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...organized sports when his family moved from Nigena to England after civil war broke out there in 1967. From the age of 10 until about 15, soccer was Udo's first love. But then a friend of his older brother's--one of Udo's seven siblings--convinced the Nigerian native to join the Shakesbury Harriers a local track club...
...years later, he won the Senior National School Championship in the long jump, setting another record with a leap of 24-ft., 10 3/4-in, and earning an invitation to compete with both the British and the Nigerian Junior National squads. Udo opted to leap for the British team, but fell in a pothole and hurt his right ankle just before the competition and was forced to watch the meet from the sidelines. This was the first of nagging, untimely injuries that were to plague Udo throughout his leaping career...
...Nigerian central figure in an American basketball tournament is not farfetched enough, Akeem became the first man of any nationality to mention education at the Final Four. When he called home Sunday, none of the conversation was wasted on trivialities. "My parents don't know about basketball," said Olajuwon, whose lilt brings back the beautiful Nigerian prizefighter Dick Tiger. "They ask about education. Some day I plan to go into commodities, but you need money to make money." The N.B.A., then? "Ah," he said...
...companies that pump Britain's oil, added to the pressure on OPEC by arguing that North Sea crude should be priced at least 750 per bbl. lower than Nigeria's high-quality Bonny Light. North Sea oil now sells for $30.50, higher than the Nigerian price of $30 that was set last month when Nigeria became the first OPEC nation to break ranks and formally cut prices. British Petroleum's view suggests that a cut of more than $1 may be in the works for North Sea oil. Yet Nigeria has pledged to match any North...
...prices. The implication was that Mexico would wait to see whether a broad agreement could be reached this week. Although the Saudis and their allies were mum, many experts believed the gulf producers had agreed in Riyadh to cut the official price to $30, too high to compete with Nigerian oil at the new price. But at week's end the British warned that they would make further reductions if OPEC sharply undercut the $30.50 North Sea price...