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  Enugu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enugu is the capital city of Enugu State, Nigeria.
Enugu was originally the capital of the Eastern Region from Nigeria's independence in 1960 until 30 May 1967, when it was declared the first capital of the short-lived nation of the Republic of Biafra; on 28 September 1967 Enugu was captured by Nigerian troops, so the next Biafran capital became Umuahia.
Enugu remained as the capital of the newly-created Enugu State, while Awka was named as the capital of the new Anambra State.
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 Enugu State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NG-EN Enugu State is an inland state in southeastern Nigeria.
The principal cities in the state are Enugu, Nsukka, Awgu, Udi, Oji-River, Ozara, and Agbani.
Enugu, the Enugu state capital have been referred to as the education capital of Nigeria because it hosts an array of very fine educational institutions within the rolling green hills of the well planned city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enugu_State   (294 words)

  
 Nigeria: ENUGU STATE - Enugu State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The state derives its name from the capital city which was established in 1912 as a small coal mining town, but later grew to become the capital of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria (Ministry of Information, 1992).
Indeed, the shooting of Nigerian coal miners in Enugu in 1949, by military officers of the British colonial administra tion, contributed very much as a catalyst in changing the political history of the country towards the granting of Independence.
Administrative Structure: At the helm of affairs in the state is the executive Governor, assist ed by the Deputy Governor.
www.onlinenigeria.com /links/enuguadv.asp?blurb=254   (592 words)

  
 :: Chiamaka Igbo Name - Enugu State ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Enugu State was carved out of Anambra State as one of the nine new states created by the Babangida administration on August 27, 1991.
It borders Abia and Imo States in the South, and is flanked in the east and west by the Cross River and Anambra states respectively.
Enugu is noted for its famous Mmanwu festival, an internationally recognized annual event which features over 2,000 masquerades from different parts of the State and beyond.
lib.lbcc.edu /chiamaka/enugustate.htm   (940 words)

  
 Report on Security in Enugu State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The assumptions as to the topicality of Security in the State was well borne out by the attendance to this session as well as by the enthusiasm shown by all participants in marshalling out their well-considered views on this issue.
And the implication is that the state governments which should be in the front-line in ensuring law and order in our states cannot easily access the resource of the Police in those efforts.
For example, a push for the legitimization of the Bakassi Boys in Enugu State may furnish the moral imperative for a further legitimization of ethnic-based organizations like the OPC in the West and the Arewa in the North.
www.kwenu.com /enugu/ugwuonye.htm   (1714 words)

  
 THISDAYonline
Enugu State government and the state PDP have since faulted and have continued to fault these allegations, describing the relocation to Abuja as unfair.
Also the state's PDP has described the relocation as an insult on the people of the state, while insisting that no tenable reason was given for the decision.
He then suggested that the said the Enugu State National Assembly/Governorship Elections tribunal was not the one referred to in the relocation notice.
www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2003/08/24/20030824cov02.html   (2948 words)

  
 Welcome To Nigeria - Enugu State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The state is situated on the highlands of the Agwu.
It is bounded by Abia State to the south, Anambra to the west, Kogi and Benue States to the north and Ebonyi to the east.
As a result of the zeal and interest shown in education, the state government spends a large portion of her budget yearly to ensure that necessary facilities for education are provided.
www.nigeria.gov.ng /govt_state_enugu.aspx   (704 words)

  
 Enugu State
Biko Agozino from Enugu State is a United States-based activist and academic.
We will make Enugu State the centre of creative industries that could help power the industrialisation of the state, the country and indeed the continent.
The Guardian learnt that on arrival at the monastery, however, the policemen were said to have been surprised to find the villagers conducting themselves in a peaceful manner contrary to claims by the monks that their buildings had been torched and that the women had entered into sacred areas of the monastery.
www.igbofocus.co.uk /html/enugu_state.html   (3611 words)

  
 Economic development of Enugu State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Enugu State urgently needs both growth and development, and to achieve them, some major leadership/institutional behavior patterns must be modified or discarded forthwith.
To the foreign leaders, not only that Enugu State is irrelevant, but the entire Africa is not as important as other regions -- and who should really blame them when most of the African leaders lack the good sense to invest their own money in their own countries.
When Enugu State was carved out of the old Anambra State in 1991, civil servants in both states, who were of the same ethnic group (Igbo), were forced to relocate to their home states of origin, meaning their ancestral origins or where they were born.
www.kwenu.com /enugu/umez.htm   (4715 words)

  
 Welcoming New LGs
Chimaroke Nnamani, governor of Enugu State has approved N100 million as take-off grant for the 39 new local government councils created by his administration June 12.
In Enugu, Newswatch learnt that indigenes of communities where new councils were created expressed their happiness through beer drinking in beer parlours along Obiagu, Ogui and presidential roads.
Chukwu, who expressed happiness at the positive transformation of the state by the Nnamani administration noted that "the creation of the new councils would open the eyes of people at the grass-roots level to the achievements of the PDP administration in the state."
www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10804102207.htm   (523 words)

  
 Justice Oputa panel and the parade of Igbo imbeciles at Enugu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Enugu was also the symbol of Igbo resistance to both colonial imperialism and Nigerian government aggression and oppressions.
Enugu was chosen as one of the cities where ordinary citizens would give testimony of what was wrong with Nigeria, how the citizens were traumatized and maltreated by their own government and request for reparation for the transgressions against them or the groups.
For instance, the University of Nigeria at Nsukka, a suburb of Enugu and perhaps, the Harvard University of Nigeria, was the brainchild of Nnamdi Azikiwe.
www.nigerdeltacongress.com /jarticles/justice_oputa_panel_and_the_para.htm   (2542 words)

  
 Enugu, Nigeria, Pictures
Enugu, city, southeastern Nigeria, capital of Enugu State, near Onitsha.
Enugu became an administrative center after the railroad to Port Harcourt was completed in 1912.
It was a capital of the secessionist state of Biafra (1967-70).
www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Nigeria/Enugu_city.html   (147 words)

  
 Media Rights Agenda Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He stated that the affinity binding the two states "is inseparable," and that, the people were merely divided for administrative convenience and developmental reasons.
Robinson Iwuoha, the Enugu State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), and an assistant director of news and current affairs, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Enugu, respectively, on November 11 petitioned the Nigeria Police over an alleged threat to their lives by a former Commissioner in Enugu State, Mr.
The Kogi State House of Assembly on November 28 summoned the Editor or Publisher and the state correspondent of The Comet newspaper to the floor of the House to shed light on a story titled: Kogi Lawmakers May Impeach Audu, published in its edition of November 9, 2000.
www.internews.org /mra/MRM/dec00/dec00_attacks.htm   (2137 words)

  
 Nigeria ---->>> Enugu State
Enugu State is an inland state in southeastern Nigeria.
Enugu State with its capital in Enugu is what was formerly known as Anambra North.
Enugu was the headquarters of the former East Central State and Eastern Nigeria.
www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/enugu.htm   (412 words)

  
 News -- Fire guts Tejuosho market in Lagos; Seven feared dead in Enugu pipeline inferno
In Enugu State, seven people were also yesterday feared dead in another fire incident caused by a vandalised petroleum pipeline.
Agbani, the hometown of Governor Chimaroke Nnamani of Enugu State, was thrown into mourning as about seven persons were severely burnt in a fire that resulted from a vandalised pipeline.
He further appealed to the state governor to address the problem in the market before effecting any change saying all the "illegal" structures in the market should be removed.
odili.net /news/source/2004/jul/30/3.html   (1729 words)

  
 News from Across the Nation
In a terse statement signed by Dan Shere, secretary to the state government, the governor explained that the action was part of his efforts to inject new blood into his executive council for greater productivity.
He noted that apart from Anambra State, other states in the South-East had their various Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Boards and had received tremendous support from their respective governors.
He said although there was little federal presence in Abia State, the state had emerged as a shining example of a people determined to take their destiny in their own hands.
www.newswatchngr.com /editorial/allaccess/nigeria/10607124609.htm   (845 words)

  
 Nsukka: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ibadan is the second largest city in nigeria and the capital of oyo state....
Kano is the administrative center of the kano state and the largest city in northern nigeria, EHandler: no quick summary.
Ilorin is the sixth largest city in nigeria and is the capital of kwara state....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ns/nsukka.htm   (406 words)

  
 Media Rights Monitor - 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Nathaniel Ikyur, Vanguard newspaper correspondent in Kano State, was on November 22, 1999, arrested by the Fegge Police Division in Kano and briefly detained.
On December 6, 1999, policemen in Nsukka, Enugu State, arrested over 15 vendors and distributors of magazines and newspapers for selling a newsletter that alleged the Republic of Biafra would be declared by the year 2000.
The journalists are Alhaji Shittu Tella, the Kebbi State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Yunusa Garba, a Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) correspondent; and Mallam Ahmed Talib, of the Kebbi State radio.
www.internews.org /mra/mrm/aug02/aug02_story4.htm   (3443 words)

  
 Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Human life is sacred The Adoration Ground tragedy - The facts and issues (Part I)
The Church and State are not one or the same.
Also the same day, at about 5.00pm, Monsignor Obiora Ike went to the governor's lodge to acquaint the Enugu state governor on the development but was informed by the police on duty that the governor had travelled to Abuja and was being awaited.
He questioned the Public Statement, which he said, he had not read and stated that 'the situation was caused by stampede and not by unknown persons'.
nigeriaworld.com /articles/2002/nov/212.html   (1205 words)

  
 Anglican Church Demands HIV Test Certificate Before Marriage
Worried by the rising rate of HIV infection in the south-eastern State of Enugu, the Anglican Diocese in the State has directed its Parishes to ensure that prospective couples are HIV-free before the solemnisation of their marriage.
The directive was contained in a communique issued in Enugu after the 11th Synod of the Diocese at the weekend.
Enugu State has an HIV/AIDS prevalence of 17.3 percent, one of the highest in the country of more than 110 million people.
www.aegis.com /news/pana/2001/PA010704.html   (436 words)

  
 Media Rights Agenda...Promoting and Protecting Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Nigeria
The police in Enugu state have arrested and detained Mr.
He was said to have been transferred to a cell occupied by hardened criminals on the night of December 28, 2002 in unclear circumstances, but was brought out of the cell to his former detention place by a highly placed police officer who was unhappy with his being transferred at midnight.
Maduemesi’s office with his official car marked Enugu 219, while the publisher said the governor’s assistant has been coming to see him in each of the cells he was transferred to.
mediarightsagenda.org /attdec02.html   (421 words)

  
 BNW : Biafra Nigeria World Message Board: the Voice of a New Generation: Obasanjo, Ndigbo
This has been the basis of the view that allocation of state resources could be doctored and had followed the individual attitude of the head of each administration, who is believed to be responding in turn, to the immediate attitude of sections, especially in conferring or professing legitimacy for his government.
As a governor of one of the Igbo States, I have yet to ascertain or be made to the claim of whole hatred and intent at extermination.
Enugu State has not had to be humiliated, as such is not part of the constitutional provision, to get its dues in the national coffers.
messageboard.biafranigeriaworld.com /ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001693   (4116 words)

  
 Journals.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
On the 8th and 9th of December 2004 when the NJC was deliberating a response to the Enugu House of Assembly’s resolution, it had received a number of professional misconduct complaints about the person of Hon.
A State’s Chief Judge exercises important judicial and administrative functions, personifies the “face” of the Judicial branch in a State and manages the interface between the judiciary and the other branches of government.
Although the Council is making an important difference in the fight to control corruption in the judicial estate and strengthen the independence of the judicial branch, many might believe that the signals coming from the Council is now mixed, and that the Council is missing opportunities, compromising consistency, and undermining its own authority.
www.humanrightsnigeria.org /toj3enugu2.htm   (959 words)

  
 Enugu, Nigeria:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
What is known and addressed today as Enugu State Ministry of Finance and Economic Development was established in the year 1948 as Eastern Nigeria Treasury Department for the safe keeping of government generated revenue.
The emphasis then was not on the development of the economy of the colonised countries but on the harvestation of their available resources for the economic development of the colonizing country.
The Ministry of Finance is located at the northern end of Enugu city in an area called the State Secretariat where most of the state government offices are sited.
www.enugu.gov.ng /ministries/finance_ministry.html   (682 words)

  
 New Oyo Speaker Rejected By Colleagues - OnlineNigeria.com
Blog It The Conference of Speakers of the 36 states of the federation yesterday disowned the new Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, saying that only constitutionally elected Speakers should be allowed to attend their meetings.
Although both the newly elected and deposed Speakers of the Oyo State House of Assembly were absent at the meeting, the Speakers condemned the role of the Oyo State House of Assembly in the ongoing crisis that led to the impeachment of Governor Rasheed Ladoja.
In a communique after their meeting in Enugu, the Speakers said that the rule of law must be allowed to prevail in Oyo State.
nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates/?a=6815&z=17   (450 words)

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