Word: shagari
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...slums of the appallingly crowded capital Lagos, the minareted city of Kano in the Muslim north and steamy Enugu in the old Biafra area of the Christian and animist south, the name of Nigeria's first popularly elected chief executive was announced. He is Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 54, a slight, soft-spoken veteran civil servant who wears the robes and beaded hat of the northern Hausa tribe and has been an outspoken Muslim nationalist. If all goes as planned, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo, leader of the ruling Supreme Military Council, will turn power over to a government headed...
...exorbitant duties on cocoa, such restrictions actually work against the West's financial and technical aid to many underdeveloped nations, which need to expand exports to pay interest (up to 7%) on development loans. Duty-free admission for all tropical products, urged Nigeria's Alhaji Shehu Shagari, would "provide a real ray of light that would dispel the somber cloud that has shrouded the activities of this child of hope...