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Hafsat D. Abiola '96, daughter of the democratically elected president of Nigeria, addressed the Undergraduate Council last night, successfully garnering council support for a resolution calling for University divestment from Nigeria...
...vigil concluded with a reading by Hafshat Abiola '96, daughter of the democratically elected President of Nigeria, M.K.O Abiola, who she has not heard from since he was arrested in June 1993. She read part of the closing statement Saro-Wiwa made at his trial...
...have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or intimidated." Abiola read, "I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause...
...after thousands of oil workers ended their strike to protest the arrest of opposition leader Moshood Abiola, Nigeria's military leader General Sani Abacha declared absolute power, issuing decrees placing his military government above the country's courts and allowing detention of people for up to three months without charges. Abiola, widely believed to have won the annulled 1993 presidential election, awaits trial on treason charges...
Faced with a political cause celebre that has galvanized the disgruntled population into demands for democracy, the government now seems to have only two alternatives: to continue its repressive tactics -- and risk further erosion of its support -- or to come to some sort of power-sharing agreement with Abiola. The most pessimistic analysis holds that failing to reach a compromise risks fracturing Nigeria along its ethnic fault lines, pushing it toward the sort of conflict not seen since the Biafran civil war, which claimed nearly 2 million lives during the late 1960s...