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Taraba State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria, named after the Taraba River, which traverses the Southern part of the state.^[1]

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1991 establishments in Nigeria
States of Nigeria

A4 highway (Nigeria)

The A4 highway is a major north–south route in Nigeria that spans from the southern coast to the eastern inland region, connecting various cities and regions.

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A8 highway (Nigeria)

The A8 highway is a roadway in Adamawa State, Nigeria.

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Abbas Njidda Tafida

Alhaji Abbas Njidda Tafida (10 June 1953) is the Emir of Muri in Jalingo Taraba state, Nigeria.

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Abdullahi Bala Lau

Abdullahi Bala Lau, popularly known as Sheikh Balalau, is a Nigerian Islamic scholar, cleric, mufassir, and preacher.

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Abon language

Abon (Abõ) is a Tivoid language of Nigeria.

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Adamawa Stateis a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Borno to the northwest, Gombe to the west, and Taraba to the southwest while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon. Taraba State and Adamawa State are 1991 establishments in Nigeria and states of Nigeria.

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Agbu Kefas

Agbu Kefas (born 12 November 1970) is a Nigerian politician and retired Nigerian army lieutenant colonel who has served as the governor of Taraba State since 2023.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Aisha Alhassan

Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan (16 September 1959 – 7 May 2021), popularly known as Mama Taraba, was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the Federal Minister of Women Affairs from her appointment in 2015 until her resignation in 2018.

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All Progressives Congress

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Anna Darius Ishaku

Anna Dickson Ishaku (née Mbasughun; born 24 August 1957) is the founder and CEO of the NGO "Hope Afresh Foundation Taraba" and a member of the Nigerian Bar Association.

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Ardo Kola

Ardo Kola is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Bali, Nigeria

Bali is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Banyo, Cameroon

Banyo (Fula: Banyo 𞤦𞤢𞤲𞤴𞤮) is a town and commune in Adamawa Province, Cameroon.

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Baryte

Baryte, barite or barytes is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4).

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Bauchi State

Bauchi State (Fula: Leydi Bauchi 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤦𞤢𞤵𞤷𞥅𞤭) is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria It is bordered by Jigawa to the north, Yobe to the northeast, Gombe to the east, Taraba and Plateau to the south, Kaduna to the west and Kano to the northwest. Taraba State and Bauchi State are states of Nigeria.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Benue River

Benue River (la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River.

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Benue State

Benue State is one of the North Central states in Nigeria with a population of about 4,253,641 in the 2006 census. Taraba State and Benue State are states of Nigeria.

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Bete language (Nigeria)

The Bete language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language spoken by a small minority of the 3,000 inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun Takum.

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Bitare language

Bitare (Njwande, Yukutare) is a Tivoid language of Nigeria and Cameroon.

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Cash crop

A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Chamba Leko

Chamba Leko is one of two languages spoken by the Chamba people, the other being Chamba Daka.

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Chamba people

The Chamba are a significant ethnic group in the north eastern Nigeria.

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Chief justice of Nigeria

The chief justice of Nigeria or CJN is the head of the judicial arm of the government of Nigeria, and presides over the country's Supreme Court and the National Judicial Council.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.

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Coffee

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.

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Cold

Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Dadiya language

Dadiya (Dadiya, Loodiya) is one of the Savanna languages of northeastern Nigeria.

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Daka language

Daka (Dakka, Dekka, rarely Deng or Tikk) is one of two languages spoken by the Chamba people in Nigeria, the other being Chamba Leko.

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Danbaba Suntai

Danbaba Danfulani Suntai (30 June 1961 – 28 June 2017) was a Nigerian pharmacist and politician who served as the governor of Taraba State from 2007 to 2015.

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Darius Ishaku

Darius Dickson Ishaku (born 30 July 1954) is a Nigerian architect, urban planner, university lecturer and politician.

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David Jimkuta

David Jimkuta is a Nigerian politician who has served as the senator representing the Taraba South senatorial district since 2023.

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Deputy Governor of Taraba State

The deputy governor of Taraba State is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the government of Taraba State, Nigeria, after the governor of Taraba State, and ranks first in line of succession.

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Donga River

The Donga River is a river in Nigeria and Cameroon.

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Donga, Nigeria

Donga is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Emmanuel Bwacha

Emmanuel Bwacha (born 15 December 1962) is a Nigerian politician who served as the senator representing the Taraba South senatorial district from 2011 to 2023.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Etkywan language

Etkywan (Etekwe), or Icen (Itchen), also known as Kentu or Nyidu, is a Jukunoid language of Nigeria.

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Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo

Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo also known as FMC Jalingo, is a federal government of Nigeria's hospital located in Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Federal University, Wukari

The Federal University Wukari was established in 2011 by the federal government of Nigeria led by the then President, Goodluck Jonathan, the school was established as one of the nine schools established at the time.

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Feldspar

Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fula language

Fula,Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; Adlam: 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤪; Ajami: ࢻُلْࢻُلْدٜ, ݒُلَارْ, بُۛلَر), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 36.8 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stretches across some 18 countries in West and Central Africa.

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Fula people

The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Game reserve

A game reserve (also known as a game park) is a large area of land where wild animals are hunted in a controlled way for sport.

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Gashaka

Gashaka is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Gassol

Gassol is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Gbeya language

Gbeya (Gbɛ́yá, Gbaya-Bossangoa) is a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic.

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Gembu, Nigeria

Gembu is a town on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State of Nigeria.

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Gemstone

A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.

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Goat

The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.

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Gombe State

Gombe State (Lesdi Gommbe 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤺𞤮𞤥𞥆𞤦𞤫) is a state in northeastern Nigeria, bordered to the north and northeast by the states of Borno for 93 km in the vicinity of Gongola River and Lake Dadin Kowa and Yobe in the vicinity of Gongola River for 140 km, to the south by Taraba State for 58 km, to the southeast by Adamawa State for 95 km, and to the west by Bauchi State for 277 km (172 miles). Taraba State and Gombe State are states of Nigeria.

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Gongola State

Gongola State is a former administrative division of Nigeria. Taraba State and Gongola State are states of Nigeria.

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Graphite

Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.

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Gum arabic

Gum arabic (gum acacia, gum sudani, Senegal gum and by other names) is a natural gum originally consisting of the hardened sap of two species of the Acacia tree, Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal. However, the term "gum arabic" does not actually indicate a particular botanical source.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula.

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Haruna Manu

Haruna Manu (born 23 August 1973) is a Nigerian politician who is the current senator representing Taraba Central Senatorial District since 2023.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast.

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Hausa people

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.

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Hõne language

Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Hospital

A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.

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House of Representatives (Nigeria)

The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Humidity

Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.

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Ibi, Taraba State

Ibi is a town and administrative district in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Ibrahim Babangida

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born 17 August 1941) is a Nigerian statesman and military dictator who ruled as military president of Nigeria from 1985 when he orchestrated a coup d'état against his military and political arch-rival Muhammadu Buhari, until his resignation in 1993 as a result of the post-June 12, 1993 election which he illegally nullified.

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Ignatius Ayau Kaigama

Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (born 31 July 1958) is a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the archbishop of Abuja since 9 November 2019.

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ISO 3166-2:NG

ISO 3166-2:NG is the entry for Nigeria in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Taraba State and ISO 3166-2:NG are states of Nigeria.

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Izere language

Izere is a dialect continuum of Plateau languages in Nigeria.

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Jalingo

Jalingo is the capital city of Taraba State in north-eastern Nigeria, named in fulfulde (the word Jalingo means "superior place") and has been estimated with population of 418,000 as of 2018, The city has received the highest number of immigrants mainly from, Kano, Borno, Gombe and the neighboring Cameroon.

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Jalingo Airport

Jalingo Airport renamed Danbaba Danfulani Suntai Airport is a publicly owned airport located in Jalingo, the capital city of Taraba State.

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Jarawa language (Nigeria)

Jarawa (also known as Jar, Jara, or in Hausa: Jaranci) is the most populous of the Bantu languages of northern Nigeria.

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Jenjo people

The Jenjo, also known as Janjo, Jen, Dza, Gwomo, and Karenjo, are an ethnic group in Nigeria.

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Jiba language

Jiba (also Kona, Jukun Wurkum) is a critically endangered Jukunoid language of Nigeria.

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Jibu language

Jibu is a Jukunoid language spoken in the Taraba State of Nigeria by 30,000 people.

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Jolly Nyame

Jolly Tavoro Nyame (born 25 December 1955) is a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Taraba State from 1999 to 2007.

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Jukun people (West Africa)

Jukun (Njikum;; Kanuri: Gwana, Kwana) are an ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in West Africa.

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Jukun Takum language

Jukun (Njikun), or more precisely Jukun Takum, is a Jukunoid language of Cameroon used as a trade language in Nigeria.

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Jukunoid languages

The Jukunoid languages are a branch of the Benue-Congo languages spoken by the Jukun and related peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon.

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Kambu Swayambhuva

Kambu Swayambhuva or Kambu Svayambhuva was an ancestor of the Kambuja tribe and king of Aryadesa.

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Kaolinite

Kaolinite (also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition: Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

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Kapya language

Kapya is a Plateau language spoken in Kapya village, Takum LGA, Taraba State, eastern Nigeria.

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Karim Lamido

Karim Lamido is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Kholok language

Kulung (also known as Kode, Koode, Kwoode, Pia, Pitiko, Widala, Wurkum) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria.

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Kpan language

Kpan is a Jukunoid language of Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Kpati language

Kpati is an extinct Grassfields language formerly spoken in the Wukari and Takum LGAs of Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Kurmi

Kurmi is traditionally a non-elite tiller caste in the lower Gangetic plain of India, especially southern regions of Awadh, eastern Uttar Pradesh and parts of Bihar.

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Kurmi, Nigeria

Kurmi is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Kuteb language

Kuteb (also known as Kutep) also known as Ati, Kutev, Mbarike is a Nigerian ethnic language.

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Kuteb people

Genesis sanda from Takum LGA taraba state The Kuteb (or Kutep) people are an ethno-linguistic group in West Africa, who speak Kuteb, a Jukunoid language.

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Lau Laka language

Laka or Lau is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria.

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Lau, Nigeria

Lau is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of current state governors in Nigeria

The following table presents a list of Nigeria's state governors.

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List of governors of Taraba State

This is a list of administrators and governors of Taraba State, Nigeria.

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List of nicknames of Nigerian states

The following table presents a listing of the nicknames of Nigerian states.

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List of Nigerian states by area

This table ranks Nigeria's 36 states in order of their surface areas.

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List of Nigerian states by date of statehood

The following table presents a listing of the states of Nigeria, and the dates of their creation.

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List of Nigerian states by GDP

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their estimated total GDP in 2021 according to a 2022 report by BudgIT.

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List of Nigerian states by Human Development Index

This article presents two lists of Nigerian states by Human Development Index (HDI), including the Federal Capital Territory.

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List of Nigerian states by population

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total population based on the 2006 Census figures, as well as their 2019 projected populations, which were published by the National Bureau of Statistics.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of state capitals of Nigeria

The following is a list of Nigerian state capitals.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Local government areas of Nigeria

Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs), each administered by a local government council consisting of a chairman, who is the chief executive, and other elected members, who are referred to as councillors.

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Lufu language

The Lufu language is a Yukubenic language of Nigeria is a language still spoken mostly by older adults among the Lufu people of the Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun.

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Lumber

Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.

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Maghdi language

Mághdì is an Adamawa language of Nigeria.

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Mahmud Mohammed

Mahmud Mohammed (born 10 November 1946) is a Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria from 2014 to 2016.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

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Mak language (Adamawa)

Mak, or LeeMak, is an Adamawa language of Nigeria, one of several spoken by the Bikwin people.

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Mambila people

The Mambilla or Mambila people of Nigeria live on the Mambilla Plateau (in 'Sardauna' local government area of Taraba State in Nigeria).

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Mambilla Plateau

The Mambilla Plateau is a plateau in the Taraba State of Nigeria.

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Manenguba languages

The Manenguba languages, also known as the Mbo cluster, are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken on and around the Manenguba mountain range in south-western Cameroon.

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Mica

Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates.

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Millet

Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.

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Mumuye language

Mumuye is by far the most populous of the Adamawa languages.

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Mumuye people

The Mumuye are people of the Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Muri, Taraba State

Muri (Fula: Lamorde Muri 𞤤𞤢𞤥𞤮𞤪𞤣𞤫 𞤥𞤵𞥅𞤪𞤭) is a town and traditional emirate in Jalingo but covers Karim Lamido LGA ARDO KOLA Yoro, Taraba LGA and others, in northwestern Taraba State, eastern Nigeria, approximately between 9° and 11° 40′ E. and 7° 10′ and 9° 40′ N.

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Naki language

Naki, or Munkaf, is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon and Nigeria.

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Nasarawa State

Nasarawa State is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria, bordered to the east by the states of Taraba and Plateau, to the north by Kaduna State, to the south by the states of Benue and Kogi, and to the west by the Federal Capital Territory. Taraba State and Nasarawa State are states of Nigeria.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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Ndola

Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia and third in terms of size and population, with a population of 475,194 (2010 census provisional), after the capital, Lusaka, and Kitwe, and the second largest in terms of infrastructure development after Lusaka.

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Ndola people

Ndola People are found in Taraba, Nigeria and located in Kurmi and Ngada.

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Ndoro language

Ndoola (Ndoro) or Njoyamɛ in Cameroon is a Bantoid language of Nigeria, with several thousand speakers in Cameroon.

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Niger River

The Niger River is the main river of West Africa, extending about. Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Northwest Region (Cameroon)

The Northwest Region, or North-West Region is one of ten regions of Cameroon.

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Nso people

The Nso people are from the Bamenda grass fields Northwest Region of Cameroon.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms.

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Pangseng language

Pangseng is an Adamawa language of Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Peanut

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress.

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Pig

The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Plateau State

Plateau State is a north central Nigerian state. Taraba State and Plateau State are states of Nigeria.

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Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).

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Rain

Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.

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Rice

Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Saleh Mamman

Mamman Kwagyang Saleh (born 2 January 1958), is a Nigerian government official that served as Minister of Power from August 2019 to September 2021.

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Sardauna, Taraba State

Sardauna (formerly Mambilla) Local Government Area is located in the extreme southeast of Taraba State in Nigeria.

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Senate of Nigeria

The Senate is the upper chamber of Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Shoo-Minda-Nye language

Shoo, Minda and Nye are the three constituent dialects of a Jukunoid language of Nigeria which has no unitary name.

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Shuaibu Isa Lau

Shuaibu Isa Lau (born 27 November 1960) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the senator representing the Taraba North senatorial district since 2017.

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Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain.

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Soybean

The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

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States of Nigeria

Nigeria is a federation of 36 states.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Takum

Takum is a Local Government Area of Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Taraba River

The Taraba River is a river in Taraba State, Nigeria, a tributary of the Benue River.

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Taraba State House of Assembly

The Taraba State House of Assembly is a branch of the Government of Taraba State, which serves as the legislative house where all legislative decisions and lawmaking for the governance of Taraba State is emanating.

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Taraba State University

Taraba State University also known as TSU is located in Jalingo, Taraba State Nigeria.

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Tarok language

Tarok is a regionally important Plateau language in the Langtang area of southeast Plateau State, Nigeria, where it serves as a local lingua franca.

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Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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TheCable

TheCable is an independent online newspaper in Nigeria.

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Theophilus Danjuma

Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (born 9 December 1938) is a Nigerian politician and retired lieutenant general who played a key role in post independence military and political events in Nigeria.

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Tiv language

Tiv is a Tivoid language spoken in some states in North Central Nigeria, with some speakers in Cameroon.

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Tiv people

Tiv (or Tiiv) are a Tivoid ethnic group.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Ussa

Ussa is a local government area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Valley

A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other.

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Vute language

Vute is a Mambiloid language of Cameroon and Gabon, with a thousand speakers in Nigeria.

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Wapan language

Wapan (Jukun Wapan) or Kororofa, also known as Wukari after the local town of Wukari, is a major Jukunoid language of Nigeria.

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Wawa language

Wawa is a Mambiloid language spoken in a region of Cameroon and just inside bordering Nigeria used by about 3,000 people in three main dialects.

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West Africa Time

West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa.

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Wind

Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface.

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Wukari

Wukari is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).

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Yamba language

Yamba is a Grassfields language of the Northwest region of southern Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Eastern Nigeria.

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Yandang Mountains

Yandang Mountains or Yandangshan refers, in the broad sense, to a coastal mountain range in southeastern Zhejiang province in eastern China, covering much of the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou (from Pingyang County in the south to Yueqing County in the northeast) and extending to the county-level city of Wenling in Taizhou prefecture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraba_State

Also known as Kufai, Nigeria, NG-TA, Taraba (state).

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