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...Nigeria too has decentralized education; "the central government minds its own business," said Augustine Nwachukwu, an administrative officer of the Eastern Nigerian government. He went on to discuss the problems of administering the three states which make up Nigeria. The government strives to let each maintain its cultural distinctiveness...
...Harvard graduates from Nigeria who were arrested in the Bick last Spring are suing the Hayes-Bickford restaurant chain...
Parry, 51, comes to Harvard from the University of Wales, where he has been vice-chancellor. Earlier he was principal of University College in Nigeria...
Japanese diplomats throw lavish, lantern-lit parties, make it a point to show up at all independence celebrations of emerging nations. Their sales have also benefited from the unexpected: Japan's National brand TV sets became an immediate bestseller in Nigeria largely because the name inspired patriotic fervor and many people thought that the sets must be a local product. "I never argue with them," says Mutsuhi Furuya, representative of the Japan External Trade Organization in Nigeria...
...Successful? So successful are the Japanese that they risk their own undoing. They are selling Africa far more than Africa can sell to Japan, thus creating a sharp payments imbalance. Japan sells ten times as much to Nigeria as it buys, three times as much to Kenya and Uganda, twice as much to Tanzania. In an effort to correct the balance, Tanzania and Uganda recently banned all imports from Japan. They want more Japanese investing, fewer imports-and the government loan was Japan's attempt to soothe their growing discontent. "The Japanese are not easy people to deal with...