Friday, October 3, 2008

Nigerian streets to be named for Bob Marley, Malcolm X, others

Wed Oct 1, 3:38 PM ET

ABUJA (AFP) - Nigeria will re-name streets after music legends Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Bob Marley, as well as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, a minister said on Wednesday.

Names of some 80 streets in Nigeria's administrative capital are to be rebranded in coming days, some of them stripping off names of former military governors, the minister said.