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  Nigeria: PHYSICAL SETTING - Rivers State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The entire topography of the State is also characterised by a maze of effluents, rivers, lakes, creeks,lagoons and swamps crisscrossing the lowlying plains in varying dimensions.
Drainage densities of rivers within the state have typical value of 1.5 km and sinuosity ratios are in excess of 1.9, indicating that the meandering channels are tortuous.
Rivers State is a State of physical difficulties, such as lowlying terrain riddled with an intricate system of natural water channels; too much surface water and a high rainfall; unin habitable mangrove swamps and some parts of the state suffer from inaccessibility.
www.onlinenigeria.com /links/Riversstateadv.asp?blurb=362   (1341 words)

  
 Akwa Ibom State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the east, the State is bordered by Cross River State and on the west by Rivers State and Abia State and to the South by the Atlantic Ocean.
Uyo is the capital of Akwa Ibom State.
The languages spoken in the state are closely related, and the Annang and Ibibio languages are mostly identical with a few dialectical differences.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akwa_Ibom_State,_Nigeria   (505 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Port Harcourt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil.
The initial purpose of the port was to export coal that arrived in large quantities from the mining town of Enugu to the north via the Bonny River along which the port sits.
Maiduguri is the capital of Borno State in Nigeria.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Port-Harcourt   (746 words)

  
 Rivers and Human Activity (from river) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
state, southern Nigeria, comprising the Niger River delta on the Gulf of Guinea.
It is bounded by the states of Anambra and Imo on the north, Abia and Akwa Ibom on the east, and Delta on the west.
It is a left-bank tributary of the Oka River in the Volga basin.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-207366   (862 words)

  
 Welcome to Rivers State, Nigeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.rivers-state.gov.ng   (128 words)

  
 ICSN - Eastern States - Rivers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Rivers State is much of the State is covered by mangrove forest with marshy areas.
River State is regarded as one of the industrial states of Nigeria.
Rivers State is most famous for the production of oil and gas and boast of the first petroleum refinery in Nigeria.
www.igbocsn.com /rivers.htm   (275 words)

  
 OJHAS: 2005-2-4 Ikaraoha CI et al. Menarchial Age of Secondary School Girls in Urban and Rural Areas of Rivers State, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The menarchial age of 859 secondary school girls consisting of 508 from urban and 351 from rural area of Rivers State, Nigeria were determined, using questionnaires and interview method.
There is still paucity of information on the menarchial age of Nigerian girls in rural areas, especially Rivers state, the eastern region of Nigeria where the quality of life depends much on the earning power of the citizens.
It seems that the socio-economic status affects menarchial age, and this may account for the significant difference in menarchial age between urban and rural school girls, since 56.6% (133) of the rural school girls were within the low socio-economic group while only 14% of the urban school girls were of low socio-economic group.
www.ojhas.org /issue14/2005-2-4.htm   (1598 words)

  
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Rivers Co-op Trust proposes to use target schools that have access to telephone services or are capable of procuring one and are committed to doing so.
Rivers Co-op Trust proposes to make these materials uniform in all schools and centers though amendments will be made to suit local conditions when necessary.
Our hopes are that the shipment will boost the morale of the youths and adults in Rivers State of Nigerian and also to help bridge the digital gap between the youths in developed countries and the deprived youths in Rivers State of Nigeria.
worldcomputerexchange.org /partner_plans/Nigeria-Rivers_Coop-Plan.doc   (3251 words)

  
 Welcome to Louis Chambers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Its founder,Dr T.C. Osanakpo(SAN) obtained his LLB (Hons) degree from University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1977 and was admitted to the Nigeria Bar in 1978.
The law firm of Dr.T.C Osanakpo and Co is located in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State and in fact the host state of most major oil and gas operating companies in Nigeria.
The law firm incidentally is one of the leading law firms in Rivers State of Nigeria.
www.louischambers.com   (135 words)

  
 Finima, Bonny Island, Rivers State of Nigeria
To provide assistance in the preparation and conduct of divestiture transactions, BPE routinely engages firms and individuals as advisers to help in various activities which include: policy advice; institutional and public enterprise reforms; sale preparation, transaction and implementation; management/engineering services; procurement services; and social and environmental studies.
Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) is a joint venture company established to design, construct and operate the natural gas transmission system and liquefaction facility located at Finima on Bonny Island in the Rivers region in Southeast Nigeria.
Equity participation in NLNG is Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) 49%, Shell Gas BV 25.6%, Cleag Ltd. (Elf) 15%, and Agip International BV 10.4%.
www.finima.org   (427 words)

  
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Pele, goddess of Hawaii's volcanoes, is in modern times, as in the past, portrayed as a fire deity, who is both friendly and dangerous to humankind, and whose fiery talent and fiery rage are both replicated in the female human being.
Rivers, springs and fountains have been revered for their powers of refreshment and healing.
The moon and the planets were among the major female divinities: Ishtar or Astarte, of the ancient Near East, became the Roman Venus, giving her name to the morning and evening stars.
www.asphodel-long.com /html/routledge.html   (1216 words)

  
 AEGiS-PRn: IFESH Launches Program to Prevent Mother to Child HIV/AIDS Transmission in Nigeria
The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Since the virus can be transmitted from mother to child via breast milk, baby formula will also be provided for infected mothers who choose not to breast feed to avoid the risk of infecting their newborn children with the HIV/AIDS virus.
The work of the IFESH Nigeria country office, which is located in Port Harcourt City, Nigeria, is focused primarily on the impoverished Niger Delta and Rivers State, where the HIV infection rate is among the highest in Nigeria.
www.aegis.com /news/pr/2005/PR050137.html   (877 words)

  
 Visiting Nigeria? come to rivers state. : Africa and The Middle East Forum - Travellerspoint
The status of Rivers State in terms of its strategic importance
And Port Harcourt, the State capital, is known throughout Nigeria as the Garden City,
Harcourt, the state capital, is Nigeria's second busiest seaport.
www.travellerspoint.com /forum.cfm?thread=3482   (206 words)

  
 Shell's Oil Spills in Amusia, Rivers State, In Nigeria's Niger Delta
Dispatch: Amuse, Oyigbo Local Government Area, Rivers State.
Umusia is a rural Community in Oyigbo Local Government Council Rivers State.
Community people say that during the recent high floods (October and early November, 1999), when the Imo River basin over flowed its banks, the situation was aggravated as tidal transportation of crude oil from one area to another spread the spill to other communities polluting farmlands, forests and drinking water.
www.waado.org /Environment/OilSpills/NigerDelta/Amusia_Rivers.html   (774 words)

  
 The Bioline EPrints Archive - A Comparison of Measured and Predicted Haemoglobin Genotype in a Nigerian Population in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A Comparison of Measured and Predicted Haemoglobin Genotype in a Nigerian Population in Bonny, Rivers State, Nigeria
NWAFOR, A and BANIGO, B. A Comparison of Measured and Predicted Haemoglobin Genotype in a Nigerian Population in Bonny, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Cellulose acetate electrophoresis technique has been used to estimate haemoglobin genotype and the predicted values from the estimate in accordance with the population genetics studies (Fleming and Lehman 1982) were evaluated in 850 subjects (386 males and 464 females) selected randomly from Bonny, in Rivers State, Nigeria of ages between 3 and 77 years.
bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca /archive/00001934   (443 words)

  
 Violence in Nigeria's Oil Rich Rivers State in 2004
Rivers and Blood: Guns, Oil and Power in Nigeria’s Rivers State
The Emergence of Armed Groups in Rivers State
To the Nigerian Federal and Rivers State Governments
hrw.org /backgrounder/africa/nigeria0205   (123 words)

  
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 All About ISOC: Nigeria IT Centers
Last year we were able to launch an IT center donated to the University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria for a value of $50,000 USD.
The IT Center (with a value of US$ 50,000) dedicated to the Memory of Jon Postel has been donated to the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, thanks to the efforts of ISOC Nigeria Chapter.
It is with great pleasure that I am informing you that onMarch 8th we have finally commissioned the fourth IT Center dedicated to the memory of Jon Postel at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Federal University of Port Harcourt.
www.isoc.org /isoc/chapters/news/nigeria-postel.shtml   (1066 words)

  
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The incident was caused by kerosine fire explosion while she was trying to use a stove as she came back from school to prepare her lunch.
Accomodation were the father will stay for three months proposed time and look after her while she is in the hospital in U.S.A. If you need further question, feel free to mail it to the Parish Priest, including any assistance for the patient.
For the website of Nigeria Catholic Churches and Port Harcourt Diocese in particular she will also accept any other hospital that may treat her free to save cost.
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 Arts & Humanities
Igbo people inhabit the large and fertile region of the lower Niger river and its adjoining territories.The current population is estimated at around 30 million people.
He was recipient of the 1995 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa and he founded the Movement for the Survival of the Orgoni People in Nigeria's Rivers State.
Nigeria: Arts Overview The Aesthetics of African Arts Civilizing Scars Strength, Health, Fecundity, and Beauty Wealth, Health, and Beauty African Attitudes toward Art Objects: the BaLega Yoruba Aesthetics: Theories and Attitudes Mask Sculpture.
www.nigeriainfonet.com /Directory/arts__humanitiesII.htm   (1215 words)

  
 Adherents.com
"The Nuer are a Nilotic people of some 200,000 souls who live in the swampy and savannah country on both sides of the Nile, in the region where that river is fed by its two tributaries, the Sobat from the east and the Bahr al-Ghazal from the west.
The struggle against the oil company Shell's exploiting of their land has received considerable international attention and increasingly so after the execution, by the military dictatorship in Nigeria in November 1995, of the human rights and environment activist Ken Saro-Wiva.
The Old Believers are a group that formed as the result of a schism in the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_481.html   (2732 words)

  
 J Water SRT - Aqua 49 (2000) 281-288 - Beatrice Nnene Uba and Onakufe Aghogho - Rainwater quality from different roof ...
Rainwater quality from different roof catchments in the Port Harcourt district, Rivers State, Nigeria
Dept of Microbiology, University of Port Harcourt, P.M. B 5323, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
Rainwater samples collected directly from the atmosphere and through various roof catchments (aluminium, zinc, asbestos and thatch) were analysed for their physico-chemical and microbiological qualities.
www.iwaponline.com /jws/049/jws0490281.htm   (333 words)

  
 Report of the Accountant-General of the Rivers State of Nigeria (Rivers State of Nigeria, Ministry of Finance)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Report of the Accountant-General of the Rivers State of Nigeria (Rivers State of Nigeria, Ministry of Finance)
Report of the Accountant-General of the Rivers State of Nigeria
Rivers State of Nigeria, Ministry of Finance (Port Harcourt)
www.getcited.org /pub/100497010   (46 words)

  
 Rivers State College of Health Science & Tech.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Rivers State College of Health Science & Tech.
Welcome to the official ePortal of The Rivers State College of Health Science & Technology, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria designed for managing Student's Institution database information.
To create, preserve and communicate knowledge in health science and technology, and thereby, contribute to the complete enhancement of the health and well being of the people of Rivers State, Nigeria and the world.
www.rivcohstecheduportal.com   (80 words)

  
 IFMBE News: May 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State, "The Treasure Base of the Nation", will be hosting the 2004 Professional Development Course as well as the 5th Annual General Meeting and Biomedical Engineering Conference.
University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt Rivers State, Nigeria
To provide a forum for social and technical interaction between all science professionals interested in biomedical engineering and biotechnology.
ifmbe-news.iee.org /ifmbe-news/may2004/nibe.html   (510 words)

  
 Atkins - 33/11 kV Distribution Planning - Onne Freezone, Rivers State, Nigeria
The Bonny River Delta region of Nigeria is undergoing major oil and gas-driven development.
To facilitate this development, the Nigerian Government has granted Rockson Engineering the option to develop a power station and associated transmission and distribution system in the Onne Freezone area.
Further opportunities exist to construct a major power station for export to the national grid system.
www.atkinsglobal.com /markets/power/4166025   (351 words)

  
 The Web Poetry Corner
Rivers shrank like the feelers of the snail
And the fish swim to the river beds...
On the ascension of Gen. Kontagora as Interim Administartor Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
www.dreamagic.com /poetry/ugwuoha.html   (949 words)

  
 B2B Nigeria at the b2bYellowpages.com B2B directory. -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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CHEMICALS --- Nigeria - Rivers Importers / Exporters - BloomBiz B2B - Trade...
...Operators in countries such as Nigeria have also faced interconnection issues since the.....It would be reasonable to say that we suspected that the types of B2B e-commerce that we.....In May 2003, MTN Nigeria Communication Limited signed an interconnect agreement with the..
www.b2byellowpages.com /directory/b2b_international/b2b_nigeria   (687 words)

  
 frizzyLogic: words Archives
When peg-tops and humming-tops are at the acme of their gyration they become so steady and quiet that they do not seem to move.
Ethelbert E Kari comes from Degema in Rivers State, Nigeria, which as well as a place is a language spoken by about 10,000 people.
There are 22 other languages spoken in Rivers State - Degema is classified as a minority...
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