chuose:

you sure that Niger go call themselves middlebelt?
no be Niger wey IBB come from, wey be 100% islamic?

Kyase:
I'm tiv and I'm a NORTHERNER

Godjone:
i am idoma and a middle belter

TonyeBarcanista:
Please Middle beltans, where and where makes up middle belt?

karfe:
Middle Belt Areas are:

Niger State
Plateau State
Nasarawa State
Benue State
Taraba State
Adamawa State
Kogi State minus Yagba East, Yagba West, Mopa Muro, Ijumu and Kabba / Bunu LGA's
Northern Kwara - Baruten, Kaiama, Edu and Pategi LGA's
Southern Kaduna
Southern Kebbi
Southern Bauchi
Southern Gombe
Southern Borno

coolzeal:
Karma is a nasty little b*tch.. Any region or tribe that shed the blood of the Easterners during the war will receive their wrath in abundance. You can't escape the law of nature.

arewafederation:


What about Niger,Nassarawa,Kogi, and Kwara states?

@NakedEve, it's a pity that you guys are like bats, neither birds nor mammals.
The middle belt endowed with the most natural resources in Nigeria, but unfortunately the most underdeveloped region because you all don't know where your problems lie. You keep blaming the far North but I wonder;
Do you know the Middle belt have produced the most presidents than every other region?

Do you know the middle belt have had more control of the country during the military era than most part of the country?

With the likes of Gowon, T.Y Danjuma, Jerry Hussein, David Mark, who are/were major movers and shakers of this country, why do you think it's the Hausas that always hold you down.

My dear you need to look inwards for the solution to your problems. Breaking off from the North or being called a MIDDLE BELTAN is not the solution to your problems, but having purposeful and determined leadership.

Okanokan:


Apc candidate Buhari is from the North and Hausa/Fulani while the Pdp candidate Jonathan is from the south, pls check the result of the Presidential Election result in the so-called Christian Middle-Belt how they voted?, they voted thier own Buhari, even the bitterness of against fulani herdsmen did not change thier Northerness.

christopher123:


To me I see middle belt as middle living creatures neither here nor there


The election proved it

christopher123:


To me I see middle belt as middle living creatures neither here nor there


The election proved it

TonyeBarcanista:
Please Middle beltans, where and where makes up middle belt?

OperationIgrigi:


**grins** Let them continue to be used as pawns by the hausa/fulani in the next hundred years all their towns will be fulanized and their languages die off to give way hausa. I really don't pity them. **grins**

karfe:

NakedEve:


The problem with we in the MiddleBelt is that we have adopted Hausa language as our common language.
How do we give it up now?
Some of us have stopped speaking Hausa in our villages right now n we don't allow them enter our villages again.
We have made sure our children communicate in either our local language, pidgin or English.
We hope it spreads.
The reason y the Hausa-Fulani find it easy to permeate our regions and cause havoc is because we have a common language.
If we stopped speaking Hausa, they will be forced to abandon their language, learn English(and thru that make them come in contact with Western Concepts packed in the English language thus becoming deradicalized) or go back home from whence they come from.

Unfortunately many of our MB youths r not even on nairaland.
They can't even browse not to talk of logging into nairaland for them to see this my proposition.
Many of them thru blood ties r in one way or another connected to Borno empire but if Niger delta can seperate themselves from Igbo whom they r closely related to, likewise we can separate ourselves from Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri.

I strongly believe things will get better.

TonyeBarcanista:

Point of correction, Niger Delta tribes are not closely related to the Igbos. We all have different ancestory, whether Ogoni, Ijaw, Urhobo, Benin, Itsekiri etc. Please, be guided

NakedEve:


Kk.
But some r indeed related to Igbo even anciently.
eg Efik, Ijaw.
No need to deny it.
We know and its not a crime.
Down here we have people closely related to Kanuri and HausaFulani but we choose MB as our name because of Islamic incursion.

betty202020:
have U forgotten how Awolowo ate rat poison and died because of fear of arrest?

cheruv:
Theres nothing like middle belt!

NakedEve:


In the Middle belt cities because of high economic turn over and development by Nidigbo, the aborigines of those cities love Nidigbo.
We see a clear difference between them and backward Hausa. You can't even compare.
They sell heavy goods but Hausa sells in kiosks.
They build wonderful structures but Hausa's will prefer to live in dirty settlements.

But alas our villages r still pro Hausa but things r changing because of this Fulani incursion into our homeland.
Many of our village Youths have begun to see them for who they r and r having pro-igbo tendencies.

TonyeBarcanista:

Stop talking what you don't know. The Ijaws have no same ancestral lineage with the Igbos. You can patronise the igbos without making silly assumption. We are neighbours just as we are with Yorubas(in Ondo), Itsekiris and Urhobos(in Delta), Binis and Esans(in Edo), Ibibio(in Akwa Ibom), Ogoni, ikwerre and others (in Rivers). Ijaw is a distinct ethic group that has no "close" ancestral relationship with anybody. I don't care whether you want to break from hausa/fulani but don't drag Ijaws/SS into your scheme.

As for Efik, that's lame but I won't speak for them.

Okanokan:
You are Northerners, enough of this separatist mentality. The last election prove that Northern Nigerian is one.

NakedEve:


The problem with we in the MiddleBelt is that we have adopted Hausa language as our common language.
How do we give it up now?
Some of us have stopped speaking Hausa in our villages right now n we don't allow them enter our villages again.
We have made sure our children communicate in either our local language, pidgin or English.
We hope it spreads.
The reason y the Hausa-Fulani find it easy to permeate our regions and cause havoc is because we have a common language.
If we stopped speaking Hausa, they will be forced to abandon their language, learn English(and thru that make them come in contact with Western Concepts packed in the English language thus becoming deradicalized) or go back home from whence they come from.

Unfortunately many of our MB youths r not even on nairaland.
They can't even browse not to talk of logging into nairaland for them to see this my proposition.
Many of them thru blood ties r in one way or another connected to Borno empire but if Niger delta can seperate themselves from Igbo whom they r closely related to, likewise we can separate ourselves from Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri.

I strongly believe things will get better.

NakedEve:



U don't know?
U think that the whole Ijaws r one?
For your information some Ijaws don't believe they r of the same stock with the whole group.
Many believe they r descended from Israel from the tribe of Zebulon n through that r closely related to the Igbo who r from Judah n other Israelitic tribes.
Don't deceive urself brother.
Who gave u the right to even speak for all Ijaw.
R u a traditional head? mtschew.

For ur information some in the Middle belt(some part of Berom n some other parts of the MB) see themselves as descendants of Jews too.
They even see Igbo's as their kith n kin since many in these groups claim Abrahamic descendant.
But what is currently holding us together is that we all r in the MB.

NakedEve:



U don't know?
U think that the whole Ijaws r one?
For your information some Ijaws don't believe they r of the same stock with the whole group.
Many believe they r descended from Israel from the tribe of Zebulon n through that r closely related to the Igbo who r from Judah n other Israelitic tribes.
Don't deceive urself brother.
Who gave u the right to even speak for all Ijaw.
R u a traditional head? mtschew.

For ur information some in the Middle belt(some part of Berom n some other parts of the MB) see themselves as descendants of Jews too.
They even see Igbo's as their kith n kin since many in these groups claim Abrahamic descendant.
But what is currently holding us together is that we all r in the MB.

advocates:
Who made you a spoke person for MB? You even claim most of them can't surf the net, like what? When you described middle belt, which state are you referring to? To the best of my knowledge, folks in Benue don't understand Hausa language and also large percentage of Igalas and Kabas from Kogi state. When it comes to education, I am yet to see anyone from Southern Kaduna, to Benue, to Kogi who is not a graduate. Very few among the young people are not into school.

With the various signatures here, how could you draw a conclusion to insult a whole region that they are not into the internet. The MB I know are not as egocentric and clannish as the igbos to reveal their tribal identities.

advocates:
Who made you a spoke person for MB? You even claim most of them can't surf the net, like what? When you described middle belt, which state are you referring to? To the best of my knowledge, folks in Benue don't understand Hausa language and also large percentage of Igalas and Kabas from Kogi state. When it comes to education, I am yet to see anyone from Southern Kaduna, to Benue, to Kogi who is not a graduate. Very few among the young people are not into school.

With the various signatures here, how could you draw a conclusion to insult a whole region that they are not into the internet. The MB I know are not as egocentric and clannish as the igbos to reveal their tribal identities.

TonyeBarcanista:

It is clear that you are an ignorant Igboman. No Ijawman has ever called himself an israeli jew. WTF?

Which Ijaw will say he/she is not Ijaw? Is it your phantom Ijaw? You are talking nonsense my guy. Go get resources and read!



I don't care what middlebelt call themselves! Stop talking rubbish mr man...


I blame myself for even quoting you! I

DiademSh07:

What's this one saying?
If you know nothing, shut up and stop stinking the thread with stupidity!

NakedEve:



Wow!
Now I know I am talking with an Ignorant bunch!
Keep on deceiving itself.
U absolutely know nothing!
R u even sure u r Ijaw?
U don't know there r Zebulonitic clans among the Ijaw?

Hahahaha.

We in the MB have all your histories.
We know everything!