The Aro people or Aros are an Igbo subgroup mixed with Akpa and Ibibio ancestry that originated from the Arochukwu kingdom in present-day Abia state, Nigeria.

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Arochukwu, sometimes referred to as Arochuku or Aro-Okigbo, (pronounced Aruchukwu) is the third largest city in Abia State (after Aba and Umuahia) in southeastern Nigeria and homeland of the Igbo subgroup, Aro people.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bende, Abia

Bende is a Local Government Area in Abia State, Nigeria.

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Cash crop

A cash crop or profit crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit.

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Cashew

The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens and adheres to other materials, binding them together.

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Coast

A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Colocasia esculenta

Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro.

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Constitution of Nigeria

The Constitution of Nigeria is the supreme law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Cross River State

Cross River is a state in South South Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east.

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Ebonyi State

Ebonyi is a state in southeastern Nigeria.

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Elaeis

Elaeis is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms.

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Elaeis guineensis

Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly called African oil palm or macaw-fat.

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Enugu

Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria.

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Enyinnaya Abaribe

Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe (born March 1, 1955) is a Nigerian politician who was elected to the Abia-South Senatorial District of Abia State in the Senate of Nigeria in April 2007..

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Geopolitical zones of Nigeria

The six geopolitical zones of Nigeria is a major division in modern Nigeria, created during the regime of president General Sani Abacha.

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Government of Abia State

Government of Abia State is the supreme governing authority of Abia State and its local governments.

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Governor of Abia State

The office of the Governor of Abia State is an elected position.

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Gregory University

Gregory University (GU) is located in Uturu, Abia State in Nigeria.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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House of Representatives (Nigeria)

The House of Representatives is the lower house of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly.

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Igbo language

Igbo (Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh), is the principal native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.

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Igbo people

The Igbo people (also Ibo," formerly also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group native to the present-day south-central and southeastern Nigeria.

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Ikwuano

Ikwuano is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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Imo River

The Imo River (Igbo: Mmiri Imo) is in southeastern Nigeria and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Imo State

Imo is one of the 36 states of Nigeria and lies in the South East of Nigeria.

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Investment

In general, to invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future – for example, investment in durable goods, in real estate by the service industry, in factories for manufacturing, in product development, and in research and development.

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Isiala Ngwa North

Isiala Ngwa North is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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Isiala Ngwa South

Isiala Ngwa South is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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ISO 3166-2:NG

ISO 3166-2:NG is the entry for Nigeria in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Isu people

The Isu people are a subgroup of the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria.

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Isuikwuato

Isuikwuato is a local government area in Abia State in southeastern Nigeria.

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List of capitals of states of Nigeria

The following is a list of Nigerian State capitals.

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List of Governors of Abia State

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List of Nigerian states by date of statehood

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's states and the dates of their creation.

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List of Nigerian states by GDP

The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total GDP in 2010.

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List of Nigerian states' nicknames

The following table presents a listing of Nigerian states' nicknames.

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List of state governors of Nigeria

The following table presents a list of Nigeria's state governors.

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Local government areas of Nigeria

Nigeria has 774 local government areas (LGAs).

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Mao Ohuabunwa

Senator Mao Arukwe Ohuabunwa (born 24 May 1957) is a Nigerian politician, businessman and currently a serving Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District in the 8th National Assembly having served in the 4th and 5th National Assembly as Member representing Arochukwu/Ohafia constituency of Abia State under the People's Democratic Party between 1999 and 2007.

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Medication

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Michael Okpara University of Agriculture

The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, originally the Federal University of Agriculture, is a federal university in Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria established as a specialized University by a Federal Government of Nigeria Decree No 48 of November 1992.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Nigerian general election, 2007

The Nigerian general elections of 2007 were held on 14 April and 21 April 2007.

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Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Abia

The Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Abia comprises three Senators representing Abia-Central, Abia-South, and Abia-North, and eight Representatives representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/South, Bende, Isuikwato/Umunneochi, Arochukwu/Ohafia, Aba North/South, Ukwa East/Ukwa West, Isiala Ngwa North/South and Obingwa/Osisioma/Ugbunagbo.

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Obi Ngwa

Obi Ngwa is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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Ohafia

Ohafia is a clan as well as a local government area in Abia State, Nigeria.

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Ohiya

Ohiya (ඔහිය) is a rural village located in Badulla District of Uva Province, Sri Lanka.

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Oil well

An oil well is a boring in the Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface.

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Okezie Ikpeazu

Okezie Victor Ikpeazu is the 9th and current Governor of Abia State, in office since May 29, 2015.

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Onyema Ugochukwu

Onyema Ugochukwu (born 9 November 1944), CON is a Nigerian economist, journalist, and politician.

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Orji Uzor Kalu

Orji Uzor Kalu (born April 21, 1960) is the chairman of SLOK Holding and the Daily Sun and New Telegraph newspapers in Nigeria, who served as the governor of Abia State, Nigeria from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007.

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Osisioma Ngwa

Osisioma Ngwa is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria.

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt (Ikwerre: Ígúọ́cha; Pidgin: Po-ta-kot) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Port Harcourt International Airport

Port Harcourt International Airport is an international airport located in Omagwa, a suburb of Port Harcourt, the capital city of the Rivers State in Nigeria.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Progressive Peoples Alliance

The Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) is a political party in Nigeria.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

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Rhema University

Rhema University, Aba (RU) is an accredited private, Christian university based in the city of Aba in Abia State, Nigeria.

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Rivers State

Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria.

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Sam Mbakwe Airport

Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, also known as Imo State Airport, serves Owerri, the capital city of Imo State in southeastern Nigeria.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Senate of Nigeria

The Senate is the upper house of the Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Nigeria.

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Shell Nigeria

Shell Nigeria is the common name for Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian operations carried out through four subsidiaries—primarily Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC).

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States of Nigeria

A Nigerian State is a federated political entity, which shares sovereignty with the Federal Government of Nigeria, There are 36 States in Nigeria, which are bound together by a federal agreement.

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Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).

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Theodore Orji

Theodore Ahamefule Orji CON was elected governor of Abia State, in southeast Nigeria, on May 29, 2007 and re-elected on April 26, 2011.

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Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest.

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Ude Oko Chukwu

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Ugwunagbo

Ugwunagbo is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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Ukwa East

Ukwa East is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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Ukwa West

Ukwa West is a Local Government Area in Abia State, Nigeria.

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Umu Nneochi

Umunneochi is a Local Government Area (LGA) in Abia State of Nigeria.

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Umuahia

Umuahia (pronounced) is the capital city of Abia State in southeastern Nigeria.

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Umuahia North

Umuahia North is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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Umuahia South

Umuahia South is a Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria.

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Umudike

Umudike is a semi-urban settlement in Ikwuano LGA Abia State, Nigeria, about 11 kilometers southeast of Umuahia, the state capital city.

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Uturu

Uturu is a town located within latitudes 05.33°N and 06.03°N, in the northern part of Abia State, Nigeria.

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West Africa Time

West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa; with countries west of Benin instead using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; equivalent to UTC with no offset).

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.

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