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Akure

(əˈkuːre)
n
(Placename) a city in SW Nigeria, capital of Ondo state: agricultural trade centre. Pop: 434 000 (2005 est)
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THE Magistrates Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a woman, Mrs Elizabeth Akinola, who allegedly beat her four-year-old daughter, Testimony, to death.
This study therefore harnesses locally available materials within Akure, Ondo State in Nigeria by designing an electric wheel and improving on previous local technology.
This study examines the dynamic compression and thermo-physical properties of some wood particles obtained from Akure, south local government area, Ondo State, South Western Nigeria.
Set amid the political instability of 1990s Nigeria, Chigozie Obioma's first novel depicts the traumatic events that befall an Igbo family living in the predominantly Yoruba city of Akure. Narrated by Ben, a nine-year-old boy who looks up to his three older brothers, the main events of the novel transpire in 1993, when Nigeria experienced upheaval after an annulled presidential election.
The plane chartered from Associated Airline to fly from Lagos to Akure in Ondo state crashed into open land in the vicinity of a tollgate near a fuel storage depot.
Akure Land registry is substantially analogue in operation and the archival infrastructures are not modern.
Following the incessant motor accidents, which have claimed several human lives on the road, the Ondo State government at the weekend rolled in bulldozers and commenced work on the ever-busy Ilesha/Owo/Benin Expressway in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Structured interviews were conducted with librarians at the Federal university of Technology, Akure and Lagos State University, Lagos to get in-depth knowledge of their information literacy programmes.
He has now jetted off to Akure, Nigeria, to take part in a volunteering programme, along with Laura Gulliver, 21, from Sunderland.
Trials were conducted simultaneously between May and September 2004 at two sites in Akure, in the rainforest zone of Southwest Nigeria.
And then in July I was in West Africa with 20 young people from Liverpool at the invitation of the Bishop of Akure in Nigeria, where black leaders had once colluded with white traders to export their own people into slavery.