Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handcuffs & Dash. A similar scene was occurring at the same time in Ibadan, capital of the Western Region, where the Sardauna's political ally, Regional Premier Chief Samuel Akintola, was shot and his house burned down...
...Prime Minister Balewa and his Finance Minister. Sir Abubakar, summoned from prayers, told his servant that "this means there is trouble," but submitted with dignity. He appeared fully dressed, arms above his head, wrists together, ready for handcuffs. Not so Okotie-Eboh, known throughout Nigeria as the king of "dash"-the word used throughout West Africa for the ever-present bribery. Producing a thick wad of bills, he tried to buy off his captors, then, dressed in pajamas, ran outside, screaming "Don't kill me!" until two soldiers knocked him down and jumped on him. His body was found...
...result in recent months has been organized anarchy. Corruption of all kinds was rampant on all levels of government. Congressmen saw their mandates as springboards to instant wealth. Ministers wheeled and dealed: Okotie Eboh almost openly accepted dash from large corporations in return for favored treatment, and used his position as Finance Minister to drive through prohibitive tariffs to protect his own private shoe factory. In the Western Region, all but one of the government party's 54 regional assemblymen drew fat extra paychecks for doubling as Ministers or parliamentary officials-a feat that President Nnamdi Azikiwe...
...Smith's sluggish lead-off leg of 2:02 in the two-mile relay squelched the quartet's record aspirations. Coach Bill McCurdy had to shuffle his relay squads after Sam Robinson pulled up with a muscle strain in the preliminaries of the dash...
Wayne Andersen, defending Heptagonal sprint champion, started slow and finished slower in his qualifying heat in the 50-yard dash. Robinson and Andy Cahners both made it to the semis, but Robinson scratched because of his muscle pull, and Cahners found the going a little too fast. George Anderson of Southern University beat Morgan State's Ray Pollard and favorite Sam Perry of Fordham for the title...