The Tiv people in Nasarawa state have sought the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in an alleged case of systemic genocide, land-grabbing and forceful takeover of ancestral land belonging to Tiv natives orchestrated by Nasarawa state government and others.
In an S.O.S letter to President Tinubu dated 28 May, 2025 under the aegis of Tiv Development Association (TIDA), Nasarawa State, and signed by Professor Emmanuel Iornumbe Kucha, Acting President of TIDA and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Agriculture (now Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi), the Tiv indigenes in Nasarawa accused the state governor, Abdullahi Sule, and some non-Tiv traditional rulers of annexing ancestral land of the Tiv in the state, accorrding to Vanguard Newspaper report.
The letter copied the President of the Senate; Speaker, House of Representatives; Secretary to the Government of the Federation; the National Security Adviser; Minister of Agriculture; Governor of Nasarawa state and Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, VANGUARD reports.
