In a video uploaded to Viable Television’s YouTube channel, human rights activist and lawyer Mike Ozekhome, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), welcomed the return of the old National Anthem to the country. He also recalled his 2014 advocacy to rename Nigeria as “Iregin.” The Legal Practitioner claims that the name is not representative of or what the Nigerian State stands for.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
The Legal Practitioner had said, “Indeed, in that conference, I had also put a motion that we should change the name of Nigeria, which appears to to be a burden because of the circumstances it came into being, 8th January 1878, when Flora Louisa Shaw, a young British journalist gave her the name ‘Nigeria’ after Niger area. But both my proposals for the national – for the flag and a return to change the name Nigeria from ‘Nigeria’ to I ‘Iregin’; I made the proposal by reading it from right to left, say instead of Nigeria let’s call it ‘Iregin’ but that one was shut down, the one of the flag….”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>