ekt_bear: Well, they never were the largest ethnic group.

It is only some supposed group called "Hausa-Fulani" that was numerically the largest.

We'll never know what the true demographics of Nigeria are until there is an honest attempt at a census.

ekt_bear: Well, do you consider Hausa-Fulani one ethnic group, or not? If so, then that group is largest, according to the official censuses they've had in the past (which quite a few Nigerians dispute).

If you view Hausa as a separate group, I doubt they are the largest, even by those official censuses. Your best bet is to find one of them and perhaps do some guesstimation of how much of H-F is hausa vs. fulani.

caseless: Op, if u tink hausa ar not d largest Y not come 2 north and find out..i doubt if dz thouht wil remain in ur mind aftr doin dat. U don eva see hausa man with one wife and less dan 5 children? Op, u knw beta..dnt confuse ursef.

Abagworo: Hausa-Fulani is not the largest ethnic group, it is Idoma-Igbo-Yoruba-Edo-Urhobo-Ijaw-Afenmai-Efik-Ibibio-Esan-Isoko-Ejagam-Boki-Igala-Tiv-Annang-Ogoni ethnic nationality.

Since we can join Hausa and Fulani who are neither phenotypicaly nor linguisticaly related, why can't we join these 17 that are more related. The Hausa-Fulani ethnic group is the biggest fraud established by the Colonial masters to create a majority.

Akanbi_edu:

It's convenient to blame the colonialists but not the southerners that are divisionist in nature. Even from this website, we can see that those groups you mentioned are one. There are so many groups in the north, with their differences but they don't make issues out of it. You don't see them fighting one another based on ethnic divisions. The kanuri in Borno have reservations against the hausa, likewise the fulanis in N-east. Was it not recently ijaw elders were calling for ethnic-based geopolitical zones? When last did you see northern elites fighting for hausa, fulani, kanuri etc as a group? They always mention north unlike our "educated southern elites" who are always calling for Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Ogoni. These guys don't even have enough respect for minorities.

These are the pressure groups in the south; Ohaneze, Yoruba council of Elders, and recently izon has joined. When you make demands based on ethnicity, you automatically alienate others who are not part of your group.So which pressure group do we have in the north?-Arewa consultative forum- meaning northern CF. you can see how this covers everybody in the north including even the Yorubas there. Apart from Kwara and Kogi, almost everybody in the north speak hausa.
Benue, Kogi and Kwara-zero Hausa.
Taraba, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau and Borno-50% speak Hausa. Even in Kaduna Gombe and Yobe, not all speak Hausa.

These guys don't go about dividing themselves and yet you blame the colonialists for making them a majurity.

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I don't know really because these guys have mixed up so much that you can hardly tell. and official census are not done along ethnic lines.

caseless: Op, if u tink hausa ar not d largest Y not come 2 north and find out..i doubt if dz thouht wil remain in ur mind aftr doin dat. U don eva see hausa man with one wife and less dan 5 children? Op, u knw beta..dnt confuse ursef.

Ileke-IdI:
I mean, all these killings wey dem don dey do in the North nko?

Havent they decreased their numbers by now? Who is truly the largest tribe in Nigeria?

Let's stop the illusion, we all know the north is close to deserted with a few cows here and there.

Akanbi_edu:

It's convenient to blame the colonialists but not the southerners that are divisionist in nature. Even from this website, we can see that those groups you mentioned are one. There are so many groups in the north, with their differences but they don't make issues out of it. You don't see them fighting one another based on ethnic divisions. The kanuri in Borno have reservations against the hausa, likewise the fulanis in N-east. Was it not recently ijaw elders were calling for ethnic-based geopolitical zones? When last did you see northern elites fighting for hausa, fulani, kanuri etc as a group? They always mention north unlike our "educated southern elites" who are always calling for Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Ogoni. These guys don't even have enough respect for minorities.

These are the pressure groups in the south; Ohaneze, Yoruba council of Elders, and recently izon has joined. When you make demands based on ethnicity, you automatically alienate others who are not part of your group.So which pressure group do we have in the north?-Arewa consultative forum- meaning northern CF. you can see how this covers everybody in the north including even the Yorubas there. Apart from Kwara and Kogi, almost everybody in the north speak hausa.

These guys don't go about dividing themselves and yet you blame the colonialists for making them a majurity.

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I don't know really because these guys have mixed up so much that you can hardly tell. and official census are not done along ethnic lines.

Rossikk:

Stop stupi.dly using the word ''tribe'' to describe ETHNIC GROUPS.

Ileke-IdI:


Stop stupidly posting offtopic. If you came in to use the correct term, then you better be correct every thread in this section. Imbe cile.

Rossikk:

Worthless, brainless dunce. Instead of you to educate yourself you're here typing dumb rubbish. Your dunce brain regards a group of 50 million human beings a ''tribe'' because you're stuck in the colonial pit of mental slavery, ignorance and blind stup.idity in which your British masters dumped you. Peabrained cretin.

Rossikk: No YOU are off topic, you dunce.

Ileke-IdI:


And you're still a dunce. . . keep it moving.
Trolling personified.

Rossikk:

Then what do you call yourself if at your age, you still need someone to lecture you that a 50 million group of people cannot be described as a tribe? Dummy dum dum.

Rossikk: ^^^Miseducated ho... Who wants anything to do with your bony stinky self? Just trying to get some sense into your tiny skull that's all.