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	Imo State - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Imo State in Nigeria came into existence in 1976 along with other new states created under the leadership of the late military ruler of Nigeria, Murtala Muhammad.
		Imo is a predominantly Igbo speaking state and constitutes the heart of Igboland.
		The state is rich in oil and was home to the oldest African King in modern times, HRH Eze Patrick Acholonu, Igwe X of Orlu a region in Imo State.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Imo_State,_Nigeria (213 words)

	Nigeria: PHYSICAL SETTING - Imo State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Imo State is bounded on the east by Abia State, on the west by the River Niger and Delta State; and on the north byAnambra State, while Rivers State lies to the south.
		The main streams draining the state are Imo, Otamiri, Njaba and Ulasi rivers, all of which have very few tributaries.
		Imo State has an average annual relative humidity of 75 per cent which is highest during the rainy season, when it rises to about 90 per cent.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/imoadv.asp?blurb=268 (493 words)

	Vanguard -Viewpoint : Reflections on Imo State
		If the state leadership is not busy organising the the Governor's marriage Silver Jubilee, it is arranging a jamboree in Owerri tagged Women Day, in which busy women are commandeered from their productive schedules to gather in Owerri for the entertainment of the Governor, his wife, children and hosts of their political hangers-on.
		In the recently state assembly approved budget of the State Government which stood at N31.6 billion, the sum of N2,174,493,680 which according to reports, is the single largest sectoral allocation, went to the office of the governor.
		Imo State needs to get better and the first real step is to expose the bankruptcy of the small clique that currently misgoverns it and prepare the people for a life of commitment, dedication and sacrifice that would be necessary to recover the state to a prime and enviable place in the scheme of affairs.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/viewpoints/vp202032005.html (1340 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- Question for Dr. (Mrs) Kemafor Chikwe, Nigeria's Aviation Minister
		Imo State is no stranger to Nigeria's politics of DELIBERATE CONTROL & MANAGED ATTRITION to undermine the pace of development, weaken the resolve of a people constantly struggling very hard to survive and succeed against all obstacles.
		In plain language, the state of Imo State after 25 years is less of cheers but more of a reflection, a clarion call for Imo to be raised from its ashes and take its rightful place once again.
		This deliberate assault on a state educational institution was taken from one of several chapters of public policy designed to clamp down on a people and slow down their pace of development.
	nigeriaworld.com /feature/publication/odogwo/0218001.html (2703 words)

	Nigeria: IMO STATE - Imo State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hitherto, the area known as tmo State was part of the defunct East Central State which was one of the twelve states initially created by the Federal Military Government (General Yakubu Gowon's regime) in 1967.
		At the state level, it is composed of three arms the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary.
		The Office of the Secretary to the State Government is the official secretariat of the state government and is headed by the Secretary to the State Government.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/imoadv.asp?blurb=267 (399 words)

	IMO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The three-letter abbreviation IMO may have several meanings, depending on context:
		The World War I-era Belgian-Relief ship Imo involved in a collision with the French munitions ship Mont Blanc in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, the result of which caused the Halifax Explosion.
		This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IMO (138 words)

	Imo State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		NG-IM Imo is a state located in southeastern Nigeria.
		The state was formed in 1976 when the former East Central State was broken up.
		The big urban centers in Imo state are Owerri, Okigwe, Orlu, Oguta, and Mbaise.Imo state was also home to the oldest African King of modern times, HRH Eze Patrick Acholonu, Igwe X of Orlu, who had been the King of the Ishiobiukwu Gedegwumwho from March 1937 until his death in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imo_State,_Nigeria (111 words)

	Imo State
		Imo State Governor, Chief Achike Udenwa, made the plea when he received in audience the Pro-Chancellor and management of the institution at the Government House, Owerri.
		It reads further: "The president urged all interest youth groups in the local councils in the state to remain clam and law abiding as the resolution of the impasse is on".
		The police in Owerri, Imo State have said they have no information on the killing of four passengers by armed bandits at Ngor Okpala on the Aba/Owerri highway last Saturday and that the matter was never reported at any police station or outpost within the command’s area of operation.
	www.igbofocus.co.uk /html/imo_state.html (2472 words)

	City of Austin - Old Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria to sign Sister City agreement with Austin
		In the Austin area, there are an estimated 600 immigrants from Imo State alone, with many more in Texas among a larger group of Nigerians.
		Many of the Imo immigrants work for the State of Texas, in professions, or are entrepreneurs.
		The biggest charm of Old Orlu and Imo State is the warm hospitality and generous spirit of its colorfully attired citizens.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /news/ss_nigeria.htm (462 words)

	INHEA: Nigeria publications
		Ejembi, E. Perceptions of agriculture in Nigeria by students of the division of agricultural colleges, Ahmadu Bello University.
		Ibida, E. A study of tourism education at University level in Nigeria as viewed by experts in the government, higher education, and the tourism industry.
		Okezie, C. Nigerian students' perceptions of factors that are related to their decision to return or not to return to Nigeria after completion of their graduate studies in the United States.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/inhea/pubs_country/Nigeria.htm (2677 words)

	Nigeria: Political regulation theory -- The case of OGB in Imo State
		Green Iheka, PDP State Vice Chairman/Orlu Zonal Chairman, jointly advised delegates to vote for Chief Arthur Nzeribe in the forthcoming PDP primaries, stressing that Arthur Nzeribe was the specific choice of Chief Achike Udenwa and his endorsement is part of the package of the Orlu Agenda.
		Evaristus Igwe, the State Organizing Secretary of the party and a known protégé of Arthur Nzeribe who served as the returning officer in this LGA, is known to have turned in fake and ridiculous result in favour of Arthur Nzeribe and in keeping with Government mandate to deliver Arthur Nzeribe at all cost.
		Government wants to assure all Imo citizens in particular and Nigerians in general that her hands are absolutely clean over these baseless allegations coming from perverted minds under the illusion that they will win elections through the unfortunate killing of OGB.
	www.kwenu.com /publications/nnaji/political_regulation.htm (2846 words)

	City of Austin - Austin Sister Cities: Nigeria
		Old Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria is Austin's ninth sister city, approved by Austin City Council in June 2000.
		Officials from both Imo State and Austin were present to witness the official signing of the sister city agreement between Austin and Old Orlu.
		The Executive Governor was bestowed the title of honorary citizen of Texas by Governor George W. Bush and given a key to the city of Austin as well as the title of honorary citizen of Austin by the Mayor of Austin.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /siscity/nigeria.htm (553 words)

	Search Results for imo - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Imo is bordered by the states of Anambra to the north, Abia (until 1991 part of Imo state) to the east, and Rivers to the south and west.
		town, capital of Imo state, southern Nigeria, at the intersection of roads from Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, and Umuahia.
		It is bordered by the states of Enugu to the north, Cross River and Akwa Ibom to the...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=imo&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (350 words)

	NIGERIA LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: NJABA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, IMO STATE: NIGERIA: WEST AFRICA
		IMO State government has awarded a total of 40 new road contracts since the beginning of Chief Achike Udenwa’s second tenure in office.Special Adviser to the Governor on Project Monitoring, Ogbuagu Bons Nwabiani, told American based attorney, Dr. Uche Mgbaraho that eleven road contracts were first awarded to some firms.
		The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Imo State, Chief Chris Okewulonu said the government and people of Imo State are mourning since it received the news of the senator's death and that government would soon make a prouncement as soon as words are rfeceived from the family.
		The register which opens at the Multi Purpose Hall of the state executive chambers at 10:00am today, said the state government is to enable people of the state register their condolence and sympathize with family of the late senator.
	www.geocities.com /njabalga (3232 words)

	Welcome to Rivers State, Nigeria
		The state is the heart of the hydrocarbon industry and is responsible for a huge chunk of the nation's foreign exchange earnings.
		And Port Harcourt, the State capital, is known throughout Nigeria as the Garden City, because of its beautiful layout and topography.
		Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was born on 5 March 1937 in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
	www.riversstatenigeria.net (128 words)

	USAfricaonline
		One of the major aspirants for the governorship of Imo State, Nigeria, Barrister Greg Mbadiwe has started (delete the 'a') the international angle of his quest to lead the people in that heartland of gboland.
		Imo state needs such men and women who will invest in the future of the state".
		Chief Greg Mbadiwe was born in Lagos Nigeria, on March 12th, 1955 to the late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe and Madam Cecilia Nwannedie Mbadiwe.
	www.usafricaonline.com /news/mbadiwe.html (840 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : Events In Imo State Constitute A Distraction — Ndubuoke
		The ‘Imo State episode’, as many stakeholders now refer to happenings in the state Football Association, has dragged on for too long and aptly tested the patience and moral uprightness of members of the NFA board.
		While the Imo State government deployed the state Director of Sports to Port Harcourt to try and swing the matter Nwosu’s way, it was clear that the supposed pathfinder had to find his own path.
		The chairmen of the State FAs had a unanimous verdict: Ndubuoke is the man they recognize as Imo FA chairman.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/sports/sp101012005.html (872 words)

	USAfricaonline.com Exclusive Interview \| Nigeria
		We have a job to do for Imo State citizens, there is no time to neglect our responsibilities and engage in unnecessary confrontations.
		If I observe that any of his policies are not good for Imo State, I will not hesitate to point it out to him and we will work it out for the best interest of the State.
		Our state is a civil service state; there are few industries, and we have a lot of civil servants in our pay role.
	www.usafricaonline.com /imoudeagu.philodo.html (2261 words)

	Networking: Whelan Research Academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Whelan Research Academy for Religion, Culture and Society is a non-profit, tax exempt organization operating both in the state of California USA and in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.
		Its purpose is to undertake and publish research on the culture, religion and society of the Igbo and their neighbours of South East Nigeria and especially the impact of Christianity and Western Modernity on these peoples.
		There are hundreds of local governments areas in the state where Igbo is spoken and there are at least four or five times that number of dialects of Igbo spoken wihtin them.
	www.theo.kuleuven.ac.be /clt/net_wra.htm (887 words)

	REFUZ Nigeria -Temp site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		REFUZ Nigeria Ltd. is a private firm that disposes all kinds of refuse.
		REFUZ Nigeria is very interested in finding a partner organization with developed world experience to help us acquire the best technologies possible for this type of environmental work.
		Nigeria is a country of 120 million people with very little waste management services in place.
	kanataweb.ca /refuz (142 words)

	Imo -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Imo consists of coastal lowlands to the east of the Niger River.
		It is bordered by the states of Enugu to the north, Cross River and Akwa Ibom to the east, Rivers to the south, and Imo and Anambra to the west.
		Situated at a break in the mangrove swamps and rain forest of the eastern Niger River delta, it served in the 19th century as a collecting point for slaves.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9042200?tocId=9042200 (431 words)

	NJABA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IMO STATE NIGERIA
		It is mostly dominated with the rainy season from late April to end of September.This is however normal in most of the eastern parts of Nigeria especially in the Southern areas of Imo State.
		The dry seasons of December and January are always occasioned by mild harmattan, a scourge of cold wave springing from the Northern part of Nigeria, within the Jos plateau area and dumping its wave in the east part during the season.
		It is believed that the state and indeed the local Government also derive revenues from the sand escavation businesses.
	www.geocities.com /njabalga/historyoflga.html (966 words)

	Imo State Progressive Union
		Imo Progressive Union of California was formed in January, 2003, to build and strengthen an organized community of Imo State sons and daughters in California, which will foster trust, oneness, interdependency and a mutual sense of psychological comfort.
		The union is committed to building a healthy, unified, and progressive community in which the welfare and interests of all members and our shared socio-cultural heritage will be upheld.
		To provide a cordial environment that will promote the sustained growth and continuous improvement of Imo State Community in California, reinforce our cosmology and cultural values, and promote the spirit of fairness, love, equality, mutual respect, collaboration, and the rule of law.
	www.imoprogressiveunion.org (190 words)

	Theresa Emenike - Tradition - Breaking of Kolanut
		Oji, (Kolanut) is a native seed grown in the sultry forest.
		It is a seed which is planted and eaten in different regions in Nigeria.
		Kolanut is a prevalent seed in Nigeria and other African countries, but is of great significance in Igboland.
	www.amaigbo.plus.com /files/orji.html (690 words)

	Welcome to imsupioneers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HISTORY -- This is the website for and about the pioneers and builders of the Imo State University.
		The Imo State University was established in 1981 by the Imo State government as a multi-campus institution, with campuses at ETITI and ABA.
		Due to the ever-changing political landscape in Nigeria, what used to be the IMO STATE UNIVERSITY, is now ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY with location at UTURU, OKIGWE, in ABIA State of Nigeria.
	www.imsupioneers.com (167 words)

	Imo Global Economic Summit
		Imo Global Economic Summit International Chairman, Julius C. Kpaduwa, M.D. The organizing committee of the Imo Global Economic Summit is an international coalition of the illustrious sons and daughters of Nigeria.
		The IGES is the launch of the economic restructuring and reconstruction plan for Imo State Nigeria.
		The IGES is the clearing house for investors seeking means to establish presence in Africa’s largest economic and access to a market potential of more than 400 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
	www.mollyguard.com /event/755259 (231 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Justice of the Jungle
		The raid, in Eastern Nigeria, of a people during the colonial period is still held in the memory bank of oral tradition, although not many will like to-talk about it.
		In the state of emotional confusion, the psychological has the tendency to be moralized, and the moral might become psychological.
		The story of a useless ambition, the manipulation of a people into a cause they know not, and the exaggeration of punishment by an authority are still historical realities that are valid even today.
	nigeriaworld.com /articles/2003/jul/230.html (608 words)

	Nigeria Women's Organisations
		We are in the forefront for the propagation for the upliftment of the status of women, fighting against harmful traditional pra ctices against woment, and also have vocational training centres for the less privileged women were skill are acquired after which micro credit facilities are given to establish small businesses.
		It is an umbrella NGO which acts as a bridge for linking women of Nigeria irrespective of creed, tribe or class; it is a platform for disseminating women's opinions and a liaison between the women and the Government of the day.
		It is the voice of the women of Nigeria and it is strictly non-political.
	www.distel.ca /womlist/countries/nigeria.html (709 words)

	Encyclopedia: Imo State, Nigeria
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