{"id":204872,"date":"2025-08-17T22:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-anioma-statehood-bridging-history-linguistics-and-geo-politics-by-abigail-ogwezzy-ndisika\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:06:50","slug":"nigeria-anioma-statehood-bridging-history-linguistics-and-geo-politics-by-abigail-ogwezzy-ndisika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-anioma-statehood-bridging-history-linguistics-and-geo-politics-by-abigail-ogwezzy-ndisika\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Anioma Statehood &#8211; Bridging History, Linguistics, and Geo-Politics, By Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Grouping Anioma State within the South-east geo-political zone comes with multiple advantages including political balancing and equity by bridging the &#8220;state deficit&#8221; in the South-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The renewed advocacy for the creation of Anioma State has ignited robust discussions concerning linguistic affinity, geopolitical alignment, and broader socio-economic and political considerations. In this context, Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, an Ukwuani dialect speaker, linguist, development expert, and communication&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508150305.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grouping Anioma State within the South-east geo-political zone comes with multiple advantages including political balancing and equity by bridging the &#8220;state deficit&#8221; in the South-east. The renewed advocacy for the creation of Anioma State has ignited robust discussions concerning linguistic affinity, geopolitical alignment, and broader socio-economic and political considerations. In this context, Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[48670,258,256,52127,19037,19241,7099,24659,257,4687,393,52129,254,52128],"class_list":["post-204872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abigail","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anioma","tag-bridging","tag-geopolitics","tag-history","tag-linguistics","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ogwezzyndisika","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statehood"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}