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	Languages spoken in Anambra State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are three languages which are spoken as first languages in Anambra State.
		Igala and Igbo are the major languages of Anambra State.
		Anambra State, Aguata, Anambra, Awka, Idemili, Ihiala, Njikoka, Nnewi, and Onitsha LGA's
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/anambra.htm (35 words)

	Anambra State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old Anambra State was created in 1976 from part of East Central State, and its capital was Enugu.
		The main towns of Anambra state are Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi, Obosi, Ihiala, Aguata, and Atani.
		Educationally, there are the Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, the Anambra State University of Science and Technology (ASUT) in Uli, the Federal Polytechnic in Oko, Nwafor Orizu College of Education in Nsugbe, and the College of Agriculture in Igbanam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anambra_State,_Nigeria (357 words)

	A coup in Anambra (The Head Heeb)
		The state of Anambra in the Niger Delta region, however, is now returning to normalcy after a bizarre state-level coup attempt in which Governor Chris Ngige was abducted by riot police.
		For his part, Uba is reportedly seeking the support of state legislators in declaring a state of emergency in Anambra, and may have a majority of the legislature in his pocket.
		Anambra appears to be one of the states where corruption is most widespread and conditions in many other states are more stable, but last week's events may indeed be Nigeria's future if nothing is done.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /2003/07/a_coup_in_anambra.php (958 words)

	Anambra: Madmen, godfathers and specialist by Rueben Abati
		What we are witnessing in Anambra is not just a case of extremism, it is madness carried a little too far, and the disembowelling of the present democratic process.
		Besides, both the women of Anambra in a ritualistic protest and the Anambra House of Assembly have pointedly accused President Obasanjo of complicity.
		Now, in his own country, for the second time, in less than one year, a whole state is on turmoil, democracy is on trial, the integrity of public institutions is threatened, and Baba, as he is otherwise called, is pleading federalism, the rights of states, and due process.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com /Articles/Abati3.html (1910 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Crises in Anambra State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the bizarre attempted but so far unsuccessful coup in Anambra state, nothing short of a revolution would turn back the influence of the few self styled super rich individuals in the state from installing Governors and viewing the Anambra state government as an extension of their vast business empire.
		Anambra, a state created in 1991 has not known peace since its inception with the resulting neglect the state has suffered.
		For the people of Anambra state, this is not the time to be complacent and unfazed with the happenings in the state government.
	www.nigeriaworld.com /articles/2003/jul/142.html (1263 words)

	Nigeria: PHYSICAL SETTING - Anambra State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anambra basin has about 6,000 m of sedimentary rocks.The sedimentary rocks comprise ancient Cretaceous deltas, somewhat similar to the Niger Delta, with the Nkporo Shale, the Mamu Formation, the Ajali sandstone and the Nsukka Formation as the main deposits.
		Anambra State falls into two main landform regions: a highland region of moderate elevation that covers much of the state south of the Anambra River, and low plains to the west, north, and east of the highlands.
		Although annual rainfall is high in Anambra State, ranging from 1,400mm in the north to 2,500mm in the south, it is concentrat ed in one season, with about four months of dry ness, November to February.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/anambraadv.asp?blurb=195 (1582 words)

	Anambra State - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was created in 1976 from part of east-central state, and its capital was Enugu.
		This state, which is now known as Old Anambra state, was divided in 1991 into two states, Anambra and Enugu.
		Most of the population of Anambra are members of the Igbo ethnic group.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Anambra_State (288 words)

	Anambra State
		This is why we maintained in earlier editorials that the political crises in Anambra State were not a family affair but an assault on the rule of law and the failure of government to uphold its own laws.
		The facts are that a group of persons aided and abetted by law enforcement agents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria invaded the Governor's lodge and forcibly removed him from his office.
		It must demonstrate that it stands for truth and justice whether it be the assassination of a first law officer of Nigeria or the unsuccessful abduction of a sitting governor or the the wilful destruction of the property of Anambra State.
	www.igbofocus.co.uk /html/anambra_state.html (2630 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article (Anambra State set to explode: Another side of the cube) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Today in Anambra state, new entrants into secondary school are forced to sell 1000 naira worth of lottery for the government with sixty percent of the proceeds going to Mrs.
		Are you aware that in Anambra state, the catch phrase is 'government of Uli man by Uli man for Uli man'.
		Anambra state university located in Uli (Mbadinuju's village), Anambra state polytechnic is in Uli.
	nigeriaworld.com /letters/2002/jan/301.html (1793 words)

	News -- Reuben Abati: Anambra: Madmen, godfathers and specialists
		What we are witnessing in Anambra is not just a case of extremism, it is madness carried a little too far, and the disembowelling of the present democratic process.
		Besides, both the women of Anambra in a ritualistic protest and the Anambra House of Assembly have pointedly accused President Obasanjo of complicity.
		Now, in his own country, for the second time, in less than one year, a whole state is on turmoil, democracy is on trial, the integrity of public institutions is threatened, and Baba, as he is otherwise called, is pleading federalism, the rights of states, and due process.
	odili.net /news/source/2004/jan/9/23.html (1891 words)

	Anambra State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most of the population of Anambra are members of the Igbo ethnic group.
		The state has experienced political turmoil for the past several years, which included an attempted coup against the government in 2003.
		In November 2004, Anambra suffered about 40 billion naira ($300 million dollars) loss in burnt government edifices to arsonists believed to have acted in collaboration with the Federal Police force in the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anambra_State (357 words)

	afrol News - Bribery allegations shake Nigerian Senate
		Anambra State in south-eastern Nigeria has been experiencing a political crisis since the allegedly rigged elections in April 2003.
		Meanwhile, the political affair in Anambra is causing new scandals and power struggles in the Nigerian capital.
		In the April polls, the people of Anambra are widely believed to have given their mandate to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), led by Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.
	www.afrol.com /articles/10976 (783 words)

	Emergency rule won’t deter us —Anambra lawmakers
		Anambra legislators presently operating from Asaba, Delta State capital, say that they are not perturbed by a possible imposition of emergency rule on Anambra State, insisting that the impeachment plots in Ekiti and Anambra States are separate scenarios and should not be treated the same way.
		Addressing the press in Asaba, majority leader of the house, Humphrey Nsofor, said the issue in Anambra was a case of gross misconduct on the part of the governor and his deputy.
		Anambra people are men of unquestionable integrity, he will face the panel and there is no escape from that," Nsofor said.
	www.businessdayonline.com /?c=44&a=9221 (540 words)

	(Before the Storm) Peter Obi talks about Anambra in London - Updated with Video \| Nigerian Village Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anambra state has over one hundred and fifty (150) towns with twenty one (21) local government councils, each town and local government has numerous problems that if absolute care is not taken, will take generations unborn to solve.
		Anambra state since the inception of Governor Obi's administration has no chief executives at the local government level, infact, there is no government at the local government level where over eighty percent of the populace reside.
		Anambra, Eastern Nigeria, and Anioma Delta state is in desperate need of Industrial parks, with sufficient incentives to begin the nucleus of a vast manucfacturing base in Eastern Nigeria, and Anioma, a potential which already exists among Ndigbo, but which has remained untapped.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare.com /index.php/content/view/3785/55 (4307 words)

	Politics : Anambra House of Horror?
		That Uba has not refuted the allegation by the governor of being the mastermind of the November 10 orgy of destruction leaves one to conclude by inference that his role is not in doubt anymore.
		This argument is further supported by insinuations that the Anambra crises are fuelled by the presidency to slight Ekwueme and declare an emergency rule in his home state.
		Even Wabara was reported to have said that the crises in Anambra arose as a result of breach of agreement on the part of Ngige.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/p205122004.html (1835 words)

	Anambra Burns 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anambra Governor Chris Ngige accused police of complicity in violence, in which his office, the state legislature as well as radio and television transmitting stations belonging to the state were burnt down on Thursday in the capital, Awka.
		Felix Ogbaudu, head of the police in Anambra State, said on television on Thursday night his men had been “overwhelmed” by the numerous, heavily armed thugs.
		Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who is from Anambra, last month rejected a national award given him by Obasanjo, giving as his reason deteriorating security in Nigeria, especially in his home state.
	www.biafraland.com /Anambra-November2004-1.htm (482 words)

	Mayhem Articles
		Sometime last year, Governor Chris Ngige of Anambra state was abducted from his office by a combined team of the Nigerian Police Force, led by an Assistant Inspector General, AIG, now late and hired arsonists said to have been led by Chris Uba’s cronies, a favored godson of President Obasanjo.
		The police have dismantled the Anambra Vigilante Services (AVS), he stated, and that ?the situation is disturbing because I was maintaining law and order in the state with the service of AVS since the Federal Government withdrew police security attached to me since July 10, 2003.
		Anambra became the proverbial bride that is wife to two husbands and has to choose whom she would live with.
	www.asausatowns.org /mayhem_articles.htm (6224 words)

	Anambra Reactions
		To Obasanjo, Ngige and if need be Anambra must be destroyed because he has refused to hand over the key to the state till to the same characters Achebe branded a "clique of renegades".
		The mayhem that took place in Anambra State last week is nothing short of a declaration of war against the Igbo nation and should constitute the red line.
		Anambra people pay their taxes, rates and dues and they contribute their quota to the development of the country.
	www.biafraland.com /Anambra-November2004-2.htm (2392 words)

	Rice Irrigation and Health
		The lower Anambra Rice Irrigation Project is currently the largest such project in Nigeria and comprises 35% of the nearly 12000 hectares of rice fields.
		Based on evidence from within and outside the West African region, it is being increasingly felt that adequate safeguards and preventive measures on health have not been considered in these schemes.
		It is thought that endemic diseases in the area may increase and that nutrition-related problems in the affected communities might result.
	www.idrc.ca /es/ev-83060-201_900182-1-IDRC_ADM_INFO.html (462 words)

	Anambra State Vs Dr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This writer, in "Anambra state, parochial or national interests" expressed great concern over the unending crises foisted upon my compatriots in Anambra state; The Anambra state continuing saga, is as much, a political, legal/constitutional as moral issues.
		Chris Uba is a private citizen, who should be compelled to obey the laws of the state and the country, but it must be said, that Dr. Ngige is the rat in the house who informed the rat in the farm-field, of the presense of food and hospitality and invited the bush rat indoors.
		He is the one that needs to set Anambra free not Uba, not Udeh, not PDP, not the Nigerian Police Force, not the President, not anyone, because, he alone, by his voluntary choice, is roughing up the peace of Anambra simply because he does not want his act to bind his path.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /articles/anambra_state_vs_dr.htm (1871 words)

	NigerianMuse - Essays: Falling Nine Pins Anambra Elections
		It was not exactly clear whether a new political script on the Anambra saga was being played out, nor could an immediate connection be established between the offer of membership to Ngige and last week’s expulsion of Obi and 30 other members of APGA by its Anambra chapter.
		Recounting every attempt he has made at resolving the impasse in Anambra, he said rather him, Ogbeh it was that should be blamed for the continuing crisis in the South-eastern state due to his deliberate inaction.
		Speaking in Lagos, the battle hardened Anambra governor likened the PDP to a pregnant woman who does not know what she would be delivered of.
	www.nigerianmuse.com /essays/?u=Falling_nine_pins_Anambra_elections.htm (2592 words)

	A YEAR AFTER NGIGE: The dealer who exposed the President and the PDP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rumours made the media rounds to the effect that a certain candidate for governor during the 2003 polls in Anambra State, was being considered to replace Ngige, whether he was removed by a court or through another option on the cards, the imposition of a state of emergency.
		Anambra was one of the states where local council polls could not take place in 2003, mainly for the fact that the Anambra State Electoral Commission (ANSIEC) said it was not ready.
		The Anambra crisis was the year’s starter for Nigeria, when Justice Nnaji gave his strange ruling that the IG should remove Ngige from office.
	www.homestead.com /ncp/ngigegate.html (2333 words)

	Treason in Anambra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On 20 May, 2003, in The slippery side of landslides, I wrote: "The danger about rigging is that rather than protect the sanctity of our high offices from the assault of society’s miscreants, it lowers the fences and exposes such high offices to risk of takeover by.
		We must remember, on that fateful 10 July, a band of thugs headed by Chris Uba, Anambra caucus leader of the almighty Peoples’ Discredited, sorry, I mean Democratic Party, PDP, with the covering fire supplied by AIG Raphael Ige, attempted to forcibly and illegally unseat the Governor of Anambra, Dr Chris Ngige.
		Often when people comment on the worrying cultural anarchy in Anambra, they reel off the names of eminent sons and daughters of Anambra to buttress the contradictions in the state.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /tarticles/treason_in_anambra.htm (1495 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : Anambra: The example of Anukili
		IT is no longer news that Anambra is under threat from quarters that are desperate, who no longer even pretend to hide themselves or their intentions or their methods.
		Femi Fani-Kayode, the presidential Goebel, describes the situation in Anambra State as a "factional war." It is also no longer a secret which faction of that war is supplied fully with the apparatus of state power, to levy war, against the people of Anambra State.
		If Anambra State had its own police department, and its own constitution and laws, characters like Chuma Nzeribe, a creature of the Nigerian security underground, would not be getting away with what he was alleged to have been doing.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/c328112004.html (2777 words)

	allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Mbadinuju - the Scapegoat of Anambra Politics (Page 1 of 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sitting governor of Anambra State, out of context, revealed in recently published interviews that a ticket was issued to Chinwoke Mbadinuju to run in the April poll.
		Anambra State has witnessed a sitting governor kidnapped with police cooperation and returned to his post.
		Anambra State witnessed a "mayhem" visited on it for purely political reasons, when most infrastructure built by Mbadinuju was destroyed.
	allafrica.com /stories/200703130492.html (796 words)

	The real story of Anambra Union, NYC
		In the process, I had talked with many Anambra indigenes in NYC including members of the Anambra union; some were heavily laced with bias while some others were not as laced.
		It is alleged that the news of Governor Ngige being the keynote speaker of the Convention further exposed the political connection to this Anambra NYC story.
		As a matter of cause and effect, it shined the worst light on Anambra Union, NY that the folks in the Anambra State assembly, led by Hon Frank Anthony Igboka, refrained from visiting the Anambra Union in New York during their recent trip in late October 2005.
	www.kwenu.com /igbo/groups/anambra/anambraunion_nyc.htm (1180 words)

	Anambra's Multiple Legislators
		Anambra State is not the personal property of the Ubah family and we have a duty to the people of Anambra State to stop them from using their undue access and influence with the President to destroy the state.
		The result is that Anambra now has two sets of senators each laying claim to their senatorial seats.
		In fact, the issue arising from the National Assembly elections in Anambra State is one of the biggest scandals of the 2003 elections.
	www.dawodu.com /aluko54.htm (2290 words)

	Nigeria: Government Critics at Risk After Political Killings (Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, September 19, ...
		Human Rights Watch is urging the Anambra state and federal governments to take all measures necessary to ensure the safety of Igwe’s colleagues and to take prompt action against any official engaged in intimidation, threats or other abuses.
		Human Rights Watch said that the Anambra state government should cooperate fully with the criminal investigation and should initiate disciplinary measures including suspension, as appropriate, of any state government officials responsible for issuing death threats.
		This is not the first time that opponents of the Anambra state government have been targeted.
	www.hrw.org /press/2002/09/nigeria0919.htm (951 words)

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