{"id":84563,"date":"2021-08-08T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=84563"},"modified":"2021-08-08T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:47:00","slug":"breaking-anambra-may-lose-ojukwu-university-as-ihiala-ekwusigo-lgas-join-new-orashi-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-anambra-may-lose-ojukwu-university-as-ihiala-ekwusigo-lgas-join-new-orashi-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Anambra may lose Ojukwu University as Ihiala, Ekwusigo LGAs join new Orashi State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Us\">\n<div class=\"Js\">\n<div class=\"Ls\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">If what the Senate Committee on state creation is working at materialised, Ihiala and Ekwusigo Local Government Areas in the current Anambra State will be carved out to form Orashi state with some parts of Imo State.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cv_\" class=\" pf  \">\n<div class=\"rf\">\n<div class=\"jf\">\n<div class=\"eh\">\n<div class=\"Rh\">\n<div class=\"ig\" data-onclick=\"cvmsgcontainercl+22\">\n<div id=\"cvcmsg_17b2657c743f49ca\" class=\"Rf\">\n<div id=\"cvcfullmsg_17b2657c743f49ca\" class=\"og\">\n<div id=\"cvcmsgbod_17b2657c743f49ca\" class=\"th\">\n<div class=\"gh\">\n<div class=\"Gg Ig \" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt, however, be subject to a referendum to be conducted in that respect.<\/p>\n<p>If this happen, the present Anambra State would lose Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, to the proposed Orashi State.<\/p>\n<p>COOU at Igbariam is just a campus of the university.<\/p>\n<p>Hereunder are the new 20 proposed states:<\/p>\n<p>1. ITAI State from Akwa Ibom<\/p>\n<p>2. Katagum state from Bauchi<\/p>\n<p>3. Okura state from Kogi East<\/p>\n<p>4. Adada state from Enugu<\/p>\n<p>5. Gurara state from Kaduna South<\/p>\n<p>6. Ijebu State from Ogun<\/p>\n<p>7. Ibadan state from Oyo<\/p>\n<p>8. Tiga state from Kano<\/p>\n<p>9. Ghari state from Kano<\/p>\n<p>10. Amana state from Adamawa<\/p>\n<p>11. Gongola state from Adamawa<\/p>\n<p>12. Mambilla state from Taraba<\/p>\n<p>13. Savannah state from Borno<\/p>\n<p>14. Okun state from Kogi<\/p>\n<p>15. Etiti state from the southeast zone<\/p>\n<p>16. Orashi state from Imo and Anambra<\/p>\n<p>17. Njaba from the present Imo state or the excision of Aba state from Abia<\/p>\n<p>18. Anioma state from Delta<\/p>\n<p>19. Torogbene and Oil River states, from Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states<\/p>\n<p>20. Bayajida state from parts of Katsina, Jigawa and Zamfara.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If what the Senate Committee on state creation is working at materialised, Ihiala and Ekwusigo Local Government Areas in the current Anambra State will be carved out to form Orashi&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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