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...fellows include Anne Marie Codur, a graduate student from France, Francosse Ghorayeb, a graduate student from Lebanon; Narendra Gupta, a government employee from India; Akin Jimoh a reporter from Nigeria; and Lon Leonard and Margaret Luck, graduate students at the Harvard School of Public Health...
Hafsat D. Abiola '96, daughter of the democratically elected president of Nigeria, addressed the Undergraduate Council last night, successfully garnering council support for a resolution calling for University divestment from Nigeria...
...resolution comes in the wake of last week's executions of political activists in Nigeria. The military regime in Nigeria, which seized power in 1993, hanged 11 activists, including environmentalist, poet and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. The executions have received worldwide condemnation...
...speech at the event, Omoruyi called for an oil embargo, "At the same time as the U.S. condems [General Abacha's] regime it funds his bank accounts," Omoruyi said. The U.S. consumes 50% of Nigeria's oil exports...
...vigil concluded with a reading by Hafshat Abiola '96, daughter of the democratically elected President of Nigeria, M.K.O Abiola, who she has not heard from since he was arrested in June 1993. She read part of the closing statement Saro-Wiwa made at his trial...