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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

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
readIsaiah 49:13

Thank the Lord for the people here and ask that His gospel will flow through this land to bring hope to those who are afflicted by the guilt of sin.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
readJames 4:4

Pray that the lost will be convicted of their friendship with the world, which is hostility toward God, and that they will turn from their sin and embrace the grace and mercy of God through Christ Jesus.

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
readHebrews 10:38

Pray that as people trust in Christ, they will live by faith and not shrink back from their hope in Christ.

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
readPsalm 149:3

Pray that God will send His people across cultures to share the gospel so that those who don't yet know the truth about Him might praise His name and share the hope of Christ with others.

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

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress Index ▲LanguageReligion
TulaPG014134TulaNigeria65,000No Longer UnreachedTulaAnimism

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