Word: alhaji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unwanted aliens had come to Nigeria over the past five years to take jobs created by the country's oil boom. But Nigeria's economic bubble has been punctured by the recent decline in world oil prices. On Jan. 17, Minister of Internal Affairs Alhaji Ali Baba announced that the alien workers, most of them illegal entrants to black Africa's most populous state (85 million), had two weeks to leave the country. The suddenness of the decree sparked a panic among the Ghanaians and some 700,000 other foreign workers from Benin, Togo, Niger, Cameroon...
From Reagan's viewpoint, one of the most valuable aspects of the summit was the chance to hold bilateral meetings witha lobby of leaders. The President conferred with 14 delegation heads in meetings sandwiched around the formal sessions. In his call on Reagan, Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Shagari, as expected, touched upon black Africa's concerns regarding Namibia and Angola. In her visit with the President, Indira Gandhi was calm and low-keyed while explaining India's worries about the proposed U.S. sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. She gently reminded Reagan that "we have...
...counting heavily on high prices to pay the cost of a colossal industrialization and agricultural development program designed to buoy the economy after the oil runs out. Since 1975, Nigeria has spent upwards of $80 billion on economic development, and in the coming four years the government of President Alhaji Shehu Shagari wants to spend perhaps $152 billion more. In 1981 alone, overall imports are expected to reach $24 billion, mostly for heavy machinery, transportation equipment and food...
...sulfur "sweet" crude oil, Nigeria ranks as the U.S. 's second largest supplier of foreign petroleum (after Saudi Arabia). Nigeria's staggering trade surplus with the U.S. this year is expected to top $11 billion-possibly more than that of any other nation. This week Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Shagari will arrive in the U.S. to address the United Nations and pay a three-day official visit to Washington. In a wide-ranging, one-hour discussion with TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White at the State House in Lagos last week, Shagari left no doubt that he intends...
...mild-mannered and bespectacled, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 55, seems the very antithesis of the stereotypical boisterous Nigerian politician. But when the former school-teacher speaks, people listen. The reason: he is the leader of a country that boasts Africa's biggest population (90 million), largest standing army (130,000) and a G.N.P. of more than $50 billion. As one African diplomat puts it, "Whenever there is an important African issue, everyone waits to see what Nigeria decides. You can oppose it, but you must always take it into account...