The old regional system of govt did not favour we from minority groups.

Hajiya Gambo Wasaba did all her campaigns and her agitation in Hausa language and not her own native Nupe language simply because hausas controlled the Northern region and she must blend in to gain acceptance.
This was also same case with Margaret Ekpo.

I bet if Funmilayo Ransome Kut had been a Bendelite, she would have functioned from Lagos or Ibadan which were the centres of the old western region and not Warri or Benin.

Get d difference Nitwitt
We minorities were like slaves in the old regional govt system, but thank God today nothing like that anymore.

PreciousBro:


My dear if I were you, I'd hide my face in shame, it is clear you have nothing to bring forth. You confuse yourself with the bolded as though its a basis for argument, the article even gave credence more about her igbo side and nothing at all about her mother's efik ethnicity save for the fact that she was born in cross-river. Read below again.


"She later joined the decolonization-leading National Council
of Nigeria and the Cameroons [b] (NCNC), [as a platform to
represent a marginalized group.
In the 1950s, she also teamed up with Funmilayo Ransome-
Kuti to protest killings at an Enugu coal mine; the victims
were leaders protesting colonial practices at the mine. In
1953, Ekpo was nominated by the NCNC to the regional
House of Chiefs, and in 1954 she established the Aba
Township Women's Association.
As

Margaret's activities were more or less based in Igbo areas simply because she acknowledged the fact that Igbos were the major ethnic group in the old eastern region, so her influence on Igbos would make more influence in the region, nothing else.

This was the same case with late Hajiya Gambo Wasaba, she also deserves to be on this list.
Wasaba is a Nupe woman but she functioned from Kaduna, Zaria & Kano because Kaduna was the centre of the old regional northern region of which her own Nupe people were also part of.
The Emir of Kano even had problems with Wasaba because of her fierce feminism strategies and he banned her from entrance into Kano for a period of time.
Wasaba needed to function more in hausa land because Hausas were d major group in old Northern region and not because she had any attachment to Hausa.
Till date Wasaba's family house remains in Zaria and all her children have been naturalized as indigenes of Zaria, Kaduna state but that doesn't make them hausa.
Pls let us learn to get some facts right. We are not illiterates here.

kaura5000:
This idiot is calling the tribe and people that produce the most richest men in africa beggars.. are you out of your senses? By the way dangote can buy all gwaris and their belongings if you monetize them.. mumu

Animal like u.
Why don't Dangote start from feeeing the millions of almajiris littered all over Nigeria?
We middlebelters feed your almajiri children as they come to beg in our cities.
Tell Dangote to come and pack all the hausa almajiri children from Jos, Minna, Abuja, Lafia, Bida, Wukari e.t.c before i can take u any serious.

U should even be ashamed that d richest african is a hausa man, when more than half of ur people are roadside beggars, almajiris and illiterates. nonsense!

genieluv:
What did the Igbo nation do to honour or immortalize late Margaret Ekpo of blessed memories? u ppl should not just stop at asserting her igboness because of her paternity.

The airport in Calabar is named after Margaret Ekpo, there are roadways and halls named after Margaret Ekpo in Calabar to show how the Efik people cherish her
What did Igbo people do to remember her? i am asking all the igbos in the house....mtcheww
All u people do is claim!

What the OP has said remains the fact.
Ibibio/Efik influence made Margaret Ekpo who she was. The only part of her that is Igbo is her father's sperm as IanSweet puts it.....LoL

(No offence to my igbo peeps pls), i am also of mixed igbo origin, infact just like Margaret, my own father was a product of his Igbo mother because his own Benue father died early too.

My sister abeg help me ask them oo.

Seriously, this stupid Nigerian culture where all the credit goes to the father is very very stupid.
The mother owns the child as equally as the father does.
U will see the father's people reject the mother and her child when the father dies, but tomorrow when the mother has managed to raise the child on her own and the child becomes succesful, all the stupid father's people will come out to start laying claims and the same uncles will sit down to collect the bride price if the child is a female.

Where were Margaret's father's igbo people when her mother was struggling to raise her up?
If Margaret's father's people were truly responsible, they would have collected Margaret from the mother when her father died, but they didn't, but when she became succesful, all of them wanted to lay claims.
Thank God Margaret later married from her mother's side to further bind her lineage to her Efik-Ibibio roots, but see Margaret, her father's side even enjoyed more of her than her mother's side because almost all her works were based in Aba, and Aba women benefitted more from her.

PreciousBro:


You are uneducated and most of ,bias and twisted in the mind. You lack the antecedents of life.

How did you jump all the threads before mine that was clearly to ease the tribal nonsense ensuing ? If the rubbish I quoted is your formal yardstick and analysis to determine one's origin then you re better left in a tinapa cage.

Mother tongue? So you think her mom's language is the mother tongue.

And she didn't spend in reasonable amount of her growing years in aba or did you skip the original post and hurriedly quote me in defiance to your ethnic group.

Seriously i used to have respect for u igbos as a middlebelter but it seems that respect is now dwindling because of the reactive, hypertensive and silly character of u igbos sometimes.

If u read d quote well u will clearly see that i was just trying to pull the legs and make a slight joke with the person i quoted and not deserving of the insults u are throwing at me u silly scallywag.

Do u actually know what mother's tongue/native language means? It purely means the language u first learn from birth and have fluency first.
Margaret spent her entire childhood & teenagehood in Calabar with her Efik mother, so she learnt to speak Efik first as her 1st language before she probably later learnt Igbo due to her later works in Aba.
Margaret had married first before she and her husband migrated to settle in Aba.
try to read and comprehend u silly man before u start reacting at the slightest deemed threat.

kaura5000:
See this cannibals... whats is it worth to claim berom and gwari.. when I know I surpassed you guys in every indices... ibb is not hausa he is gwari for saying gwari are close to berom.. you should tell that to late senator dahiru awaisu kuta and millions of muslim gwari who outnumbered the Christians... fools

U must be a very useless monkey.
How do u hausa-fulanis surpass we middlebelters? in begging & almajiranchi? So because of Dahiru Awaisu Kuta u conclude that Gbagyi muslims outnumber the christians? then u must be an slowpoke. What about people like David Umaru and Shem Zagbayi?
David Umaru contested governorship and won if not for rigging in 2007 elections but today he is a senator while Zagbayi was an ex deputy governor now acting Senator. So u see that Gbagyi christians still surpass the muslims in the politics of Niger state.
stupid almajiri beggar.

CaptainOjemba:
You seem to have grown up with Margaret to have know that she was more Efik than Igbo, she doesn't have paternal uncles and cousins?when she was living at Aba, hope she was using Efik to communicate with Umu Nwanyi Aba? I see your write up as delusion inspired

Margaret probably learnt Igbo later in life as her works were based in Aba, but her native and first language remained Efik.

The write up noted that Margaret had a huge set back in her education and life at the time of her father's death. If her father's uncles stood by her, it wouldn't have been as bad as it was.

kaura5000:
Guy wetin be middlebelt? Despite this election your eyes never shine? I bet you hausas and gbagyi have more in common than you berom cannibals... whats the thing in common between an ibb a gbagyi and jonah jang a berom.. you guys are taken this middle belt thing toofar..middlebelt start and end with plateau benue parts of taraba,,..and lastly ladi kwali represents northern nigeria which she is proud of.. stop this attachee.. berom cannibals and gwari are not brothers

Hey Mr Man, stop this trash.
I am a pure Gbagyi girl from Kubwaru, Karu, Nasarawa state. We were formerly part of Plateau state, so we and Plateau people are very related.

For ur info, IBB is not a gwari man, he is a hausa settler who claims Minna as his origin just as many hausas do in Minna.
They migrate from Sokoto, Zamfara or Katsina and come to Minna and start claiming indigeneship and because many of my Gwari brothers in Minna are muslims, they accept and intermarry these hausas.

But that doesn't change the fact that we Gwari christians are more than the Gbagyi muslims.
In Fct, in Nasarawa and Southern Kaduna, most of we the Gbagyis, Gbaris are christians. It is in Niger state where we share a 50/50 population.

We gbagyis share more in common with our fellow middlebelt tribes (Nupe, Igala, Eggon, Alago, Berom) more than any Hausa-fulani, pls never make that mistake!

PreciousBro:
Why are some uneducated kids in the house talking so recklessly and vehemently trying to remove Margaret Ekpo's paternity influence(which is naturally her identity) ?

I'm really tired of you bigoted un enlightened fools always harsh towards the igbos. What is it? Fear? Envy?

In the bid to discredit and sidelined the influence of her igbo- genes you all fail at biology.

Stupid lots.

Hey, take it easy. U are the one over reacting here.
Nobody is trying to take away Margaret Ekpo's paternity away from her, all they are stating is the obvious.
Your paternity is not what determines who u are in life. Your upbringing, your maternity and your spouse (marriage) affects u just as your paternity affects u. So it's 3 odds against one

Margaret Ekpo's upbringing - Efik-Ibibio
Her Maternity - Efik-Ibibio
Her marriage. - Efik-Ibibio
Her native language/mother's tongue. - Efik
Her Paternity. - Igbo

4 against 1, so Ibibio-Efik wins. LoL *winks*
(just pulling your legs)

Wow! am very proud to be a Gbagyi girl
Ladi Doseyi Kwali, God bless ur soul wherever u are for representing the Gbagyi nation, the whole middlebelt region and Nigerian women at large. U are more than an inspiration to me.

Can u imagine how far one can go in life just with a simple handwork?

ChristyG:
now u are not making sense,u are not even Yoruba yet u believe u have a right to speak for them because of some fake identity u call middle belt,it is funny u refer to the SW yorubas as tribalistic like dose from the middle belt arent tribalistic or nigeria is not a tribalistic country yet the kwara yorubas refuse to marry their neighbors in large numbers as it should be,u always have a way of downplaying the influence d SW yorubas have on their northern brothers,I have noticed that on ur middle belt post.the fact dat u have iota of proof to show,u chating jargons,the yorubas from dose axis I know want to move away from ur useless middle belt identity cos it never favours them except from when it comes to politics.they are not like ur Jos people that have abandoned their language for Hausa,so u can't speak for them. from this ur thread,how many yorubas have u seen confirming ur illogical theory?even they exist,they are in d tiny minority.when u have reasonable proof and also examples of people with those kind of identity then ur theory will make sense,u can continue looking for reasons why kwara yorubas don't inter marry with their neighbors while they deny their heritage,sho gbo,Wa pe nbe

Madam, pls Nowenuse is very correct in a way because i have an Ilorin friend whom we schooled together, this girl had a hausa name, islamic name and a yoruba name, and i'd ask her, ''which tribe are u?'', but she will tell me she is Ilorin by tribe, and i'll be like ''is Ilorin a tribe or a city'' and she would be confused, sometimes she will say she is yoruba but her mother is partly fulani.....so what about your hausa name? and she will say her grandfather is hausa.
Even me sef get confused? how can ur grandfather be Hausa as u say but u now u say u are yoruba?
So pls i really believe Nowenuse about that identity crisis of Ilorin people, at least from what i expereinced from Zainab my old friend.

Fulaman198:

LoL, why d look? does it sound silly?

I never knew d difference btw d pure fulanis and d hausanized fulanis b4 now.
Am also getting a clearer picture d major area of misunderstanding btw northern n southern muslims.
so am.not really wrong sayin am learning som tins here .

Hmm, quite interesting and informative thread, am learning some things here.
Pls Moderatora i think this thread ought to make front page. tnks.

PassingShot:


Buhari won Adamawa in 2011. What will make him lose there in 2015?

GEJ might just nick Ekiti and Ondo but definitely not Oyo. I am from Oyo state, so I know what I'm talking.

GEJ won't get 40% in Ogun snd Lagos. Bookmark this thread.

Pls Mr, get ur facts right. Buhari did not win in Adamawa in 2011. GEJ won there with 60% votes.

Dont forget that Adamawa is a christian majority state.

Christ embassy (Loveworld) rocks...see the wwy so many of our gospel artistes are repping.

My best gospel artiste remains CHRIS MORGAN OCHOGWU.........I mean this man is just too good.

**Singing**
i'll do any thing for u,
i'll do anything u want me to do eh,
cos i love u more than anything,
cos i love u more than anyone,
And i'll live my life for u,
No matter what it takes, i do, i do, forever er er er...........

Abeg someone who loves this song also should join me....

When it comes to handsomeness, dark skinned guys are even more preferable to many ladies.
I worked with a modelling group, so i know what am saying

Here are personal friends of mine who contested for Mr Ideal Nigeria (the first and 4th one). The four of them are all from Benue. The 4th is now even continuing with his modelling career in the US.

Light skinned & dark skinned fellows abound in almost all places of Nigeria....'infact if anyone is talking of light skin, it is d fulanis and Shuwa arabs of northern Nigeria that has the largest percentage of light skinned people, followed by Akwa ibom/cross river ppl.

See this guy, Bem Richards Katsina Alu, he is frm Benue, infact all of them in the pictures below are from Benue except his wife Funke Shonibare.

[quote author=bigfrancis21 post=29502069]
Isn't the guy in the picture above you claimed is from the middle belt the guy who represented Abuja as Mr Abuja in Mr Nigeria Universe 2013?, whose real name is Uzoma Nwaejike, an Igbo guy?

OMG! is that really Uzoma Ejike? I personally knew him in Lagos....we attended the same secondary school and were even classmates. Am really surprised to see him here.
Well Mr Big Francis, the o.p might not be wrong in a way because Uzoma's mother is idoma from Benue, i knew him personally, very well.
i believ the o.p might hav mistook him because he represented FCT in d Mr Nigeria contest. Fct is a middlebelt area after all.
Hmm so surprised, Uzoma of all ppl....wonders shall neva end

faveniska:
Yes, middlebelt has good looking guys. Most of my friends are from Benue and they all look gud.

You got it right.....our guys are very handsome, our ladies the most beautiful.
proudly a Jos girl.
@ O.p, u tried, but i hav som guys from Jos more handsome than d ones u posted

Nowenuse:
Joseph Benjamin & Darey Art Alade
Nollywood actor and Nigerian musician
Both from Kogi state

This Benjamin Joseph is a hell of a handsome guy.
the most handsome actor in Nigeria

This thread is supposed to make frontpage...moderators do ur work