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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 ...
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]
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.
His political maneuvering made many Tiv elites uneasy, particularly when he supplanted Paul Belabo as the candidate for the Nigerian People's Party (NPP) in the 1983 governorship election, leaving Belabo feeling very bitter [76] also noted that when Paul Unongo was appointed minister in Shehu Shagari's NPN-controlled administration, he viewed ...
Being a 100% Tiv population, Taraba State rejected these people and handed them over to Benue State. Again, the Tiv accused soldiers drawn from the 4 Motorized battalion of the Nigerian army, Takum, the home of Lt. Gen. Danjuma, drafted to Kashimbila area of leading the attacks by the Jukun on them.
The 2021 Nasarawa massacre was an attack by Fulani herdsmen gunmen on Tiv civilians that occurred on December 20, 2021, in the state of Nasarawa, Nigeria.The herdsmen killed approximately 52 people according to eyewitnesses in 12 different villages, [1] although the death toll was initially put at least 20 by the Tiv Development Association.
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.
James Ortese Iorzua Ayatse, [2] Tor Tiv V (born 12 May 1956) from Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State in central Nigeria is a Nigerian academic who is the Paramount Ruler/King of Tiv Nation and president, Tiv Area Traditional Council and chairman, Benue State council of Chiefs.