Abia, state, east-central Nigeria. Abia was administratively created in 1991 from the eastern half of former Imo state. It is bordered by the states of Enugu and Ebonyi to the north, Akwa Ibom to the east and southeast, Rivers to the south and southwest, and Imo and Anambra to the west. Abia includes areas of oil-palm bush and tropical rain forest in its southern part and woodland savanna in its hilly north. Most of the population is engaged in agriculture; yams, taro, corn (maize), rice, and cassava are the staple crops, and oil palm is the main cash crop. Mineral resources include lead and zinc.
Uchechi Nnamdi Ogbonna born Igbo parenthood of Mazi and Nnenna Ogbonna was a star bassketball player at Daemen College where he was instrumental to championships. His Stats are as follow:
2013-14
• Enjoyed a breakout season as a senior while helping Daemen to the East Coast Conference regular-season title in just their first year in the league
• Appeared in and started 26 of the team's 28 games while averaging 11.9 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.0 steals per game
• Was one of five players to average more than 28 minutes per game (28.8)
Uchechi Nnamdi Ogbonna born Igbo parenthood of Mazi and Nnenna Ogbonna was a star bassketball player at Daemen College where he was instrumental to championships. His Stats are as follow:
2013-14
• Enjoyed a breakout season as a senior while helping Daemen to the East Coast Conference regular-season title in just their first year in the league
• Appeared in and started 26 of the team's 28 games while averaging 11.9 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.0 steals per game
• Was one of five players to average more than 28 minutes per game (28.8)
Most recently, in a private conversation with a politician who has been out of political favour for a while, he told me that what he misses a lot is the use of siren blaring escort vehicles(SBEV) when he moves about town. For readers who do not understand, SBEV is a security arrangement that allows VIPs same right of way as an ambulance or fire fighting vehicles. Often times too, security officers manning the SBEV also carry horse whips for flogging “ motorists who fail to clear the way or just anyone suspected as an obstacle(Recall that it was the mismanagement of such an incident involving governor Ohakim convoy and a Catholic priest that partly led to the lost of Imo State to APGA in 2011).
Chiaka Ogbogu – Currently University of Texas’ all-time block leader, Ogbogu helped lead the university to its 2015 NCAA Division I tournament championship match. Three years later, she became a part of the U.S. Woman’s National Team which won gold at the Pan-American Cup. During her college career, Ogbogu was named AVCA All-American four times (including three, First-Team selections).
Most recently, in a private conversation with a politician who has been out of political favour for a while, he told me that what he misses a lot is the use of siren blaring escort vehicles(SBEV) when he moves about town.
Philip Emeagwali (born August 23, 1954) is a Nigerian-American computer scientist. He achieved distributed computing breakthroughs that helped lead to the development of the internet. His work with simultaneous calculations on connected microprocessors earned him a Gordon Bell Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of computing.
Most recently, in a private conversation with a politician who has been out of political favour for a while, he told me that what he misses a lot is the use of siren blaring escort vehicles(SBEV) when he moves about town. For readers who do not understand, SBEV is a security arrangement that allows VIPs same right of way as an ambulance or fire fighting vehicles.