Word: shagari
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nigeria, the slowdown in oil revenues has shaken the government of President Shehu Shagari. Imports have been cut in half since 1981, and food prices have risen 25% in the past year alone. To ease unemployment, the government in January abruptly expelled more than 1 million illegal foreigners who had come to Nigeria from neighboring countries. Up for re-election in August, Shagari is determined to boost oil sales, even if it means getting into a price war with other producers...
SITTING IN HIS OFFICE one afternoon last month, Nigerian President Shehu Shagari acted to make life miserable for millions living in his country. In an executive order as simple as it was brutal, Shagari gave all unskilled foreigners living illegally in Nigeria two weeks to leave. The declaration also applied to a few thousand teachers, and by late January, more than two million Ghanaians-- the largest group of illegal aliens in Nigeria--packed up and headed for the border...
...Shagari has shown himself to be a politician willing to stoop to any means to bolster his career. A week after the expulsion order, the 32- story Nigerian External Communications building was destroyed in a fire. At least 30 people died in the blaze, which gutted the head-quarters of the nationally run telephone company, and which cut the country off from the outside world for several days. It was the third government building to burn in the past year-- all three of which housed ministries under investigation for multi-million-dollar government corruption. In each case, all potentially incriminating...
...government of President Shehu Shagari has belatedly taken some steps to curb spending and slow the runaway growth of the corrupt and bloated Nigerian bureaucracy. The Shagari government in December proposed a 12% cutback in government spending from 1981 levels. Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls...
...more direct and effective cutbacks will probably be needed if the economy is to avoid careening out of control. But it is uncertain whether the soft-spoken and shy Shagari will be politically able to take the necessary steps. Shagari's free-market oriented National Party of Nigeria came to power in 1979 after elections ended 13 years of military rule. Since then, Shagari has pressed ahead with a program of rapid industrial and social development that cannot now be rolled back without alienating Nigerians...