16/08/2025
Five (5) Most Interesting Facts About Idoma Girls In Benue State.
1. Beauty: It is on record that an Idoma girl Ene Maya lawani is the longest serving miss Nigeria. Most Idoma girls are normally beautiful.
2. ARTISTIC: The Idomas are unarguably one of the most artistic people in Africa.
Idoma divas and screen góddésses Ada Ameh, Ene miltex ogiri, Express Ene comfort Ikwumonu and Susan peters etc are. Household names in the Nigerian motion picture industry globally known as Nóllywood.
3. WELL CULTURED: In this Era of "pépper dem gáng" There is hárdly an Idoma girl that does not know the skills of preparing her local délicacies 'ona' and 'Okoho', or don't know the idoma lócust bean 'Okpehe".
Despite the wave of civilisátión, modernizátión and socializâtion, the Idoma girl have not completely threw away her cultural heritáges. That is why you can see an Idoma girl posting with her cultural attire "proudly Idoma ".
4. MARRIAGEABLE: A national statistic on most marriageable tribál girls in Nigeria put Idoma girls third just after Igbo and Akwa Ibom( calabar ) girls.
5. GOD-FEARING: it is a common knowledge in Idoma Communities that "the fear of 'Alekwu' is the beginning of wisdom".
In Idomaland, Abórtioñs and Âdultéry are abómiñable tábóos, while próstitutión is a family disgráce.
The fact that the modern day religion in Idomaland ( Christianity) preaches same, made the idoma girl mórally décent, and partially different from other tribál girls as regard séxuál immóralíty and próstitutión.
Credit: Ogor Odeh Joseph.
