Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crowds still line the roads to Enugu and Orlu, Umuahia and Aba, major centers of Nigeria's Ibo tribe. But now the crowds are made up mostly of traders and their customers, not fleeing refugees. In Nnewi, the Cool Precious Restaurant for Good Diet is back in business. The breweries are working again, and cold beer goes swiftly at $1 a bottle. The Ibo commercial instinct is reasserting itself everywhere-from the $20-a-night Bristol Hotel in Lagos, where Ibo businessmen throng to re-establish their contacts, to the smallest villages, where young boys sell cigarettes...
...expert on African development, Dike has served as professor of History and vice-chancellor of the University of Fbadan in Nigeria...
Dike has been a leading figure in the development and preservation of historical materials in Nigeria. He has been active in several organizations which are promoting the development of higher education in Africa...
...government grants were tied up in three five-year programs-Harvard Project Physics, Project Nigeria, and a Research and Development Center-which ended this year. Due to cut-backs in government spending, no new programs have been established...
Once talks got under way with General Yakubu Gowon. Nigeria's chief of state, tensions began to ease. Gowon greeted Rogers warmly, and their discussions lasted half an hour longer than originally scheduled. Before the meeting, Rogers had made it clear that the U.S. wanted to cooperate "to the fullest possible extent to help in the problems that result from the war." That hope, as it turned out, was forlorn. Though a Nigerian spokesman later said the talks were "very cordial," Rogers received no requests for help. Overall, however, U.S.-Nigeria relations seemed definitely improved...