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NIGERIA

British envoy goes to Lagos

Britain's Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, has recalled from retirement a former envoy to Nigeria to act as his personal envoy to help restore normal relations with Nigeria.

Sir Roger du Boulay was expected to visit Lagos last Wednesday to meet Nigeria's Foreign Minister Dr Ibrahim Gambari and possible pay a courtesy call on Head of the Federal Military Government, Maj-Gen. Buhari.

Relations between Britain and Nigeria became sour following an abortive attempt to kidnap exiled Alhaji Umaru Dikko, the former Transport Minister out of Britain to Nigeria.

Nigeria's High Commissioner in London, Maj-Gen. Hananiya, who had to fly home to consult with this government on the furore over the kidnap incident, was told that he would not be welcome back to London. Nigeria also retaliated by demanding that the British High Commissioner in Lagos should be recalled to London.

Banfa will return to London

Group Captain Bernard Banfa the Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, reported in the British press as being wanted by Scotland Yard in connection with the Dikko kidnap has been having a flurry of high-profile activity in Lagos..

When the news first broke in London that Group Captain Banfa was believed to be in hiding in London, there was a strange muted reaction when first newspaper reports said the Group Captain's house was being heavily guarded but was not available for comment.

When the British press speculated openly that Group Captain Banfa has been smuggled out of Britain in a crate, the Nigerian ire was up and after a few days, the reaction finally came.

The Daily Times for example, recorded Group Captain Banfa at three functions in one day first behind his desk at the Airways House, then seeing off the Head of State Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and then at a press conference to "lash out at the British Government for saying that he had escaped to Nigeria in a crate".

Group Captain Banfa stated that he went through Heathrow Airport, and taunted "why couldn't they stop me?"

He did not disclose which flight or date he took out of Heathrow, a piece of information that would have solved the mystery, since that can be checked easily. However, Group Captain Banfa intimated that he was not going to take such "embarrassment" lying down.

He said British security agents had been treating Nigerian Airways officials most unfairly and threatened reciprocal treatment for British Caledonian staff in Nigeria. He took his threats further by stating that Nigeria Airways might stop using London as its landing base in Europe and as a result bar British Caledonian from landing in Nigeria.

The Group Captain claimed that he had been in London on Nigeria Airways business in connection with the purchase of three Boeing 737 aircraft to replace the leased one presently in the airline fleet.

He was asked at the press conference whether he had any plans to visit London in the near future, "why not?" the Group Captain answered, asserting that Nigeria Airways business was in London and he would go.

Thus bringing closer the interesting prospect of Scotland Yard having the opportunity to interview one of the people wanted for questioning in connection with the dramatic attempted kidnap of Alhaji Umaru Dikko on the streets of London in July this year.

British trade delegation

Representatives of a leading British bank and two other giant companies are among those expected to accompany the London Chamber of Commerce trade mission, to Lagos on a one-week visit.

The companies are the Standard Chartered Merchant Bank, (SCMB), Babitless described as one of the world's largest manufacturers of crushing, screening and allied equipment for quarries and mines, cement works and civil engineering contractors, and SAFI (UK) also one of the world's largest companies. manufacturing batteries for industrial, professional and military uses.

Civil servants get seized cars

Vehicles seized from proscribed political parties are to be given to civil servants in Benue State under the state's motor vehicle loan scheme.

Finance and Planning Commissioner, Ode Ojowu told newsmen in Makurdi that the decision was to alleviate the transportation problems of civil servants in the state. He said already 39 vehicles and 194 motor-cycles had been allocated to some civil servants on grade level 07 and above through their respective ministries and departments.

Encouragement of foreign investment

The Nigerian Enterprise Promotion Decree is to be amended. Addressing media executives in Lagos, the Minister of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture, Group Capt. Sampson Omerua, said the amendment was to enable foreigners wishing to invest in agriculture to own up to 80% of large farm projects.

It will also enable Nigerians to benefit from the experience of foreigners who have stayed long in the business of mechanised farming.

Bail for Fela

Afro beat king, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has appeared before a Federal high court on a one-count charge of illegal possession of foreign currency.

He was granted bail by the chief judge of the court, Mr Justice Fred Anyaegbunam, but Fela would not be able to travel out of the country since his international passport was ordered to be deposited at the court. This was one of the conditions attached to his bail bond.

Afro rock star Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, arrested on September 4 by Customs officials at Murtala airport for allegedly having about £1,600 (N1,720) on his way to New York.

Fela was to have travelled with his 42-man band on a Nigerian Airways flight WT850 to JFK Airport in New York.

He appealed to the military authorities to let him face the law on his return from the United States tour, because his 10-day US show had already cost him about N186,567 ($250,000).

He said that he did not try to hide the money found on him and that the money was to be used in maintaining himself and his troupe in case they missed the promot- ors organising his shows in four American cities.

"I am going to America for some shows and the Customs officials found some English money in my pocket. The money is for my members and we want to use it to pay for our hotel accommodation.”

"I do not want to talk too much because I do not want to embarrass the law, so I kept quiet. But all I need now is to go to the United States and work and it is important."

National anthem pamphlet

Governor Allison Maducke of Anambra State has directed the state Ministry of Information, Youth Sports and Culture to print and disseminate without delay, a green pamphlet containing the National Anthem, National Pledge and the Coat of Arms.

The pamphlet should also contain the part of the Head of State's inaugural address to the nation which says: "This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations, have no other country than Nigeria. So we must all remain here and salvage it together."

Students put their case to public

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has released a seven-page booklet titled: NIGERIAN PEOPLE: THIS IS OUR CASE, meant to inform the public about their struggle against increases in school fees. Signed by their President Mr Arogundade, the students said, "during this age of heightened development of technology, science and culture, we can't afford to be illiterates".

The NANS President said the proposed increase in education bill, would make "education available only to the rich, while turning the rest of us into illiterates".

NANS, which claimed to be the vanguard of Nigerian students, said it derived its existence from the 1979 constitution, and has as its major objectives, the defence and promotion of the educational rights of all Nigerians.

It also believed that fundamental human rights such as easy access to education, health care, gainful employment and association are inalienable rights of every Nigerian.

The NANS President said the proposed commercialisation of education was being vigorously opposed because not less than 800,000 primary school pupils, 5,000,000 secondary school students and three quarters of post-secondary students would be sent into academic cooler if implemented.

Seven 'pilgrims' arrested

Seven persons were arrested at the Aminu Kano International Airport during the recently concluded hajj operations. The seven persons were arrested over attempts to leave the country with either the naira or the Saudi Arabian riyal.

Three arrests were made involving N535 while the other four arrests involved 9,610 Saudi Arabian riyal.

Population is over 94 million

The country's population has now hit above the 94 million mark. The Director of National Population Bureau, Chief F.J. Falodun gave the recorded population figure as 94 million as at July 1, this year.

Chief Falodun noted that the Federal Government was already making a steady economic growth in relation to the population growth.

He would not comment on whether a population census was feasible in the country at the moment or not because of what he described as its "sensitiveness".

The country's population could exceed 150 million by the year 2,000, according to the director, in a paper he presented at the second United Nations sponsored conference on population, held from August 6-13 in Mexico City.

100% increase in food prices

The Central Bank has issued a report on the economy which says that the prices of some food items have doubled within one year and that the volume of money in circulation has fallen slightly.

The report said that by the end of last February, there was N5,342.3 million in circulation, a drop of N61.6 million or 1.1 per cent on that of the previous month.

By the end of February, prices of copra, groundnuts, groundnut oil and palm oil "more than doubled their February 1983 level."

The report said that between February last year and this year cash crops fetched higher prices: Groundnuts from 124.1 to 304.7 (or 145.7% increase);

Copra from 144.4 to 303.3 or (110%); Rubber from 139.9 to 225.4 or (61.1%); Soya beans for 131.0 t 161.12 or (23%). Coffee from 221.7 to 329.7 or (48.7%).

Ex-Rivers Governor jailed again

The former Rivers State Governor, Melford Okilo, and his personal secretary, Mrs Ladi Netimah, have been sentenced to a total of 21 years' imprisonment each by the Enugu zone of the special military tribunal on the recovery of public property.

Ladi was jailed 21 calendar years on each of counts one, two and three, relating to a breach of the code of conduct for public officers. She was jailed for five years on the sixth count, for making false declaration of her assets. Okilo was convicted on count four for corruptly enriching a company. All the sentences will run concurrently.

The chairman of the tribunal, Air Commodore Muktar Mohammed, said that the facts of the case were not complicated and that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. He said that the prosecution ought to have made Okilo the first accused in the case for conspiring with his personal secretary to commit the offence.

Air Commodore Mohammed said, however, that the tribunal had duly considered the plea for leniency by counsel to the convicts, the fact that Ladi had been in detention since January 4 and that the illegal payment for which Okilo was convicted was still intact in the bank, and would recommend a review of the sentences of the Supreme Military Council.

North Korean help for food industries

Two North Korean technical missions have concluded arrangements to set up machine- tools and food-processing industries in the country, a North Korean Embassy official has told the New Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Mr Sok-Hyon, economic counsellor at the Embassy, said that the machine indus- try which is to be located at Ikeja, would be a joint venture between a Korean company and a Nigerian partner.

He said that the plant would be fed with raw materials from the Delta steel company and the steel rolling mills in the country. Mr Sok added that vehicle scraps, which he said were in abundance in Lagos, would also be utilised after melting and casting.

He stated that arrangements had also been concluded on the setting up of food and animal feed processing industries in Ogun, Lagos and Ondo.

Modernisation of defence industries

Chief of Army Staff, Maj-Gen. Ibrahim Babangida has said that the Defence Industries Corporation is to be reorganised and modernised in order to step up its research activities. Speaking at the end of a 3rd Armoured Division training week in Rukuba, near Jos, Maj-Gen. Babangida said that it was time for the country to manufacture its own weapons and equipments instead of relying on foreign ones.

He maintained that it was only by doing so that the country's hope at self-reliance and self-sufficiency could be realised. The Chief of Army Staff said that because of the prevailing economic situation and the need to conserve foreign exchange, military training abroad has been temporarily stopped while opportunities for local training have been increased.

TOGO

Agreements with Czechoslovakia

Three co-operation agreements in the fields of culture and finance have been signed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co- operation in Lome between Togo and Czechoslovakia.

According to this agreement, Togo and Czechoslovakia will strengthen their relations in the fields of culture, arts, trade, education, information, health, youth and sports and will specifically exchange information in the fields of culture. tourism, literature, arts, cinematography and health, including the training of cadres in institutions of higher education, exchanges between youth organisations and co-operations between radio and television networks, as well as exchanges of journalists and reporters.

Financial agreements with France

France and Togo have signed four financial agreements totalling 12.6m francs (630 CFA francs). The money will help continue the implementation of some projects started in 1982.

One of the agreements involving 150m CFA francs, concerns the fourth phase of a rural water supply project. It will help improve drinking water supply for more than 250,000 people living in rural areas. This project is also jointly financed by the US AID and the European Development Fund.

The fourth agreement for 250m CFA francs is related to the second phase of the Dapaong water supply project of a town in northern Togo.

The agreements were signed in Lome by Michel Chatelais, the French Ambassador to Togo, and Anani Kouma Akakpo- Ahianyo, the Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation.

IVORY COAST

Rescheduling of foreign debts

The Ivory Coast has decided to reschedule its external debts. After negotiations with the Paris Club on May 4, the Minister of State, Seri Gnoleba, was received by the London Club for technical discussions and bilateral negotiations with Switzerland began on August 31. The official document on the rescheduling was signed.

Seri Gnoleba represented the Govern- ment of Ivory Coast and Holf Gaber represented the Swiss Confederation. Seri Gnoleba pointed out to his visitor that the national debt, far from being a shameful thing, was a worthy thing incurred to improve the welfare of the people of Ivory Coast.

He said: "The amount of our debt is one that can be displayed on all the walls because it is a debt that was incurred to enable us to better this country - I must stress again the favourable character of this agreement. We want to demonstrate before the world that the pledge we made to balance our financial situation will be carried out to the letter by ourselves.

"The President has asked me to express this point to you and I repeat it because this agreement, as some people believe, has not been imposed on us by any international financial institution, it is a demonstration of our political desire to do everything to ensure that our development rests solely on the efforts of the Ivorian people themselves.

Recommendations of a defence meeting

A meeting of the eight session of the committee of experts of the non-aggression and defence aid agreement, (ANAD) in Abidjan has noted the lack of judicial framework to support the activities of the police and security services. The committee subsequently recommended the establishment of a general agreement for co-operation in the field of judicial matters between ANAD member states, expressed the wish to see the process for extradition made simple and recommended the setting up of a radio link between police services of member states as well as a police telecommunication network it also recommended the setting up of a central criminal records office for the sub-region.

The committee also noted the settlement of disputes through peaceful means in line with the desire of the heads of state and governments of member states of the Econ- omic Community of West Africa; the pertinent provisions of the ANAD implementation protocol signed in Dakar on December 14, 1981 and the additional provisions on non-aggression, signed in Yamoussoukro on December 20, 1982; and of the draft protocol on peaceful settlement of disputes and recommended to the ANAD secretary general the drafting of standing regulations for the commission of settlement of disputes to be submitted to the ninth session of the ANAD committee of experts.

LIBERIA

Two parties apply for registration

The Chairman of the Election Commission Mr Emmet Harmon has announced that the Liberia National Democratic Party (LNDP) Headed by Dr Doe and the United People's Party (UPP) Headed by Mr Baccus Matthews, have applied to the commission to have their political parties registered.

Reactions to Defence Minister's allegations

Dr H. Boima Fahnbulleh and Mr G. Baccus Matthews, both former government officials who were blamed by Defence Minister Gray D. Allison of making "private arrangements" to train what the minister referred to as "saboteurs" in Socialist Ethiopia and Cuba to subvert the Liberian Government, have reacted to the allegations made against them. Mr Matthews, when contacted, said that he did not wish to make remarks to the allegation by even a "denial". He gave no further comment.

Mr Fahnbulleh, a former Minister of Education, explained that the 66 persons described as enemies of the State by Minister Allison had undergone “literacy training” in Ethiopia.

He said the teachers travelled to Ethiopia as a result of a friendship and cooperation agreement signed between Liberia and Ethiopia during the Head of State’s visit to Ethiopia in 1980.

Denial of sabotage allegations

A man believed to be a spokesman for all Liberian students who went to Ethiopia in 1981 to participate in a literacy training programme, Mr John Wally, has denied recent government allegations that they were trained as saboteurs.

The Daily Observer quoted Mr Wally as saying that participation in the literacy training programme in Ethiopia was an official arrangement between former Education Minister, Dr H. Boimah Fahnbulleh, and former Foreign Minister, Mr G. Bacchus Matthews.

He informed the Daily Observer that a total of 57 students and not 66, as claimed by government, participated in a training programme in Ethiopia.

He said government spent more than 26,000 dollars to transport them to and from and provided 200 dollars per diem payment to each person.

GABON

Ready to meet Botha

President Omar Bongo says he is ready to meet South Africa's President elect Mr P.W. Botha, provided Pretoria comes out with proposals which would lead to a just and durable peace in the region. This was contained in a statement published in the government owned le Soleil newspaper,

CHAD

Appeal for food aid

The Minister of Natural Disasters, Taher Abeldjelil has appealed to international and humanitarian organisations for massive food aid.

Famine was spreading throughout Chad, beyond the traditionally affected areas, as there had been virtually no rainfall this year in the Sahel. Countless people and cattle were dying from hunger or food poisoning and the 1984-85 harvest was likely to be poor.

France and Libya near agreement

Radio France International has reported Claude Cheysson, the French Minister for External Relations, as saying that France was closer to reaching agreement with Libya over Chad than it had been a few months ago.

France did not intend to become involved in the internal affairs of Chad, but its troops were there merely to stop Libyan intervention; France was prepared for its troops to be replaced by a neutral force.

GUINEA

Ex-Minister dies in prison

The death has taken place at Kindia prison of the former Energy Minister in the Sekou Toure government, Nfamara Keita. He had been detained at Kindia like all his colleagues since the 3rd April military coup d'etat. He was the second member of the late President's cabinet to die. The death was reported two weeks ago of the former Prime Minister, Dr Lansana Beavogui.

Ghana

Cedi devalued

The value of the cedi has dropped following an increase in the exchange rate of the dollar. The rate now is C38.50 to the dollar, instead of C35.

Sintim Misa is dead

The death has been reported of the Rt. Rev. G.K. Sintim-Misa, former Moderator of the Presbytarian Church of Ghana, at the Akyem Tafo Government Hospital in the Eastern Region. He was 72.

According to a spokesman the former Moderator visited a relative at Akyem Tafo but was suddenly taken ill when he retired to bed. He collapsed and died on his way to the hospital.

Lecturers get new service conditions

Lecturers of the country's three universities are to enjoy new service conditions. They, among other things, are to enjoy 10% of their gross annual salary as leave allowance instead of the present allowance of up to a maximum of C300. Car mainten- ance allowance has also been raised from C150 to C960 and book allowance from C500 to €2,500. According to the Under Secretary for Education Dr Asiama the government was bent on improving the conditions of service of lecturers to entice them to stay and raise the standard of education in the country.

Meeting on minimum wage

A meeting of the Tripartite Committee on minimum wage and salary rationalisation takes place next month to discuss the minimum living wage for workers in the country.

The meeting will be held among representatives of the government, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Employers Association. It will also discuss the stabilisation of prices of goods and and hot cooked rice and stew. services in the country.

According to the Secretary-General of the TUC, Mr A.K. Yankey, the TUC will advocate the abolition of the Prices and Incomes Board (PIB) and in its place, a Prices and Incomes Stabilisation Commission (PISC) set up to serve as a secretariat of the Tripartite Committee.

Five companies under investigation

Five companies involved in the importation of goods for officers and men of the Ghana Armed Forces who served under United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) contingents are to be investigated.

The companies are Kludjeson International Limited, Ofori Electronics Limited, Nyarko Abronoma Company Limited, Union International Commerce and Indo Agro Exporters. The books of a sixth company, Blackmore and Sons (Ghana) Limited and those of other companies which were involved in Ghanbatt 19 and 20 importations are being looked through to establish the extent, if any, of possible impropriety. The investigations are to be conducted by the National Investigations Committee (NIC).

According to a press release issued by the Office of the Co-ordinator of Investigation, Vetting and Tribunals in Accra, it has come to light that these companies which acted as agents in importing goods for soldiers on UNIFIL operations took undue advantage of concessions granted to military personnel to dupe then thus committing serious economic crimes against the state.

These companies, the release alleged brought their own stock and disguised them as part of the Ghanbatt stock by inflating the quantities of goods ordered by the UNIFIL contingents.

It stated that by bringing in the goods in the name of Ghanbatt, no customs duties were paid by the companies since Ghanbatt goods are exempted from duty. The release said since the goods were imported as Ghanbatt goods, they neither reflected in the companies stock financial statements at the end of the financial year as a result of which they succeeded in evading taxes to the tune of millions of cedis..

Wonders of Ada

A three man delegation of the Ghana Tourist Board has confirmed the 'super-natural' powers of a twenty-nine year old Ghanaian who has reportedly gained fame for 'conjuring' various items from the bottom of the Volta River.

According to a report in The Mirror the man Dadezor Korley of Big Ada has consequently turned the town into a big tourist spot with hundreds of visitors who plead with him to dive into the river to bring out their requested items.

Popular among the items conjured from the river by Dadezor are alcoholic drinks

And following the reported confirmation of the reality of Dadezor's magical prowess by the delegation of the Ghana Tourist Board, is considering ways to make Big Ada a popular tourist centre to which trips will be organised daily to enable 'Doubting Thomases' to see things for themselves. The three man Tourist Board delegation was made up of Messrs Solomon Kwesi Asiedu, Mr Ruphus Kwashie Agbenu and Miss Regina Kpodo.

Prospects for more rains

Ghana's Meteorological Services Department (MSD) says there are prospects of a longer rainy period for farmers.

It has therefore urged them to begin the preparation of their land to take advantage of the rains that have set in at a rather un- usual time.

Ties with Nigeria must grow

PNDC Chairman, Flt-Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, has urged that relationship between Ghana and Nigeria must be sustained and further strengthened.

He said the two countries stand to gain for their mutual benefit if the prevailing relationship is given a further impetus.

Flt-Lt. Rawlings was speaking to the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana, Brigadier Harris V.O. Eghagha, when he called on him at the Castle, Osu.

He said before independence the two countries fought for a common goal, that of fighting colonial domination but after independence they took to different directions which subjected them to painful experiences to the detriment of their peoples. Chairman Rawlings stated that the two countries have reached an era in which they are beginning to appreciate a new kind of independence which makes it easier to co- operate for a social transformation.

Don't harrass civilians

WOI Adjei-Buadi, member of the PNDC, has advised military personnel to learn to live with the civilian population in peace. He told defence committees in the Armed Forces to educate their colleagues to that effect. Inaugurating the Two Brigade group formation defence committee at Uaddara Barracks WOI Adjei-Buadi said that un- healthy rivalry between the military and civilian population does not augur well for peaceful co-existence and national development.

He made it clear that the content of training and education that make a soldier regard the civilian as a subject to oppress and has resulted in civilians also regarding soldiers as enemies ought to be discouraged.

WO Adjei-Buadi, who is also the Co- ordinating Secretary of the Armed Forces Defence Committees, wondered why after over two years of defence committee activi- ties in the barracks, uniformed personnel should continue to antagonise civilians.

Distributor of seeds

Ghana's Press Club has managed to get involved in the distribution of vegetable seeds to all pressmen in the country. A notice in the national papers by the Press Club invited all mediamen, foreign journalists and press attaches to collect seeds from the Club House at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. Interested journalists are expected to provide their own containers.

Nsutaman meeting

The first annual general meeting of Nsutaman Association of United Kingdom and Ireland will be held on Saturday, September 29, 1984 at the United Reformed Church Hall, Wakefield Street, off Tavistock Place, London WCI. Sons and daughters of Nsuta traditional area of Ashanti and their relations are invited to the meeting which commences at 3 pm.

MALI

Chinese aid

Following the visit of Alioune Blondin Beye, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, the Peoples Republic of China has decided to increase its participation in the activities of a number of Mali textile and pharmaceutical companies.

Mali has been invited to take part in the Canton Fair next October and China has also decided to grant further scholarships to Mali students. It will also fully ensure the overhaul of the Mali radio transmitters next year. Finally, the Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang, has accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Mah.

SIERRA LEONE

President re-shuffles cabinet

The appointment has been made by President Stevens of Abdulai Conteh, the Foreign Minister for the past seven years, to the post of Finance Minister, in an effort to rescue Sierra Leone from economic crisis.

Salia Jusu-Sheriff, the former opposition leader who had been Finance Minister for the past two years, had become Minister for Development and Economic Planning. Conteh had been a leading opponent of Jusu-Sheriff's tough economic measures.


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