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7 unusual facts about Eastern Region


E. M. L. Endeley

Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley (1916–1988) was a Cameroonian politician who led Southern Cameroonian representatives out of the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly in Enugu and negotiated the creation of the autonomous region of Southern Cameroons in 1954.

East Central State

It was created on 27 May 1967 from parts of the Eastern Region and existed until 3 February 1976, when it was divided into two states - Anambra and Imo.

Eastern Region, Ghana

The Eastern region is the location of the Akosombo dam and the economy of the Eastern region is dominated by its high-capacity electricity generation.

Igboland

The Eastern Region formed the core of the secessionist Republic of Biafra.

Kade Agricultural Research Station

Kade Agricultural Research Station or Center is an agricultural research center located at Kade, in the Eastern Region of Ghana is part of the University of Ghana Centers of Research and Learning.

Kenneth Keazor

He returned to Nigeria in 1963, where he joined the Ministry of Justice in the Eastern Region of Nigeria, until 1967 when the Nigerian Civil War broke out and he joined the Biafran Army, rising to the rank of major.

Western Region, Nigeria

Upon that union became matured in 1960, it became one of the members of the federation, along with the Eastern Region and the Northern Region.


Aaron Mike Oquaye

He was brought up at Asamankese in the Eastern Region, where he attended the Roman Catholic Primary School and Presbyterian Middle School before proceeding to Presbyterian Boys' Secondary (PRESEC), at Odumase-Krobo, and Apam Secondary School.

Adoagyiri

Adoagyiri is a village in the Akuapim South Municipal district, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Anglo

The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England, and still the modern name of its eastern region.

Asafotufiam Festival

The Asafotufiam Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Ada in the Eastern region of Ghana.

Dago, Ghana

Dago is a village in the Akuapim South Municipal district, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Eastern Regional Hospital

The Eastern Regional Hospital is a regional hospital in Koforidua in the Eastern region of Ghana.

Erasmus Ransford Tawiah Madjitey

E.R.T. Madjitey was born on 11 November 1920 at Aframase, in the Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Ghanatta Senior High School

Ghanatta Senior High School is a public co-educational school in Dodowa in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Ikpe Umoh Imeh

Ikpe Umoh Imeh (or Obong (Chief) Ikpe Umoh Imeh) (April 22, 1906 – September 29, 2004) was a Member of Parliament from Akwa Ibom State and Deputy Speaker of Parliament for the Eastern Region, Nigeria during the Nigerian First Republic.

Kwadjokrom

Kwadjokrom is a small town and is the capital of Sene District in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Eastern Region in south Ghana.

Nurses Training College, Agogo

The Presbyterian Nurses Training College is public tertiary health institution in the Agogo in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Pakro

Pakro is a village in the Akuapim South Municipal district, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Pampanso

Pampanso is a village in the Akuapim South Municipal district, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Pokrom

Pokrom is a village in the Akuapim South Municipal district, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Tororo Priory

Christ the King Priory, Tororo, Eastern Region, Uganda, is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien.


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355th Fighter Wing

Flying the F-86D Sabre, the group provided fighter defense for the Oak Ridge Atomic Energy Plant, the Tennessee Valley Authority dams, and the eastern region of the United States.

Anglo Marri wars

The Anglo Marri wars were three major military conflicts between the Marri Baluch tribesmen in the independent eastern Baluch tribal belt of what is now called North-Eastern region of Baluchistan Pakistan and the British Empire in 19th and 20th century.

Antonio Maldonado

Maldonado was born in Comerio, a town located in the center-eastern region of Puerto Rico.

Balnarring, Victoria

Balnarring is at the crossroads of two primary main roads in the south-eastern region of the Mornington Peninsula, namely Frankston-Flinders Road and Balnarring Road (from Mornington), and as a result is home to a few motels, a post office and several shops and cafes including an IGA supermarket.

Battle of Nsukka

On May 30, 1967 Ojukwu officially seceded the Eastern Region and proclaimed the new Republic of Biafra.

Berar

Vidarbha, the eastern region of Maharashtra Province, India, historically known as Berar

Budha Subba Gold Cup

The competition is held yearly in the proposed Eastern Region Stadium by Dharan Football F.C. every year in eastern region of Nepal, Dharan.

California University Television

CUTV has won awards for its programming, including "Station of the Year" by the National Association of College Broadcasters (NACB), "Best College TV News Broadcast" — Eastern Region by the Society of Professional Journalists and several Telly Awards for sports, entertainment and magazine programs.

Camba

"Camba" is a word historically used in Bolivia to refer to the indigenous population in the Eastern tropical region of the country, or to those born in the area of Santa Cruz, Beni, and Pando (the Eastern region of Bolivia).

Cambridge Film Festival

The festival also has touring events across the Eastern region of England including Norwich, Ipswich and Ely.

Canadian Junior Hockey League

To determine a National Champion, the winners of each league playdown in three regional championships—the Fred Page Cup (Eastern Region - Maritimes, Quebec, Ottawa District), the Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central Region - Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ontario, Northwestern Ontario), and the Western Canada Cup (Western Region - Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia).

Diocese of The Murray

The Anglican Diocese of The Murray is located in the south-eastern region of South Australia, taking in the Fleurieu Peninsula, Riverland, Adelaide Hills, Murraylands and the southern suburbs of Adelaide.

Eastern Region Ministry Course

Students tend to come from the Eastern region of England, including the counties of Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire (or parts thereof).

Eastern Region MRT Line

On 11 July 2012, a speech by Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Transport, at Downtown Line 3 (DTL3) Tunelling Works Ceremony, announced that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) are starting architectural and engineering consultancy studies for the Eastern Region Line, which will eventually connect to the Thomson Line.

Eastern Region of British Railways

After the merger with the North Eastern Region, that region's headquarters in York became the headquarters of the new Eastern Region.

First Nigerian Republic

The Northern People's Party (NPC) represented the interests of the predominantly Hausa/Fulani Northern Region, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) (later renamed to "National Council of Nigerian Citizens") represented the predominantly Igbo Eastern Region, and the Action Group (AG) dominated the Yoruba Western Region.

George Lindgren, Baron Lindgren

He returned to his former occupation as a railway clerk, working in the Eastern Region Chief Civil Engineer's Office at King's Cross station.

Government Secondary School, Afikpo

Government Secondary School, Afikpo (GSSA) is a boys' high school located in Afikpo, a town in Ebonyi State in the former Eastern Region of Nigeria.

Javier Velásquez

From 1991 to 1992 he was head of the public register of the North Eastern region of Marañón.

Joseph Berardino

Berardino is currently a Managing Director (since 2008) in charge of the Eastern region in the Business Consulting practice at Alvarez and Marsal.

Lee Ashurst

The incident was especially embarrassing for Dubai, as it positions itself as an Internet hub of the Middle-Eastern region, also in the same year, the Internet freezone, Dubai Internet City was opened.

London Midland Region of British Railways

LMR lines in South Wales and south-west of Birmingham were transferred to the Western; lines in Lincolnshire and the present-day South Yorkshire went to the Eastern Region and in the present-day West and North Yorkshire to the North Eastern Region.

Lowestoft Sixth Form College

The college is a member of the SFCA (Sixth Form Colleges Association), AOC (Association of Colleges) and ACER (Association of Colleges Eastern Region).

Niger Delta

In 1961, another major crisis occurred in then eastern region of Nigeria when the leadership of the region allowed the present Southwestern Cameroon to separate from Nigeria (Akwa Ibom and Cross River) through a plebicite while the leadership of the then Northern Region did what they had to do to keep Northwestern Cameroon in Nigeria that is the present day Adamawa and Taraba States.

Odwira festival

The Odwira Festival is celebrated by the people of Akropong-Akuapim, Aburi, Larteh and Mamfi in the Eastern Region.

Potters Bar railway station

Pevsner described the 1955 station as "The first of the Eastern Region's good modern stations, the style much lighter in touch than in the stations of the 1960s (cf Broxbourne). Neat brick clerestory-lit booking hall".

Private Ultralight Pilot

As of 2009 only one training organisation in West Africa provides the training: WAASPS based at Kpong Airfield in the Eastern Region of Ghana (30km south of Akosombo).

Ralph Stead

Ralph Edmund Stead (7 January 1917 - 27 September 2000) was Chairman of the Eastern Region of the British Gas Corporation, 1977-81.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

On 15 November 1961, the remaining few hundreds Mujahids surrendered before Brigadier Aung Gyi in the eastern region of Buthidaung.

San Andrés Itzapa

San Andrés Itzapa is in the eastern region of Chimaltenango, while the district capital lies to the north, Acatenango lies to the south and to the east is Parramos.

Sir John Lawes School

In 2008, a team of students participating in the Engineering Education Scheme were selected by a panel of judges to represent The Eastern Region in the February 2009 National level of the BA CREST Awards, with their work on the Eurofighter Typhoon in partnership with SELEX Galileo.

Suji

Suji, Kilimanjaro, a small village in the north-eastern region of Tanzania

Suretrack Contracts Services

The Company was founded in 2007: it was originally based in the Eastern Region Nkawkaw.

Sureza

Several of these examples are found on the South-Eastern region of the Dominican Republic (La Romana, San Pedro de Macorís, Boca Chica and others)

Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

Appointed by the late ruler and president of UAE, HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, he is the current Ruler's (Emir's) Representative in the Eastern Region, which the region capital is Al Ain.

TVB Jade

It broadcasts 24 hours a day, with a wide range of entertainment-led programming, such as comedy, anime, variety shows, popular drama and chat shows, and together with its sister Hong Kong English station, TVB Pearl, is broadcast from TVB City at 77 Chun Choi Street in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Tseung Kwan O, in the Sai Kung District, which is in the Eastern region of Hong Kong's New Territories.

Wat Pah Nanachat

The monastery is in Isaan, the north-eastern region of Thailand, in the district or amphoe of Warin Chamrap, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Tambon Bung Wai.