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The Tiv believe they moved into their present location from the southeast of Africa. It is claimed [6] that the Tiv left their Bantu kin and wandered through southern, south-central and west-central Africa before returning to the savannah lands of West African Sudan via the River Congo and Cameroon Mountains and settled at Swem, the region adjoining Cameroon and Nigeria at the beginning of ...
Legend has it that Adikpo Songo from Akpagher; Mbatyav in the present day Gboko local government area of Benue State, Nigeria, was the originator of Kwagh-hir.Adikpo Songu, in an interview with Iyorwuese Hagher, a scholar of Kwagh-hir, attempted to corroborate this view held by several kwagh-hir group leaders and notable elders in Tivland.
When they got back to Nigeria, The Tiv world war 2 veterans felt the British treated their own kin the Tiv people with injustice with their indirect rule strategy of governance. The Tiv people were divided into 3 factions and kept under the rulership of the Jukun minority at the North-East , Cross River state at the South-south and Lafia ...
Akiga visited the mountain with Mr La Grange and Mr Brinks. Karagbe is a Nongov man [19] who brought a pot with shrubs to the Tiv people during the reign of the second Tor Tiv, Zaki Gondo Aluor and called it swem. [20] Thus the origin of swem karagbe which is used by less than 1percent of tiv people. [21]
Paul Iyorpuu Unongo was born on September 26, 1935, to Unongo Kwaghngise Anure Abera in Turan, Northern Nigeria Protectorate which is the present-day Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State and his wife Lante Kukwa, an Etulo lady from Adi, present-day Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State. [9]
Doki and some other war veterans were conscripted into the Nigerian army in 1965. He was still in the army during the Nigerian Civil War in 1967. He fought on the Nigerian side with Lieutenant Colonel Akaahan Joseph Agbo. [8] In 1972, two years after the Nigerian civil war ended, he retired as a second lieutenant to his home town at Mbaduku.
The Jukun-Tiv crisis in Taraba was claiming a lot of lives and then internal boundary crises within Benue were inflicting harm upon fellow Tiv people. He emphasized the need for peace and unity among the Tiv people, and threatened to depose any district or clan head found to be instigating any crisis.
The Kanuri people [12] are located in the northeast part of Nigeria, the Tiv people [13] are in the north central, and the Efik-Ibibio [14] are in the south South. The Bini people [15] [16] are most frequent in the region between Yorubaland and Igboland. [17] [18]