The word middle belt is the appropriate term used in every country of the world to describe the central region of a country. Geographically and English wise, there is nothing like "Northcentral". This word is only use in Nigeria. To prove my point, just Google search the word "Northcentral" you will see that it is only associated with Nigeria. There is nothing like north central; just as there is nothing like south central... You will never find it in any English dictionary. This word was coined and imposed on the middle belt to give the North political advantage over the south in terms of population and psychological edge in elections. And guess what? It is working for them.....

There is also nothing like South-South in Geography or English.

But there's Central north in geography

BlacSmit:
There is also nothing like South-South in Geography or English.

But there's Central north in geography

What are you trying to drive home now?
Are you trying to say "Central North" is semantically equivalent to Middle-belt? If that is what you mean, then you have to go and upgrade your logic and understanding of English words. The word "Central North" is simply the central part of that North you have correctly identify based on cardinal point. As for "South south", I agree with that...

Shekochild:

What are you trying to drive home now?
Are you trying to say "Central North" is semantically equivalent to Middle-belt?

There's either southwest or southeast no south south.

And for your question, YES. Middle belt in Central north

Lol liar there is south south.....

BlacSmit:
There is also nothing like South-South in Geography or English.

But there's Central north in geography

Lol was joking true no south south at the Cardinal point.

Morenikeji070:
Lol liar there is south south.....

You are dead wrong!
The word Middle belt is not semantically and geographically equivalent to Central north.
Man, go do some revision in your geography. Understand how the cardinal points are rightly placed in a region. And also review your understanding of "adjectives" in English... then reason logically and objectively. After you have done all these, then post something reasonably on Nairaland...

BlacSmit:


There's either southwest or southeast no south south.

And for your question, YES. Middle belt in Central north

You are dead wrong!
The word Middle belt is not semantically and geographically equivalent to Central north.
Man, go do some revision in your geography. Understand how the cardinal points are rightly placed in a region. And also review your understanding of "adjectives" in English... then reason logically and objectively. After you have done all these, then post something reasonably on Nairaland.

So Middlebelt can can dissociate themselves from almighty north as the conglomeration is only a parasitic one used to the succour of the Fulani Hegemony.

We used to have cars with ECS as Reg. Number in those days. South East was referred as East Central States. And Igbos did not worry about that. Now Awusa Fulani now carved our cousin out of the map and baptized and christined them SS and gave us SE from no where.

Things are about to change now. We now know the reason all these are happening. Fulani domination

What of United Nation Office for South South Corporation?

South-South cooperation is a broad framework for collaboration among countries of the South in the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and technical domains. Involving two or more developing countries, it can take place on a bilateral, regional, subregional or interregional basis. Developing countries share knowledge, skills, expertise and resources to meet their development goals through concerted efforts. Recent developments in South-South cooperation have taken the form of increased volume of South-South trade, South-South flows of foreign direct investment, movements towards regional integration, technology transfers, sharing of solutions and experts, and other forms of exchanges.
http://unossc1.undp.org/sscexpo/content/ssc/about/what_is_ssc.htm

@ OP, can your moniker be found in English?

People give names to things when the need arises. Whether it is not in tandem with English requirements or fails to reflect the cardinal points doesn't invalidate its existence.

What if Nigeria is not a English speaking country, and they named it IJEBU CENTRAL, will you still argue same....

The people living there no longer want to be a part of the others, that's what we should argue and not whether it is English or not

ReubenE:
@ OP, can your moniker be found in English?

People give names to things when the need arises. Whether it is not in tandem with English requirements or fails to reflect the cardinal points doesn't invalidate its existence.

What if Nigeria is not a English speaking country, and they named it IJEBU CENTRAL, will you still argue same....

The people living there no longer want to be a part of the others, that's what we should argue and not whether it is English or not

If that be the case, why not start referring to the south as north, west as east, woman as man, dog as wolf, ant as termite and what have you...? This is the problem with Nigeria... when an irregularity is identified and pointed out, we create a defense mechanism around it instead of acknowledging it. No wonder we are so backward in many ways...we don't see things as they are or base on logic and common sense. We love to be unconventional in every way of our reasoning...

ReubenE:
@ OP, can your moniker be found in English?

People give names to things when the need arises. Whether it is not in tandem with English requirements or fails to reflect the cardinal points doesn't invalidate its existence.

What if Nigeria is not a English speaking country, and they named it IJEBU CENTRAL, will you still argue same....

The people living there no longer want to be a part of the others, that's what we should argue and not whether it is English or not

Your are correct. Same way there is middle east and there is no middle east in cardinal points.

phyllosilicate:


Your are correct. Same way there is middle east and there is no middle east in cardinal points.

You're just confusing yourself, man. And the fact that you are a fellow geologists makes me wonder what school you attend.... Since you can't identify an adjective for what it is. If "middle" is an adjective to "East", then check the map you will see it in the middle. Hence, the term middle east. How then, as a geology student that you are, can you justify the term "North central" ? Middle east and North central are not the same. The former can be justify both semantically and english wise. But the the later is illogical, grammatically and semantically wrong.

Morenikeji070:
Lol liar there is south south.....

Look at the cardinal points properly and answer this question. Between akwa ibom and enugu, which state deserves to be called SE?

everything is just political divide. There's no such thing as SS, it's just created to weaken the igbos and the old Eastern region.

Why don't we have NORTH NORTH or EAST EAST or WEST WEST? Why must it be only south south, oga reason with your brain.

Shekochild:

If that be the case, why not start referring to the south as north, west as east, woman as man, dog as wolf, ant as termite and what have you...? This is the problem with Nigeria... when an irregularity is identified and pointed out, we create a defense mechanism around it instead of acknowledging it. No wonder we are so backward in many ways...we don't see things as they are or base on logic and common sense. We love to be unconventional in every way of our reasoning...

It is clear you're not getting the point here. I'm not trying to ridicule your argument.

All the example you gave of a Man being called a woman, wolf-termite etc still doesn't invalidate what I opined.
What if it is discovered and agreed tomorrow that Man was suppose to be called a Woman, and a Wolf is suppose to be called a termite.

What if scientists tomorrow discover that the West is actually the East, and the South is actually the North, would you still make a case for what you're saying now??

Like I said before, people give names to things when the NEED arises, and it must not necessarily mean something in English because English is not the only phenomenon in the world.
Nigeria can equally name things when the need arises

FYI, The words WEST and EAST were not originally English, their roots is in German and Dutch.

Maybe you can go and fight the English people too for referring to a certain part of the world MIDDLE EARTH some hundreds of years ago.

Middle-East, Middle-Earth, ASEAN (Association of South-Eastern Asian Nations) etc.
Maybe new cardinal points needs to be created to accommodate all the above names.

wirinet:
What of United Nation Office for South South Corporation?

Everybody is avoiding this question

ReubenE:

It is clear you're not getting the point here. I'm not trying to ridicule your argument.

All the example you gave of a Man being called a woman, wolf-termite etc still doesn't invalidate what I opined.
What if it is discovered and agreed tomorrow that Man was suppose to be called a Woman, and a Wolf is suppose to be called a termite.

What if scientists tomorrow discover that the West is actually the East, and the South is actually the North, would you still make a case for what you're saying now??

Like I said before, people give names to things when the NEED arises, and it must not necessarily mean something in English because English is not the only phenomenon in the world.
Nigeria can equally name things when the need arises

FYI, The words WEST and EAST were not originally English, their roots is in German and Dutch.

Maybe you can go and fight the English people too for referring to a certain part of the world MIDDLE EARTH some hundreds of years ago.

Middle-East, Middle-Earth, ASEAN (Association of South-Eastern Asian Nations) etc.
Maybe new cardinal points needs to be created to accommodate all the above names.

Nope, new cardinal points need not to be created as you suggest . instead, you need to reoriented you mindset and stop creating confusion in the mist of confusions....

What the OP should understand is that for political delineation, there can be "North- Central" which is similar to "South-South", both does not exist in terms of the geographical nomenclature.

One thing we should all know is that, nothing is actually cast in stone! The new region seeking to redefine itself today, which is the Middle Belt or North-Central have come of age and are better positioned politically, economically, and socially if given the right of self realization and determination.

The Middle Belt is just a perfect mix of both the Northern culture and the Southern culture in Nigeria, and should be permitted to stand because of the beautiful posture it portends.

Why you guys conflate geography with geopolitical zones is a mystery. You guys understand the point but want to complain about something.

Worst is south south. Then you start struggling to come to the fact on how the Igbo regions are called south east against Akwa-ibom and cross river.

Blue3k:
Why you guys conflate geography with geopolitical zones is a mystery. You guys understand the point but want to complain about something.

Geography is what is used to assign geopolitical zones. For instance, Google will show you the part called south east USA

Lawan is a Geographer interested in the review of the Land-Use-Act and Ruga-Settlements.

gaetano:


Geography is what is used to assign geopolitical zones. For instance, Google will show you the part called south east USA

You never heard of mid west in united states? Stop playing dumb.

Shekochild:

You are dead wrong!
The word Middle belt is not semantically and geographically equivalent to Central north.
Man, go do some revision in your geography. Understand how the cardinal points are rightly placed in a region. And also review your understanding of "adjectives" in English... then reason logically and objectively. After you have done all these, then post something reasonably on Nairaland...

there nothing in the physics of the universe called Central North.
Nigeria and it's South South, Central North, North Central, Delta Igbo, Mountain Yoruba etc

Shekochild:

You're just confusing yourself, man. And the fact that you are a fellow geologists makes me wonder what school you attend.... Since you can't identify an adjective for what it is. If "middle" is an adjective to "East", then check the map you will see it in the middle. Hence, the term middle east. How then, as a geology student that you are, can you justify the term "North central" ? Middle east and North central are not the same. The former can be justify both semantically and english wise. But the the later is illogical, grammatically and semantically wrong.

Since you are an in English perfectionist and you accept Middle East is valid, should we then refer to north central as central north? If middle East is valid, then cental north is also valid.

Shekochild:
The word middle belt is the appropriate term used in every country of the world to describe the central region of a country. Geographically and English wise, there is nothing like "Northcentral". This word is only use in Nigeria. To prove my point, just Google search the word "Northcentral" you will see that it is only associated with Nigeria. There is nothing like north central; just as there is nothing like south central... You will never find it in any English dictionary. This word was coined and imposed on the middle belt to give the North political advantage over the south in terms of population and psychological edge in elections. And guess what? It is working for them.....

Nut there is south south in english ?