Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loeb's appearance of The National Folk Ensemble of Nigeria has been cancelled. On the other hand, if you wait till next week you can see Classics from the Russian Ballet, and if you call 547-3629 between 6 and 11, they'll evidently tell you about some mime workshop based on the techniques of Jacques LeCoq...
...Staple. While the salvage work proceeds, the Canal Authority will be restoring buoys, lights and other navigational aids. Also needed are about 13,000 workers. Most of them will probably be old canal employees, including 200 pilots who have dispersed to waterways off Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria and Hong Kong, but are anxious to return home. The entire project is expected to cost $400 million to $450 million...
With a per capita annual income estimated at $125, Nigeria needs all the oil and gas revenues it can get. But Gowon has no intention of rushing the oil bonanza. To husband reserves, he is limiting production increases to the 1% per month maximum he decided was prudent long before the energy crunch. Moreover, the oil revenues give Gowon a strong hand in keeping the twelve states in line. By doling out profits to all, he keeps a firm grip on the purse strings and the pattern of economic growth...
...rate of 20% a year-so fast, in fact, that the city is now considered almost ungovernable. Its open sewers and traffic jams are among the worst in the world. The chaos is so frustrating that Gowon recently threatened to move the federal capital to Kachia in central Nigeria...
...nation desperately short of political leadership, such a prospect does not strike many observers as likely. In fact, there already is a groundswell, particularly among the young, for Gowon to shed his uniform and stay on after 1976 as Nigeria's first civilian President in more than a decade...