Many Kogi State indigenes and non-indigenes are not aware that the name of our dear country Nigeria was first pronounced in Lokoja, by Miss Flora Shaw, a beautiful British journalist who later became the wife of Lord Lugard.

Sir Fredrick Lugard was a British Imperialist and Governor of Northern and southern Protectorates of Nigeria as at then.

Flora Shaw decided to name the country NIGERA while observing the beauty of the greatest river in Nigeria, the river Niger from the top of Mount Patti.