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That does little to clarify the case. Oluloro traveled to Oregon to marry a fellow Nigerian who had a U.S. residency permit. Over the years, she says, she and the children endured beatings by her husband Emmanuel, leading to a divorce last year. Lydia, who works as a janitor and has custody of the girls, lost the right to stay in the country because Emmanuel never completed the paperwork necessary to give her legal-residency status. She says she cannot leave her children to an abusive father -- but how can she take them home to an abusive culture? Emmanuel contests...
Less than a week after Nigerian strongman General Ibrahim Babangida stepped down, the country's powerful labor unions called a five-day general strike to protest the new civilian government of Ernest Shonekan, whom many see simply as Babangida's surrogate and pawn. Deepening the crisis, five of the country's 30 state governors have vowed not to recognize Shonekan...
...Many Nigerians who once brandished their nationality as a badge of honor now feel only shame. Those who travel abroad are shocked to learn that foreign customs officers regard all Nigerian travelers as potential drug couriers. Some foreign countries, including the U.S., have been quietly warning businessmen to beware of scams in which executives are lured to Nigeria by the promise of rich contracts, only to be kidnapped and held for ransom...
...SOME, THE SHAME OF BEING NIGErian has cut so deep that they are willing to contemplate what almost everyone in this fiercely proud country would have previously dismissed as unthinkable: inviting outside interference. The Campaign for Democracy has called for an international boycott of Nigerian oil until a democratic government takes office, even though that would push the economy into an even deeper slough. "We were advocates of total economic sanctions in South Africa, and we believe the sanctions were the main reason why apartheid is giving way to democracy there," says Chima Ubani, the Campaign for Democracy's general...
...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...