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	Guinea (region) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Historically, this region was one of the first parts of sub-Saharan Africa to trade with Europeans.
		The large amount of trade in ivory, gold, and slaves made the region wealthy, with a number of centralized kingdoms developing in the 18th and 19th centuries.
		Guinea is often subdivided into Lower Guinea, one of the most densely populated regions of Africa covering southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo and into Ghana; and Upper Guinea, which is far less densely populated and stretches from the Côte d'Ivoire to Guinea-Bissau.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Guinea_(region) (278 words)

	ON ABURI WE STAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ojukwu was in attendance as the eastern region’s military governor.
		Back then, as now, each region of Nigeria was petrified of domination by other regions, no region of the federation was keen to adopt a course which would concentrate too much power at the hands of Nigeria’s central government.
		What we need in Nigeria is a constitutional arrangement that convinces each Nigerian that their interests will be taken care of regardless of the ethnicity of the Head of State/composition of the.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /oarticles/on_aburi_we_stand.htm (3177 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Nigeria Report
		The Eastern Region of Nigeria secedes in May, proclaiming itself the Republic of Biafra.
		Nigeria's military government hangs nine political activists in November, including well-known playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was accused of involvement in the killings of four pro-government traditional chiefs in 1994.
		Nigeria is suspended from the Commonwealth, the 52-member organization grouping Britain and its former colonies, after the hangings.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/nigeria/timeline.htm (574 words)

	[21 Oct 1999] BIO/3257 : NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF NIGERIA PRESENTS CREDENTIAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mbanefo served as Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of Ahmadu Bello University (1990 to 1993), Obafemi Awolowo University (1986 to 1990), and the University of Lagos (1984 to 1986).
		In the region, he was instrumental in establishing the Association of Accountancy Bodies in West Africa in 1982 and served as its President in 1987.
		Mbanefo is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
	www.g77.org /geninfo/nigeria.htm (338 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nigeria - Civil War \| Nigerian Information Resource
		The Eastern Region's military governor, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, was under pressure from Igbo officers to assert greater independence from the FMG.
		Indeed, the eastern military government refused to recognize Gowon's legitimacy on the ground that he was not the most senior officer in the chain of command.
		Estimates in the former Eastern Region of the number of dead from hostilities, disease, and starvation during the thirty-month civil war are estimated at between 1 million and 3 million.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/nigeria/nigeria39.html (1891 words)

	International Adoption Nigeria
		Two sets of laws are particularly relevant: 1) the laws of Nigeria govern all activity in Nigeria including the adoptability of individual children as well as the adoption of children in country.
		In the eastern region of Nigeria (Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers), adoptive parents must be at least 25 years old and 21 years older than the child (for married couples, at least one parent must meet these age requirements).
		The adoptive parents should be aware that civil courts require them to take care of their adoptive children and share a household in Nigeria for some time period as set by the civil court in the jurisdiction where the child resides.
	travel.state.gov /family/adoption/country/country_429.html (4157 words)

	Timeline Nigeria
		1950s Nigeria passed legislation that became known as the “Four Obnoxious Bills.” The laws ensured that revenues from natural resources were collected at the center and doled out to the rest of the 36 states without proportion to their role in generating the wealth.
		In the oil region 56 people were killed in ethnic unrest in the Niger Delta between the Ijaw and Itsekiri.
		Nigeria's $13 million craft, to be used for taking photos, was built by a British firm.
	timelines.ws /countries/NIGERIA.HTML (9372 words)

	Nigeria
		Nigeria is a republic that recently made the transition from military to civil rule.
		Minorities, placed under the jurisdiction of one regional majority expressed their fear of political domination, so the Willink Commission was established and concluded that a bill of rights enshrined in the constitution would address those fears sufficiently.
		Nigeria allocated 10% of its national GDP toward military expenditures, which is roughly $360 million annually.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~eakuenem/government.htm (737 words)

	Ibiam, Akanu, Nigeria, Presbyterian Church
		On his return to Nigeria in August 1935, Francis chose to be a missionary medical doctor under the auspices of the Church of Scotland Mission.
		The inevitable consequence of this was the secession of the eastern region from the Nigerian body politic under the name "The People's Republic Of Biafra." This was in May 1966 and was the immediate cause of the Nigerian civil war.
		When he heard that the war was over, he hurried back to Nigeria and had an audience with the head of the military government General Yakubu Gowan, who assured him of his safety and gave him safe conduct to his home in Unwana, in eastern Nigeria.
	www.dacb.org /stories/nigeria/ibiam_akanu.html (1599 words)

	Nigerian Stock Exchange - Investor's Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nigeria is still a growing economy and construction is one of the fastest growing sectors.
		Nigeria was providing an excellent export market for Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (APCM), which after negotiations with the Government erected the nation’s second cement plant (WAPCO) in Ewekoro where the quality of limestone is good.
		Nigeria like other developing countries need a private sector investment so as to maximize its economic potentials to the stage where it can compete in the global economy and improve the quality of life of its people.
	www.pangaeapartners.com /nigjuly1.htm (3211 words)

	Soyinka and the Nigerian Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nigeria escaped British colonialism by declaring independence from Great Britain on October 1, 1960 and eventually became a republic in 1963.
		The National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), led by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, dominated the Eastern Region.
		Lieutenant Colonel Odemugwu Ojukwu of the Eastern Region charged Gowon with insensitivity toward the Ibo crisis and restricted all non-easterners from his region.
	www.scholars.nus.edu /landow/post/nigeria/civilwar.html (787 words)

	Mednet 2002 - Amsterdam: Online Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A questionnaire based cross sectional study was undertaken o determine the knowledge attitude and practice of the internet among Nigerian doctors living in Enugu, the capital city of Eastern region of Nigeria.Of the 535 doctors questioned, only 35 had regular access to the internet.
		It can be seen that the use of the internet for medical practice in Nigeria is still very rudimentarty.Very few doctors use it for their every day life or for medical practice.
		Conclusions: The use of the internet for medical practice in a developing country such as Nigeria is still very rudimentry.Very few doctors use it for their every day life or medical practice.A large proportion of doctors still believe that it is not relevant to medical practice in Nigeria.
	www.mednet2002.org /abstracts/display.cfm?id=63180901 (366 words)

	Teaching and Learning: Biarfa, Nigeria, The West and The World: Why Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the former event, which parallels the 1945-1960 period in Nigeria, we see the people of the different regions of the United States trying to work together, to overcome regional differences to unite in order to break free from English colonial rule.
		Similarly, in Nigeria, we find a group of regions and ethnic groups brought together into a single unit by the British for administrative purposes in 1914; the people of modern Nigeria had not considered themselves as members of a single nation before this time.
		Following independence, however, their regional ethnic differences (and divergent value systems) led to a series of crises, two coups, and the secessionist movement.
	www.historians.org /tl/LessonPlans/nc/Trask/study.htm (1550 words)

	ICSN Cultural Forum - iCF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The ancient scttlement at Igbo-Ukwu in eastern Nigeria was an outpost for West African's long-distance trade routes, one of which was the Trans-Saharan trade routes.
		This also made the south-eastern region flourish, primarily trading slaves but after the abolition of slave trade in 1807, turned to trading in palm products, timber, elephant tusk and spices.
		Then afterwards the Eastern Region was formed and subsequently was divided into several other states.
	www.igbocsn.com /culture/history.html (412 words)

	Our Projects
		Owerri is a rural town in eastern Nigeria with little electricity, no Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and prior to the establishment of this center, no digital phone lines.
		The Eastern region of Nigeria is evidently underserved as a result of the Biafran war, 1967-1970, where between 500,000 and 2 million Biafran civilians, especially children, lost their lives to malnutrition and died from starvation during the war.
		Because there very few top ranking democratic and military leaders that are from the Ibo region, this region of Nigeria is generally underserved and unfortunately is not on the governments top priority for infrastructure provision.
	www.youthfortechnology.org /owerri.html (522 words)

	Nigeria - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is bound by Benin to the west, Niger to the north, Chad to the northeast, Cameroon to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.
		In May 1967 Nigeria's eastern region declared itself an independent republic called Biafra, led by Lt.Col. Odemegwu Ojukwu, which resulted in a full scale civil war between Biafra and the rest of Nigeria.
		Shagari was re-elected and on Dec. 31, 1983 the military led by Maj.Gen. Mohammed Buhari ousted the government and established himself as head of the Supreme Military Council.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/nigeria.htm (1425 words)

	Nnamdi Azikiwe biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1930, returned to Africa to enter politics, and in 1953 became leader of Nigeria's Eastern Region.
		Very soon after the granting of Nigeria's independence in 1960 he gained the office of Governor-general, and with the proclamation of a republic in 1963 he became president.
		He was removed in the military coup of 1966.
	nnamdi-azikiwe.biography.ms (196 words)

	Ojukwu, Odumegwu -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		in full Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu military governor of the Eastern region of Nigeria (1966–67) and head of the secessionist state of Biafra (1967–70) during the Nigerian civil war.
		He returned to Nigeria to serve in the administration but after two years joined the army and was rapidly promoted thereafter.
		It constituted the former Eastern Region of Nigeria and was inhabited principally by Igbo (Ibo) people.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9056894 (407 words)

	Arthur - Trent University Student and Community Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1967, the Eastern region of Nigeria unilaterally declared itself a country and formed the now defunct Republic of Biafra.
		During this trying period of Nigeria’s history, Soyinka visited the leader of Biafra, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, to negotiate and avoid war.
		Unsuccessful, he returned to Nigeria and was subsequently arrested and jailed for being a Biafran spy.
	www.trentu.ca /arthur/archive/34/34-17/bh04.html (768 words)

	Enugu, Nigeria
		The people of Enugu belong to the Igbo ethnic group, which is the third largest single ethnic group in Nigeria.
		Enugu was originally the capital of the Eastern Region from Nigeria's independence in 1960 until 1967, when it was declared the capital of the short-lived nation of the Republic of Biafra.
		After the end of the Nigerian Civil War (in 1970), the old Eastern Region was divided into a number of states, and Enugu became the capital of Anambra State.
	creekin.net /c5364-n137-enugu-nigeria.html (443 words)

	Teaching and Learning: Biarfa, Nigeria, The West and The World: National Reconciliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The situation in the Eastern Region of Nigeria had been up for grabs ever since the military coup of July, 1966.
		The proclamation that Nigeria's old Eastern Region was now the Republic of Biafra precipitated open warfare that evolved into a slow constriction of Biafra into a smaller and smaller space.
		He subsequently exploited the situation to plunge the former Eastern Region into secession and the nation into a tragic civil war.
	www.historians.org /tl/lessonplans/nc/trask/dawngowon.htm (1689 words)

	Search Results for Biafra - Encyclopædia Britannica
		It constituted the former Eastern Region of Nigeria and was inhabited principally by Igbo...
		military governor of the Eastern region of Nigeria (1966–67) and head of the secessionist state of Biafra (1967–70) during the Nigerian civil war.
		It lies on the northern edge of the island of Bioko (or Fernando Po) on the rim of a sunken volcano.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Biafra&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (358 words)

	IDS: 'War Stories' a haunting memoir (Arts, 02/24/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		War Stories: a Memoir of Nigeria and Biafra, a collection of stories about the Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970, is a poignant look at the war that divided a nation and pulled on the heartstrings of the rest of the world.
		The author, John Sherman, was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Eastern region of Nigeria before the civil war broke out.
		Instead, Sherman volunteered to help the children of Nigeria recover from a severe malnutrition disorder called 'kwashiorkor.' This form of protein malnutrition is the most severe, with children suffering distended stomachs and losing hair and skin pigmentation.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=14986 (600 words)

	Episcopal Medical Missions in Uganda
		The seed of establishing a private hospital that could help improve the standards of medical practice in Nigeria was sown in my mind by the late Dr. Samuel E. Onwu, the then Chief Medical Director in the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, presently consisting of nine separate States with a total population of 17 million.
		There is a high unemployment rate, and Nigeria is adjudged the second to the last country with the lowest per capita income in spite of its oil wealth.
		The incidence of carcinoma of the prostate, breast, colon and uterus is common in Nigeria.
	www.emmf.com /nigeriaopenletter.htm (2726 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Nigeria / Bibliography
		Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Awolowo University, and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 1987.
		Duru, R.D. "Problems of Data Collection for Population Studies in Nigeria with Particular Reference to the 1952/53 Census and the Western Region." Pages 71-77 in John Charles Caldwell and Chukuka Okonjo (eds.), The Population of Tropical Africa.
		Ile-Ile, Nigeria: Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Awolo University, and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 1987.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/nigeria/ng_bibl.html (3323 words)

	State Hornet - Features
		The 37-year-old Uwazie, who was born in the eastern region of Nigeria called Igbo (pronounced e-bow), came to the U.S. at the age of 21 to attend college in Austin, Texas.
		Laurie, 27, was attracted to the center because he is interested in conflict resolution in African regions.
		Born in the southeast region of Africa, near the city of Harare in Zimbabwe, Laurie moved to the U.S. with his family at age 12 for better opportunities.
	www.csus.edu /hornet/archive/fall98/number11/features01.html (655 words)

	Knowledge Products Audiobooks - Nigeria & West Africa
		By 1967, Nigeria was at war with itself-with the "Republic of Biafra: proclaimed in Nigeria's eastern region.
		This is the story of Nigeria's Struggle, which typifies the history and outlook of the West Africa region.
		1945 - British imposes on Nigeria the Richards Constitution and four "Obnoxious Ordinances", strikes and unrest occur.
	www.audioclassics.net /html/hot_files/nigeria.cfm (366 words)

	Perspectives on food security in Eastern Nigeria
		This book examines aspects of this in the eastern region of Nigeria, It is a collection of papers by researchers and academics working and residing in the region.
		In twelve chapters aspects ranging from policy framework, farm level issues, crop, soil and livestock are examined.
		The book evidences the increasing reliance on sources within Nigeria, even as Nigeria¿s dependence on food imports is on the increase.
	www.uni-hohenheim.de /i3v/00068900/25494041.htm (102 words)

	Guide to Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1951, professor Dike was placed by the Nigeria Government on special duty to survey the records of the nation and recommendation as to their proper custody, storage and preservation.
		The National Archives of Nigeria, Enugu Branch was established in 1958 to store and preserve archives relating to the defunct Eastern Region of Nigeria which is now divided into seven states, namely, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Cross River, Enugu, Imo and Rivers with the Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, Ijaw and Ekoi as the dominant ethnic groups.
		Enugu is the administrative headquarters of the Enugu state and the former capital of the defunct Eastern Region of Nigeria.
	www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /orient/nae/guide.htm (1414 words)

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