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	Ethnologue 14 report for Nigeria
		Niger State, Kontagora LGA; Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari LGA.
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Suleija, Agaie, and Lapai LGAs; Nasarawa State, Nasarawa LGA.
		Taraba State, Karim Lamido LGA, at Balasa, Bambur, and Kirim; Wukari LGA at Gada Mayo.
	www.ethnologue.com /14/show_country.asp?name=Nigeria (5732 words)

	Ethnologue: Nigeria
		Niger State, Kontagora LGA; Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari LGA.
		(ACIPANCI, ACHIPA) [ AWC ] Niger State, Kontagora LGA; Kebbi State, Sakaba LGA.
		Kaduna State, Kachia LGA; Niger State, Chanchaga LGA.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Nigr.html (8081 words)

	Association Of Nigerians In Lasvegas
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Rafi, and Mariga LGAs; Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari LGA.
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Suleija, Agaie, and Lapai LGAs; Nasarawa State, Nasarawa LGA.
		Taraba State, Karim Lamido LGA, at Balasa, Bambur, and Kirim; Wukari LGA at Gada Mayo.
	www.nalv.org /Language.htm (5950 words)

	Languages spoken in Taraba State
		Taraba State is the region in Nigeria with the most languages, most of them endangered languages, due to the strong influence of Hausa and Fulfulde.
		There are 73 languages spoken as first language in Taraba State.
		Major languages of Taraba State are Etkywan (Icen), Fulfulde, Jukun, Kpan, Mumuye, Samba Daka, Samba Leko, Tiv, and Yendang.
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/taraba.htm (115 words)

	Taraba State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taraba is a state of Nigeria, named after the Taraba River which traverses the southern part of the state.
		The state was created out of the former Gongola State on 27th August 1991, by the Military Government of General Ibrahim Babangida.
		Taraba state is rich in Agriculture, Rivers and fine topography.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taraba_State (174 words)

	Ethnologue report for Nigeria
		Niger State, Borgu LGA; Kebbi State, Bagudo LGA, from Senji in the north to Kenugbe and Kaoje, 150 km to the south and Demmo, 50 km to the east, 35 villages.
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Suleija, Agaie, Rafi, and Lapai LGAs; Nasarawa State, Nasarawa LGA.
		Abia State, Anambra State, Aguata, Anambra, Awka, Idemili, Ihiala, Njikoka, Nnewi, and Onitsha LGAs; Enugu State, Awgu, Enugu, Ezeagu, Igo-Etiti, Igbo-Eze, Isi-Uzo, Nkanu, Nsukka, Udi, and Uzo-Uwani LGAs; Imo State; Rivers State, Ikwerre, Bonny, and Ahoada LGAs; Delta State, Oshimili, Aniocha, and Ndokwa LGAs; Akwa Ibom State, Ika LGA.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Nigeria (6114 words)

	Nigeria - SendMail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The state creation exercise was the result of a continuing process of spatio-political devolution, which started in 1963, to make Nigeria a politically stable and economically strong country.
		Taraba State, with its numerous small ethnic groups and remote location, was a particularly neglected and grossly underdeveloped part of the former Gongola State.
		km, the state lies roughly between latitudes 6°25'N and 9°30'N and between longitudes 9°30'E and 11°45'E. It is bordered on the west by Gombe and Plateau States, and by Adamawa State to the northeast.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/send.asp?blurb=374 (419 words)

	MOST Ethno-Net publication: Africa at Crossroads
		The imposition of colonial rule and state by the metropolitan bourgeoisie and its attendant contradiction embedded in exploitation of the colony led to a bourgeois revolution in the colony which led to the establishment of a bourgeois state, and the attendant legal and institutional framework.
		The contemporary African state inherited essential characteristics of the colonial state which was exported to Africa, fused together in related institutions which consist of mainly instrument of violence and coercion and they follow sequentially: (a) the military and police; (b) the judiciary (c) the bureaucracy.
		Similarly, The Colonial State deposed and banished to Ibbi the reigning Chamba chief Yamusa for slavery.
	www.unesco.org /most/crossroadskabir.htm (9843 words)

	Military revenge in Benue:
		During its December 2001 visit to Benue, and a brief visit to Wukari, in Taraba State, Human Rights Watch was informed about an alarming increase in violence between Tivs and Jukuns in Taraba in the weeks preceding the military operation in Benue.
		In broad terms, the Jukuns claim to be the original inhabitants of Taraba State, or "indigenes," and consider the Tivs as settlers.
		Benue is often referred to as the Tiv state, and Taraba as that of the Jukuns.
	hrw.org /reports/2002/nigeria/Nigeria0402-05.htm (1602 words)

	ADSEEDS MAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The State is bounded by the Cameroun Republic to the north, Taraba State to the south and to the west by parts of Taraba State and Gombe State.
		The State is a picturesqure mountainous land transversed by Rivers Benue, Gongola and Yadzaram.
		Adamawa State is one of the States in the Federation with large land mass (423,158sq km) and sparsely populated.
	www.adamawastategov.com /Adseedsmain.htm (3619 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		Local government allocations in the state are disbursed to the council chairmen as and when due without arbitrary deductions by Jolly Nyame, the state governor.
		According to him, the state government only deducts what is allowed as the statutory deductions meant to cater for some of the responsibilities of the local governments.
		He noted that local governments in the state were allowed to run their affairs, award contracts based on the needs of the people and such projects were executed for the purpose they were meant for.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10530180855.htm (902 words)

	Taraba warns teachers on exams malpractice
		Secondary schools principals and examiners in Taraba State found to be involved in abetting examination malpractices would henceforth be dismissed from service.
		Andrew Samari Fama stated this in Jalingo last week at the opening of a two-day workshop on the Campaign Against Examination Malpractice for Principals and Vice-Principals and Stakeholders in Education in Taraba State.
		The workshop was organised by All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary School (ANCOPSS) Taraba State Chapter.
	www.nasarawastate.org /newsday/news/nasarawa/11117213154.html (361 words)

	Newswatch magazine
		He is seen in Taraba State as the anointed son of the governor.
		Taraba State has many ethnic groups with diverse political and religious backgrounds.
		In the last few years, the state was bedevilled with crises, which consumed many lives.
	www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/11211080402.htm (428 words)

	Genocide and Nigerian Arrny massacre of Tiv civilians in central Nigeria.
		The Tiv conflict with Jukun in Taraba and Hausa in Nasarawa
		The claim has been that Tiv people who reside in Nasarawa and Taraba states are there as settlers or immigrants or non-indigenous and must therefore relocate to present day Benue State where a large number of Tiv people live, losing all their ancestral farmlands.
		Since this settlement is 100% Tiv population, Taraba State rejected them and since then they have been subjected to constant attacks and ethnic cleansing by Jukun militia backed by the army.
	www.ishr.org /sections-groups/wac/tiv.htm (2873 words)

	WHO \| Signs of the end
		Since July 2005, the state has not had a confirmed case of the wild polio virus, in spite of that year’s tally of 133 acute flaccid paralysis cases, and 25 cases as at June 9, 2006.
		State Health Commissioner, Dr. Jonah Wachap Sam is excited by the strides the state has made in eradication activities and early signs that the state is bidding the scourge goodbye.
		Others are the involvement of the state political and ministerial leadership in supervision, timely payment of sweep group members, and the full utilization of a social mobilization structure down to the community level.
	www.who.int /countries/nga/features/2006/bako/en/index.html (473 words)

	MOST Ethno-Net publication: Africa at Crossroads
		This is more so because, the state and society have since independence continued to grow apart rather than converging.
		He further stated that within these expression of conflicts that others are found such as criminality, civil disobedience, riots, military take-over (coups), succession, and terrorism.
		The Chamba's described the 1963 Gazette as a political plot made by Ambassador Jolly Tanko Yusuf (Chamba Elite) to secure the numerically superior Kuteb for victory at the polls, using the gazette, based on his proximity to the then NPC regional government of Northern Nigeria and to the Late Sardauna of Sokoto.
	www.ethnonet-africa.org /pubs/crossroadskabir.htm (10026 words)

	Welcome to Adamawa State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The State is essentially a pictureque mountains land traversed by big river valleys of Benue, Gongola and Yedzaram.
		Dances and Music in the state vary both in form and content based on the communities involved, and the occassions for which these dances are held.
		The open door policy of the State Government as well as the well known hospitality and broad mindedness of the people of the state are added attraction to prospective investors from within and outside the state.
	www.travelsyt.com /adamawa.htm (1424 words)

	Forest Finance: The forest revenue system and government expenditure on forestry in Nigeria
		In Ondo State, for lorries up to 10 tonnes in weight, a fee of N 50 per log is paid on any legally removed log crossing the border to another state.
		In Lagos State, charges on transportation to other states are: N 1,000 for a lorry-load of sawn planks; N 2,500 for a trailer-load of sawn planks; N 500 for lorry-load of billets; and N 1, 000 for a trailer-load of billets.
		The variations in forest charges from state to state, as shown in the previous figures and tables, are due to two main reasons.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/X6818E/X6818E09.htm (1483 words)

	In Zing, Governor Adamu Urges Political Tolerance
		He was speaking at the launching of a 500 million Naira Educational appeal fund by the Mumuye people of Taraba state at the weekend.
		In a speech at the occasion, Governor Adamu stated that Nigerian democracy was a pluralistic one as a result of which many political opinions were expected.
		The Governor who was a guest of the Taraba Governor at the ceremony was also joined at the launching by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Governor Boni Haruna of Adamawa state and the Deputy of Governor of Benue state.
	www.nasarawastate.org /news1/11209170110.htm (171 words)

	Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria : :News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The State commissioner of health, Dr Edet Attih told newsmens during an interview in his office that the directive to set up the committee was issued at the end of National Council on Health in Taraba State recently by the health minister, Prof.
		Doctor Attih stated that the State’s health sector intervention committee would involve the Ministry of Agriculture, which will release its veterinary surgeons to educate poultry farmers on the prevention measures to avoid the spread of the bird flu to man.
		It was his opinion that, in case of any history of the “avian flu” in man in the country, authorities should quarantine strangers and foreigners from entering the State and designate hospitals to look for signs and symptoms of the bird flu illness before admitting such foreigners in the State.
	www.akwaibomstategov.com /news2-2.asp?ID=2378 (394 words)

	Tit for Tat - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		lortyom Laha, a spokesman of the Tiv in Taraba State told Newswatch that the 4 motorised battalion of the Nigeria Army based in Takum, Taraba State consistently and actively participated in the Tiv-Jukun crisis in the state in the past.
		According to Laha, a day after the October 7, attack on Tor Damsa, a Tiv settlement area in Donga local government area of Taraba State during the present crisis, soldiers were again brought from Takum and stationed at Akate, a Jukun town between Tor Damsa and Donga town, apparently to defend Akate.
		George Akume, governor of Benue State, who confirmed this told Newswatch that when he visited Jootar on Monday September 12, 2001, and demanded to know from the soldiers who deployed them to Benue State, they admitted that they were deployed from Yola.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /adprint.asp?blurb=46 (1175 words)

	The Nigerian Embassy - States and Local Governments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Taraba state is bounded in the north-east by Adamawa State, in the west and south west by Plateau and Benue States and on the eastern border by the Republic of Cameroon.
		Taraba State lies largely within the middle of Nigeria and consists of undulating landscape dotted with a few mountainous features.
		Taraba State is richly endowed with potentials for the development of Tourism.
	nigerianembassy-argentina.org /government/states/taraba.shtml (510 words)

	Nigeria Media Monitor
		Although Radio Rivers is funded and controlled by the Rivers state government the primaries are supposed to be private affairs of the political parties.
		Ben Adaji the Taraba state correspondent of The News/Tempo magazines in Jalingo arrested and detained since December 31, 1997 by the Taraba state police command has finally been released on bail by a Jalingo Chief Magistrate court.
		It was the applicants' contention that such policy and pronouncement have been judicially decided by the Supreme Court in the case of Ike-V-Nzekwe on February 4, 1975, as having the force of law in Nigeria and enjoining all courts in Nigeria to take judicial notice of such or similar declared policy and pronouncement.
	www.derechos.net /ijc/monitor/0310.html (1630 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Focus On Politics - Atiku Can't Get Taraba State Without Nyame - Danbaba Suntai (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Following the disqualification of the PDP governorship candidate for Taraba, Danladi Baido, Suntai was nominated under controversial circumstances to replace Baido.
		In this exclusive chat with our Correspondent Fidelis Mac Leva in Jalingo, the state capital, Suntai, a pharmacist, submitted that his emergence as the new PDP governorship candidate for Taraba was the will of God.
		Taraba state used to be one of the strongholds of the Vice President Atiku Abubakar before his defection to the Action Congress (AC), don't you think that influence will have overbearing effect on the chances of the PDP in the state?
	allafrica.com /stories/200703200467.html (1269 words)

	E-Nigeria - Maps - Taraba
		It is bounded by Bauchi and Gombe state on the northern part, Plateau and Nassarawa state on the western part and Adamawa state on the eastern part.
		Taraba State came into being after the spliting of the then Gongola State into two in a state creation exercise on August 27, 1991.
		Taraba is fairly blessed in terms of literacy and it is experiencing an increase in the number of private schools.
	www.e-nigeria.net /taraba.html (213 words)

	Welcome to Taraba First
		The desire for development in Taraba State of Nigeria triggered the birth of Taraba First by concerned indigenes of Taraba State.
		Taraba First also identifies that Taraba State is no doubt nature's gift to Nigeria with its diverse natural and mineral resources and the breath taking Mambilla Plateau in the State.
		To this end, Taraba First has decided to project and showcase the State to the World.
	www.tarabafirst.info (130 words)

	October 24
		The crises which have turned Taraba State and Eastern Benue State into killing fields and a cauldron of hatred and rage is a result of collective leadership failure where the people of Nigeria allowed evil forces, in our midst to take over our right to think and act rationally.
		In Bauchi State the Sayawas and Hausas are in conflict.
		On the issue of the boundary between Benue and Taraba States, the Vice-President is to meet with the two governors (Benue and Taraba) after report on the same is submitted by the National Boundary Commission.
	www.ayatutu.org /history_tiv_crisis.htm (12350 words)

	Forest Finance: The forest revenue system and government expenditure on forestry in Nigeria
		In Taraba State in particular, the charges on leaf collection, tapping wine, collection of ropes and collection of fruits have remained at N 600 per year, N 2,400 per year, N 5,000 per year and N 150 per year respectively, since 1991.
		Taraba State has the widest range of minor forest products (about 25), for which permits are issued and revenues are collected by the state government (see Table 15).
		In Ondo State, non-possession of toll fee receipt at the point of loading in the sawmill for vehicles travelling outside the State shall attract twice the toll fee chargeable on the particular size of vehicle.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/X6818E/X6818E08.htm (1097 words)

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