Sentences with phrase «for secession»

I think the agitation for secession by people like Nnamdi Kanu and others will be addressed if we have a new constitution that will take us to parliamentary system, resource control, and which will address other issues which are generating tension in the country.

When Governor Pat Neff vetoed a piece of legislation that would have given West Texas its own college in 1921, newspaper editorial pages actually called for secession.

A Magistrate Court in Ho today [Thursday] March 9, 2017, declined jurisdiction in the case involving some persons campaigning for the secession of a part of the Volta Region.

The Ho High court has freed some persons involved in the campaigning for the secession of a part of the Volta Region.

All the counts were in connection with alleged broadcasts on Radio Biafra and agitation for the secession from Nigeria and the setting up of the Republic of Biafra.

According to Salis, whose position follows a recent quit notice order given to Igbos living in the North by a coalition of Arewa youths, the agitation for secession by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria will reduce drastically once equity and justice take precedent over ethnic domination.

The Magistrate said it could not hear the case against the group of persons advocating for the secession because it is outside its jurisdiction.

Crimea's residents aren't the only Europeans striving for secession, with referendums in both Scotland and Spain's Catalonia planned for later this year.

It is common for the constitution of a country — determined at the level of the state — to set the conditions for secession.

Around 80 % of them voted for secession.

In the package of the intangible, we have state anthem, flag and beautiful crest adopted from old Western region superintended by the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, but the opposition flares up, faulting the cowries in the flag, accusing the governor of being fetish and argued that the crest was designed for secession, and the implied meaning of the cowries which symbolize medium of exchange before colonial rule, and the strength and service which depict the meaning of the crest are ignored.

Kalu affirmed that the right of the Igbo had been embedded in the United Nation's charter, which gave them the full right to ask for secession if they were no longer comfortable in living together as one country called Nigeria.

Following the highlights above, most powers are concentrated in one man at the Centre and this can not be suitable in a multi ethnic society like Nigeria where there are issues of marginalization, resource control, power sharing issues, revenue allocation, agitation for secession etc..

And of course, that a party that you do not like wins the elections is not considered a valid reason for secession, anywhere.

During Obama's Presidency, people in several states (including those that have now voted for Trump) signed petitions for secession:

I wanted to relate what I made for documenta Athens to the paintings I had already begun for the Secession.

I was researching and working on three chapters at once: Parthian Shot, Chapter 31, planned for documenta 14; An Evening, Chapter 32 for the Secession; and finally, the Museum Sztuki in Łódź and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, concerning a possible survey exhibition in 2019.

The works the artist has conceived for the Secession show a new turn in her oeuvre, integrating sculptural installations and performance elements.

This new audiovisual installation for the Secession is the result of several months spent investigating the processual element of dreams.

Ulla von Brandenburg's first solo exhibition in Austria will show her new film, Die Strasse, within the context of an installation the artist created specially for Secession's main gallery.

The drive for secession is always also a drive for status, an emotional desire to be able to identify with one's own state or at least a national entity enjoying a defined legal status.

The group has previously called for Floridians to pick up arms against the government, fight for secession and revive a white «ethno - state.»

There are no examples of aspirations for secession being expressed by Indigenous Australians.

The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Honourable Umar Ahmed Imam has criticized those calling for secession, stating emphatically that they are corrupt officials who emanated from a product of a corrupt society.

So long as their remains a broader Tuareg demand for secession, then this problem is not going to go away.

Second, Yeltsin prioritised good relations with Ukraine and the cutting of a deal on the Black Sea fleet over the demands of the vast majority of the people of Crimea (mostly ethnic Russians) for secession from Ukraine and inclusion within Russia.

Aaron Price, a filmmaker and advocate for natural gas hydrofracking who is now advocating for secession to Pennsylvania, said he didn't need an economic survey to make clear to him that a Binghamton suburb that was «happy, healthy» in 1970s and»80s is «economically devastated and has lost its way.»

I want to repeat that both the agitations for secession and the ultimatum to leave the northern states are wrong and a violation of our constitution.

The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Honourable Umar Ahmed Imam has criticized those calling for secession, stating emphatically that they are corrupt officials who...