In various platforms people have been asking us, What is the Middle Belt? What are its geographical boundaries and who and who make up this community? Let me set the records straight today. As a territory, the Middle Belt is everything outside the core Sharia North, from Southern Borno to Southern Adamawa, Southern Kebbi, Southern Gombe, Southern Bauchi, Southern Kaduna and Southern Niger, to Plateau, Nasarawa, FCT, Kogi, Benue, Taraba, and Kwara. We make up a motley of clans that are ethnographically of Niger-Congo, Bantu, Chadic and Nilo-Ethiopic extraction. We are the descendants of the great Nok civilisation that descended from ancient Egypt and the Nilotic cultures of Meroe and Kush. We invented iron smelting before the ancient Greeks and Romans. We are the descendants of the acephalus and Republican Tiv people, various kingdoms such as the Apa, Goemai Igala and the warrior Kwararafa peoples who conquered Kano for the better part of two centuries. We were never conquered by the Fulani Jihad. Our forefathers defeated them at the famed Battle of Ushongo 1817 in the Benue Valley. Our civilisation is no less illustrious than the greatest on the continent of Africa. We are a rather quiet and shy people, unlike all these empty gongs and noisome pestilences all over Nigeria. But the fact that we are a humble people doesn't mean we can be taken for fools. Yiu under-estimate us to your mortal peril. Our ancestors were a proud and warlike race. Warriors d not make noise. Only women do (apologies for being politically incorrect). Anybody that was never conquered by Fulani Jihad and/or does not subscribe to the hegemony of the Caliphate, is a part of the Middle Belt.

We have done our ethnographic and geographical surveys. The Middle Belt is easily the most populous and the largest region by landmass in Nigeria, with an estimated 40 million people and 300,000 sq. Km. We have a lush green Savannah, with the most variegated climate of any region. Jos and Mambilla Plateaus are virtually Europe in Africa, with their near-temperate climate and flora and fauna. We can grow nearly all temperate fruits and vegetables in our region. The district of Bokkos in Plateau State alone can feed the whole of West Africa with potatoes. We can also do world scale ranching and all forms of animal husbandry in the Middle Belt. We have the richest farmlands and we are easily the bread basket of Nigeria. We feed virtually the whole country. Benue State alone can rival Israel and California in exporting citrus to world markets. The Benue Valley is extraordinarily blessed. That's why the Fulanis covet it and the entire Middle Belt so murderiusly. The largest rivers criss-cross our territory, meeting at the mystical city of Lokoja and flowing through Asaba and Onitsha -- through Biafra land -- into the sea. No desert, no Sahel.

Our people are predominantly Christian, with some Muslim converts and Traditional worshippers. If you are to fight us on a level ground, you will know what our people are made of. The Fulani are cowardly. They come by stealth of night, under cover of the armed forces and a federal government we elected, slaughtering unarmed and defenceless women, children and peasants. The brand of Islam that some of our people converted to is the tolerant and humane type, as found in Yoruba land. Our land is full of solid minerals. Before discovery of the oil people are boasting about today, for almost a century, tin mining on the Jos Plateau sustained the British colonial economy. There was electricity in Bukuru, Jos, long before the city of London had it, thanks to the ingenuity of the Amalgamated Tin Mining conglomerate.

Today, we put the whole world on notice: The Middle Belt has woken up. When our latter-day supporters of APC are ready to fight their next civil war which they have planned meticulously over the years, let it be known that we have ordered our people throughout the length and breadth of the Middle Belt, on strict instruction, never to be a part of it, as we stupidly did in 1967-70. We foolishly served as the foot soldiers of the Caliphate, to our bitter shame and regret! We lost almost a million of our people fighting our brethren the Ndigbo; fighting for a Fulani Caliphate that, unbeknownst to us, considered us to be their sworn enemies and contemptible chattel slaves all along. Ndigbo, we are on our knees, begging you to forgive us for the sins we have committed against you against God and against Humanity. Please, forgive us our monumental follies of yesteryears. You are our Umunna across the Great River. We swear by the graves of our venerable warrior ancestors, the graves of the millions of your and our people who perished in Biafra land, and we swear by everything we hold most sacred, that we shall never stand against you in life or in death. Never again! To you, the Fulani genocidaires out there, you are on your own on that next civil war that you are planning against the glorious people that are said to be the Jews of Africa. We shall never be a part of it. Instead, they will be our allies in war and in peace. And we shall see how you will ever gain a free passage again through our territory to go and commit genocide in the South this time around! The Pharisees in Judea threw a tantrum when Jesus the Christ the Holy One of Israel, healed the blind beggar on a Sabbath day. The blind man could not care a hoot. All he said was, " I once was blind, but now I see!" Let the whole world know it today: We were blind once, but now we can see. We shall never again be used as canon fodder to fight our brethren in the South. We shall serve no other gods other than Jehovah El-Elyon, Jehovah Tsidkenu, Jehovah Rapha, Jeovah Jireh, Jehovah Shammah, Jehovah Elohim. Jesus Christ of Nazereth is the King of the Middle Belt. O Shepherd of Israel, I die for love! The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob shall be our God forever! We commit the sacred lands of our ancestors to His divine protection. This is our solemn Covenant. It is Him alone that we will serve, even unto the ending of the worlds.

Send as Recieved.

I was arguing with someone that Yoruba/ijebu are also Egypt/Israel migrant that's why we have town like jebu in the bible, one of the tribe of Canaan.
Descendant of jebu are omo-jebu in English jebusite


The west Africans are descendant of Egypt/middle east migration. War would have made them run deeper into west Africa.

I see some selfish historians inventing new stories. I've bought some historical books and start my own conscience research into this.

The story of the bible is the story of our ancestors

Lagoon0:
I was arguing with someone that Yoruba/ijebu are also Egypt/Israel migrant that's why we have town like jebu in the bible, one of the tribe of Canaan.
Descendant of jebu are omo-jebu in English jebusite


The west Africans are descendant of Egypt/middle east migration. War would have made them run deeper into west Africa.

I see some selfish historians inventing new stories. I've bought some historical books and start my own conscience research into this.

The story of the bible is the story of our ancestors

You are actually right. And the igbos and the ijebu clan are traceable to Israel. Till date, they still have many similarities that include the hustling spirit, the blessing of God upon the Jews, etc

plusfield:


You are actually right. And the igbos and the ijebu clan are traceable to Israel. Till date, they still have many similarities that include the hustling spirit, the blessing of God upon the Jews, etc

Yes igbos and ijebus are synonymous with money. They're both serious hustlers.

When I complete my research I'll publish my findings

As a Middle Belter, I certified that all what the Op wrote is the TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

We are observing the reality, we are observing

plusfield:


You are actually right. And the igbos and the ijebu clan are traceable to Israel. Till date, they still have many similarities that include the hustling spirit, the blessing of God upon the Jews, etc

but sometimes I ask my self why Yoruba call their town ijabu Igbo. Where did Igbo come in

This is the day I was waiting for and I am glad in it, the middle belt had awaken. The lion had awake. The immigrant Fulanis shall exummed the remain of Usman Dan Fodio and go back to where ever they come from.

The Bibble says when the time is ripe the slaves who had taken possession of the position of the sons shall perish and the sons shall possess their possessions. The children had risen to take what rightly belong to them.
The spirit of your ancestors the great worriors are with you

This theory is nonsense. How could the Igbos be descended from the Jews when they have no genetic similarity. Many ethnic groups around the world are known for 'hustle'.

plusfield:
In various platforms people have been asking us, What is the Middle Belt? What are its geographical boundaries and who and who make up this community? Let me set the records straight today. As a territory, the Middle Belt is everything outside the core Sharia North, from Southern Borno to Southern Adamawa, Southern Kebbi, Southern Gombe, Southern Bauchi, Southern Kaduna and Southern Niger, to Plateau, Nasarawa, FCT, Kogi, Benue, Taraba, and Kwara. We make up a motley of clans that are ethnographically of Niger-Congo, Bantu, Chadic and Nilo-Ethiopic extraction. We are the descendants of the great Nok civilisation that descended from ancient Egypt and the Nilotic cultures of Meroe and Kush. We invented iron smelting before the ancient Greeks and Romans. We are the descendants of the acephalus and Republican Tiv people, various kingdoms such as the Apa, Goemai Igala and the warrior Kwararafa peoples who conquered Kano for the better part of two centuries. We were never conquered by the Fulani Jihad. Our forefathers defeated them at the famed Battle of Ushongo 1817 in the Benue Valley. Our civilisation is no less illustrious than the greatest on the continent of Africa. We are a rather quiet and shy people, unlike all these empty gongs and noisome pestilences all over Nigeria. But the fact that we are a humble people doesn't mean we can be taken for fools. Yiu under-estimate us to your mortal peril. Our ancestors were a proud and warlike race. Warriors d not make noise. Only women do (apologies for being politically incorrect). Anybody that was never conquered by Fulani Jihad and/or does not subscribe to the hegemony of the Caliphate, is a part of the Middle Belt.

We have done our ethnographic and geographical surveys. The Middle Belt is easily the most populous and the largest region by landmass in Nigeria, with an estimated 40 million people and 300,000 sq. Km. We have a lush green Savannah, with the most variegated climate of any region. Jos and Mambilla Plateaus are virtually Europe in Africa, with their near-temperate climate and flora and fauna. We can grow nearly all temperate fruits and vegetables in our region. The district of Bokkos in Plateau State alone can feed the whole of West Africa with potatoes. We can also do world scale ranching and all forms of animal husbandry in the Middle Belt. We have the richest farmlands and we are easily the bread basket of Nigeria. We feed virtually the whole country. Benue State alone can rival Israel and California in exporting citrus to world markets. The Benue Valley is extraordinarily blessed. That's why the Fulanis covet it and the entire Middle Belt so murderiusly. The largest rivers criss-cross our territory, meeting at the mystical city of Lokoja and flowing through Asaba and Onitsha -- through Biafra land -- into the sea. No desert, no Sahel.

Our people are predominantly Christian, with some Muslim converts and Traditional worshippers. If you are to fight us on a level ground, you will know what our people are made of. The Fulani are cowardly. They come by stealth of night, under cover of the armed forces and a federal government we elected, slaughtering unarmed and defenceless women, children and peasants. The brand of Islam that some of our people converted to is the tolerant and humane type, as found in Yoruba land. Our land is full of solid minerals. Before discovery of the oil people are boasting about today, for almost a century, tin mining on the Jos Plateau sustained the British colonial economy. There was electricity in Bukuru, Jos, long before the city of London had it, thanks to the ingenuity of the Amalgamated Tin Mining conglomerate.

Today, we put the whole world on notice: The Middle Belt has woken up. When our latter-day supporters of APC are ready to fight their next civil war which they have planned meticulously over the years, let it be known that we have ordered our people throughout the length and breadth of the Middle Belt, on strict instruction, never to be a part of it, as we stupidly did in 1967-70. We foolishly served as the foot soldiers of the Caliphate, to our bitter shame and regret! We lost almost a million of our people fighting our brethren the Ndigbo; fighting for a Fulani Caliphate that, unbeknownst to us, considered us to be their sworn enemies and contemptible chattel slaves all along. Ndigbo, we are on our knees, begging you to forgive us for the sins we have committed against you against God and against Humanity. Please, forgive us our monumental follies of yesteryears. You are our Umunna across the Great River. We swear by the graves of our venerable warrior ancestors, the graves of the millions of your and our people who perished in Biafra land, and we swear by everything we hold most sacred, that we shall never stand against you in life or in death. Never again! To you, the Fulani genocidaires out there, you are on your own on that next civil war that you are planning against the glorious people that are said to be the Jews of Africa. We shall never be a part of it. Instead, they will be our allies in war and in peace. And we shall see how you will ever gain a free passage again through our territory to go and commit genocide in the South this time around! The Pharisees in Judea threw a tantrum when Jesus the Christ the Holy One of Israel, healed the blind beggar on a Sabbath day. The blind man could not care a hoot. All he said was, " I once was blind, but now I see!" Let the whole world know it today: We were blind once, but now we can see. We shall never again be used as canon fodder to fight our brethren in the South. We shall serve no other gods other than Jehovah El-Elyon, Jehovah Tsidkenu, Jehovah Rapha, Jeovah Jireh, Jehovah Shammah, Jehovah Elohim. Jesus Christ of Nazereth is the King of the Middle Belt. O Shepherd of Israel, I die for love! The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob shall be our God forever! We commit the sacred lands of our ancestors to His divine protection. This is our solemn Covenant. It is Him alone that we will serve, even unto the ending of the worlds.

Send as Recieved.

Good write up....
at the bold part, those(most of them) dont see us as brethren, unless they want to use us to achieve their aim, just the way the core north have been doing to us.
and again, the yoruba people descented from god knows where, so we are not related, but as for the igbo people, we share alot with them and i agree with that......................................

Kyase:
Good write up....
at the bold part, those(most of them) dont see us as brethren, unless they want to use us to achieve their aim, just the way the core north have been doing to us.
and again, the yoruba people descented from god knows where, so we are not related, but as for the igbo people, we share alot with them and i agree with that......................................

the write up is good but I'm sure the writer is an Igbo man.

JONSYN7154:
the write up is good but I'm sure the writer is an Igbo man.

sure thing , He said "send as received"

dem wan massage our ego

Kyase:
sure thing , He said "send as received"

dem wan massage our ego

no body need a soothsayer to tell the north the middle belt are not with the core North again.

JONSYN7154:
no body need a soothsayer to tell the north the middle belt are not with the core North again.

sure thing but the south wants to adopt us, particularly the south west, because of 2023, just check their media headlines, "middle belt and southern leaders meet to dicuss A or B"

Kyase:
sure thing but the south wants to adopt us, particularly the south west, because of 2023, just check their media headlines, "middle belt and southern leaders meet to dicuss A or B"

southern leaders know that its middle belt that determine who win the presidential election. I hope the come to a compromise. To me I prefer southeast to have an alliance with the middle belt.

JONSYN7154:
the write up is good but I'm sure the writer is an Igbo man.

You too like Igbo people.. You are obsessed about them..

Warripikine:

You too like Igbo people.. You are obsessed about them..

lol. my wife is Igbo, from mbieri imo state.

JONSYN7154:
southern leaders know that its middle belt that determine who win the presidential election. I hope the come to a compromise. To me I prefer southeast to have an alliance with the middle belt.

gbam, have been saying this over and over, South EAST are trusted allies compared to SW, the south west can easily go back and start the romance with the north, check OBJ tenure, and what he did to the middlebelt people. we the Tiv people never forgive OBJ

JONSYN7154:
lol. my wife is Igbo, from mbieri imo state.

You chose well.
#igboamaka

Warripikine:
You chose well. #igboamaka

yes o

JONSYN7154:
the write up is good but I'm sure the writer is an Igbo man.

I think you doubt him because of. his impeccable English It's obvious he is from the middle belt because of his grasp of. its history

Which is not wrong after all... except if u don't like the intuition and the lesson learnt!

Any tribe can help spread a message who does it is inconsequential.

Kyase:
sure thing , He said "send as received"

dem wan massage our ego

Kyase:


gbam, have been saying this over and over, South EAST are trusted allies compared to SW, the south west can easily go back and start the romance with the north, check OBJ tenure, and what he did to the middlebelt people. we the Tiv people never forgive OBJ

Talking about obasanjo reminds me of Afonja

tungamaje:


I think you doubt him because of. his impeccable English It's obvious he is from the middle belt because of his grasp of. its history

anybody can know the history of a particular place if want.

Never4getU:
Which is not wrong after all... except if u don't like the intuition and the lesson learnt!

Any tribe can help spread a message who does it is inconsequential.

I no talk say e bad, but the motives behind the "spreading"

JONSYN7154:
Talking about obasanjo reminds me of Afonja

lol, actually read about this afonja yesterday, two different story lines but same message

Kyase:
lol, actually read about this afonja yesterday, two different story lines but same message

did you read it through Wikipedia? try and read there.

If you like sacrifice all your body part, the south will never accept you, na Aboki you be and nothing good can come from an aboki so say the south.
Gos bless the northern oligarchs.

JONSYN7154:
did you read it through Wikipedia? try and read there.

nope, one actually here on nairaland, the other for one site like that. will read wiki own this nigt

Kyase:

nope, one actually here on nairaland, the other for one site like that. will read wiki own this nigt

OK.

Lagoon0:
I was arguing with someone that Yoruba/ijebu are also Egypt/Israel migrant that's why we have town like jebu in the bible, one of the tribe of Canaan.
Descendant of jebu are omo-jebu in English jebusite


The west Africans are descendant of Egypt/middle east migration. War would have made them run deeper into west Africa.

I see some selfish historians inventing new stories. I've bought some historical books and start my own conscience research into this.

The story of the bible is the story of our ancestors

So the Ijebus’ could be latter day Jebusites?

Interesting stuff!

plusfield:
In various platforms people have been asking us, What is the Middle Belt? What are its geographical boundaries and who and who make up this community? Let me set the records straight today. As a territory, the Middle Belt is everything outside the core Sharia North, from Southern Borno to Southern Adamawa, Southern Kebbi, Southern Gombe, Southern Bauchi, Southern Kaduna and Southern Niger, to Plateau, Nasarawa, FCT, Kogi, Benue, Taraba, and Kwara. We make up a motley of clans that are ethnographically of Niger-Congo, Bantu, Chadic and Nilo-Ethiopic extraction. We are the descendants of the great Nok civilisation that descended from ancient Egypt and the Nilotic cultures of Meroe and Kush. We invented iron smelting before the ancient Greeks and Romans. We are the descendants of the acephalus and Republican Tiv people, various kingdoms such as the Apa, Goemai Igala and the warrior Kwararafa peoples who conquered Kano for the better part of two centuries. We were never conquered by the Fulani Jihad. Our forefathers defeated them at the famed Battle of Ushongo 1817 in the Benue Valley. Our civilisation is no less illustrious than the greatest on the continent of Africa. We are a rather quiet and shy people, unlike all these empty gongs and noisome pestilences all over Nigeria. But the fact that we are a humble people doesn't mean we can be taken for fools. Yiu under-estimate us to your mortal peril. Our ancestors were a proud and warlike race. Warriors d not make noise. Only women do (apologies for being politically incorrect). Anybody that was never conquered by Fulani Jihad and/or does not subscribe to the hegemony of the Caliphate, is a part of the Middle Belt.

We have done our ethnographic and geographical surveys. The Middle Belt is easily the most populous and the largest region by landmass in Nigeria, with an estimated 40 million people and 300,000 sq. Km. We have a lush green Savannah, with the most variegated climate of any region. Jos and Mambilla Plateaus are virtually Europe in Africa, with their near-temperate climate and flora and fauna. We can grow nearly all temperate fruits and vegetables in our region. The district of Bokkos in Plateau State alone can feed the whole of West Africa with potatoes. We can also do world scale ranching and all forms of animal husbandry in the Middle Belt. We have the richest farmlands and we are easily the bread basket of Nigeria. We feed virtually the whole country. Benue State alone can rival Israel and California in exporting citrus to world markets. The Benue Valley is extraordinarily blessed. That's why the Fulanis covet it and the entire Middle Belt so murderiusly. The largest rivers criss-cross our territory, meeting at the mystical city of Lokoja and flowing through Asaba and Onitsha -- through Biafra land -- into the sea. No desert, no Sahel.

Our people are predominantly Christian, with some Muslim converts and Traditional worshippers. If you are to fight us on a level ground, you will know what our people are made of. The Fulani are cowardly. They come by stealth of night, under cover of the armed forces and a federal government we elected, slaughtering unarmed and defenceless women, children and peasants. The brand of Islam that some of our people converted to is the tolerant and humane type, as found in Yoruba land. Our land is full of solid minerals. Before discovery of the oil people are boasting about today, for almost a century, tin mining on the Jos Plateau sustained the British colonial economy. There was electricity in Bukuru, Jos, long before the city of London had it, thanks to the ingenuity of the Amalgamated Tin Mining conglomerate.

Today, we put the whole world on notice: The Middle Belt has woken up. When our latter-day supporters of APC are ready to fight their next civil war which they have planned meticulously over the years, let it be known that we have ordered our people throughout the length and breadth of the Middle Belt, on strict instruction, never to be a part of it, as we stupidly did in 1967-70. We foolishly served as the foot soldiers of the Caliphate, to our bitter shame and regret! We lost almost a million of our people fighting our brethren the Ndigbo; fighting for a Fulani Caliphate that, unbeknownst to us, considered us to be their sworn enemies and contemptible chattel slaves all along. Ndigbo, we are on our knees, begging you to forgive us for the sins we have committed against you against God and against Humanity. Please, forgive us our monumental follies of yesteryears. You are our Umunna across the Great River. We swear by the graves of our venerable warrior ancestors, the graves of the millions of your and our people who perished in Biafra land, and we swear by everything we hold most sacred, that we shall never stand against you in life or in death. Never again! To you, the Fulani genocidaires out there, you are on your own on that next civil war that you are planning against the glorious people that are said to be the Jews of Africa. We shall never be a part of it. Instead, they will be our allies in war and in peace. And we shall see how you will ever gain a free passage again through our territory to go and commit genocide in the South this time around! The Pharisees in Judea threw a tantrum when Jesus the Christ the Holy One of Israel, healed the blind beggar on a Sabbath day. The blind man could not care a hoot. All he said was, " I once was blind, but now I see!" Let the whole world know it today: We were blind once, but now we can see. We shall never again be used as canon fodder to fight our brethren in the South. We shall serve no other gods other than Jehovah El-Elyon, Jehovah Tsidkenu, Jehovah Rapha, Jeovah Jireh, Jehovah Shammah, Jehovah Elohim. Jesus Christ of Nazereth is the King of the Middle Belt. O Shepherd of Israel, I die for love! The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob shall be our God forever! We commit the sacred lands of our ancestors to His divine protection. This is our solemn Covenant. It is Him alone that we will serve, even unto the ending of the worlds.

Send as Recieved.

Before I talk about this nice write up, which group wrote this ?