₦airaland Forum

Handsomeness

Starting

Had a thread like this for middlebelt Nigerian women about a week ago. They say what a woman can do, a man can do better. So the handsomeness of the men should not be under emphasized.

And to wrap up the list of beauties 4dis thread

Dont worry Maku, u are d next governor of Nasarawa by God's grace.....Solomon Ewuga was d one who caused all these. That man wants to sell the destiny of Eggons who are the largest tribe of Nasarawa state.
An eggon man must rule Nasarawa. Enough of all those stupid minority muslim groups ruling Nasarawa.
Nasarawa is a christian dominated state.

tonychristopher:
Bro you make so much valid and salient point and I salute your courage for this . I am sorry that this happened or is happening ..do not blame the Igbo people some how its middle belt that caused all these

They will prefer to speak Hausa than their language

They will prefer yo join araewa

They will prefer to have Muslim and Hausa names than
Their names

Mist will prefer to do Hausa businesses like shoe polishing and others than christian based business

Many fought Biafra with Hausa which is regrettable though

So you see many factors that causes this and it will be nice if igala and idoma people speak out and carve a niche about themselves . I am particular about These two due to our similarity that is all ..if they can stand out and not allow the Hausa language and culture subsume their culture

I respect their right and fight against Fulani land grabbers and I think that notion is changing

Igbo understand the difference not all

I feel its post Biafra hang over ..they felt that why should their brother in muddle belt side with infidels and fight them ..so its natural the Igbo lump everybody up north together . But the idea is changing

We will get there

Your making sense and with this we can form firm cultural partnership

I also agree with some points u made here, but not all.
First of all i will disagree to any extent if u say that a middlebelt man shines shoes. I have never seen that all my life or heard of it. The worse kind of job our people may do is ride okada or gatemen (and there are also southernerns too i have found doing this, so many infact). But hardly can u ever find a Plateau, Kogi or Benue man carrying thay shoe shinning kit and walking on the road.
U can hardly find a middleblt man hawking yam, carrot or sugar cane on wheel barrow. It is extremely rare or impossible.

After secondary sch, some of our boys from the rural areas move to southern cities especially, to do anything good their hands can lay on for them to be able to generate some money to go back to their states to finance their farming or further their education. But the normal hausa man u will find doing shoe shinning in the south probably has never come close to the four walls of a school and has no intention of that.


Secondly pls, many middlebelters do not speak hausa or substitute hausa for their languages.
All Benue & Kogi people (tivs, idomas, igede, igalas & ebiras), they do not speak hausa naturally nor understand it, unless they have lived in the core-north.
It is those of us from Nasarawa, Plateau, Taraba, southern kaduna & parts of Niger state that do speak & understand hausa as a second language (but still not all of us). I am from Plateau and there are some places u will go in my state that the people there dont understand hausa.
The reason we adopted hausa as a second language after our own native languages was due to the extremely ethnically diverse nature of out region.
In my state Plateau alone we have over 40 indigenous ethnic groups and over 50 distinct language groups. In southern kaduna alone there are over 55 distinct language groups. Nasarawa over 30 ethnic groups, Niger state over 35 ethnic groups and Taraba (the most ethnically diverse state in Nigeria) over 60 distinct ethnic groups.
Each of us have our own distinct languages & cultures, and as colonisation set in, we had to start interracting with ourselves.
English language or pidgin did not come to out region as early as the Niger deltan minorities who are at the coastlands and had greater priviledges of contact with the colonialists n foreigners.......plus the hausa fulanis who were the rulers of the old northern region which we were under never encouraged education early.
These are some of the reasons why we adopted the hausa language as a lingua franca, because it was the closest majority language to us. And the hausas had already establiished great trading routes even extending to other surrounding african areas, and some of our people made use of these trading routes.

Another reason that made us learn to speak hausa was the SUDAN CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES who came to evangelise most of our people. They came and saw the great ethnic diversity of our region and they deemed it very difficult and cumbersome to evangelize and make bibles/gospel materials available to each of us in our own distinct languages, so they decided to evangelize to us in hausa and left the hausa bible and hausa gospel materials to us. And this was how we startes using hausa in our churches and the society to an extent.

Prior to our christianization, our fore fathers never worshipped their idols in hausa language but in their own native languages.
As for our own muslim brothers, most of them received islam via hausa land, so hausa came in through that way too.
Remember, that this is applicable only to those of us from Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, Niger, Southern Kaduna and Adamawa.
As for Kogi, Benue and Kwarans, hausa language was never able to penetrate them cos they were closer to the south and their ethnic groups are larger. They are not ethnically diverse. Most of them even learn to speak yoruba or igbo as second languages.

Some more middlebelt beauties, infact some here would hav been on d first page

tonychristopher:
Can you just come down to Nnewi I owe u a good palm wine and one fair Igbo beauty to massage your hmmmmm ..but that is by the way

I never knew that we still have some people saying the truth these days . You know that they paint the picture that Igbo is wicked Igbo is land grabbing Igbo is this Igbo is that but the average Igbo man doesn't care all he does and wants to do is do his businesses and find his feet that's all. That is why Igbo and cross river people are so good that they can't fight .

We know how this country might turn out next year and Igbo has made their stand ..idoma I must say has made their stand also and that I respect with igala ..how I wish some of middle belt people know those few truths

We have a very good blood line so we hope that our relationship continues

That's what Is

E no go better for lugard boyfriend

Yes my brother, but it doesn't really end just here.
One problem many of we middlebelters have with u igbos and other southernerns is that many of u like to classify us as hausas when u guys know that we are not.
This really annoys a lot of our people and it now makes them to feel that truly we were meant to be together with d hausas.

Igalas & Idomas for instance are mostly related to igbos culturally & ancestrally, but there are many ignorant igbos that will see an igala or idoma and will call them 'Ndi awusa'.
Ur people really have to stop this. They should learn to tell the difference between we middlebelters & core northernerns. We are not the same and can never be the same. We dont think or behave alike. Most of us even regard the hausas too as 'abokis & mallams' just like u southernerns, but then u people end up equally calling us abokis.
pls it should stop.

This character of u igbos is one aspect the hausas use to blackmail we middlebelt christians. They will be telling us that ''see u people, the southern christians do not regard u northern christians/minorities as anything, they regard you people as abokis just like us too, so a unity can never work between u people and them"............And many of our people then swallow this, and this makes them never to think of doing anything with a southerner, because of the way they feel the southernerns take them.
The earlier we amend our ways the better for us.


Even our muslims in the middlebelt, the hausas in most cases see them as inferiors and do not take them seriously.
During religious crisis in the north u find Ebira, Igala & Nupe muslims being killed by the hausas just like the yoruba muslims too as the hausas brand them as 'fake muslims'. But religious enslavement on the path of some of these our muslim brothers will still never let them reason clearly.

And despite all these, some of u will still see us middlebelters and call us hausa. very disturbing.

Only igbos who live or who have lived in the north/middlebelt are mostly able to tell the difference, and sometimes a few enlightened ones.

tonychristopher:
But these are the names of Igbo in Benue or don't you know we have Igbo in Benue state

NO, those names are pure igala n idoma names.

Igbo indigenes of Benue are extremely few. They are scattered in some hilly terrains in 3 LGAs of Benue south. They are in a very small minority and many Benue Tiv n idoma indigenes dont even know of the existence of these few igbos.
They are just as few as the igalas/idomas in Enugu and Anambra.

sebi u know that there are igalas n idomas in Enugu n Anambra states?

tonychristopher:
Thank lord this is coming from you not me an igbo man..your people will say that we want to land grab..we want to dominate ..so tell them the truth how we related

Its unfortunate that they sold you lies during the war that you turned your back on us. Thank Lord that they asked for forgiveness we forgave knowing our blood relationship . We are not taking your land and we won't ..we know Fulani that want Ur land and whom your fathers fought for

How I wish the idoma and igala with understand we meant no harm ..we just want to be our Christian self with no Muslim bombing ...

This a nice thread

Yes Mr, so many of we middlebelters prefer to allign with the igbos. It was in the past that the hausa fulani muslims deceived our ppl that the igbos were coming to kill us from down the river Niger n Benue, so we tot we had to come out in self defense, and that was how we fought against the igbos who were not really after us.
The genesis of all these problems were the bloody british colonialists who lumped we middebelt minority groups under hausa-fulani rule....and the hausa fulani core north used this as an opportunity to exploit and supress our people, but all that is changing now.
Even those of us from the upper parts of the middlebelt (plateau, southern kaduna, Nasarawa, Taraba) who speak hausa as an additional language and felt we were closer to hausas, we have had a re-think. A real Plateau man can never prefer a hausa man over an igbo.
Hausas n fulanis are the land grabbers and jihadists and never igbos.
Igbos on middlebelt soil only come to thrive in business and in turn help in developing our lands, so we go on very well with u people. unlik hausa-fulanis who will fight with the indigenes in Jos, fight with Taraba, with Nasarawa, south kaduna indigenes. These people are a nightmare and very idiotic bastards.
Hausa fulanis have made many of we middlebelters to hate them with a passion.

Even our muslim ladies do know how to mix beauty & religion so well....

A lady on idoma attire is just sth else....muahh

tonychristopher:
But mercy has Igbo mum..she was my neighbour at satellite town

Ozioma means good news or ways its an Igbo name for girls

See, i have seen so many ebira girls answering Ozioma as a name. whether Mercy Johnson's mum is igbo or not, i am not sure, but her middle name OZIOMA is a typical ebira name and not igbo.

Many middlebelters (especially from Kogi & Benue) answer similar names with Igbos because some of them share a common history, origin or land boundary with igbo land.

See names like OKPANACHI, ONUCHE, ONYECHE, OKOLI, OCHIGBO, ADAH, ATAMA, OCHANYA, ALECHENU, OCHIOMA.....they are all idoma & igala names but they sound and appear very much like Igbo names.

onadana:
What is this?Do you know what is beauty...natural beauty....not this make up stuff.I was expecting raw natural village beauty...you are giving us this scrap.Shame.

Ok, lets go cultural/ rural.
Here are middlebelt beauties in cultural/rural settings

And more of them

danjumakolo:
lol..I mean no hard feelings here..you must be very angry at my statement..I am sorry if I hurt u,not to forget your failure to disprove woh I have said..Rather u went off topic by bring Hausa people here..I was thinking Hausa people also are in the middle belt...abi?

Hausas are not indigenes of the middlebelt.....wherever they are found in the region, they are settlers just like southernerns in our region.

And on it goes.....

The list of beauties from d middlebelt is endless

adamskutty:
mr.man show me any link which said we share anything common with the igbos. Lmaooo.

Just because we share boundary with ome igbo state, the igbos are found almost everywhere,even in borno.

Tell me why our dressing is closely related with those of hausas, even our food

No igala speak any igbo language , u musn't result to lying mister man.

Are u aware that majority of igalas are muslims and majority of igbos are christains?

Check out this screenshot about the history of the igalas and which tribes was link to us.

U have made a very great mistake by saying this.
Igalas cannot be dominantly muslims, no way! Unless it is not the igala land or igalas i know.

I have been to all the 9 LGAs of Kogi state where igalas are found and the only LGA i can agree where igala muslims outnumber igala christians is in Ankpa LGA (ur LGA as u say), probably this is why u say igala muslims are more.
In Ibaji LGA, u hardly find an igala muslim, igalas here are 95% christian, have u ever been to Ibaji?
Most other igala LGAs, are either 50/50 or the christians are slightly more, is it in Idah, Ofu, Omala, Olamaboro, Dekina, igala muslims cannot be more than the christians.

Eddyken:
@Op, Southern Kaduna or Kaduna State in its entity has nothing in
common wit Middle-Belt

Mr Man, Southern Kaduna is very much part of the middlebelt. Many ppl usually make the mistake to think that middlebelt is just north central alone, but no, the wider definition of the middlebelt encompasses most of the other northern minority groups outside north- central, including Southern Kaduna, Taraba, parts of Adamawa e.t.c.

During any gathering of middlebelt groups, southern kaduna is always present. we have had national middlebelt leaders from Southern Kaduna.
middlebelt is not just north-central alone, it is a human geographical definition of the vast stretch of minority groups of central Nigerian region and not just a geo-polittical zone. pls get that.

dablazor:
lol sorry about that.. my brothers ( the igbo) would claim anything claim-able (sic) 'shine ya eye'

I really want to believe that urself ad Adamskutty are igala muslims, hence u both will because of islam claim that u are more related with hausas & yorubas, but read this......



ANAMBRA IS THE ANCESTRAL HOME OF IGALAS
By C. XRYDZ-EYUTCHAE

It was Professor Anta Diop of Senegal who observed that ethnic groups often do not realize the extent to which they share kinship with the language, culture, traditions and historical socio-political structures, evolved by communities they have come to view as rivals.
Indeed ethnic groups tend to see themselves as self-enclosed communities. But as an example are the Luluas of Kenya aware of their kingship with the Luluas of Senegal?By the same token how many of us in Nigeria are aware that Anambra State is the ancestral home of theIgalas, Ngwas, Jukuns and Binis? Yet it remains historically true that Anambra State is the birth place of the founding fathers of Bendel, Imo and Benue States. Hence in language classification these separated people speak a common language which forms part of Kwa group of West African languages.
From Archeological discoveries at Ugwuele near Okigwe dating their existence to some ages follows that the Igbos were descendants of the first men of earth now traced to the Oduvai Gorge in East Africa. Inhistorical literature, the Igbos, originally known as Iduus had their territorial distribution covering South west of the African continent later converging at the whole of the low lying land mass North and South of the Niger and Benue river confluence, down the Niger and Anambra River basins right down to the Niger Delta and westward to River Okpara beyond Lagos as shown in Rev. Johnson’s map in his history of the Yorubas.
Later the low land dwellers were characterized as the Olu and the highlanders as the Igbo.TraditionWaves of migratrants led by Eri settled at Anambra River basin, establishing the ancient Iduu Ime KINGDOM at Aguleri. Historical traditions relate that his progenitors included Agulu and Menri (from who were descended the Nri), Igbo, Igala, Oba (whose descendants were the Binis) Enuike and a daughter, Ulu-uwa.Igbo, an itinerant missionary acquired large Iduu followers who became known as Igbo people thus losing their Iduu identity just as followers of Christ arecalled Christians whether they came from Rome, London or Bonn.
Eris other descendant Menri established a priestly kingdom at Nri known for purification ceremonies andcoronation of tributary of Iduu Ime kingdom. Hence, the Eze Nri Obalike (Nri kings (1989-1935) in the first decade of the 20th century told the Government Anthropologist, Northcote Thomas, that the area subject to him was Iduu.
On the same matter Lawton wrote:“A marked feature of this (Nri) tribe is its hostility to the European, natural enough, when it is remembered that prior to the British, the Obalike was Eze Nri and crowned the kings of Benin and presided over all the religious observation of surrounding peoples”.It was the tradition that coronation titles were usually conferred on tributary kings by the ancestral Iduu Ime kingdom which also assigned to each a General as head of the palace guards.
Hence in honour of their ancestor, Atta the ruler of Igala was titled Atta of Igala. The founders of Benin were the descendants of Oba Eri whose habitation was UgwuOgodo where exists today, the Ogodo spring in Umuleri, near Aguleri. Hence the Binis in modem times still trace their ancestry of “Igodo” a corruption of Ogodo, an Igbo word for elevated place.
Hence the first king of Benin, Iweka (anglicized to Eweka) was titled Oba in honour of their ancestor, Oba Eri. Eweka is English spelling of Iweka just as the letter E in England is pronounced I, This name Iweka an Igbo name in full means Iweka n’uno.
It reflected the internal feud at the time the-would-be king was born. His second name was Edoziuno, Edo for short, meaning peace maker, thus was derived Edo Kingdom.The name Benin itself was a corruption of the Igbo words. 'llo obi inu', meaning a place of bitter mindedness, again reflecting the quarrelsomeness of the people at that time over kingship disputes. To the first Benin king was assigned General Ado from Iduu Ime as head of his palace guards.
According to the tradition of the people, Egbunike, the founding father of the Ogbunikes has three brothers, Awkuzu, Umuleriand Nando and a sister, Nwonicha. General Ado who was assigned to the Oba of Benin, married Nwonicha and the marriage resulted in such progenies as Onitsha Ado, Ado Ekiti etc.

Background

The Marriage formed the basis of the link between Ogbunike and Onitsha, thus giving the historical background to the Igbo adage which says: “Afuzi Onicha, Ogbunike ewelu,” meaning in the absence of Onitsha, Ogbunike takes its turn. When therefore Eze Chima, a descendant of General Ado in his flight with others, first from Benin, then from Agbor, named his son Onitsha, in honour of their maternal ancestors, and established Onitsha Ugbo and Onitsha Olona and the entire Umu Ezechima being referred to as Onitsha Ado, the origin of nomenclature cannot therefore be inserious doubt.
The Igalas who are descendants of Atta Eri had their ancestral home in Aguleri in the area of Ama Atta (Atta-in-the-fields). Igala was said to be the father of Ikem and was reputed to have such descendants as Omor, Omasi and Umuneke. The Ikems had sometimes settled in Umukete Agukeri, whose descendants were supposed to be the Ikem of Nando, Ikems in Nsukka, Ikems in Onitsha and other areas.It is relevant to note that in a preliminary statement onthe excavation made in Aguleri by the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Dr. F.N. Anozie said that the excavation took place at a site known as “Okpuno Igala”; and that is known to everybody including school children in Aguleri as a deserted Igala settlement. He said, there were sites with walls, one deserted and the other still inhabited by a group of Aguleri people, who during theauthor’s filed work in the area said they had blood relations with the Igalas.
At the approach is the Ama Atta which seemed to have once been a village square. Almost at the centre of the enclosure is a mound known as “Ukpo eze” (kings throne” and North–East of the mound is the Owelle Atta (toilet area) and Ajo Agu Atta (cemetery).The present Umukete people in Aguleri who claim blood relationship with the Igala people have their village walled, and traces of the wall could still be seen today. When an elderly man from this group was asked by excavators from the University the relationship between them and the Igalas, he said that the father of Igala and Igbo were sons of the same parents and that whenever anybody from Umukete went to Idah he normally would go to greet the Atta or the King.
The greeting usually went as follows: “Ata abikibo bie takata bie Igala” which translates the lgbo saying that “Igbo is senior to Atta and Atta begot lgala.This is also reflected in the lgbo saying that: lgbo mulu Atta, mana Atta mulu lgala.” This oneness of lgbo and lgala is also reflected in lgbo adage which says “Alusi lgbo jebe mbana, obulu, alusi obodo lgala”which interprets that the spirits of lgbo-land in transit constitutes the spirit of lgalaland.

Those who still doubt the common ancestry of lgbo and lgala could refresh their memory with this popular lgbo adage which says, “ Egbusia lgbo nine, lgbo afodukwa na lgala”, meaning even if all lgbos are wiped out of existence, the lgbos still remain in lgalaland. As with lgala, so is ldoma, who still have remnants of ancestors of ldoma community in Aguleri.

adamskutty:
i just don't know why that igbo guy just want to claim us.

If anything, we are related with yoruba and hausa .

Mr man, i repeat, i am not an igbo guy, rather i am from Plateau state, i am d op of this thread.
i happened to have lived in d south for so many years and even Kogi too.
First of all, i can see that u are an igala muslim, one with hausa ancestry for that matter. But have u ever been to the southern parts of Igala land like Omala, Olamaboro & Ibaji? many of the igalas from this axis have no difference with igbos. Many of them speak igbo as a second language.
Most of d igalas i have come acrosa are from the southern axis, and if u dare tell any of them that they are more related to hausas than igbos, they can give u a very dirty slap. Igala land does not share boundary with yoruba land or Hausa land, but it does with Igbo land,, so how can u now claim thatt igalas are closer to hausas than igbos?

check igala history here on wikipedia and show me where hausa fulani links come in
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attah_of_Igala

The list is still not exhausted

adamskutty:
pure crap and b.s

We have no connection with y'all. Pls stop claiming us.

Pls take a good look at our dressing, the attah of igala ( our ruling system) e.t.c

names

If u had say yoruba i would have been better. Lmao.

Some hausa words are even found in the igala language.

E.g. Lafiyalo ( i am fine)

Buta ( kettle)

Machalanchi ( mosque).


Mister man, which tribe are u anyway?

I am not an igbo man, rather i am from Plateau state....do u know that igalas & igbos share the same market days? They share d same masquerades and in many cases, same ancestry?

do u know that there are igbos in Enugu, Anambra & Delta who have igala origins??

Big brother africa 2011 winner - KAREN IGHO.
although her father is from Delta state, but her mother is from Jos and she was born n bred in Jos and always claims Jos as her hometown/origin.

2011 Big brother africa finalist MELVINA LONGPET, she is from Plateau

adamskutty:
u must be high on weed.

The yorubas in kogi are among the minority .

The largest and strongest ethnic group in kogi are the igalas (more than 60 percent) and most of us have our ancestry from the core north. Idiotic cow.

The yorubas are in kogi west.

Point of correction pls, so many igalas have their origin in Igbo land, others with Kwararafa and some with yoruba. Igalas who have core-northern origin are in a very small minority.
Igbos are the most culturally related to igalas, check ur history

Kogi n Benue women on cultural attires

musiwa97:
Kwara and kogi state are not part of the middle belt.
That why they have oba in kwara and kogi state.. They are part of western Nigeria

Yorubas in Kogi are in a minority, less than a quarter of the state's population. Igalas & Ebiras are the largest 2 groups. Only in Kwara do yorubas outnumber the middlebelt groups. So only a part of Kwara n Kogi are not middlebelt.

danjumakolo:
Sorry to say..buh this is where you see the most wayward women and girls.The moral standards here is low

U must be very stupid. Are ur hausa girls better or more cultured than middlebelt ladies? hausa-fulani muslim girls are the greatest sluts in Nigeria, only that they pretend with big deceitful hijabs.