Awka
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History and politics
Awka is the capital city of Anambra state of Nigeria.
Infrastructure
It is also home to the prestigious Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Awka was known in pre-colonial era for its magnificient blacksmith. The population of the city has exploded in the past few years exhibited by a large influx of traders and many new housing and hotel projects. The city's population is currently estimated to be about one million. Awka hosts a number of [[federal ] and state electronic media stations. The NTA Awka is a federally-owned station, while the state government maintains the headquarters of its TV and radio stations (Anambra Broadcasting Service- ABS) in the city center.
Economy
Several new businesses and hotels have erected fascinating new buildings that have largely changed the face of Awka city. The partly state-owned Orient Petroleum Resources Ltd has the headquarters in Awka.The company is poised to set up a refinery at Igbariam to jump-start the exploitation of the huge crude oil deposits in the Anambra River basin.
Natives
There is more to Awka, In the USA for example, Awka people occupy many important positions in the public and private sectors. Living abroad, they formed themselves into social clubs like Awka Union USA and Canada, Awka town social community Uk and Ireland www.awkauk.org and other such useful associations and are partly responsible for a lot of positive developments coming to Awka. On the world wide web Awka people are active users of yahoo forums such as awkaforum@yahoogroups.com and http://groups.msn.com/awkacityafrica, when these groups started out they were informally moderated by Kanayo Onyechi in Dallas Tx Usa and Austin Dibor (also known as native of Nigeria)who writes from London Uk. They used email to invite Awka people around the world to these forums in order to draw research attention to Awka and Awka related issues. 6 years later, anyone who is interested in information about Awka can now get it by searching online. There is more to come in terms of multimedia. Thanks for taking an interest in Awka, and when you are in Nigeria, visit the Palace of the King Eze Uzu the second and also visit the Imo Awka sacred monkey forest. top it up with a visit to the University as well as Obibia stream. (Arize Mbulu onye Awka.)
The main high street in Awka is Ezi-oyibo
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