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	THE NIGERIA POLICE FORCE
		The Nigeria Police have arrested two students who are members of a gang that specializes in kidnapping fellow students.................
		The Nigeria Police have arrested a 3-man gang that kidnapped a 3-year old girl and extorted the sum of N3.3M from the parents..................
		ENUGU STATE GOVT DONATED 50 PATROL VEHICLES TO The Enugu State Government donated 50 Patrol vehicles to the Police....
	nigeriapolice.org (395 words)

	Ethnologue report for Nigeria
		Niger State, Kontagora LGA; Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari LGA.
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Rafi, and Mariga LGAs; Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari LGA.
		Niger State, Chanchaga, Suleija, Agaie, Rafi, and Lapai LGAs; Nasarawa State, Nasarawa LGA.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Nigeria (6114 words)

	Nigeria
		However, the Constitution also states that a Shari'a court of appeal may exercise "such other jurisdiction as may be conferred upon it by the law of the State." Some states have interpreted this language as granting them the right to expand the jurisdiction of existing Shari'a courts to include criminal matters.
		State officials said the certification boards were dealing with a large backlog of cases for all persons, regardless of religious faith.
		State authorities claim that students are permitted to decline to attend these classes or to request a teacher of their own religion to provide alternative instruction.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/23745.htm (4650 words)

	Adamawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adamawa may refer to several geographical or political areas:
		The Adamawa Plateau, which rises in Nigeria, cuts across Cameroon, and terminates in the Central African Republic;
		The Adamawa languages, a family of languages spoken in this area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adamawa (111 words)

	Nigeria ---->>> Adamawa State
		Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, with its capital at Yola.
		Adamawa was created out of Gongola State on 27th August, 1991 as one of the nine new states created by the Federal Military Government.
		Adamawa State is well noted for a rich cultural heritage which is reflected in its past history, craftmanship, music and dances, dress patterns and hospitality.
	www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/adamawa.htm (391 words)

	Nigeria & Human Rights
		Christians in Kaduna state, central Nigeria, have expressed concerns that inter-religious violence may erupt again after nominations to a body formed to resolve political tensions were biased towards Muslims.
		Proposals from the conference are to be sent to President Obasanjo for agreement before being passed on to parliament and state assemblies for approval.
		Muslims in Makarfi town, Kaduna State, have burned down nine churches and a police station, citing a young Christian's desecration of the Qur'an as the excuse, according to the UK-based Barnabas Fund.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /nigeria_&_human_rights.htm (997 words)

	Online Nigeria: Nigeria's Information portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Blinded by love, an 18-year-old female undergraduate of the Ebonyi State University has told how she faked being held hostage by a gang of kidnappers, which demanded a N6 million ransom from her parents after which she eloped with her boyfriend.
		Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) Executive member, Dr. Amos Adamu, has dampened any hope of reprieve for Nigeria’s Ladan Bosso, who was recently hammered by the world football governing body for his unguided racial comment on the English referee that handled Nigeria-Chile match in the last World Youth Championship in Canada.
		Ekiti State Governor, Olusegun Oni, on Monday warned that any government official caught embezzling the state's money will be committed to jail.
	www.onlinenigeria.com (943 words)

	Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States, Professor Jibril Aminu was among two hundred and fifteen (215) Nigerians and foreigners alike recently conferred with different categories of Nigerian national honours award.
		The National honours award is Nigeria's highest acknowledgement of the contribution of individuals to the socio-economic development of the country.
		Ambassador Aminu a Physician and Professor of Medicine specializing in cardiology and hypertension was born in Song, Adamawa State of Nigeria in 1939.
	www.nigeriaembassyusa.org /120402_1.shtml (330 words)

	Nigeria 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hafiz Ringim, the police commissioner for Adamawa State, in which Numan is located, told reporters the violence also degenerated into widespread looting of homes and shops by hoodlums who took advantage of the unrest.
		The February 28 attack on the Christian community of Yugur in Dumne village in the Song local government area is the latest clash in the “age-long” dispute between Muslims and Christians in the region.
		Joshua Atiku, special advisor to the governor of Adamawa state, expressed sympathy with the victims of the attacks and said steps were being taken to curtail further attacks.
	www.hrwf.net /html/nigeria_2003.html (2232 words)

	MUSLIM MILITANTS ATTACK CHRISTIANS IN ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Christian survivors took refuge in Mayolope village in Taraba state.
		Ann Buwalda of Jubilee Campaign reports: "This is the second attack on Christians in Adamawa state; two years ago, the town of Numan experienced a religious crisis following the death of Pastor Esther Ethan Jinkai, who was killed by a Muslim fanatic.
		In Jos, Plateau state, fighting between Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers resulted in the deaths of 1,000 people and the displacement of 258,000 others.
	www.assistnews.net /Stories/s05030082.htm (393 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - School curriculum and felt needs across cultures
		Among the tribal groups in Africa (Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria as case study), traditionally, knowledge is for perpetuating and strengthening group existence.
		A similar situation in Africa, from the Mubi case study in Adamawa State, Nigeria, is the control of the alien Fulani Muslims whose political dominance is a threat to the tribal groups in Mubi (M.G. Kraft 1977:18).
		Both Beals and Spindler state that education planners should take cultural diversity in a society into consideration to guard against imposing the notions of a powerful group on minorities- an injustice which has both severe consequences on the curriculum of oppressed people and a threat to peace and harmony.
	nigeriaworld.com /cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/herbert-eze/042005.html (1849 words)

	At least 10 killed in religious clashes in Adamawa state
		NIGERIA: At least 10 killed in religious clashes in Adamawa state
		The fighting in Adamawa is the latest episode of religious violence in Nigeria's middle-belt region, wedged between the predominantly-Islamic north and largely-Christian south.
		President Olusegun Obasanjo subsequently declared a state of emergency in Plateau State to clamp down on the religious violence and prevent it from spreading to other parts of Africa's most populous country.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/06/mil-040609-irin02.htm (515 words)

	Voice of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Assop Falls in Jos, Plateau State, is Perhaps, the most notable of Nigeria's many waterfalls, Located near the bottom of the drop-off of the plateau.
		Riyom Rock Formation, in Jos, Plateau State is considered by many observers to be a photographer's delight with its dramatic pile of rocks balanced on one another with the topmost looking like clown's hat.
		Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River State, with its rolling grassland and deep-wooded valley and water-falls, is easily one of the most popular tourist attractions in Nigeria.
	www.voiceofnigeria.org /nigeria/landscape.html (319 words)

	E-Nigeria - Maps - Adamawa
		Adamawa State is located in the Northeastern part of Nigeria.
		Adamawa was created out of Gongola State on 27th August, 1991 as one of the nine new states created by the Federal Military Government.
		Adamawa State is well noted for a rich cultural heritage which is reflected in its past history, craftmanship, music and dances, dress patterns and hospitality.
	www.e-nigeria.net /adama.html (293 words)

	USATODAY.com - Nigerian flash flood kills 23, sends hundreds fleeing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Flash floods have submerged houses and farms in northeastern Nigeria, drowning at least 23 people as they slept and forcing more than 1,000 to flee their villages, government officials said Thursday.
		The state official said a government medical team has been sent to Song and some emergency food supplies have already been provided.
		Nigeria, in the middle of its six-month-long rainy season, has seen particularly severe downpours this month, with newspapers reporting serious floods in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta region and southwest.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-08-12-nigerian-floods_x.htm?csp=36 (321 words)

	Nigeria--Christian Persecution in Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There is a growing trend in states that have accepted Sharia law to destroy Christian churches on the pretense that the churches have violated building codes.
		The government stated all churches in Shagari Quarters of Kano city were “illegal structures,” probably due to the religious conflict in Jos and the rumored future adoption of Shari’a law.
		The state has done little to help the victims and claims they will not be compensated for what they lost during the two bloody clashes in which an estimated 875 Christians were killed.
	www.persecution.org /Countries/nigeria.html (3388 words)

	Inland fishery enhancements
		The modern systems of fisheries management in N.E. Nigeria have been based on Western “top-down” approaches to fisheries management, and are relatively young, having been established in the process of the development of the modern Nigeria state (since 1960).
		Fisheries are classed as state property (res publica), in that ownership and management is held by the nation state.
		In northern Nigeria, the number of trained technical personnel is limited, and this may narrow the scope of particular enhancement schemes.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/W8514E/W8514E26.htm (6567 words)

	IALS Library Acquisitions List May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The laws of the Adamawa State of Nigeria in force on the 1st day of January,1993.
		The Children Act report 1995-1999 a report by the Secretary of State for Health, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the Lord Chancellor on the Children Act 1989 in pursuance of their duties under section 83(6) of the Act, presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, January 2000.
		The laws of the Taraba State of Nigeria in force on the 1st day of January, 1993.
	ials.sas.ac.uk /library/acqlist/may01.htm (3647 words)

	Compass Direct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The surviving Christians have taken refuge in Mayolope village in the neighboring state of Taraba.
		The attack on Demsa village by Muslim militants is the second in Adamawa state.
		Numan, also in Adamawa, has been under siege since a religious crisis that erupted there two years ago over the killing of Pastor Esther Ethan Jinkai.
	www.compassdirect.org /en/newslongen.php?idelement=3700 (371 words)

	Cohort 9 Associate Biodata
		Wesley is a Veterinary Doctor by training, with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, a master’s degree of Veterinary Public Health (MVPH) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and presently a Ph.D research fellow of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
		Before joining the University, she taught at the Secondary School level in Oyo and Osun States of Nigeria between 1992 and 1997.
		She has special interest in contributing in the area of increasing and sustaining the productivity of land as wel as improving its use, which is of relevance to LEAD in sustainable development.
	www.lead.org.ng /cohort9_3.htm (866 words)

	Nigeria on the Internet
		Internet service providers in Nigeria, the state of telecommuncations, locate internet / web services by type and country, list of countries with independent regulators, list of countries by number of fixed lines, list of countries by access costs, list of countries by population.
		The State was "Created on September 23, 1987 by the government of President Ibrahim Babangida from the former Cross River State." Capital City: Uyo.
		Includes the 1956 trip to Nigeria of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, the first local government election in Lagos 1950, Commonwealth conferences, the Emir of Katsina, visit to the U.K. of Nigerian emirs, the 1952 opening of Ibadan University, Nigerian Independence 1960, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton's tour of Nigeria 1952.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/nigeria.html (9393 words)

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		NIGERIA: At least 10 killed in religious clashes in Adamawa state - OCHA IRIN
		NIGERIA: At least 10 killed in religious clashes in Adamawa state
		IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=41590&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=NIGERIA (601 words)

	Jalingo -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It became a state capital in 1991 after Gongola state was divided into Adamawa and Taraba states.
		It was created in 1991 from the southwestern half of former Gongola state.
		Taraba is bordered on the north and northeast by Bauchi and Adamawa states, on the west and southwest by Plateau and Benue states, and on the south and southeast by Cameroon.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9001631?tocId=9001631 (372 words)

	Adamawa State, Nigeria - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, TheBestLinks.com:Perfect stub article, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Adamawa, Adamawa State, Nigeria, Nigeria, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub...
		It was created from part of Northeastern State in 1976.
		Until 1991 it was known as Gongola State.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Adamawa.html (110 words)

	Mubi -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It lies on the west bank of the Yedseram River, a stream that flows north into Lake Chad, and is situated on the western flanks of the Mandara Mountains.
		group of languages spoken in northern Nigeria, northern Ghana, Niger, and Cameroon and in parts of Togo, Benin, Chad, and the Central African Republic and generally classified as a branch of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) language family.
		With the construction of a spur road to Yola (5.5 miles [9 km] south-southeast), the town became a river port for Yola,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054116?tocId=9054116 (314 words)

	EYN consultation in Nigeria, May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A consultation between the Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria), the US Church of the Brethren, and Mission 21 (formerly Basel Mission) of Switzerland was held May 8-11 in Kwarhi, Adamawa State, Nigeria, in the EYN headquarters conference hall.
		The consultation, scheduled to be held every other year, was to meet in 2000 but was delayed for one year due to scheduling difficulties among the partners.
		Participating from the Church of the Brethren were Mervin Keeney, director of Global Mission Partnerships for the General Board, and Nigeria mission coordinators John and Janet Tubbs.
	www.brethren.org /pjournal/2001/eyn.htm (182 words)

	CURRICULUM VITAE
		This is a continuation of the exploratory study of the development and implementation of government educational policies in Kano State, Nigeria, started with paper number 8 (above).
		This is a revised and updated version of Monograph Number 4, and extends the analysis of the girls science school as a reformist measure to encourage the study of science by girls, especially in a traditional society such as Kano State.
		The main argument is that regardless of the philosophical notions of the curriculum developer in Nigeria, the examination system still sets the pattern, pace and directions of education.
	www.kanoonline.com /auadamu/qualifications.htm (9534 words)

	UCLA International Institute :: Public Event
		Alhaji Abubakar is a sponsor and member of the finance committee of the World Constitution and Parliament Association; he is also a member of "World Citizens" based in France.
		Alhaji Abubakar was born in Jada, Adamawa State, Nigeria, on November 25, 1946.
		He was the chairman of seven companies before his election as the Vice President of Nigeria.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /showevent.asp?eventid=1323 (286 words)

	The Agonist: Unrest in Nigeria
		Daily Trust: Thousands have fled Numan town in Nigeria's Adamawa State where a dusk to dawn curfew was yesterday imposed following eruption of violence which claimed several lives and caused the destruction of property including mosques and churches in the area.
		The state’s police commissioner, Alhaji Hafiz Abubakar Ringim confirmed that only two persons died during the violence, but several people in Numan told Daily Trust that as many as ten persons might have died.
		At least three corpses were deposited at the mortuary of the Numan General Hospital where several of those injured were receiving treatment.
	www.agonist.org /archives/003488.html (105 words)

	WHO \| Acute fever and rash syndrome in Nigeria
		WHO has received reports of 1118 cases including 76 deaths (case fatality rate, 6.8%) reported in 12 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Adamawa state, Nigeria as of 28 February 2005.
		Other states, including Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, and Kebbi have all reported outbreaks of measles.
		Vaccine is reported to be available in Adamawa state, although other essential supplies for an immunization campaign are lacking.
	www.who.int /csr/don/2005_03_17/en (107 words)

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