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Slowly and somewhat painfully, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Africa's richest, most powerful and most populous nation (about 60 million), is pulling itself together after the devastating civil war that ended two years ago. A reconciliation of sorts has taken place between the federal government, headed by General Yakubu Gowon, and the secessionist republic of Biafra, now Nigeria's East Central state. The scars of war, physical as well as psychological, have mostly faded. The sole reminders of the airstrip at Uli-Biafra's only gateway to the outside world during the long federal siege...
...Nigeria is full of boom talk, and the country has enormous economic potential. It is rich in cash crops -cocoa, peanuts, palm oil, coal and iron ore. Most important is oil, which was discovered there in 1956. With a current output of 1,700,000 bbl. a day, Nigeria has passed Iraq and Canada to become the world's ninth largest oil producer. The government's share of the profits is expected to surpass $1 billion this year and $1.25 billion next year...
Back home in Biafra (now known as the East Central State of Nigeria), Ojukwu still has some admirers among the Ibo tribesmen, who tell each other, "Agaracha-a ga nata [The wanderer will return]." But they know he will not. Ojukwu, a man without a country, is also in danger of becoming an exile without a refuge...
Died. Dick Tiger, 42, the Ibo tribesman who punched his way to the world middleweight and light heavyweight boxing titles; of cancer of the liver; in Aba, Nigeria. Tiger, whose real name was Dick Ihetu, was taught to box by British army officers in Nigeria before he migrated to New York City in 1959. Three years later he knocked out Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer. By 1966 he had moved up a class and took the light heavyweight title from José Torres. After losing the title in 1968 Tiger periodically visited his home to train soldiers for the rebel Biafran...
...grossed $115 million last year and should do at least 10% better this year. Last month Jahn opened new outposts in Vienna and Nuremberg; he plans others in Scandinavia, Britain and South Africa. "I wouldn't be surprised," he says, "if one day there is a Wienerwald in Nigeria or Kenya...