Word: nigerias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, as usual, no important issues were resolved. Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon, the conference chairman, summed the situation up in his closing speech: "We have concluded our differences in a matter that baffles advocates of conventional diplomacy." Far from being "concluded," those differences remain perfectly real, papered over though they may be. That seems to be the O.A.U. way: consensus without clout...
...Nigeria, a new union representing some 20,000 professionals has asked the government for protection against unfair competition from amateurs. The union speaks for those "ladies of the twilight" whose business has been hurt lately by some 10,000 part-time prostitutes. Inflation has caused the influx of amateurs; as a result of soaring prices (in both cash and cattle) for brides, Nigerian men are delaying marriage, and girls who might otherwise have been supported by husbands now take to the streets when they need money. Although prostitution is illegal in Nigeria, leaders of the union have hired a lawyer...
...Jordanian jet was under charter to Nigeria Airways, which each year runs a special shuttle to ferry Nigerian Moslems making their pilgrimages to Mecca. Jordanian and Nigerian authorities differed on the cause of the crash. The Jordanians maintained that the runway had collapsed and that Pilot John Waterman, 53, an American with 22,000 jet hours, lost control because of the depression in the strip, which snapped the plane's rugged landing gear. The plane then slued off the runway and burst into flames when fuel lines were punctured...
...Nigerians denied that the runway was responsible for the crash and claimed that the pilot had ignored control-tower orders not to land because of weather conditions. Actually, the cause of the crash might have been a combination of factors. Aircraft experts pointed out that jet fuel in Nigeria is so expensive that the 707 might have been carrying an extra supply. Even though it was an estimated 10,000 Ibs. below its permissible landing weight of 247,000 Ibs., the heavy plane might have crumpled the runway. The resulting hole could have caused the landing gear to collapse...
...months of last year it did little better than break even; operating profit was $10.7 million, but currency-exchange losses reduced net to $764,000. Prospects are looking better now. Oil demand is booming in Europe, the company's prime market. Occidental has made new oil discoveries in Nigeria and Peru, and last week a consortium that it heads brought in its first well in the North Sea-a promising development, although the potential cannot now be accurately assessed. On the other hand, the Libyan government is moving to acquire 50% of all Western oil interests in the country...