I'm proud to be a middle-beltan!

kristina1:

No....wbu??
Wada hi??
Ete me ya??

I was there. It happens every year on 27th december. We match from okene down to the ohinoyi's palace and after the Ohinoyi addresses the crowd, we finally match to the carnival ground were we'll watch some dance and music performance.
It's fun and colourful.

Ete odahi

Where are you based?

Joavid:



I was there. It happens every year on 27th december. We match from okene down to the ohinoyi's palace and after the Ohinoyi addresses the crowd, we finally match to the carnival ground were we'll watch some dance and music performance.
It's fun and colourful.

Ete odahi

Where are you based?

I was in fce then,i missed it and it was painful
are u based in kogi??

missberrypop5:
hmmm, very interesting thread. I learnt alot.
The mildlebelt guys are really handsome, esp, guys from kogi state, Okene. I have a good number of them as friends and they are all handsome Also tiv and idoma. Its not a lie.

God bless you for dat statement.

Proudly kogite

kristina1:

God bless you for dat statement.

Proudly kogite

lol, you're an oklander? Muslim?

missberrypop5:
lol, you're an oklander? Muslim?

From okene but based in ondo st.
Muslim?? Hell no......am a xtian.

kristina1:

From okene but based in ondo st.
Muslim?? Hell no......am a xtian.

ok dear.
I asked because majority are Muslims. All my friends from there are Muslims, i.e ebira. Really cute dudes.

kristina1:

I was in fce then,i missed it and it was painful
are u based in kogi??

No. But I visit.

spicyhoney:
Gbenro Ajibade( Soji in Tinsel) from Kabba Kogi State.

missberrypop5:
lol, you're an oklander? Muslim?

hi, got mentioned.

Well, here am i.
Th OP of this thread, Am from Plateau state.

onyiloyi:
[/color][color=#000000]sorry to spoil d flow but I think MI is from Taraba

Well Taraba is also part of middlebelt, just for d records.
Infact southern Taraba where MI hails from was formerly part of Plateau state. And Jukun people (MI's tribe) are also found in plateau state.
So no much difrence btw Tarabians & Plateaunians.

Radoillo:
Oh, yes. Igalamela. I've heard of oral traditions that connect Odolu to the Igbo. There are even Igbo folk etymologies for the name 'Odolu'.

Despite sounding very Igbo, Okpanachi and Onuche are actually non-Igbo names (Igala/Idoma; I'm not sure which) . Isinachi I've never heard of.

Pls i'd like to hear of the oral traditions dat connect d igbos to Odolu....
I'm partly idoma from Ogbadibo and we also share the Odolu connection as i'm told. Some of my clans also trace their roots to Anambra area.

missberrypop5:
ok dear.
I asked because majority are Muslims. All my friends from there are Muslims, i.e ebira. Really cute dudes.

I think u may be wrong if u say ebiras are majorly muslims. I think it is a 50/50, or the muslims may only be slightly more if u use the overall population.
Okene has more muslims i agree. But other places like Ajaokuta, Adavi, Ihima e.t.c have more ebira christians.

genieluv:


I think u may be wrong if u say ebiras are majorly muslims. I think it is a 50/50, or the muslims may only be slightly more if u use the overall population.
Okene has more muslims i agree. But other places like Ajaokuta, Adavi, Ihima e.t.c have more ebira christians.

Ok dear. Thanks for that. God bless ya.

Oklander:
hi, got mentioned.

co-incidence

genieluv:


I think u may be wrong if u say ebiras are majorly muslims. I think it is a 50/50, or the muslims may only be slightly more if u use the overall population.
Okene has more muslims i agree. But other places like Ajaokuta, Adavi, Ihima e.t.c have more ebira christians.

Adavi has more Muslims… The population of Muslims to Christians is not near anything 50/50. I do hope you are based at home, a simple logical survey will convince you. pick few numbers of public schools in any of those areas, check them out on different occasions on the days of their MSS and FCS. The population is always not less than 3:1.

ianSweet:


Well Taraba is also part of middlebelt, just for d records.
Infact southern Taraba where MI hails from was formerly part of Plateau state. And Jukun people (MI's tribe) are also found in plateau state.
So no much difrence btw Tarabians & Plateaunians.

i'm a Tarabian

Middle belt guys re hot and sexy

Ilekeh:


Alex is your definition of handsome? Not my type, even if he's your type.

There's no way you look at Alex that he is not handsome.

His being your type or not , isnt the question.


Ok, assume he has noticed you, happy now?

2rez:
Hmmn, Yoruba guyz sef don fey claim middlebelt .

Kwara and Kogi are middle belt.

tpiaobsession:



Kwara and Kogi are middle belt.

I know, i said yoruba.

2rez:


I know, i said yoruba.

Are yorubas precluded from identifying as middle belt?

Is the term restricted to non yorubas.

ianSweet:


So i guess igbos who answer Onuche actually borrowed it from we igalas, because i have seen many ppl from Enugu answering these names.
As for sinachi, what about that famous Nigerian gospel artiste from christ embassy church? SINACH. Is d full rendering of her name not Sinachukwu or Isinachukwu?

Her full name is Osinachi Kalu from Ebonyi state. Some of these names you claim to be Igala might just be ancient Igbo names which Igbo people have decided not to bear. No one is saying there are no shared names but it's illogical to think those names all came from Igala. E.g,there are names pecuiliar to my village, which you can't find outside my villa. It doesn't make it less Igbo or foreign.

genieluv:


Pls i'd like to hear of the oral traditions dat connect d igbos to Odolu....
I'm partly idoma from Ogbadibo and we also share the Odolu connection as i'm told. Some of my clans also trace their roots to Anambra area.

It's quite sightly to have non-Igbos admit to tracing their roots to somewhere in Igboland. The current trend now has been to attribute many things considered Igbo today to some other place/tribe, giving Igboland a lack of originality in its own sense.

Ihuomadinihu:

Her full name is Osinachi Kalu from Ebonyi state. Some of these names you claim to be Igala might just be ancient Igbo names which Igbo people have decided not to bear. No one is saying there are no shared names but it's illogical to think those names all came from Igala. E.g,there are names pecuiliar to my village, which you can't find outside my villa. It doesn't make it less Igbo or foreign.

Exactly. It has become a disturbing trend to attribute things in Igboland to originating from elsewhere. In other words, the modern buzz is that in Igboland it is all about copying from other tribes.

When Igbo shares certain words or traditions with another tribe, the immediate thought that follows is that the Igbo must have copied it from the other tribe, not the other way round.

tpiaP:



Are yorubas precluded from identifying as middle belt?

Is the term restricted to non yorubas.

Yorubas in d middlebelt incidentally found themselves in the region as a result of this faulty geo-political classifications of today, otherwise yorubas are not geographically nor culturally or historically middlebelt.
Middlebelt identity is more or less for d minority groups i think.

Igalas, idomas, ebiras, Tivs, Jukuns, Beroms, Nupes, Gwaris, Katafs, Taroks, Eggons and so many more are the real middlebelters

You can listen to a very inspiring episode with Jude Abaga (aka MI) at myafricapodcast.com where he give his view on his life. Worth an hour while you're stucked in traffic...

some Middle Beltans resemble Igbos a bit, not sure if they resemble Niger Deltans also.

Timothy Terungwa Washima