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London leads the world in pricy hotel rooms, typically $192, but not in everything. A three-course dinner for four at a leading Paris restaurant will run $525. And drinks and entertainment at a Tokyo nightclub can produce a tab of $486 for four. Surprisingly, Lagos, Nigeria, is the world's fourth most expensive city to visit. The bill for a week's rental of a moderate-priced car there is $603, plus 83? per mile...
...years later, Jordan was named executive director of the United Negro College Fund, and he moved to New York City; in his first twelve months the organization raised a record $8 million for its 36 member colleges. When Whitney Young Jr. drowned in Nigeria in 1971, Jordan succeeded him as head of the National Urban League. It had been founded in 1910 to help black migrants from the rural South find jobs, housing and education in Northern cities...
...December, 1979 in Lusaka, by the delegate from Somalia, Mrs. Edan Adan Ismael, "Female circumcision ranks high in the list of preventable health hazards and affects almost 100% of the female population of Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti, and to a lesser extent the females of Southern Egypt, Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia and Mali just to name a few." Islam is the religion of Somalia and most of the other countries concerned...
...company's most promising new prospect, though, is the lucrative African market. In Nigeria, Ultra Sheen has become the generic name for all hair-conditioning products. In a joint venture with the Nigerian government, Johnson last month opened a $2 million manufacturing plant in Lagos. He optimistically predicts that the Nigerian factory will clear the way to the sale of a whole range of black health and beauty products in Africa and a return to the company's high road to profits...
Joshua A. Ladapo Jos, Nigeria...