Tiv people

The true potential of the Igbo nation would have started speaking.

The true potential of the Tiv nation.

At this time, we should have been-- we should be taking mineral audit, mineral deposits audit, and how foreign investments can come into our corridors to take advantage of the vast islands of, of mineral deposits.

The God of heaven that created Nigeria never intended that any citizen of this country would be poor, and I speak just from my knowledge of our capacity and our potential from the perspective of the oil industry.

This was proof positive to the boy's mind that whenever the owl hooted in the daytime, a man would die, and no amount of explanation would alter his belief.

It was a case of, "I told you so." It is noteworthy that when you get over the watershed between the Cross River and the Katsena, Niger, and into the Munshi country, ju-ju does not seem to exist in the same way as it does further south.

In the year 1909, when I was political officer on the Anglo-German Boundary Commission, I marched up through the Munshi country into northern Nigeria and back again, being absent from my district altogether about six months.

During the whole of that time, there was not a single death in any of the Munshi or Domi towns where I stayed.

It was so noticeable that even the soldiers and carriers remarked upon the absence of deaths and could not understand the reason.

It may have been that the country was more healthy, and we may have been very fortunate, but the fact remains that where there was no ju-ju, there were no deaths.

But the thing is, in this part of the world, in Nigeria or Ghana or South Africa or or kenya or whatever we belong to societies that are multi-ethnic so we come from societies that have different tribes in nigeria who are told in school that we have over 400 tribes but my father told me anyway my father told me that it's closer to 250 because in the uh what's it called in in the data that we have around tribes you know some names are duplicated so my father took uh He showed me a document telling me where there were a list of tribes.

And then, of course, our tribe is there, Tiv.

And then he now showed me another tribe listed there as Munchi.

And he said that Tiv and Munchi are the same.

And I said, why? He said, okay, that Tiv, that Munchi is just what the Fulani people call the Tiv.

So if you're looking at that list that says 450 tribes, and you see Tiv and you see Munchi, that's the same tribe.

Then...

There's also another tribe.