Caseless:
you're just not so brilliant, but too emotional with your posts.

ibadantiti:


PIQUED by the generalisation of all states in the northern part of the country as one entity call North, the Association of Middle Belt Ethnic Nationalities (ASOMBEN) said it is wrong to lump Middle Belt with the North saying the old Northern Region and all the other 3 region ceased to exist when General Aguiyi Ironsi abolished them through Decree 34 on 24th May, 1966.


The Acting Chairman of ASOMBEN, Barrister Sule Kwasau who stated this at the association special meeting with 2014 National Conference Delegates in Jos, Plateau State said the erroneous believe that the Middle Belt is part of the larger north should be discarded adding that the people of Middle Belt had since stop addressing themselves as part of the north.

“Whenever people refer to the “North”, they tend to include Middle Belt of Nigeria. We wish to put it on record that the old Northern Region and all the other 3 former regions ceased to exist when General Aguiyi Ironsi abolished them via Decree 34 on 24 the May 1966.

“We therefore do not call ourselves Northerners any more. We either use our constitutional State names now, or we use the North Central zone, which should have been appropriately named the Middle Belt”.

On the ultimatum by some northern youths to the Igbo to relocate from the north within 90 days, the acting chairman of ASOMBEN said what the so-called “Arewa” youths did was tantamount to treason and called on the security agencies to prosecute them accordingly.

Barrister Kwasau said the association strongly believed that restructuring is the best option for solving myriad of problems confronting Nigeria and called for the implementation of the 2014 conference report adding that any attempt to block its implementation should be resisted by all patriotic Nigerians.

On aggression of Fulani herdsmen in some States in the Middle Belt, Barrister Kwasau who said no concrete response from federal government to tame the ugly incident added that no one has deemed it fit to call for the disarmament of the killers.

He implored all states in the Middle Belt to emulate Ekiti and Benue States who had passed anti grazing law and charged Nigerian Police, the Ministry of Interior and the Directorate of State Security to wake up to their responsibilities of protecting the lives and properties of Nigeria citizens.



http://tribuneonlineng.com/wrong-lump-middle-belt-north%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BF-%E2%80%95asomben-chairman/

genieluv:


Well, that's your opinion and headache.

Sapiosexuality:
I get you but your link is begging the question. Geographical locations are based on geographic facts not Political pronouncements. In Geography, the word 'Middle-belt' does not exist as a position.

We know it is politics. The same men who created North Central also created a South South, a region that doesn't exist on any map in this world. The real question is, why North Central? Are states we call North Central more north than south?

Caseless:
just like we have N,E, S, W on the world map, show us middle-belt.

ollah1:



North America

I guess they are violent as well

Caseless:
just like we have N,E, S, W on the world map, show us middle-belt.

Caseless:
there's no state in the north that's not home to hausas. When you want to count how the north has ruled for 30 years , you'll count the 'middlebelt' , but when it comes to your stupid agitation, you separate them.
Middlebelt is a narrow stretch within a region.

Gravas:

Thanks. That is what we have been saying here. We say no to the evil categorization of North Central. We say to political subjugation. We want to carve our own identity and change our political destiny.

Gravas:

Thanks. That is what we have been saying here. We say no to the evil categorization of North Central. We say no to political subjugation. We want to carve our own identity and change our political destiny.

20CRATES:
Ohh daamn

Like this, if you are from somewhere in this map.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4834857_fbimg1480140941019_jpeg46a496df4b38f92a6cf269d381c34624

Sapiosexuality:
But is there any geographical location known as middle belt?

newbornmacho:
Sahara desert barren arewanistan republic of Islamic terrorism loading for Hausa Fulani. Hausa Fulani feudalists and oligarchs must carry the market they have bought. I swear these developments just dey sweet me for belle.
By the way why aboki dem dey avoid this thread like plague? Abeg somebody call fulanmafia, itsmeaboki, APC123, passingshot, fizznation vedaxcool

Flets:
You can hate the style and guts of Nnamdi Kanu but you cannot deny that he has hammered common sense into the heads of docile Nigerians.

All of a sudden, the hitherto politically correct cowards have found their voices. Nigeria's only hope is true federalism and this truth is as old as Nigeria's independence.

janellemonae:


I can't believe pple are considering this break up. I love this oduduwa republic flag though, but plz warri and edo are part of the southsouth. They already broke away as Midwest region in 1964. Awolowo willingly gave them their region cos dts what they wanted. They are not part of us.

Koleman:
finally some sense. that wrong assumption needs to be corrected. many do no realize even north east and north west are completely different with different languages and cultures. not to talk of the middle belt.

quid:

givbitcoin:


you people will be dealt a very heavy blow if you don't change

janellemonae:


I can't believe pple are considering this break up. I love this oduduwa republic flag though, but plz warri and edo are part of the southsouth. They already broke away as Midwest region in 1964. Awolowo willingly gave them their region cos dts what they wanted. They are not part of us.

Koleman:
finally some sense. that wrong assumption needs to be corrected. many do no realize even north east and north west are completely different with different languages and cultures. not to talk of the middle belt.

20CRATES:
Ohh daamn

Like this, if you are from somewhere in this map.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4834857_fbimg1480140941019_jpeg46a496df4b38f92a6cf269d381c34624

KalahariMan:


Do you now Obasanjo was the one who coined south south?
Before that there was nothing of such?

Most of those states there in SS are Biafra

janellemonae:


I can't believe pple are considering this break up. I love this oduduwa republic flag though, but plz warri and edo are part of the southsouth. They already broke away as Midwest region in 1964. Awolowo willingly gave them their region cos dts what they wanted. They are not part of us.

Frisbee:


They will simply be "Central Region"

Not North Central. They are simply in the center.

TheKingIsHere:


Stop insulting the black race. As small and developed as Spain is, there are several elements that still want to go their separate ways despite speaking the same language. That's mankind for you

newbornmacho:
Sahara desert barren arewanistan republic of Islamic terrorism loading for Hausa Fulani. Hausa Fulani feudalists and oligarchs must carry the market they have bought. I swear these developments just dey sweet me for belle.
By the way why aboki dem dey avoid this thread like plague? Abeg somebody call fulanmafia, itsmeaboki, APC123, passingshot, fizznation vedaxcool

Nword22:


Man no heediot will cross Niger bridge to claim warri...dream on fools.

ednut1:
wont work, lagos alone the badagry/dahomey/egun guys go dey scream marginalisation, the awori go wan claim don, the lagos island pple go say dey are d real Lagosians etc. Black man no just get sense

Nword22:


Man no heediot will cross Niger bridge to claim warri...dream on fools.