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...Abiola, once close to the military rulers, had bridged the gulf between the northern Hausa group (which dominates the military) and the Ibo and Yoruba groups that populate the wealthier southern regions. His loss leaves a void of candidates that could unite the fractious electorate of Africa's most populous nation in October's scheduled poll...
...other soldiers -- who have ruled the country for 23 of its 33 years of independence -- for diminishing the Nigerian soul. Endemic corruption; the narrowing opportunities in the country that once held out so much promise; the exploitation of bitter rivalries among the three largest ethnic groups, the Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa-Fulani -- all have sapped the nation's resources, its cohesion, its confidence. Instead of building a nation, the democrats charge, the soldiers have prevented it from being born. Says Didi Adodo, a labor leader: "The colonialists did not do as much damage to the Nigerian psyche as Babangida...
...California, is a complete disconnection between honest effort and rewards. Nigerians see that a small number of well-connected, self- styled yuppies have enriched themselves enough from graft to own fleets of Mercedes color-coordinated with every suit in their wardrobe, while college graduates cannot find work. Many young Ibo men, traditionally among the best educated in the country, are abandoning college to pursue more lucrative professions like drug smuggling. "The result is a tremendous loss of talent that Nigeria cannot afford if it is to compete in the modern world," says Claude Ake, a political scientist at the University...
...situation is unlike the popular uprisings that forced Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos into exile and brought down the Berlin Wall. Rebellious Nigerians face a government willing to use force to keep itself alive. Anonymous circulars warning of tribal violence among the nation's three largest ethnic groups -- Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa -- appeared in Lagos' crowded slums, setting off a massive exodus. Those with means sent their families out of the country. The poor, the overwhelming majority, sent their children to home villages in the countryside. State security officers and riot police & rounded up human-rights leaders and interrogated them. False...
...LAWS of national sovereignty are themselves based on the fundamental principle of self-determination. The same principle that underlay Nigerian claims to independence decades earlier could have been invoked to legitimate outside intervention on the Ibo's behalf. Indeed, the French government of Charles de Gaulle, before initiating covert military assistance to the rebels, declared: "The bloodshed and suffering of the Biafran people for more than a year shows their will to affirm themselves as a people...