{"id":732689,"date":"2019-10-28T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/28\/the-name-nigeria-connotes-darkness-lets-change-it-ohanaeze\/"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:30:02","slug":"the-name-nigeria-connotes-darkness-lets-change-it-ohanaeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/28\/the-name-nigeria-connotes-darkness-lets-change-it-ohanaeze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Name Nigeria Connotes Darkness, Let&#8217;s Change It: Ohanaeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_653170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653170\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-653170\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-elections-we-didnt-endorse-atiku-ohanaeze-ndigbo.jpg\" alt=\"Nnia Nwodo\" width=\"412\" height=\"250\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-653170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nnia Nwodo, president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization is advocating for the immediate change of the country\u2019s name, Nigeria, to a better and positive one.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it has become important to the change \u201cas the name, Nigeria, connotes lack of progress, corruption and darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by deputy spokesman of the organization, Chuks Ibegbu, the name, \u201cNigeria, was given to us by a lover of Lord Lugard who later became his wife and was given at the heat of passion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany 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,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a02023: No Going Back On Igbo Presidency: Ohanaeze<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It noted also that an immediate Conference be held and a new name for\u00a0 the country be agreed upon, insisting that \u201cunless we change our name, numerous problems may have no solution because there is something in the name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough 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,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Nnia Nwodo, president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization is advocating for the immediate change of the country\u2019s name, Nigeria, to a better and positive one. The group said it has become important to the change \u201cas the name, Nigeria, connotes lack of progress, corruption and darkness.\u201d In a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Name Nigeria Connotes Darkness, Let&#039;s Change It: Ohanaeze - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/28\/the-name-nigeria-connotes-darkness-lets-change-it-ohanaeze\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Name Nigeria Connotes Darkness, Let&#039;s Change It: Ohanaeze - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Nnia Nwodo, president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization is advocating for the immediate change of the country\u2019s name, Nigeria, to a better and positive one. 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