Niger and called the Igbos they met there 'Anambra Igbos' after the Anambra River, they moved further south and called the Igbos there 'Imo Igbos' after the Imo River. When we get Biafra, all these names will disappear because we are going back to regionalism with no states.

Igbo is Igbo!!

Porthacourt was named after the then British secretary for the colonies, Louis vernon Harcourt in 1912. Before then, what is now Porthacourt was the farmlands of the Ikwere people of Diobu village. They called the place "Igu-Ocha" although it can also be called "Igwe-Ocha" or "Ugwu-Ocha"

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Hmmm.... I suggest the name of the city be changed to Iguocha instantly.

obailala:
Hmmm.... I suggest the name of the city be changed to Iguocha instantly.

IpOD spotted

Kyase:

IpOD spotted

Wetin concern u

bugzbunny:

Wetin concern u

I believe your dad is not the owner of nairaland

Change the name immediately.

Kaakulator, maybe the secretary of the colonies, Viscount Harcort r.ped your then teenage grandfather. Such brutal scar can cause hereditary mental retardation.

kaakulator4:

Wow!

Is there a particular reason you're spamming?

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