Word: kano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan address the first session of Nigeria's new Federal Parliament, turbaned chiefs from the Moslem north swept past legislators wearing the billowy white and indigo gowns of the western Yoruba country or the rainbow hues of the east. The Emir of Kano arrived at the entrance of the Parliament in a glittering Rolls-Royce, its horn blaring. In walked the popular Finance Minister, Chief Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, wearing a straw boater and a figured scarf that trailed 4 yds. behind him. A jovial group of eastern M.P.s drove...