Apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called for the change of the name Nigeria.
The group stated that it is necessary “as the name, Nigeria, connotes lack of progress, corruption and darkness.”
Comrade Chuks Ibegbu, the deputy spokesman of the organization, made this known saying, “Nigeria was given to us by a lover of Lord Lugard who later became his wife and was given at the heat of passion.”
“Many countries in Africa, Asia and even Europe changed their colonial names after independence but we foolishly stuck to the name with all its attendant minuses,” the group stressed.
The group also called for a conference where it stated that different indigenous names should be suggested and agreed upon, insisting that “unless we change our name, our numerous problems may have no solution because there is something in a name.”
“Though the name Igbo was not given to us by anybody if any day we find out any question mark on it we shall change it. We are not Ibo but Igbo and Ndigbo. All colonial vestiges should be expunged by the indigenous African people,” it concludes.