₦airaland Forum

Ifesinachi22:
For crying out loud, Nigeria is divided into two: Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria. An average Northerner does not know this is NW or NC or NE. What he knows is North. North is North as long as you speak Hausa. President can come from any region and they will happily vote him.
If you come down to the south, we keep dividing ourselves, your SW, am SE or He's SS. For God's sake South is South.
We're more Educated, civilized, richer and have more technical nohow than this people putting us in loggerheads.
We're still leading them, since the return of democracy in 1999 South has been President for 14 years, if Buhari finishes First tenure North will have 6years, even if Buhari is elected again that will give North 10 years. We have 4 years ahead of them.

Please let's put our house in other, South is South.

You are wrong. North is not always north. Most times, the north central and parts of the north east vote differently from the northwest, this was clearly seen in 2011 elections when all hausa fulani areas of the north voted for Buhari but most north central and northern minority areas voted for Goodluck.

I am from the north central, I speak hausa but I do not see myself the same with the hausa fulanis in any manner. I strongly believe in an independent destiny for the middlebelt people and I know my generation must pursue this, since the older generation of middlebelt elders and leaders have failed us and sold our destiny to the core-north.

Vessi:
me too.. he doesn't seem pro-fulani like buhari and el-rufai.

kind of cool.

similarly, yar'adua was relatively unknown with no history with efcc or ethnic comments, and he turned out to be best president since 1999.

I'll give dakwambo a chance, he has a clean page and has never been a party prostitute, switching sides upandan.

sai dakwambo 2019.

This is because Dankwambo is not a fulani man. He is a Tera by tribe from Yamaltu/deba

Cooly100:
See how this thread won't make 2 pages...as the afonjas go into hiding...

..but don't worry...I will smoke them out with Story about Kanu, IPOB, Biafra or Operation Python dance 3...

Lol @ smoke them out

soberdrunk:
Blacks sha!! So King Gezo allowed for his fellow black to be packaged as xmas hamper for the delight of a 'White queen' Africa's biggest problem was and is still "AFRICANS"

His fellow black or his slave? Didnt you read that he raided her town and captured them as slaves, sacrificing them one after the other to their gods?

taylor88:
Sounds somehow


If called straight it sounds like the Igbo word
*rabanyiotu*

Meaning dey fvck us

LoL

EternalTruths:
Pls link me up with this story so that I can read.

Truly love stories like this

There is no story like that, what he said is absolute trash. Read my reply to him

Nowenuse:
Pls If you dont know anything, can you just keep your ignorance to yourself and stop spreading rubbish here? At what town or village did Igbos and fulani jihadists ever fight?

Igbos never had any contact with fulani jihadists, not when the Wukaris (Jukuns), Tivs, Idomas & Igalas who are north of Igbo land repelled the fulani jihad and defeated the jihadists.

Modibbo Adama and his descendants only conquered parts of Adamawa & Taraba and formed the Yola, Mubi, Muri & Gassol emirates, they could not go beyond southern Taraba! i. e Jukun/Tiv boundary! So, how did they ever come in contact with Igbos?

You better stop embarrassing yourself here!

The only southern peoples who ever fought wars with fulanis were the Ibadan (who also repelled them) and the Esan who repelled them (fulani led Nupe jihadists) after they had conquered and islamized Auchi and wanted to go southwards.

c733d:
Modibbo Adamawa a subordinate of Utman Dan Fodio made two jihadist attempts in the early 19th century into the Bight of Biafra but was brutally defeated on both occasions. The Igbos have always suffered violence and attacks from the Fulanis but somehow the Igbos always prevail.

Pls If you dont know anything, can you just keep your ignorance to yourself and stop spreading rubbish here? At what town or village did Igbos and fulani jihadists ever fight?

Igbos never had any contact with fulani jihadists, not when the Wukaris (Jukuns), Tivs, Idomas & Igalas who are north of Igbo land repelled the fulani jihad and defeated the jihadists.

Modibbo Adama and his descendants only conquered parts of Adamawa & Taraba and formed the Yola, Mubi, Muri & Gassol emirates, they could not go beyond southern Taraba! i. e Jukun/Tiv boundary! So, how did they ever come in contact with Igbos?

You better stop embarrassing yourself here!

The only southern peoples who ever fought wars with fulanis were the Ibadan (who also repelled them) and the Esan who repelled them (fulani led Nupe jihadists) after they had conquered and islamized Auchi and wanted to go southwards.

BENARI:
Which plateau?

Abeg make we hear word!!!

Bunch of lazy cowards.

Have finished drinking and womanizing?
You think is when you kill 3 Hausa fulani after they've slaughtered 500 of your people, then you started shouting reprisal.

Make that useless boast to somebody that never visits plateau.
Like Benue like plateau, same for Kogi; All of them are bunch of noise makers and caliphate asslickers who have no bearing. They simply respond with a slap to the wrist after been mutilated.

Plateau my ass. please don't make me angry!!!!!

That guy made a mistake, he shouldn't have said Plateau, but he should have specified his tribe. There are some tribes and areas that fulanis cannot mess with on the Plateau, likewise there are others who they can mess with and go free. Same thing with southern kaduna.
Fulanis always pick on the weaker tribes, and since there is no solidarity among all the tribes, the stronger ones do not offer help to the weaker ones.

tiredoflife:
You said it all
From Maiduguri to kano to Benue
The blood of southerners flowed
Kill igbos kill igbos was the chant
Benue people killed so much
They see themselves as northerners first before anything
Now the time is right
They are paying back

There will be no civil war
Benue state will be a Fulani state whether they like it or not

Then after Benue state is overtaken? Where next? Enugu state. You don't know that middlebelt people are the ones waging the full wrought of hausa-fulani expansion against the south ba?

If not for Benue-Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Igala kingdom and Wukari kingdom (Taraba) that were able to repel and defeat Danfodio's jihad, don't you know that the entire Nigeria would have been controlled by the Sokoto sultanate by now?
Infact your own Igbo people would have been the easiest to islamize due to the clannish settings of your people in the past

Chukazu:
This middle belt guys should stick to one side ...are they playing spies for the North?

They were part of Northern senators that told Buhari to jettison national confab report.

Today they are with the North , tomorrow they are with South, bunch of Confucius

What about the yoruba muslims (your fellow southerners) who will act as if nothing is wrong, smile and nod their heads claiming to be with the south, but at the end of the day still support Hausa fulanis? Which is worse?

hatchy:
Many people especially Nigerians are ignorant of Isreal as a Jewish nation and that they hate Christians and Christianity.
Isreal is a racist country that looks down on blacks like no other country.

Stupid people.

And so does Saudi Arabia and other Arabs trample upon Black people as shit

Deadlytruth:
As a native of Akoko-Edo, I hereby acknowledge the 99.999999℅ accuracy of PhysicsQED's assertions about Akoko-Edo. I suspect that despite being a Bini guy, he has actually taken his time to visit and study Akoko-Edo people directly rather than reliance on hearsays and online articles as most other commentators here obviously guilty of.

As for your assertions about Akoko-Edo, I have decided to take the pain to supply you with details of all the nuances that relate directly to your claims:

1. The Akoko-Edo guy you encountered in Uniben was obviously born and brought up in Yorubaland with his parents never allowing or taking him home to stay long enough to familiarize with members of his extended family to learn his actual origin. Moreover, his parents might have before his eyes as a kid been capitalizing on their Akoko-Edo origin to describe themselves as Yorubas just to remain relevant and more acceptable to Yorubas among whom they live in Lagos or Ibadan. A lot of Akoko-Edos residing in Yorubaland do this deliberately and I personally discourage it as its benefit of attracting immediate gratification from Yorubas is nothing compared with the identity crisis it leads to in the end. But thank you for rescuing him from the jaws of such extreme ignorance.

2. Akoko-Edo people actually have no ancestral mix with Yorubas. It only appears so due to the quite heavy Yoruba influence cum identity crisis wrought on them politically as a result of being under the Yoruba majority's absolute control of the instruments of political power in the Old Western Region.
Before colonization, the people were not identified with the "Akoko" tag as it was totally alien to them. They only came to adopt it for political administrative purpose when their diversity could not be represented by any single name they might choose from among themselves.
In the pre-colonial era they had and still have towns and villages with names reflecting Edo in either spelling or meaning, e.g. Ekpe-Edo compressed to Ekpedo. There has however never been any of the 56 towns and villages with the "Akoko" tag in its name unlike it is with virtually all Ondo-Akoko towns, e.g. Oka-Akoko, Oba-Akoko, Isua-Akoko, Ikare-Akoko, Epinmi-Akoko, Ikeram-Akoko, etc.
The "Akoko" tag is therefore just an extraneous descriptive element hence the name "Akoko-Edo" means nothing other than "The Edos who are geographical neighbours with Akokos of Ondo State".


3. You are totally wrong about Igarras also referred to as Etuno people. The Ebira origin theory which you ascribe to Igarra is quite misleading because both Etuno (Igarra) and Ebira (Okene and environs) are actually distinct subsets of coordinate status under the Oshuku tribe. Neither came out of the other but both are equal descendants of Oshuku. That Ebiras have become numerically larger than Igarra does not subsume Igarra under them. The unanimously accepted Oshuku history has it that four brothers from the same father - Oshemi - each with his supporters (not necessarily descendants) founded the respective Oshuku towns of Panda, Koton Karfi, Okene (Ebira) and Igarra (Etuno). The eldest of them all confounded Igarra with a group of hunters, while the second eldest founded Okene (Ebira and environs). So how on earth can the name (i.e. Ebira) of the community founded by a younger sibling be adopted as generic name where that (i.e. Etuno) which describes the town founded by the eldest is? In the first ever Oshuku descendants national body meeting, all the representatives from the different subgroups, including Ebiras, unanimously conceded that the first ever president of the group should come from Igarra in acknowledgement of Igarra as their most senior. So if at all the generic name of the Oshuku tribe must change, it must be to Etuno on the basis of primogeniture right and never Ebira of the younger brother. Therefore it remains Oshuku till then.
Based on Oshuku documented history, no segment of their migrational trajectory from the extreme Northeastern axis of Africa to their present locations lie anywhere in Yorubaland hence Igarras never interacted with Yorubas from prehistoric times. So the Yoruba mix ancestry theory being hanged on Igarra is unfounded, indefensible and untenable.

4. The Akoko Stare agitation was to even include the Ebiras and Kaba-Bunu people of Kogi State. It was a brainchild of some Akoko-Edo people who once reasoned that such was the only way they could be part of a state where there is no single overwhelming majority tribe that will deploy its numerical strength to solely control and determine political trends as obtains with Igalas in Kogi and Binis in Edo. It was not an idea informed by any feelings of shared cultural identity or similarities among the prospective component tribes. But with the emergence of Oshiomhole from Edo North as governor largely with Bini votes, the Bini domination perception withered and the idea of Akoko State died among its Akoko-Edos advocates.

5. Your claim of a relative Edoid/Yoruba mix of Akoko-Edos as per ancestry is flawed. The most scientific evidence against this is the presence in all Akoko-Edo languages of the "v", "z", "'kp'" and "ch" in their alphabets, pronunciation and spelling systems whereas such are totally absent and unknown in Yoruba alphabets, spellings and pronunciations.
As for the issue of bearing Yoruba name in Akoko-Edo, I have trashed it extensively in other threads. A journey through all my posts will educate anyone who wants more information.
In conclusion the bearing of Yoruba names and speaking of Yoruba in Akoko-Edo does not make them Yorubas any more than the bearing of English names and speaking of English Language in Nigeria make Nigerians white men.

Hmmm, It's been 4 years ago I made that comment. I had even forgotten that I ever made any comment like that. Had to go through the thread again to even understand what it was about. Lol

Thanks for the enlightenment anyway. I appreciate. You seem to have a vast knowledge of your people and I admire this.

But just for the records, the Akoko-edo boy (from Okpamheri precisely) who thought he was yoruba, never grew up in yoruba land. He grew up in Kano with his family. I think he even speaks Hausa better than yoruba.

Also, you are very correct, many of your Akoko edo people who grew up in yoruba land are almost as good as lost (permit me to put it that way). I had many of them as friends and neighbors in Uniben, and believe me, unless they open their mouths and tell you that they are Edos, you will never know or even manage to guess. Some of them even behave more yoruba than typical yorubas and to worsen this, you now see them with bold yoruba names (which seals the conclusion)...... Permit me to ask, why do your people seem to have so much fondness and affinity with yoruba land and culture than Benin?

Thank you for the other points. Also, the Ebira/Etuno point, never heard of that. If what you say about the Oshuku descent is true, how come the Ebira tao (Kogi central people) now outnumber the Etuno, Koto & panda ebiras even combined by far?
Also, only the Etunos do not have the Ebira tag. Koto & Panda people have always adressed themselves as Egbura. And I think these 3 groups apparently had a meeting some years ago and all agreed to start adressing themselves as EGBIRRA people collectively. I saw a news article on this.

As for the reason why your people answer yoruba names, pls link me to the thread (and exact page if necessary) where you thrashed the issue. Thanks again.

A7:
Nice effort.

I could have contested that even in the 21 names you posted Hausa names dominate the list if we take to account "the parents name", but because what you're trying to prove is "the new generation have fully switched to english names" i will be fair to your submission, and concentrate on the big pie, the 21 names are Just crumbs.

To solidify my previous claim that "Hausanized (english or jewish names)" are Hausa-speaking-christian-northerners's second preference as birthname with "native name(1st)" and "english names(3rd)", and that the "Hausa names are fast relegating the native names to second position" i will use same list of abducted christian chibok girls released by CAN to prove to you why i find your claim too hard to believe.

Out of the 165 names, 74 names are neither English nor tribal. Apart from Hausanized Jewish names, there are also Kanuri names (gana, palmata, yana), and Shuwa-Arab names (awa, awagana) and humorous names like (kwanta(lay down), talata(tuesday), yanke (cut short), Kauna (affection), Jinkai (pity/compassion) ).

Chibok girls name is just one example, and due to their proximity with Muslims and their status as a minority tribe in Borno they bear Muslim names like Hauwa, Safiya, Fatima, Zara, Maryam, Aisha etc. But in some places, particularly the north-central, the hausa-speaking-christains bear names like markus, Luka, Bulus, Rahilla, Salomi etc which is Hausanized (english or jewish) names.

This is the CAN list: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/05/chibok-can-releases-names-abducted-girls/

(1)-3. Hauwa ​Yirma
(2)-2. Awa ​Abge
(3)-4. Asabe ​Manu
(4)-10.Hanatu ​Ishaku
(5)-16 Awa ​James
(6)-19 Aisha ​Ezekial
(7)-21 Kwanta ​Simon.
(-22 Kummai ​Aboku.
(9)-24 Hana ​Stephen.
(10)-25. Rifkatu ​Amos
(11)-28. Ladi ​Wadai
(12)-31 Safiya ​Abdu .
(13)-29. Tabitha ​Hyelampa.
(14)-33 Solomi ​Titus .
(15)-38. Laraba ​John
(16)-39 Saratu ​Markus.
(17)-43 Hanatu ​Musa
(18)-44. Hauwa ​Tella
(19)-47.Saraya ​Paul.
(20)-48. Jummai ​Paul
(21)-51.Yanke ​Shittima.
(22)-53. Fatima ​Tabji.
(23)-55.Saratu ​Emmanuel.
(24)-57.Rahila ​Bitrus.
(25)-59. Kauna ​Lalai.
(26)-61.Laraba ​Maman.
(27)-62.Hauwa ​Isuwa.
(28)-64. Hauwa ​Abdu.
(29)-65. Hauwa ​Balti.
(30)-66.Yana ​Joshua.
(31)-67.Laraba ​Paul.
(32)-68.Saraya ​Amos.
(33)-71. Godiya ​Bitrus
(34)-72. Awa ​Bitrus.
(35)-81. Saraya ​Samuel.
(36)-83.Talata ​Daniel.
(37)-86. Salomi ​Pogu.
(38)-91. Maryamu Yakubu.
(39)-91. Zara ​Ishaku.
(40)-93. Maryamu Wavi
(41)-95. Laraba ​Yahonna.
(42)-97.Rahila ​Yahanna.
(43)-99. Ladi ​Paul.
(44)-109. Rifkatu Soloman.
(45)-110.Mairama yahaya.
(46)-111.Saratu ​Dauda.
(47)-112.Jinkai ​Yama.
(48)-114.Yana ​yidau
(49)-116. Amina ​Ali.
(50)-117. Palmata Musa
(51)-118. Awagana Musa
(52)-120.Yana ​Pogu.
(53)-121. Saraya ​Musa
(54)-122. Hauwa ​Joseph.
(55)-123. Hauwa ​kwakwi.
(56)-125. Hauwa ​Musa.
(57)-126. Maryamu Musa.
(58)-127. Maimuna Usman.
(59)-130. Rifkatu Yakubu.
(60)-133. Ladi ​Ibrahim.
(61)-134. Asabe ​Ali
(62)-135. Maryamu Bulama.
(63)-140. Saraya ​Yanga
(64)-141. Kauna ​Luka
(65)-143.Yana ​Bukar
(66)-144. Hauwa ​peter
(67)-145.Hadiza ​Yakubu.
(68)-151 Hanatu ​Nuhu
(69)-156. Rifkatu Galang
(70)-157. Saratu ​Ayuba.
(71)-159. Hauwa ​Ishaya
(72)-160. Rahap ​Ibrahim
(73)-163 Hauwa ​Mutah
(74)-164. Hauwa ​Takai.

Good analysis.
But Number 9, 13, 14, 37, 72 Hana (shortform Hannah), Tabitha, Salomi, Rahap (also Rahab) are all English Bible names, that reduces this list to 69.

Don't forget that some of the abducted girls were muslims too. Not all of them were christians. So, some of those girls you saw with Kanuri & shuwa arab names were most definitely not chibok indigenes.

Of course, you do not expect every girl in Chibok girls sec school. to be a chibok indigene or christian, just like not everyone in Chibok town or LGA would be indigenes or christians. So, at the end of the day, we will most likely arrive at almost same approximation.

Believe me, if it was like 30 years ago, the overwhelming majority, like 80% of these girls would have been answering these Hausa/arabic names. Even in the north central, it was the same. Infact, Southern kaduna, Niger and parts of Plateau christians answered more Hausanized/arabic names than those from the north-east. But unlike our north-eastern counterparts, most of us from the north central and Southern kaduna became more educated, exposed and perhaps intermixed more with Southerners, hence we heavily dropped these hausa/arabic names and are now switching to english/tribal names.
Infact, many of us change our names after leaving our villages to the city (although I do not support this). People answering Danladi changed their names to sunday.. ..Saratu to Sarah, Hauwa to Eve, Ibrahim to Abraham e. t. c

A7:
When i use "Hausa" in reference to christian names below, i want you to view it as Hausanized (western or hebrew) names or just hausa native name.

I am unaware of this development. I find your claim that the "current generation fully switched to english names" very hard to believe, till this day your people give their children those names as birthnames(humorous names)


A noticeable change however is in giving dual birthnames to the newborns, a baby can have a native name and a Hausa or English name at birth. Still english name is the least preferred. First preference is always a "native name". The second preference is Hausa name and third English.

My reason of putting Hausa name above English name is not far fetched, the culture of naming for Hausa speaking christian northerners have buttressed the reason already. They do not only bear Hausa names, they also bear Arab names as well.[b][/b] E.g Bala Ngilari, Yakubu Dogara, Labaran Maku, Yakubu Gowon, Nenadi Usman etc

As things stand, Hausa names are fast relegating the ethnic names to the second spot also.

Another angle that elucidates why English spot is the third preference is, there is no English speaking minorities in the core north.The non Hausa speakers stick to their ethnic names.

Hausa is almost everywhere. Almost every christian denomination in the core north evangelise in Hausa.
Sometimes they adopt the hausanized biblical English names, sometimes they coin what suits them from the Hebrew name.

@the bolded. The names of those people you listed there, none of them is below 50 years of age except maybe Nenadi Usman. Nenadi is her tribal name. Her full name is Nenadi Esther Usman. Esther is her middle name. She is only answering Usman because she married a Hausa muslim man from Jere.

What I said was that those Hausa humorous names, hausanized Arab and bible names are no longer answered by youths, teenagers and children of this generation as such. You can still find some youths within the ages of 20-40 answering these names, but for teenagers and children, it is very difficult (especially in the north central, Southern kaduna & Taraba). But in farther northern areas like South Borno, South Yobe, South Kebbi and those areas closer to muslim areas, you may still find children & teenagers answering these names, but still in a reduced percentage compared to before.

Take for example this list below of the 21 released Chibok girls from South Borno. They are mostly within their late teenage ages. Only 7 of them answered hausanized arabic/bible first names. The rest answered English or their native first names.

Now, this is South Borno as I told you, If this peradventure happened in Plateau or South Kaduna, It would be lower

Millz404:
Its a man’s world. Hard truth

I was reading an article last time and it says 97% of all VC funding goes to male Entrepreneurs while just 3% of funding ends up with female Entrepreneurs. Its not just in engineering.

Every innovation ever carried out what is the ratio of male to female. There is like 1000 male to every female. Even google at a time was modifying "she invent.." to "did you mean he invent.. "

Go to schools and look at the number of male to female dropping off kids. It is more females to males regardless of their qualification. I think women tend to tilt to the supportive family role than actually competiting with males in major professions.

Yeah i hear you saying there are woman in various major positions and professions. But compared to males.... The males always have a very large comparative advantage

In the fashion and cosmetic industries, I think women really outcompete men here.

A7:
He wrote:

"The personal names of Hausa-speaking northern Nigerian Christians also have an onomastic uniqueness that is worth exploring. I use “Hausa-speaking northern Nigerian Christians” here rather loosely to refer to a miscellany of ethnic groups primarily in Nigeria’s northwest and northeast who are nonetheless united by Christianity and the Hausa language."

I think it will also be interesting for the author to broaden his preliminary thoughts on Hausa-speaking Northern Christian names by adding to the list their "ingenious or rather ingenuous method of name bearing" that even though are Hausa words, it is Hausa-speaking-northern-christians unique creation.

Below names will fall under this category:

-Godiya (gratitude)

- Murna (happinness)

- Qauna (Love)

- Bamaiyi (Shorten form of Bamaiyi sai Allah. Meaning Only Allah is Able)

And other humorous names like Angulu (vulture), Bindiga (gun), Wuta (fire)

Most of these humorous native Hausa names are no longer being answered by our people.
It was our grandfathers who answered these names. Especially people from Southern Kaduna. Even our fathers hardly answered these names (rather they switched to the Hausa bible names) and the current generation has now fully switched to English names.

Maigoro, Maigida, DanAuta, Mainoma, Bako, e. t.c

fiizznation:
Because they speak hausa language still doesn't make them hausa people. They have their own distinctive languages(kataf, birom, jukun, etc). [/b]Hausa Christians are called maguzawa in the north and they are very few(almost non-existence)[b]. So are you going to call a fulani-man like me who speaks and understand almost every word in hausa language a hausa person?

These hausa Christians don't bear names like Bulus, ishaya, bamaiyi, etc. And this is my point of argument. Maybe the original poster should go and carry his research very well, but as far as am concern, this very article is misleading.

@ the bolded. Who told you that pure Hausa maguzawa christians are few and non-existent? There are millions of them! They are not less than 2 milllion people spread all over dozens of communities and towns in mostly Zaria, Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states. They have a body (I have forgotten the name, but I think it is MASIHIYAWA). ......

I think these Hausa christians dominate many communities in Kankia, Malumfashi & Kafur LGAs in Katsina state. In Kano, I think in Doguwa LGA and one am not so sure of, but I think Tudun Wada LGA. In Zaria, Wusasa is their headquarters and they dominate this place.

You may never know that some of these people are christians, because they fully dress like other Hausa muslims, they answer Islamic names and some of their women even wear Hijab. Unless you are part of the christian community, you may never know how much they are. In Kaduna state, you can hardly differentiate these pure Hausa christians from Southern Kaduna people. Infact their own fellow Hausa muslims usually think they are from Southern kaduna.

mannatech:
I get your point, but one thing this article has indirectly pointed out, is the century long influence the Hausa language and culture has had on other minority tribes in northern Nigeria.
Many people from other regions of our country term every Northerner as Hausa ( which is not so).
I agree with you that the article is misleading by generalizing every northern Nigerian Christian as Hausa Christian but this is due to their mode of worship. When it comes to Christianity in the North, all northern Nigerian Christians are categorized under one umbrella "Hausa".
In Catholic dioceses in the north, Masses are done in English and Hausa, with the Hausa mass reserved for those who are more comfortable with the Hausa language and attendance are mostly by indigenous Christians.
Till the notion that northern Nigerian is synonymous with Hausa alone is eradicated, articles like this will continue to use this same phrase to easily carry its message

The simple reason Hausa language influenced northern Christians was the British in connivance with Hausa fulani leaders who forced the missionaries to evangelize our people with Hausa language.

The missionaries wanted to use Ngas language to evangelize and unite all the old pagan tribes of the north (now Christians). But the British and Hausa leaders knew that this will lead to a problem by creating another large majority group in the north which will challenge Hausa domination.

All northern christians would have had one language NGAS by now.

Mantain:
You that know what you are saying, help us explain it. The people you mentioned speak Hausa more than there said languages pls.

I am from this area. Not all of us speak Hausa more than our languages. It depends on where you grew up.

If you grow up in the towns/urban areas in Plateau, Southern kaduna, Nasarawa, Taraba, Adamawa, Gombe, South Borno e.t.c The chances of you speak Hausa better than your mother tongue is higher. (cos the urban areas are usually a blend of different people with diverse languages, so hausa is used as the common lingua franca).

But if you grow up in your village (which is a rural area), you will definitely be fluent in your native language. Infact, if you are from a large ethnic group with many speakers, you might not be able to speak Hausa fluently.

There are millions of indigenes of Plateau, South Kaduna, Adamawa, Taraba, Nasarawa, South Kebbi, South Bauchi, South Gombe and South Borno who cannot speak Hausa well. Some cannot even utter a single word of Hausa, especially the elderly people in the interior villages.

fiizznation:
This man doesn't know what he is saying. You don't just wake up and type rubbish on your laptop. You carry a thorough research before venturing on what you know nothing about.

Bulus, ishaya, etc are NOT names used by "hausa Christians". These are names used by southern kaduna, borno, plateau and Taraba Christians. And these people have their distinctive language(s) which is not hausa.

Stop this. The OP made his piece very clear. He was referring to all the christians in the north who speak Hausa as either a first or 2nd language. So, I think middlebelt christians are also included here.

Besides, you are wrong! I have seen pure Hausa christians answering names like Bitrus, Bulus, Yohanna, e. t. c

dexentity:
I once met a Hausa Muslim lady that bears Rahila, confused.

rano1:
I think Rahila is just a hausa name.

Rahila means Rachel. Just like Saratu (which means Sarah). The name is answered by both christians and Muslims.

Holyvurgin17:
This is mere propaganda from Atiku,no sane Yoruba youth will vote for Atiku
I'm sure Atiku owns 100% of money in the group's account

And who made you the spokesman of the millions of yoruba people?

Only yoruba muslim fanatics like you will vote the failed dullard Buhari because your Alfa told you so.

Princefrankie1:


I never knew how stupid and ignorant some Nigerians are until this incident. I have heard people make all sort of odious and scornful remarks about this guy's accident and I just shake my head in pity for our hate-filled society.

This is not wickedness, it's outright stupidity.

Imagine people playing politics with someones misfortune. A young man who his only crime is being the son of the president of our country.

This really shows that an average Nigerian has a very low IQ. With the population of our great country predominantly youths, youths with such mindset, schooled youths with little or no education, I fear for our future.

Get well soon bruv and put the wicked to shame.

It is because of people like you that the government and elites of Nigeria do not value the life of a common Nigerian citizen.

In the developed world, If only 1 citizen dies in a mishap like this, the whole country goes into mourning, both the masses and elites. Now, tell us, did Buhari or the elites show any sympathy when thousands of shia muslims (women & children included) were murdered? The thousands of victims of Ipob massacre, Fulani herdsmen massacre, accidents and loss of lives due to bad roads and poor infrastructure e. t. c.

Dozens of People died queueing for fuel as they were hit by a trailer on the queue. This is the same fuel which his son had access to and was wasting on frivolous car racing.

Are you saying that Buhari son's life is more valuable than the other Nigerians? Let us get you clearly, so we can be able to judge who is more stupid and cursed here. Foolish person claiming to be sane and humane.

May the misfortune that befelled other Nigerians due to Buhari's failled leadership visit you, your family members and your children unborn and generations.

Menzy86:
That statement by Nnamdi Kanu is the biggest lie ever told. Granted Hausa's can be very irked by religious differences and kill in that regard but in that same way, some of them can lay down their lives to save yours. I am a middle belt Christian who was born schooled in Zaria, father permanently resident in Minna and I currently live in a Yoruba town. Compared to the yorubas I will take the Hausas a million times over. As for the Igbos I dont even know how much they can love themselves talkless of other people. Since I moved to this yoruba town Im tellin u about, I haven't been able to make a single friend in three full years. Don't allow anybody deceive u especially if u haven't lived among the Hausas. Take away that religion and you have the most reliable people you can live with and trust ESPECIALLY when compared to the other major ethnic groups!

Stay there and be fooling yourself. I am a middlebelt christian too.

Can you tell me of what use is a trusted friendship when the so called friend can butcher you overnight just because of an ordinary religious issue?

Left for me Hausas are pure hypocrites who fake friendship and can fake it a long time till death as long as there is no opportunity for religious bloodshed and discrimination. But let the slightest religious issue come up and you see their true colours.

dokiOloye:
Spot on bro.I work with a lot of supposedly educated Hausa/Fulani.
They can barely hide their joy anytime misfortune or death hits a southerner,especially SS and SE.
Come and see how doctors who were trained to and practice how to save lives were jubilating when d zoo army was in its campaign of murder in d SE!!
Wishing the young man quick recovery sha.

Very true. Even we the christians from the north, Hausa fulanis do not hide their hatred against us, let alone you southern christians.

When the first christian governor of Kaduna state died, Hausas rejoiced. When Danbaba Suntai of Taraba had the airplane crash, Hausa fulanis rejoiced, simply because the muslim deputy will take over. When Solomon Lar died, they wished him 'Allah kara nauyin kasa' (wishing him greater torment in hell) .

I pity we christians who don't know how much these wicked souls hate us and do not hide it.

new2020:
"Hausa-Fulani can never love you back not matter how much love you show to them. In fact the more love you show them, the more they plot against you." Nnamdi Kanu 2015. Innoson thought he was showing them love by helping to repair Nigerian Aircraft, only for them to be plotting to deal with him. First, they gave him billions to move his company to Kaduna, refused. They used GTB to coerce him to move his company to Lagos or Ogun, he refused. What angered them was hearing that Innoson has completed plans to open another plant in Akwa Ibom; this right there infuriated them, and they moved against him.

Very true. Even we the christians from the north, Hausa fulanis do not hide their hatred against us, let alone you southern christians.

When the first christian governor of Kaduna state died, Hausas rejoiced. When Danbaba Suntai of Taraba had the airplane crash, Hausa fulanis rejoiced, simply because the muslim deputy will take over. When Solomon Lar died, they wished him 'Allah kara nauyin kasa' (wishing him greater torment in hell) .

I pity we christians who don't know how much these wicked souls hate us and do not hide it.

This is how most southerners make their money but yet they come out to accuse northerners of being poor.

I thank God for my region North central. Hardly can you hear silly and stupid cases of human rituals on our soil. Nonsense.

mesoprogress:
I don't know what to believe again
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We are all human , just desperately wicked. Seems we have a higher dose of selflessness and wickedness

Illiteracy and poor educational values are the major reasons for things like this. Now, Imagine if those soldiers were well educated and brought up in a cultured manner. They wouldn't have done such.

This is why we the educated Nigerian youths need to rise up and form pressure groups which will fight to make our country better for our unborn children. Everyone shares the blame.. The foreign nations we are comparing ourselves with had people who also fought for these things in the past. Our own fathers have failed us, are we also going to fail our own children too?

I hate seeing Nigerian youths complaining online about the evils in this country. For how long are we going to continue to do this? Besides, it's not as if these things are new things. They happen almost everyday. Instead of complaining, what we should be doing is thinking how we can make a positive effect in the country.

His life is not worth more than the thousands of Shias and Ipob members murdered by Buhari, nor the thousands of farmers by his fulani herdsmen. Nonsense.

Buhari was just a big scam.

Mrnairalandd:
Ode!

Scotland, Wales and England play against one another at world and continental tournament despite being the same nationals. They are all from different Nations-Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England within a Nation called Great Britain.

In politics, they fight for each country interest within Great Britain. Example, in Scotland, Doctor prescription is free but in England, you pay.

In Scotland, family issues in court could be heard with free legal aid but in England, it’s not free except it involves domestic violence.

As you can see, each country in United Kingdom to its own.

The same thing we are working towards in our great nation called Odua.

Britain is a loosed confederation. How can you compare that setting with Nigeria?