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Insults & Accusations. Under the great chandeliers of the Lancaster House music room, where Chopin once played for Queen Victoria, the Premiers bickered, shot insults back and forth like poisoned darts. When the conference took up the ticklish problem of how to protect the rights of minorities among Nigeria's 250 tribes, Awolowo suggested creating three new states. The North's Sardauna, not wishing to relinquish any of his own territory, vetoed the idea. Nor did he like the plan for a centralized police force under the federal government: he much preferred to use his own force, which, answerable...
...point, the Sardauna accused Awolowo of sending his supporters to Israel to be trained as saboteurs in the North -a charge fabricated out of the fact that Western Nigeria has imported agricultural experts from Israel to advise its farmers. Awolowo countercharged that the Sardauna flogs his prisoners. At receptions the delegates sipped their orange juice, icily aloof from one another. In elevators conversation would suddenly stop if a delegate from another region...
...right. The delegates then agreed on a centralized police force, but one that would be administered by a council of representatives from each region. Finally, with their own independence from Britain assured (as well as that of the adjacent British Cameroons, should they choose to become a part of Nigeria), the delegates started for home...
...YORK, Oct. 31--Featherweight Champion Hogan Kid Bassey, a stubby warrior from Nigeria, dropped shifty Carmelo Costa twice on the way to an unanimous decision tonight in a non-title 10-rounder at Madison Square Garden. Bassey weighed 127, Costa...
Still a third, more basic, factor underlies the struggle for academic excellence. The above explanations are based primarily upon fear, but coincident with this fear is ambition. Nigeria's students are aware, though not precisely in the following terms, that the level of their education will determine their income, status, and social class. With a university degree come the assurance of a salary starting at the unusually high figure of 600 pounds ($1700), opportunities for rapid advancement in any field, and the highly-coveted privilege of associating with the country's Westernized intelligentsia. A degree, in short, confers upon...