Word: enugu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's 48.5 million registered voters went to polls this month to choose a President. Last week after ballots had been gathered from places as varied as the slums of the appallingly crowded capital Lagos, the minareted city of Kano in the Muslim north and steamy Enugu in the old Biafra area of the Christian and animist south, the name of Nigeria's first popularly elected chief executive was announced. He is Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 54, a slight, soft-spoken veteran civil servant who wears the robes and beaded hat of the northern Hausa tribe and has been...
Crowds still line the roads to Enugu and Orlu, Umuahia and Aba, major centers of Nigeria's Ibo tribe. But now the crowds are made up mostly of traders and their customers, not fleeing refugees. In Nnewi, the Cool Precious Restaurant for Good Diet is back in business. The breweries are working again, and cold beer goes swiftly at $1 a bottle. The Ibo commercial instinct is reasserting itself everywhere-from the $20-a-night Bristol Hotel in Lagos, where Ibo businessmen throng to re-establish their contacts, to the smallest villages, where young boys sell cigarettes...
...misery has by no means been banished from the East Central State. Hospitals are short-staffed and overcrowded. Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the region stealing from villagers. In Enugu, a businessman explained why he could never reach Lagos by telephone: "Thieves steal the copper telephone lines, melt them down and sell the ingots in Lagos, where they are made into telephone lines...
...hours to cover over 6,000 miles to Lagos, through Athens, Geneva and London. In from Paris flew Roland Flamini, and he and Blashill pieced together a thorough report on the final breakup and surrender. Planes were grounded, and correspondents who attempted the 36-hour drive to Enugu, the original secessionist capital, were turned back by Nigerian army roadblocks. In Lagos, government officials refused to see newsmen at all. Nevertheless, Blashill managed an exclusive 45-minute interview with a top Nigerian official. "He kept saying he really had to go," recalls Blashill. "But he kept on talking. I found...
...majorities. The move also deprived the Ibos of control over much of the oil that was making Nigeria rich. Ojukwu, who at the time was Military Governor of the Eastern Region, defied Gowon. On May 30, 1967, at a champagne party in the Eastern capital of Enugu, he announced the creation of the state of Biafra, which drew its name from the bay off the Atlantic Ocean that cuts into the Nigerian coast. The proud Ibos composed a national anthem-"Land of the rising sun we love and cherish, beloved home, land of brave heroes"-and dug in to defend...