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  • One of these partner organizations was Nongu u Kristu u ken Sudan hen Tiv NKST, a Christian Reformed group that provides health services through small outposts in the war-torn, AIDS-ravaged states of northern Nigeria.

    Latanya Mapp Frett: Working Toward A Generation Without AIDS Latanya Mapp Frett 2011

  • One of these partner organizations was Nongu u Kristu u ken Sudan hen Tiv NKST, a Christian Reformed group that provides health services through small outposts in the war-torn, AIDS-ravaged states of northern Nigeria.

    Latanya Mapp Frett: Working Toward A Generation Without AIDS Latanya Mapp Frett 2011

  • The largest groups within the cluster include the 4 million Ibibio, 3.4 million Tiv, 1.4 million Ebira and 1.3 million Anaang, but there are an additional 45 groups with more than 100,000 members.

    Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized 2007

  • Other major ethnic groups of the north are the Nupe, Tiv, and Kanuri.

    Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • Near the end of Serpent in Paradise, Birkett quotes from Return to Laughter, in which the anthropologist Elenore Smith Bowen writes about her life among the Tiv of West Africa:

    2007 May 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • Tor Tiv (ethnic Tiv traditional chieftain) in Taraba state.

    LADIES' CHAMPION 2008

  • NigeriaNigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%

    Ethnic groups 2008

  • Ethnic groups: Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%

    Nigeria 2008

  • - Nigeria: Religious fighting between Christians and Muslims; ethnic fighting between Egon and Tiv groups.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • (Ibo) 18\%, Ijaw 10\%, Kanuri 4\%, Ibibio 3. 5\%, Tiv 2. 5\%

    The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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