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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Tula of Nigeria

The Tula of Nigeria, numbering approximately 65,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Gombe State people whose defensive Tula Cave rock formation shielded them from invaders for centuries, marking marriages with a fertility-linked bridal dance and organized under the traditional Tula Kingdom based in Wange. They mostly adhere to Animism and Tula is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Tula

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Tula (tul)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 65,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG014134
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

80%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tula
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Tula Speakers

Media Resources in Tula:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Tula:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Tula are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Tula:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Tula of Nigeria

For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
readPsalm 47:7

Pray for those who live for idols that will never satisfy their hearts, asking that someone will tell them that God is the King of all the earth so that they will turn to Him in repentance and praise.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed"
readGalatians 3:8

Ask the Lord to fulfill His promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed by advancing the gospel to every people group who has yet to receive it.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
readLamentations 3:25

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will trust in the goodness of the Lord as they wait on Him to answer their cries for help.

Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works!
readPsalm 105:2

Pray for God to saturate this place with the gospel and raise up believing men and women from among them to share the good news of Christ with those who have yet to encounter it.

Tula Across Countries (ROP3 - 110259) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▲PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TulaPG014134TulaNigeria65,000No Longer UnreachedTulaAnimism

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