Word: nigerian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweltering tarmac of Lagos' Ikeja Airport last week, ground crewmen unloaded relief materials from the 13 nations cooperating in the effort to help save 1,000,000 or more I bo tribesmen who are in peril of starvation. Despite occasionally grudging cooperation from the Nigerian government (relief planes, for instance, were charged landing fees of up to $450), the effort was achieving some success. As work progressed, General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's military leader, answered questions from TIME Correspondent James Wilde. In his first individual interview since the end of the civil war, Gowon maintains a determinedly optimistic...
...fueled the Nigerian civil war. The major fields were in what was Biafra, and on them rested the region's hopes of sustaining an independent economy. When the oilmen refused to pay revenues to the breakaway state, Biafran planes bombed rigs and installations. Biafran troops sabotaged pipelines and murdered an eleven-man Italian exploration crew. Nonetheless, except for one brief period when all of Nigeria's 263 wells were idle, production never dropped below 300,000 bbl. a day -just over one-half the prewar output. The revenue accrued to the government in Lagos, enabling...
...company suffered the largest damage, and in 1969 spent $125 million in reconstruction. SAFRAP, the French state oil company, is probably in the shakiest position, since Paris backed the Biafrans with arms and cash. When SAFRAP tried to contribute money for relief, it was rebuffed by the Nigerian government...
Near Orlu, Nigerian marines invaded a Red Cross hospital, took all the food and raped the white nurses. During the brief period I was in Owerri, I saw an attempted rape and an attempt at looting. The looting took place right on the main square in front of most of the visiting newsmen. Several marine enlisted men simply entered a house and started ransacking it. They pulled out a bed and a table before an officer saw them and started shouting in Yoruba. They shrugged and carried the bed and table back inside...
...much more than 20, and they clung together, very frightened. The marine demanded the wife and was about to make off with her when a marine lieutenant happened by. The lieutenant pulled out his .45 and shot the soldier in the foot. Neither rape nor looting is condoned by Nigerian officers. One marine was shot to death on the spot when he was found raping an Ibo girl near the Owerri radio station. He was not even arrested and tried. "There was no need," an officer said, matter-of-factly. "He was caught in the act." Stampede for Food...