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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]
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 Tor Tiv is the head of Ijirtamen also known as the Tiv Traditional Council (TTC), the highest policy-making body in charge of the Tiv people. It comprises all the chiefs in Tiv land. The council sits at least once in a year. [2] The Tor Tiv, according to Tiv tradition, arbitrates disputes among Tiv people without impartiality, irrespective ...
Recognizing emerging threats to traditional practices, he ardently championed the preservation of Tiv cultural heritage by publishing books among were 'Death and Burial Customs of the Tiv People of Central Nigeria,' 'The Cosmology in Tiv Worldview,' ‘The Tiv Woman: Challenges and Prospects,' 'Presidential Democracy in Nigeria: Grassroots ...
Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the entire country because other languages have been around for over a thousand years making them the major languages in terms of numbers of native speakers.