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...NIGERIA Volunteers will teach throughout the country in secondary schools and universities under the Ministry of Education...
...Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi's regime last week began clearing away the rubble of black Africa's bloodiest military coup. "Firm, honest and disciplined leadership" was what he promised a nationwide radio audience. More important, if less certain, was his pledge that "the federal military government will preserve Nigeria as one strong nation...
National unity had been the question ever since the nation won independence in 1960, and it was no less a question after the rebels swept away the government of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Ironsi proposed to deal with the old bogy of tribal rivalry by demoting Nigeria's four semiautonomous regions to "provinces," and by banning the old regional parties. The new provisional military governors cracked down on "laziness" in the civil service, restricted the use of government vehicles, opened drives against bureaucratic corruption and bribery. One provincial governor even decreed that "everybody should love one another...
Good words and brave. It remained to be seen whether the political reconstruction of a nation as large and complicated as Nigeria could be achieved by a soldier who, for all his good intentions, had never before grappled with problems of state...
Shoes & Paychecks. Like most African nations that inherited their boundaries from their former colonialist masters, Nigeria is not really one country at all. It has 250 tribes speaking 250 languages. Its vast Northern Region, in which live more than half its 55 million people, is predominantly Moslem; its three southern regions are Christian or pagan. Because of its size, the north has been able to dominate national politics from the start, a fact that the more advanced south actively resents...