On this day in 1890, British journalist and writer Flora Shaw, suggested that Nigeria be named after River Niger…
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Shaw, who later married Lord Federick Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria in 1902, coined the name ‘Nigeria’
Also on this day in 1980, a Senator in the National Assembly, lbrahim Barau, is jailed for smuggling for one year without an option to pay fine
