CULTURE/TRADITION: The Tiv Traditional Council headed by His Royal Majesty Prof. James Ayatse 'Tor Tiv: recently reaffirmed changes governing certain practices and ceremonies in Tiv land as follows: 1. Burials should be held within 3 days and should be family affair, must not be loud occasions while married women should not be taxed within families for burial ceremonies except if they voluntarily decide to support. Burial remembrance are banned because they are a waste of financial resources. 2- Women should be given inheritance rights equally and should be supported by courts of law. 3- Traditional marriages: money spent buying items should not be more than N100,000, cutting of cakes during traditional marriages is henceforth banned while celebration of a new bride should not be done in the father in-law's house. Men are banned from abusing their wives physically and this is also applicable to women against their husbands. 4- Women cannot be crowned Kings, and no woman should seek for amendment of any law to be crowned a king. 5- All the traditional laws are applicable to Tiv people across the globe. 6- Consumption of alcohol known as OGOGORO is prohibited in Tiv Kingdom henceforth. 7- Tiv people now have officially launched Tiv Television which will be optional on Facebook and eventually Television. 8- Women's contributions known as BAM is established to empower women with loans. 9- Security mattes (undisclosed).

Posted: 1month ago

Author: Editor in Chief

Current date: 18 October 2026