The name “Nigeria” was invented by an English woman of questionable virtue, Flora Louise Shaw, who later married the colonial administrator and Governor-General of Nigeria, Sir Frederick Lord Lugard. Although she supposedly coined the name from the River Niger, it rhymes more with the derogatory
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