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During the investigation of the coup attempt, 125 people were arrested; 40 have been released. Aside from those already executed, several dozen others are still being interrogated, including Dimka himself. According to the Nigerian government, Dimka has also implicated Yakubu Gowon, the former head of state who was exiled after the coup that brought Murtala to power last July. Gowon, according to the government's charge, instructed Dimka to get together with Defense Minister Bisalla and attempt to overthrow the government. Their reasons for acting, said Nigeria's new defense chief, Brigadier Musa Yarduah, was the government...
...England, where he is a political science student at Warwick University, Gowon denied any involvement in the coup attempt. Nonetheless the Nigerian government, which, after all, overthrew Gowon in the first place, seems bent on punishing him. Lagos radio said last week that "legal and diplomatic steps" are being taken to extradite Gowon to Nigeria, though it seems highly unlikely that the British government will accede to the request...
...limited menu offered by Harvard food services, has understandably caused problems for foreign students who have not yet adjusted to American institutional cooking. Ngozo Okonjo, a Nigerian who lives in Dunster, complains that most of the time she "can't eat the stuff." As a result, Okonjo says, she's been to the dining hall only six times this semester--and then only because her roommates reported that the menu included hamburgers, which she'll eat seasoned with butter and pepper...
...down the superhighways and obscure paths of literary endeavors. His reliance on a notion of "some poets do"--instead of "all poets should"--formed the basis of an all-encompassing theory of literature, a theory demonstrating that works as diverse as Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and the Nigerian story, The Palm Wine Drinkard shared special affinities...
...Nigerian proposal was opposed by 22 other nations, among them Zaire, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Zambia, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. In what was quickly labeled a "national unity" resolution, presented by Senegalese President Leopold Senghor, this group urged that all fighting in Angola cease immediately and a government of national unity be formed. The resolution further called for an end to all outside military aid to Angola, a demand that was aimed at both the Soviet and Cuban support for the M.P.L.A. and the help the other two factions have been receiving from Zaire, South Africa and the West...