Word: ikeja
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspicion About Mediation. Stepping into the muggy heat at Ikeja airport, Wilson avoided suggestions that he had come to mediate. One reason was his awareness of a persistent local suspicion that he had come to pressure the federal military government to make concessions to the Biafrans. Major General Yakubu Gowon, who heads both army and government, intends to fight, he says, "until the rebellion is completely crushed" unless he hears "alternative suggestions," meaning Biafran capitulation. If Wilson presses him to stop by cutting off the arms supply, Gowon can easily cover any cutback in British shipments with increased deliveries from...
...plead for national unity before a meeting of tribal chiefs and emirs, Northern officers kidnaped him from the governor's palace and ordered him at gunpoint into a military Land Rover; his body was reportedly discovered last week outside a nearby village. At the army barracks at Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens of motorists abandoned their cars to flee on foot, and many foreign residents deserted their homes and took shelter...
PETER C. OBI Ikeja, Nigeria...