Sentences with phrase «old western region»

'' Send the old WESTERN REGION INDIGENES BACK TO OGUN STATE RECLAIM LAGOS AS THE FEDERAL ECONOMIC TERRITORY OF NIGERIA... GEJ.

Even before Obafemi Awolowo's democratization of the Nigerian education space, by his revolutionary free primary education programme in the old Western Region; and Yakubu Gowon's liberalization of university access in the early 1970s, privileged and determined families had always sponsored theirs to study abroad.

The Federal University, Oye Ekiti, has been renamed after the late military governor of the old Western Region, General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.)

Adeyinka Adebayo in the old Western Region.

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has declared Friday a work - free day in the state in honour of the former Military Governor of the old Western Region, the late General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.).

The whole of Ekiti stood still at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, Ado - Ekiti, on Friday to celebrate the late former Military Governor of the Old Western Region, Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.).

The Vice President referred to the tax innovation of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo as Premier of the old Western region which enabled the administration to raise money for huge infrastructure, agriculture and free education.

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.

Before you knew it, an excited, beaming, dancing company was pumping fists and flashing «V» (for victory) signs, with their two fore - fingers, a sign original to Winston Churchill, Britain's World War 2 hero; but popularized in these climes by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, first premier of the old Western Region.

Not exact matches

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

In 1998 Duncan and Deborah Harris bought a property in the Swan Valley — the oldest wine region in Western Australia and about 30 kilometres from Perth — and started establishing an organic vineyard.

This year's Christmas celebrations in the Western Region has recorded another unfortunate incident following the death of Bright Larbo, a 22 year old Takoradi Polytechnic student, and Nasiru Amoah, a 24 year old welder who drowned at the Albert Bosomtwe Sam fishing Harbor on Christmas day.

The ongoing global campaign to end violence against women and children which was launched on Wednesday, has been greeted with impunity in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region, after a 28 - year - old Monica Kabenla and her husband, whose name was only given as Emma, whipped their 8 year - old niece with hot machete.

A 33 - year - old Woman from Elubo in the Jomoro District of the Western Region was ordered by the Half Assini Magistrate Court to sweep the premises for spitting.

A 55 - year - old farmer, James Ayambilla, has been murdered by persons believed to be criminals between Bankyim and Teberebie, in the Tarkwa Nsueam municipality of the Western Region.

Doctors at the Korle - Bu Teaching Hospital are working round the clock to save the life of a three - year - old girl who was defiled by a 25 - year - old galamsey operator at Daboase in the Western Region.

One Peter Tetteh, from Bogoso in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region, has identified the head as his 12 - year - old son, Ebenezer Tetteh, a student of Grace International School at Bogoso.

Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

Kendall, now a visiting research professor at Northeastern University in Boston, has maintained Reisner's old excavating concession through two civil wars: the recently settled 20 - year - long conflict in the south between Sudan's Islamic fundamentalist government and the rebels, and the ongoing genocide in the western Darfur region.

They were found in 3.5 - billion - year - old rocks in an extinct volcano in the Dresser Formation in the hot, dry, remote Pilbara region of Western Australia.

To look deeper into Earth's past, the team went to the Jack Hills region of Western Australia, which is famous for its four - billion - year - old zircon crystals.

Czaja argues that finding rocks this old is rare, so researchers» understanding of the Neoarchean Eon are based on samples from only a handful of geographic areas, such as this region of South Africa and another in Western Australia.

The new study confirms that zircon crystals from Western Australia's Jack Hills region crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, building on earlier studies that used lead isotopes to date the Australian zircons and identify them as the oldest bits of the Earth's crust.

I think the new dating hints that there could be even older Homo sapiens finds to come from the region of western Asia.»

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, a team of researchers has now described what is potentially the oldest evidence of life on land — fossils of microorganisms in 3.48 billion - year - old hot spring deposits in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

Our analyses of longitudinal data from unmanaged old forests in the western United States showed that background (noncatastrophic) mortality rates have increased rapidly in recent decades, with doubling periods ranging from 17 to 29 years among regions.

A teaser trailer and poster have arrived online for Red Dog: True Blue, the prequel to the 2011 hit Australian family drama Red Dog, which stars Levi Miller, Jason Isaacs, Bryan Brown and John Jarratt; take a look below... When 11 - year old Mick (Levi Miller) is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in the remote Pilbara region of Western -LSB-...]

The Swan Valley — Western Australia's oldest wine - growing region — is just a 25 - minute drive from the center of Perth.

Out and About Tours are the wine tour specialists in the Swan Valley, Western Australia's oldest wine region only 30 minutes from Perth city.

Western Australia's oldest wine region, the Swan Valley, is home to 40 vineyards, many with cellar doors offering tastings of the region's warm - climate wines.

Feature Tours has Perth and its surrounds covered, taking you to destinations including: Perth city Fremantle Wave Rock The Pinnacles Desert Swan Valley winery and wine tasting tours Swan River Cruises Rottnest Island Aquarium of Western Australia (AQWA) Dolphin cruises Australian wildlife South West, Margaret River Wine Region, caves, Albany, Busselton Jetty, Tree Top Walk, Valley of the Giants, Pemberton, old growth forest, the Gloucester Tree Monkey Mia Dolphins, Kalbarri, Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef Western Australia's beautiful wildflower regions The real Australian outback

Drive 30 minutes east to explore some of the region's historic wineries, such as Seppelt Great Western, famous for its sparkling wines and labyrinthine cellars dug by gold miners, and Best's Great Western, one of Australia's oldest family - owned wineries, which specialises in old vine Shiraz.

Marigold Villa is a self - catering house located in the heart of the old village of Darling, a small town situated in the west coast region of the Western Cape.

Then in the last couple of days, all the western Resident Evil game social sites have been updated with a new image akin to the old Resident Evil 2 PAL region logo and to the font in the original announcement video.

Our analyses of longitudinal data from unmanaged old forests in the western United States showed that background (noncatastrophic) mortality rates have increased rapidly in recent decades, with doubling periods ranging from 17 to 29 years among regions.

The pattern of increased enhancement for older persons and non-remote regions observed in this study was also observed by Briffa et al [6] in Western Australia using the «at least one report» approach.