Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nigeria: In the midst of a hot election campaign (see below), ebullient Nnamdi Azikiwe, Premier of Nigeria's Eastern Region, announced that he would ask Britain for self-government in May. Probable result: local self-government for two of Nigeria's three regions sometime this year, independence for the entire Federation (pop. 32 million...
...handling of the funds of the African Continental Bank, which he controls. Last January a tribunal headed by Nigeria's Chief Justice found that Zik, in his function as Premier, had transferred public money, equivalent to one quarter of the 1955-56 revenue of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, to his own bank, thereby saving it from collapse. "Guilty of misconduct as a minister," declared the tribunal. Advised the far-off London Times: "He should resign and, in so far as it is possible, make restitution. He can then ask the people to give him a new mandate...
...annual review submitted to the six Governors of the region, Harris described the history of the industry's difficulties as related to current problems...
Over a period of 100 years, the report stated, New England's share of manufacturing employment has fallen from 32 to 9 per cent and its share of textile employment from 65 to 18 or 19 per cent. Although the proportionate declines are about equal, the region has suffered much more from the decline of its relative contribution to textile jobs than from the relative decline in manufacturing...
...century) related that Edwin, a 7th century king of Northumbria, had a royal palace of sorts at Gefrin, which is now the small (six houses) village of Yeavering in the Cheviot Hills. No visible traces remained, but in 1951 Cambridge University made an air survey of the region. Pictures of a field of sprouting barley showed a vague rectangular shadow and a smaller, wedge-shaped...