The Middle-Belt Forum has called on Nigerians to sustain the pace at which love and peace are being restored into public life in the country so that the journey of Nigeria the status of a developed country will no longer be longer.
Making this call in a coded message sent to The DEFENDER on Tuesday, General Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Emmanuel Alamu, who described Christmas celebration as goodwill to all mankind and peace and prosperity to the entire nation, wished all Christians a very merry Christmas and prosperous New Year in advance.
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) is a regional socio-political group in Nigeria that promotes the interests of the people of the Middle Belt region, a loosely defined area between the Moslem and Hausa-dominated North and the predominantly Christian Igbo and Yoruba areas of the Southeast and Southwest. The Middle Belt has an extremely diverse population. There are over 250 ethnic groups speaking over 400 languages in Nigeria, many living in the Middle Belt. The forum serves as a voice for these minority groups.[1] It is a successor to earlier movements such as the United Middle Belt Congress led by Joseph Tarka.
