Ohanaeze Ndigbo has recommended a change of name for Nigeria to a better and more positive name.
Ohanaeze, posted that the change is necessary, he said, “as the name, Nigeria, connotes lack of progress, corruption and darkness.”
Ohanaeze Ndigbo is an apex Igbo socio-cultural group in Nigeria. The group represents all Igbo communities within and outside Nigeria. Igbos by census, represent one of the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria.
Comrade Chuks Ibegbu, who is the deputy spokesman of the organization, in a statement said, : “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,”
“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,”
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