Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Describing the particularly difficult problems of gearing a primitive African society to the modern world, Larry , a Nigerian delegate to the Nations, spoke of the economic development of Nigeria as "the marriage the existing Nigerian economy to industry." Nigerians must import such modities as Ovaltine, he said, despite fact that they are the world's second producers of cocoa, all because cannot process their existing raw materials...
...subjects for which the Nigerian Government most seriously needs teacher's are English and Science. However, a sampling of the questionnaires returned indicates that relatively few natural science majors would be willing to join the program...
...Ashby Commission proposed a plan which it called "LEAP"--Loan-Educational Aid Program. Under the plan, the Nigerian government would send natives to colleges in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth countries, and the United States, and at the same time would import British and American teachers to supply existing needs...
...Ashby Commission's proposal would be a self-sufficient Nigerian secondary school system by 1970. Nigeria would send its natives abroad to be trained for high school teaching at the rate of 600 a year for seven years. By 1966, American-and British-educated Nigerians would be returning to their country in fairly large numbers, and the need for imported instructors would steadily decrease...
...designing their flags, some nations depended on individual inspiration, others on committees and contents. Nigeria held a competition that drew 2,870 entries. The winner: a 22-year-old Nigerian student in Britain who had never designed anything before. The involved banner of the Central African Republic was designed by its Premier Barthélémy Boganda, who was later killed in an air crash (TIME, April 13, 1959). The problems faced by the 18 new nations, and by nations yet unborn, were summed up by an official of the Malagasy Republic. "It was very hard to find...