NINAS stands for the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination and is the multi-ethnic Alliance of the indigenous peoples of the Middle Belt (part of the former Northern Region), Oodua/Yoruba (the former Western Region) and the Lower Niger (former Eastern & and Mid-Western Regions). NINAS is a Movement, a mass of people united and all seeking the same goal: Self-determination for each ethnic nationality in our Territory.