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Names of Some Communities Renamed by British after the invasion of the great Benin Kingdom.

1: Owerri - Original Name: Owe Ere

2: Orlụ - Original name: Ọlụ

3: Awkuzu - Original Name: Ọkụ Ụzọ Achagbunam

4: Okigwe - Original name: Oka Igwe

5: Enugu - Original name: Enu Ugwu: It is a mountain town

6: Okpaala - Original Name: Ọkpụ Ala Ngwa

7: Port Harcourt- Original name: Igwe Ọcha

8: Opobo - Original name: Igwe Nga

9: Bonny - Original Name: Ubani

10: Oyigbo- Original name: Obi Igbo

11:Abakiliki- Original Name :Abakeleke

12: Mbaise - Original Name: Agbaaja, Ahiara, Ekwerazụ, Oke Ovoro and Ezinihite They are Five independent villages but the white man force them to answer Mbaise as one village , The Mbaise people have a different culture that they believe in.

13: Asaba - Original Name: Ahaba

14: Onitsha - Original Name: Onicha

15: Ibusa - Original Name: Igbo Ụzọ

16: Ogwashi Original name: Ọgwa Ahi. They are from Nri

17:Awka - Oka
18: Awkunanaw - Okunnano,
19 Amawbia- Amaobia,

20: Umuahia- Ọma ahịa

Mazi Chukwuebuka Emmanuel

Just leave Midwest alone. Don't rename any city.

How useful is this information?

The nation is facing the greatest inflation and famine ever experienced since independence and you are here talking about history.

Uncle is everything alright with you ?

Wahala

BloomingDale:
Just leave Midwest alone. Don't rename any city.

Face your tribe alone...

Or did you see any town from your minority tribe there?

Trying so hard to add port Harcourt and Bonny to landlocked region.

muykem:
Trying so hard to add port Harcourt and Bonny to landlocked region.

lol small boy. Igbos are not landlocked, the Yakubu Gowan and Northern terrorist leaders wants you to see it that way. PH is Igbo and 99% igbos.
I don't talk rubbish. Its based of facts and history.

muykem:
Trying so hard to add port Harcourt and Bonny to landlocked region.

when jungle mature....walk from mushin to take port harcourt and Bonny from ndigbo!

The original name of Ibusa is "Igbo bi n'uzo" which means "Igbos that live along the road". Its short name is Igbo-Uzo, which the white man wrote as 'Ibusa'

Very useless.

Lies

BloomingDale:
Just leave Midwest alone. Don't rename any city.

Foolish is choice. This is a direction based on cardinal points.

You forgot to include

Sokoto changed from Ugwuawusa
America changed from Obodo oyibo
Equatorial Guinea from Panya

and many more. Indeed Igboland is massive