Word: ibadan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British educators like himself were invited by the government to participate. He became an administrator and teacher at University College of the West Indies. After his year at Harvard, Parry was asked by the British government to transfer to Nigeria where he helped to set up University College in Ibadan, Nigeria...
Parry, an authority on the Spanish and Portuguese empires in America, came to Harvard last fall from the University of Wales where he was vice-chancellor. From 1956 to 1960 he was principal of University College, in Ibadan, Nigeria, now the University of Ibadan...
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...
Fortnight ago, Akintola and the Sardauna of Sokoto met secretly in Ibadan, decided to call in the army to crush the growing rebellion. As far as the junior officers were concerned, that was the last straw. They launched their long-planned coup. "Our enemies," said Nzeogwu, "are the political profiteers, the men that seek bribes, those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so they can remain in office as Ministers, tribalists and nepotists, those that have corrupted our society and put the political calendar back...
Faced with the threat of a major civil uprising, Northerners last week began to look for compromise. Nigeria's Chief Justice Adetokunbo Ademola sped off to Ibadan to try to hammer a coalition government under Akintola together. For Awolowo's cheated followers, coalition left much to be desired, but it would at least be better than nothing. "Any region that does not ally itself with the North will surely fade," said one realistic loser last week. "If we remain in the opposition for five more years, we shall be relegated to the burying grounds...