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...gleaming white uwe, a kind of nightshirt decorated with lace, Nigeria's delegate made quite a sight on the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly. And his words made quite a stir among the assembled delegates. "I am losing confidence in the great powers," cried chubby Jaja Wachuku, lambasting both East and West for failing to end their quarrels. "They are climbing from the pedestal of greatness to the pedestal of insanity. We expect leadership from them; they give us destruction. We expect wisdom from them; they give us lack of knowledge. We expect objectivity from them; they present...
Born in Oweeri, East Nigeria, in 1939, Ohiri says he has been playing soccer "ever since I can remember--from the time I could recognize a ball." From sandy beaches, rubber balls, and bare feet, he moved on into high school competition, the city team, the regionals, and, in 1959, the Nigerian All-Stars...
...Rome last summer, Ohiri started at right wing for Nigeria. The competition was stiff ("They were tough, trained, and used to playing together.") and, after beating Ghana, his team lost 3-2 to Egypt in a preliminary round. He had a place on the Nigerian track team, but gave it up to travel to the U.S. in August on "The Experiment in International Living...
Monro also pointed out that the summer training session here for the Nigerian Peace Corps delegation had covered all possible phases of the cultural and sociological differences between Nigeria and the United States...
Student leaders at the University College of Ibadan in Nigeria had denounced the corps after discovering Miss Margery Michelmore's comments on these differences in a card to a friend in Cambridge. In a statement to the CRIMSON last night, the Peace Corps Information Office in Washington, D.C., said this denunciation has almost no chance of getting the Peace Corps out of Nigeria...