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Nigerians elected Alhaji Shehu Shagari, but his administration failed to meet the requirements of democracy. Instead, his officials sought their own personal gain. I believe Nigerians would prefer to be ruled by soldiers who will strive for the good of their country...
...Africa never ceases to amaze." So wrote V.S. Naipaul in A Bend in the River, and last week, true to the novelist's assessment, Africa amazed again. As recently as a fortnight ago, Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 58, was being hailed as the enlightened leader of black Africa's most populous and, in many ways, most promising democracy. Several days later, he was under detention in Lagos, while Major General Mohammed Buhari, 41, organizer of a coup that deposed Shagari, was proclaiming to his countrymen that the armed forces had saved the nation from "total collapse...
...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...