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...year-old Nigerian author has long lived in exile in London and writes primarily in English. Soyinka was arrested in Nigeria in 1967 and held for 22 months on the charge of conspiring with anti-government rebels fighting for the independent state of Biafara...
Business has also been good in other parts of the globe. Several new Third World carriers, including Nigeria Airways and Air Lanka, have become GPA customers thanks to an enticing package offered by Tony Ryan, the company's innovative chairman. Ryan, 50, will supply neophyte airlines not only with planes but with flight and ground crews as well...
...attendees were selected from among some 50,000 evangelists. Global sweep was one of Graham's goals, and it was attained: 185 nations and territories were represented; 80% of the preachers came from developing countries. In Nigeria, for example, organizers had tried to recruit at least one evangelist from each of that huge (pop. 105 million) nation's 137 major tribes, but in the end were able to cover only 136. Said one Graham organizer: "We looked hard for an evangelist from the last tribe, but we just couldn't find one." The throng included members of every sort...
...most immediate threat to the U.S. is financial. Bankers fear a default by hard-pressed oil producers, notably Mexico, which owes $97 billion, or Nigeria, a $17 billion debtor. Mexico alone owes about $70 billion to U.S. institutions, including Chase Manhattan and Bank of America. The banks, and probably the whole U.S. financial system, would be staggered if Mexico were to walk away from its debts...
...newspaper said the inaccuracies included a claim that Hurst taught at the University of Nigeria from 1981 until 1983. The Nigerian University Commission said they could find no record of Hurst ever teaching at any Nigerian school, the newspaper reported...