₦airaland Forum

Neoteny:
Who the hell talks about "settler-indigene" in the 21st century?

Igboes in Lagos claim they own Lagos, they want to have their Igwes in Lagos, be recognized as idigenes of Lagos, own businesses and properties in Lagos, and demand to hold elective offices in Lagos..

...but a Fulani or hausa man several generations deep as indigenes of plateau are not indigenes, but settlers, simply because their ancestors settled in Jos ages ago.

This is why places like Plateau, Taraba, Benue and most of the North Central will forever be backwards, primordial, barbaric, and caught in the ancient past, because they've stubbornly stuck on a clannish and outdated caveman way of life.

Hausas & fulanis are having problem with middlebelt indigenes because when they settle on our lands, they try to impose their own cultures on us. They do not try to acculturate in the existing culture. This is why they have friction with the indigenes. Why don't Jos indigenes have problems with the hundreds of thousands of Igbos and Yoruba settlers in Jos?

Tell me, are core northernerns doing better than middlebelters in any human development index? Like Education and poverty alleviation?

Hausa are not indigenes of anywhere in the middlebelt including Southern Kaduna, Taraba and even Adamawa. The fact that they are there today doesn't mean we don't know how they got there.

Lastly, no single Hausa fulani man has been in Jos for up to 5 generation. They all started to come during the Tin mining boom in Jos in the 1920s and 1930s. The indigenes have been on the Plateau for thousands of years.

ImmaculateJOE:
North is North whether Hausa, Fulani or Tiv, whether Benue, Plateau or Sokoto.

All I know is that the Holy Book said "FEAR NORTH"

Nobody should quote me, they were the people that killed their true brothers back then.

Even up till today the Northern minority Christians call me "nyamiri banza"(useless Igbo)

Then I hope you can agree that South is south, whether Edo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Igbo, you are all one and the same?

Besides, don't Igbos call even Benue & Kogi people abokiis? These are people who do not even understand a single word of Hausa.

aolawale025:
Such people always displease their folks to curry favors

Exactly. Just like Judas Iscariot. I hope the foolish group of Plateau indigenes like the Afizeres who supported him can see for themselves.

Charmingrascal:
This man is trying to create a lasting peaceful Plateau



With his peace building strategy he has been able to stop the usual religious crisis in Plateau.
Since my stay in J town it's been so peaceful.







The only thing that baffles me is how he budgeted 2.3 Billion Naira for the installation of Solar street lights on major roads in Jos metropolis









O weak mi gan Olohun

Which stupid peace? So peace only comes when Hausa fulani settlers are pleased abi?

Same Hausas that will tell you that Kano is 10 times bigger and better than Jos, why can't they go back to their Kano with their nonsense?

Ikenna0b:
My exact feelings towards Niggerians and Niggeria in general. My prayer is I never get my hands in any type of role or know a personal that controls any form of nuclear weaponry. If so occurs, I already know where I'll be "testing" it at.

An eye for an eye will make the world go blind. In life, there are no permanent enemies. It's all about interests.
America nuked Japan to destruction decades ago, but today they are best friends.
Germany is one today with the Europe they invaded.
The Ottomans (Turkey) are in alliance with Europe they once invaded.

Igbos will have to form alliance with other Nigerian regions and other African countries if they will ever get what they want. No one can survive alone.

If a time comes where Nigerians nuke each other in the nearest future. Igbos would be the most affected considering the smaller landmass and densely populated region.

eagleu:
Igbos, their way of life, religion, and independence have always been greatest hindrance to British and Fulani colonization.
Today, Gowon, Danjuma, and other willing Middle Belters and Fulani sympathizers have seen the same light Igbos saw 60 years ago.

The first strike was when Sarduana ordered the commanding officer in Jos to violently put down a Tiv rebellion, the Igbo officer, Col. Anuforo refused the order at the risk of his own life and safety. How did Tivs pay back? Oh, by sending J.S Tarka to the US to falsely campaign against the Igbos just like Danjuma and Gowon(middle belters) were equally convinced to side with their mortal enemy the Fulanis against the protective Igbos.

Don't forget, Gowon was strategically made head of state, to appease the short sighted Middle belters, though he was not the most senior officer to occupy that position, it should have been Ogundipe, but Gowon was however the most easily influenced by the hidden Fulani hands--coming from all over desert west Africa and north Africa!
Till today, Gowon still could not even understand the bigger picture, just like Danjuma.

The coup did not go as planned, no question, and without making excuses for the people involved, I still want to know why it descended into murdering civilians in cold blood just because they answered Igbo names?

If you continue to make lame excuses for Gowon and his government being unable to stop the well planned "civilian" massacre of Igbos, then you're laying the foundation stone for the massacre of another tribe in the future.

I am a Plateau indigene but I resent Gowon.
A lot of our youths today resent him and very soon we will call him out for his failures.
Gowon was born and bred in Zaria. He is a hausa brought up and mixed blood. He was the perfect puppet the core-north could use to win our people and it worked.

Fulanis have been the biggest masterminders in Nigeria and they know how to use people against each other.

Our people have spearheaded 2 failed coups against the core north since then.
Don't forget than in 1993, Gideon Orkar a Tiv man died for the unity of the Middlebelt and the South against the core-north but unfortuantely he failed.

franchasng:
....and still Germany is the biggest, strongest and most successful country in the whole Europe today Greatness is in the gene, not in how many mineral resources or land you acquire or inherit....that's the case of the great tribe of Igbo.


Not all Niger Delta fought on the side of Nigeria......Biafra had several Niger Delta military commanders.....Akwa Ibomites fought with Biafra and their son was the Vice President of Biafra.....maybe you can say Ijaw and Urhobo and Itshekiri and Bini didn't fight with Biafra....but most Niger Delta communities, including the Igbo speaking ones stood with Biafra.


As for Yoruba, they are known snake when it comes to national issue....so much is not expected from them, only betrayals is expected from them as usual, so you see

Only Akwa Ibom/Cross River had most of their people supporting Biafra, with Asaba (Enuani) and parts of Ndokwa.
Ikas, Ikwerres, Ijaws, Urhobos, Edos, Ogonis e.t.c did not support Biafra, yet today you people do not blame them, yet middlebelters who have apologized are the devils.

Is Germany greater than the UK, Canada & Australia combined? Are they greater than the British commonwealth?

pazienza:
I don't know who you are. But this is exactly how I feel towards Nigerians. And if I have my way, this revenge must be exacted, be it 200 years or 1000 years from now, it must be done. Only then will the spirits of our dead, rest in peace.

As for Danjuma, he and his minority people in North are destined for extinction. We will be here and watch it all happen. The Fulanis are like the white walkers coming for everyone, but they (Northern minorities) are in the midst of the storm, and when they have been utterly subjugated and swallowed by their masters, we will be here to put a stop to it all.

Middlebelt tribes can never go into extinction. It cannot happen. Nobody was a saint, everyone had faults.

Besides, in the Nigeria of today, the south and the middlebelt need each other. If we keep allowing the past to divide us, things won't get better for anybody.

Hausa fulanis played divide and rule on us and keep on playing till date.

franchasng:
....and Igbos will strike back, you can bookmark this, it may take decades or centuries, but Igbos will strike back....it may happen after Igbos have left Nigeria to form their own super great/powerful nation and then they will strike back as another nation invading another nation just as Germany struck back at the rest of Europe for what they did to them, and when Germany struck back in 1945, Europe lost so much.....French king ran away, Queen Elizabeth was in fear, not until USA and Russia stepped in to help them find peace.

When Igbos will strike, the story of German invasion of France and London will be a joke...the whole north will be in flames. It won't be fought by foot soldiers, it will be fought by sophisticated air weapons that will level what is left of barbaric northern Nigeria. London is on flames will be a childsplay to what will befall Northern Nigeria when the Almighty Eastern Eagle will strike, yes it must happen to also avenge the years of killing and marginalization of our people just as you avenged yours

Danjuma even as your people are paying the huge price of their atrocities against Igbos in 1966, Igbos will strike back nonetheless, but when, I cannot tell, but it must happen because you useless souls have never for one day shown any remorse for the evil you all perpetrated against civilian Igbos....I don't care about what happened between military people and politicians, but involving innocent, unarmed Igbo civilians in your madness of 1966 was your greatest mistake and reason your region will continue to reap the seeds of the evil they sowed

Hmmm. And after Germany attacked Europe, did they not suffer too? Germany today is only about 350,000km². They lost ⅓ of their land to Poland and other neighbouring countries after the war.
Same Germany lost their colonies. Tanzania, Cameroon, Namibia, Togo e.t.c would have been German speaking countries today, but the English/French took them.
Germany was divided into Capitalist West Germany and Communist East Germany for more than 3 decades before they were reunited at the mercy and forgiving spirit of Europe. Till date, all Germans regretted what their ancestors did.
Revenge doesn't pay all the time. An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind.

And you are very wrong when you say that middlebelters have not apologized for their role in the Biafran war.
Some years ago, the United Middlebelt Youth congress tendered their unreserved national apology to the people of the Southeast.
Meanwhile, Yorubas and your beloved Niger deltans who also supported Nigeria in the war and were involved in the abandoned property saga are yet to render any apology.

BafanaBafana:
Maiha and Mubi were also affected bros.
All what you have said does't change the fact that Atiku is not popular in Adamawa. Muslims don't like him and the christians only voted him because Buhari is a percieved enemy

Maiha and Mubi were affected but Michika/Madagali was the most affected, this is undisputable.
Besides, Maiha/Mubi is a 50/50 area. Muslims are not a majority there. Adamawa north in general is like 65% christian.
Yes, muslims don't like Atiku because he is an educated liberal muslim and not an extremist like them.

Litmus:
If you want the West and not Nigeria, then you have to accept Banning. Everything is controlled in the West and that which is not fully controlled is banned (prohibited) until authorities can get a handle on it and then exert control. One of the main subset of control is taxation.

A Niaralander once implied that I was mean-spirited for wishing Taxation and Control on Nigerians; well I do wish these things on Nigerians but only because it is what you unbeknowingly wish on yourselves when you keep on wishing to be like the West. I deserve forgiving since I never believed Nigeria was a Shithole. I loved Nigeria as it was, with all her freedoms and always argued that Nigeria had other virtues that Nigerians seemed blinded to in their incessant wish to be like the “West”.

Buhari deserves credit because his government seem to be going the right way about delivering the West to you. Remember this: in the West, they cut down all fruit trees so that there would be no free fruits for the people, thus the people have to go to a Taxed place (market) to buy them. In the West, everything is taxed. People once laughed bitterly in the West, complaining that ‘we are so taxed, all that remains is for government to Tax Water and Air. People thought that this idea was funny because in the back of their minds these were such ludicrous notions. ‘Tax water and air indeed’ they scuffed. Not long after, water was sold to them in bottles. People could not believe such a thing would last but bottled water sold to them caught on. This led them to sneers, ‘what next, are they going to sell us air?’ Not long after, pure air arrived in buyable cans then years later governments in the West did Tax air in the form of congestion charges.

Moral of story: you cannot have Western life standards without forgoing all your current Nigerian freedoms. All borders need regulating as much as possible; you all need to be ID’d, registered at birth, registered at death, and government ought to implement compulsory genetic record databases (they are fighting against compulsory Genetic Data base in the West but it will happen (we don’t have to wait for them to implement such before we follow suit). Government needs to roll out a comprehensive tax system in Nigeria to generate income for the Nation for the days of oil are numbered.

You are very correct that westernerns enjoy a good life due to their effective tax system which helps them generate good national income. But have you forgotten that most of these western countries are not mineral rescource driven? They do not have precious natural rescources like oil to give them billions of dollars every year.
It is madness for anyone to suggest that Nigerians should be taxed like westernerns in order to enjoy good standards of living. What then is the oil revenue used for?

Even with all the oil revenue, our govt has nothing to show, why then should anyone think that things will become any better when they tax us more?
If you have nothing to show with your 2 talents, rest assured u will have nothing to show if given 5 talents.

BafanaBafana:
And boko haram did not displace muslim voters?

Adamawa north was the worst affected by BH and this area is predominantly christian.
Michika/Madagali have been the most affected. And this is the christian stronghold of Adamawa north.

nazram1:
you are wrong to put religion on this matter. Dont forget that in 2007 Nyako contest with Gundiri who won? again in 2012 Nyako won. and majority of ur claimed Cristian vote for gundiri yet he failed..also don't forget that last election abdulaziz Nyako split the vote of govt bindow with over 100k vote.

Gundiri has never gotten the ticket of a major party. Give Gundiri PDP ticket and see if anyone would have been able to challenge him.
Fintiri divided Gundiri's votes in 2015 as the PDP flag bearer.

Everyone knows christians are the majority in Adamawa, but muslims play politics better and are more united. If all Adamawa christians unite to vote one candidate in a free and fair election, nothing can stop their candidate.

BafanaBafana:
So Atiku and Fintiri are christians?

They are not christians but they are more friendly to christians than their opponents.

Tareq1105:
Bcoz the former governor Bindo was threatening the former deputy governor who is a Christian. At a time, Bindo concluded that he could fly Muslim Muslim ticket and would still win. He said he doesn't need Xtians votes. But the party prevailed on him.

Don't forget also that factions of APC, the Babachi group, First lady and her brother group, Nuru Ribadu group were all against the governor.

Remember also Nyako faction that left APC to join ADP.

Those are the factors that got Bindo out of power and not Atiku.

Don't forget that Atiku was loosing the Presidential to Buhari in Adamawa state until when they did abracadabra in 2 remaining local governments then.

APC just decided not to contest it bcoz it won finally.

Forget Atiku, let him continue to cum.

Buhari or APC cannot win elections in Adamawa on free and fair grounds. They succeeded in 2015 only because Boko haram affected and displaced many of the christian voters who mostly vote for PDP.

BafanaBafana:
Atiku did not install any governor in his state please. As a matter of fact, Fintiri's influence made Atiku win Adamawa state in the presidential elections

No you are wrong. Adamawa election is based on religion. This is why most of the areas Atiku and Fintiri won were christian majority areas.
Christians have the slight majority in Adamawa but muslims dominate the politics in the state cos of the fulani ethnic group and their power.

ProudDick:
I just tire. None of this couple is even ibo. Ikubese is Ilaje and I wonder why that fool richdad made that comment.

Ikubese is an Anioma (Delta Igbo).

iamawara:
Is he related to this Hausa film actor?

Yes they look alike. I have observed it too, but they are not related. Ikubese is from Delta state.

LegendHero:
Zik was not a pan africanist, he was a narcissist that was hiding under the banner of one Nigeria to propagate his ethnic bigotry.

Zik was a one Nigeria frontier and he even convinced the North not to secede when he thought he was benefiting. Suddenly in 1964, Zik started saying the Igbos will secede because Balewa rigged the 1964 parliamentary election. How did he changed his stance so often.

During Balewa’s reign, Zik was the eldorado, he placed the Igbos in major positions and the Igbos hold sway in all federal parastatals and Western region was told to go to hell.

When Balewa tried selecting his ministers in 1960, he tried selecting two Yoruba men from Action Group to be part of his cabinet for the sake of federal character but Zik was angry and advised Balewa not to do that even with the fact that the Igbos dominate that cabinet already.

I have evidence to all this things am saying and it ain’t just for saying sake. Zik is a man that deserves no honor when politicking with the North is being discussed.

Pls show the proofs to back up these assertions of yours.

mrvitalis:
Zik was a pan Nigerian even u can't deny that ....he believed we are all Nigerians first ...awolowo thought we are all our tribes first before Nigeria and we see the result today

Zik was more than a pan-Nigerian. He was a Pan-Africanist. A Pan-Nigerian is someone like Yakubu Gowon.

LegendHero:
We are talking about leadership like premier that will lord over the whole region you’re taking about the mayor of a city, do you think this discussion is a joke?

His party was a creation of Olayinka Herbert Macaulay a Yoruba man and it was hijacked by Zik after his death. So you mean there is no Yoruba in his party to be the premier? So Azikwe should be the premier in the west and still be the premier in the East by proxy? He deserved to be stoned!

Azikwe is an eternal Fulani slave and he wouldn’t even work with Awolowo even if Awo save his generation from ruins. I have lot of evidence at my disposal and if I show you the sins of Azikwe even against the Igbos you will hate him from this moment.

He is a greedy, narcissistic, cunning statesman that deserves no honor. He even supported the FG against Biafra during the war at one time or don’t you know?

Azikiwe was against his own people (Biafra) because he was a pan-Africanist. Unfortunately, we Africans with our very petty tribal mindsets do not deserve people like him.

LegendHero:
Azikwe an Igbo man wanted to become the premier of western region even with all our intellectuals then.

Do you mean the Yorubas should give Azikwe the power to summon and command the Yoruba Obas, install Obas, summon Agbekoyas (the farmers), start free education, free healthcare, take over finance of Odua Group, etc.

Your words also confirmed the greediness of the Igbos, why will Azikwe leave the East and come to the west to become the premier of the western region in a regional government if not greediness?

If I were Awolowo during those periods, I will evoke Sango to vent his anger of thunder on Azikwe and shatter him to pieces the moment he first had the thought of becoming the premier.

Are you aware that the same Igbos elected a fulani man as a mayor in Enugu?
Same Igbos also elected a minority Efik man as their premier.
Igbos never had this tribal mentality to politics at that time.

LegendHero:
God bless you. The Igbos are even more greedy than the North and I have proof to back my claim.

Pre-1960, the north wanted to secede from Nigeria, and Azikwe wrote an epistle to convince and also to threaten them with words about how they might not survive economically if they leave Nigeria. He did this because he was thinking of ruling a bigger Nigeria.

When the Igbos formed a government with Balewa in 1960, Azikwe was happy then by chanting one Nigeria and claiming a unifier coz he was eyeing the next election to take over from Balewa.

Azikwe later fell out with Balewa on the eve of the parliamentary election of 1964 where he first made the threat that the Igbos will secede from Nigeria because Balewa rigged the elections. How would a one Nigeria chanter suddenly change course and started rooting for secession the moment he lost grip on power?

This is the same trait the Igbos are showing today. From 1999 to 2015, they have always supported PDP and they have been in government by proxy. They always use the Biafra chant to get money from the government over those past years coz they ain’t that serious about it.

The Igbos have a weapon and that is about chanting marginalization to achieve their objective. If you are both given $50 each, the Igbo man will be shouting your own is new and his own is old money. They will NEVER be satisfied no matter how much sacrifice you go through for them.

You have a point with what you are saying, but just for the records, Azikiwe never begged the Hausas to be part of Nigeria because he wanted to rule a bigger Nigeria, he did it because he was a staunch Pan-Africanist. Everyone knows this. Azikiwe just like Yakubu Gowon.

LegendHero:
There is no fight here, you don’t understand the North and how they reason. Do you think the lily livered can duel with the North? Write this down, the North will not field a candidate in 2023, it’s too dangerous for them and they know it.

The last thing they don’t want to do is also to bring the SW to the folds of those that have lost hope in Nigeria, Ango Abdullahi is just a mentally unstable individual and he enjoy the game the media is giving to him.

Even if you would want the Yoruba to support the Igbo, you have to say it through sensible way and not threat because the Yorubas don’t take orders from Igbos.

You should stop trying to use false tongue to rally people coz the SW will NEVER give in to your demand unless you convince them. We have been in the opposition for so long so we can still survive even if no one gets there in 2023.

The Igbos have been in government since 1960 till 2015, you’ve been part of the people ruling this country as either their slaves or their partner. There is no elected government since 1960 till 2015 that the Igbos do not have a hand in the government except MKO’s.

So where the bleep did you get the rubbish SW greediness when in actual fact the Igbos are the true definition of greediness.

Mind you, I also want Nigeria to break up coz I don’t give a bleep about the North also, but I won’t fold my hand and let you dish out False news for likes from your kind!

Do not dare the Hausa fulanis. They are naturally a people who will push you to the wall to see the worst you can do before they adjust.

If you think Hausa fulanis cannot hold on to power in 2023 because they fear that the yorubas will loose interest in Nigeria, then you are on a long thing.

The only thing these people fear is the unity of their enemies. Take this from a middlebelter who knows the core-north very well. Only the unity of the South and middlebelt can make them fear. Nothing else!

The core north will allign with the Igbos to rule and satisfy them and make them happy at the expense of Yorubas loosing interest on Nigeria.. Then they will tell you yorubas to do your worst!

Hahaha.
Same with me. I nor know which kain breeze blow me that day. I just decided to allow the apprentice cut my hair because the barber was cutting someone else's hair.
To cut the long story short, I was an object of ridicule to people around for weeks until the hair grew back. I learnt my lesson!

mvem:
their is a pattern... The Amhara/Tigra looks like the fulani nomad and both are semitic...Rwanda it is same with the Tutsi in power looking like the fulani nomad...the pattern is similar in Africa...what made the Amhara Christians is that the region has one of the oldest christian community in the world and predates Islam ....the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

You have a point. But all Ethiopians except the very dark skinned and uncivilized nilotic tribes of Gambela & Benishangul have semitic blood. However, they are all cushitics or cushites by origin.
The northern Ethiopians or Habeshas (Tigrays & Amharas) had a greater mix of the semitic blood hence even their native language became mostly semitic.
Somalis, Oromos & the people of Southern Nationalities region still have semitic blood too, but the semitic influence was less among them hence their native languages remained cushitic.

There are Habeshas who look darker and more African as well as there are somalis & Oromos who look more white & semitic. However on average like you said, Habeshas look more semitic.
Tigrays are the most semitic. It is very common to see Tigrays who can pass for Arabs.

The Habeshas are more powerful in ET today not because of their greater semitic blood or christianity but rather because they had the most recent powerful empire who conquered and massacred others in ET into submission including the Oromos.
Centuries before that, the Oromos were in charge during the period of Oromo expansion when the Oromos massacred, conquered and absorbed the other tribes.

FiftyFifty:
And maybe only a few know that Ethiopia a Christian majority nation has a Muslim Prime minister and that to them isn't an issue unlike "somewhere" where religion is always an issue.

Fallenhunter:
64% Christian and 34% Muslim, that's a pretty big margin.

Ibrahimmrfish:
Google Muslim population of Ethiopia,the margine between Muslims and Christians is not that much.

mvem:
Ethiopia is christian majority

donprinyo:
Who dash dem majority?

Abiy Ahmed is a pentecostal evangelical christian. His surname is what makes people think he is a muslim. His father was an Oromo muslim and his mother an Amhara Tewahedo Orthodox christian.

Oromos who used to be predominantly muslim have seen many of their people converting to christianity over the decades.
A muslim can never rule Ethiopia. It is impossible. The orthodox church of Ethiopia will never allow it. Infact this is the first pentecostal leader. It is like a miracle.
The Amharas & Tigrays will never allow a muslim rule Ethiopia. It will be an insult to their history of fighting to resist islam for centuries.

Infact, an Oromo man would never have ruled ET if not that this was done as a gesture from the Amharas/Tigrays (northern Ethiopians) against Oromo nationalism and Oromo seccession.
Oromos have been fighting to seccede from ET due to domination of the christian Habeshas (Amharas & Tigrays).

Ethiopia is the opposite of Nigeria. Over there, the christian dominated north dominates and suppresses the half muslim half christian south

Dareal90s:
Likewise thousands of years in every year people die, so as one is being manufactured another is about getting manufactured, it's a continuous cycle

Lol you are not getting the point. Yes, there would always be crude oil but it would be very small quantity unsuitable for drilling. It takes thousands of years for the continous formation of crude oil for it to amass to large quantities sufficient for exploration. I hope u get the point.

Kennyswagz1:
oil will loose value by 2030

Yes, with the invention of automobiles working on renewable energy, crude oil must see a global decline. However, I think natural gas will not be seeing serious decline anytime soon.

Dareal90s:
Oil can't finish in Nigeria let's stop deceiving ourselves, do u knw about the formation of crude? Ppl die everyday, cattle's die everyday, deforestation nd so on, oil can't finish in naija. Nd that's d big problem we have though ought to be a positive thing but bad leaders makes oil look as enemy to us.

No bro. Oil is not an infinite rescource. Yes Animals die every day and so on, but this only becomes crude oil after thousands of years. Crude oil takes thousands of years to evolve into large quantity. The one we are using today evolved thousands of years ago.

LegendHero:
What about the rapid spread of Christianity through Africa? Isn’t it through violence also or is it because the white man hide under missionaries to enslave us and inturn force Christianity on Africans?

Tbh, I really don’t know the difference between the Hausa and Fulani coz to me they are one. But since you’re from the middle belt you will know them more than I do coz you’ve lived with them.

Gracias.

Pls don't argue what you don't know!

The European colonialists and the christian missionaries (who were partly American) were very different groups of people!

The colonialists never had any business with religion. In fact they even protected islam like the case of northern Nigeria.

If not for the British who told the christian missionaries to respect the caliphate and it's indirect rule, Northern Nigeria would have been like 80% christian today.

The caliphate and the British had an agreement in the Northern protectorate/region with the missionaries that in every town they enter and they found a mosque, they must never preach the gospel in that area.

In fact the British wanted the missionaries never to enter the north and they promoted Hausa islamic settlements all over the middlebelt, so that all the pagan tribes can become muslim and one with Hausa fulanis, so as not to tamper with the indirect rule and hegemony of their precious north.

If not for the stuborness of the missionaries, the north and middlebelt (minus Benue) would have been 100% muslim.

The same British who even forced the missionaries to use Hausa language to evangelize the pagan tribes, so as not to affect the linguistic Hausanization of the north.

The missionaries wanted to use Ngas (a widely spoken Plateau language). This would have united all the northern minority tribes into a new large ethnic group, leaving the north with 2 major ethnic groups which the British never wanted!

Any body saying African colonialism and the spread of christianity is related is a big morön. (sorry for using such a word on you).

LegendHero:
What do you mean by recurring fracas? How many cases of fracas have we seen in recent times among them? Do you mean to say Christians don’t have fracas with traditionals in other part of the country too (SE, SS, NC). We always see the case of Christians praying at shrines and masquerade flogging pastors in the SS/SE, some of the news even featured on Nairaland.

I think this fracas has happened like thrice in the last few years from what I read online.

Masquerades can flog christians, but they will run and never come to challenge these masquerades in a religious view like the Yoruba muslims did. The yoruba muslims were very much aware of the Oro procession but still decided to defy.