People, Places and Events

Articles - (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Happenings - Death Sentence Policies
  September 12, 1983 issue
• Happenings - Dissidents Warned
  October 3, 1983 issue
• People, Places and Events - Liberia To Buy Israeli Planes
  October 10, 1983 issue
• People, Places and Events - Prices Go Up In Ghana
  October 17, 1983 issue
• People, Places and Events - Shagari's Cabinet - AFRC convicts
  October 24, 1983 issue
• People, Places and Events - Police To Flush Out Illegal Aliens - Soldiers Charged
  November 7, 1983 issue
• Happenings - Flt-Lt Lee charged with murder - Quiwonkpa can't be traced
  December 5, 1983 issue
• People, Places and Events - PDC Chairman on seduction charge - Soldier on murder charge - Aliens must go
  December 12, 1983 issue
• People, Places and Events - Testimony of a plotter
  December 19, 1983 issue

Articles - (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Senegal - 19 die in fighting
  January 3, 1984 issue
• Trials begin - Stupid conflict - Nigeria What Happened On Day Of Coup
  January 9, 1984 issue
• No more passports - Former military chiefs under arrest - Mugabe expresses surprise - Wanted politicians
  January 16, 1984 issue
• Expulsion of Libyan diplomats - Details of detainees - Warning to the media
  January 30, 1984 issue
• Ojukwu in detention - More aliens deported - Looting at ports - Release the detainees
  February 6, 1984 issue
• Black-outs are imminent - Governor orders journalists caned - Abolition of private universities
  February 20, 1984 issue
• Rawlings Helped Me To Power - Sankara - War in Chad is against Libya - Fires raging - List of economic saboteurs
  February 27, 1984 issue
• Happenings
  People, Places and Events - Over 60 killed in northern Nigeria - Food crisis ahead
  March 5, 1984 issue
• Famine defies description - Tribunal sentences former ministers - Bongo defends one party system - Ondo expels aliens
  March 19, 1984 issue
• Happenings
  Striking teachers dismissed - Tactics of 'Fugitive' Politicians - War against economic sabotage
  April 2, 1984 issue
• Warning to Ivory Coast - Soldiers beat managing director to death - Special tribunal to try politicians
  April 9, 1984 issue
• 8 sentenced to death - Deportation of aliens - Maitatsine suspect sentenced
  April 16, 1984 issue
• Who Watches The Watchman? - 5,000 Cuban troops expected - Ten years of military rule - Decree on Press and Banking
  April 30, 1984 issue
• Coup plotters go to jail - Rationing of Naira
  May 28, 1984 issue
• June 4 declared holiday - No political prisoners?
  June 4, 1984 issue
• New law on Yendi affairs - Journalists go on trial
  June 11, 1984 issue
• Insecticide - cause of deaths - Ex-Bendel governor jailed - Curfew Lifted
  June 25, 1984 issue
• Guinea - 200,000 exiles return - Arms for people's militia - Ex-governor jailed 44 years
  July 2, 1984 issue
• 69 more years for Bakin Zuwo - Universities reduced from 7 to 3
  July 9, 1984 issue
• Green Book Club want boycott - Ex-Governor Atta jailed 126 years - Porter dies in bank queue
  July 16, 1984 issue
• Borders to remain closed - Detainees need medical treatment
  July 23, 1984 issue
• Rawlings in Nicaragua, Cuba - Twenty six dead in Bawku Clashes - Soldiers terrorise Swedru traders
  July 30, 1984 issue
• Doe to run for presidency - Assassination attempt - Dikko kidnap Nigerian claims diplomatic immunity
  August 6, 1984 issue
• Measures against religious fanatics - Longer prison sentence for governor
  August 13, 1984 issue
• Nationalisation of land - Attempt to burn Concord - Death sentence from three decrees
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• Order for the arrest of Special Elections Commissioner - Ministers to work on building site - Ajasin acquitted second time
  August 27, 1984 issue
• Military rule is an aberration
  September 3, 1984 issue
• Kwashiokor on the increase - Third phase of WAI
  September 10, 1984 issue
• Bail for Fela - 100% increase in food prices - Ex-Rivers Governor jailed again - Don't harrass civilians
  September 17, 1984 issue
• GDM demonstration in Germany - Kugblenu laid to rest - America, Britain show concern over Shagari's detention
  September 24, 1984 issue
• Currency devaluation to boost exports - Dismissal of teachers - Economic saboteurs to be shot
  October 1, 1984 issue
• French troops go, Libyans stall - Ten more executions - Justice Annan's son on drug charges - US based lecturer ordered to serve Ghana for 5 years - "Maximum penalty" for economic saboteurs
  October 8, 1984 issue
• Dial Accra direct on 233 - Dr Sawyer and others released
  October 15, 1984 issue
• Fela refused bail - Businesses demolished
  October 22, 1984 issue
• Cholera threatens Sahel region - Famine in Burkina - The real Mrs Obasanjo
  October 29, 1984 issue
• Bakin Zuwo jailed again - Diplomat caught with heroin
  November 5, 1984 issue
• Bring-down syndrome of the press - Execution order - Clamp-down on "illegal aliens" - Hospitals are disused cemeteries
  November 12, 1984 issue
• OAU - Morocco withdraws, Zaire suspends membership
  November 19, 1984 issue
• Multi-party system must wait - Government denies coup
  November 26, 1984 issue
• PNDC buys 20 year old tanker
  December 3, 1984 issue
• Arrests over 'subversive publications' - Cedi devalued - Warning to aliens and visitors
  December 10, 1984 issue

Articles - (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Union gives ultimatum to government - ECOWAS faces economic crisis
  January 21, 1985 issue
• Warning to press and clergy - Drought and food situation
  January 28, 1985 issue
• Assassination of military school director - Abolition of individual land ownership
  February 4, 1985 issue
• Robbers in military uniform - Rodents destroy farms - Looting of Lebanese shops - Attempt to burn down Sawyer's residence
  February 11, 1985 issue
• More sackings on the way - Workers occupy SIC houses
  February 18, 1985 issue
• Doe's party is only legal party - Sankara denies being a "pawn" of Libya - Dr Beko tortured - Dikko kidnappers to appeal
  March 11, 1985 issue
• OAU Declarations on Sharpeville Anniversary - Public alarm over military exercise - Economic saboteurs
  April 1, 1985 issue
• Amnesty for detainees - Executions arouse horror - Government orders illegal aliens to leave
  April 22, 1985 issue
• Idiagbon defends death Penalty - Further devaluation of Cedi in 1985 budget - Nigeria expels 100,000 - No tears for aliens
  April 29, 1985 issue
• Illegal aliens return home - Death sentence for repeated bribery - Booing at May Day rally - Maitatsine leader "still at large" - Detention of British engineers
  May 13, 1985 issue
• 25 aliens shot dead by troops - Beaten aliens back home - Rawlings condemns ballot box
  May 20, 1985 issue
• Government protest to Nigerian Government - Four sentenced to death - First woman to be executed
  May 27, 1985 issue
• Guardian says decision was ill-advised - Three executed for fraud - Four more sentenced to death on fraud charge - Links with dissidents - six to die - More death sentences
  June 3, 1985 issue
• Evils of apartheid - Plan to muzzle press - Abiola
  July 1, 1985 issue
• Call for investigation of shootings - Coup plot - Deaths in land clash
  July 8, 1985 issue
• S. African raid condemned - Arrest of coup plotters - Medical students plead for sacked doctors - Foreign accounts allowed
  July 15, 1985 issue
• Qadhafi seeks OAU chairmanship - Lawyer pleads for Fela's release - “Let me take my own life"
  July 22, 1985 issue
• No immediate release for detained politicians - CIA interference morally unjustifiable - Sarpong
  August 5, 1985 issue
• General Momoh replaces Siaka Stevens - In defence of one party system - Funeral for those executed by Rawlings - "Borders will remain closed"
  August 12, 1985 issue
• Coup plotter executed - Reward for arrest of wanted men - Plot to kill officials uncovered - Ministers sent to farm
  August 19, 1985 issue
• Arrest of opposition members - Fund for Ghana's detainees
  September 2, 1985 issue
• Radio Ghana commentary on Nigerian coup - Sousoudis trial fixed for October 15 - Atrocities by Rafindadi's men - Abacha is new Chief of Army Staff
  September 9, 1985 issue
• Minister denies existence of political prisoners - Idiagbon requests permission to return home - Artistes plead for Fela
  September 16, 1985 issue
• Female drug pusher to be executed - Boigny on soccer violence
  September 23, 1985 issue
• Tribunal chairman arrested - War against indiscipline continued - Buhari, Idiagbon retired from army
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• Togo - Explosion near Ghana border - Appiah-Menka jailed by tribunal
  October 7, 1985 issue
• Four parties contest elections - 241 prisoners die of malnutrition - Babangida says exiles are free to return
  October 14, 1985 issue
• Two face charges as CIA agents - Thirteen die in Mamprusi- Kusasi clashes - Geldof visits famine areas - Another term for Houphouet-Boigny
  October 21, 1985 issue
• 197 houses burnt during clashes - Doubts about British sanctions
  November 11, 1985 issue
• Confession of captured rebel - Arms on Ghana plane
  November 25, 1985 issue
• Multi-party system not workable - 28 killed in tribal clashes
  December 2, 1985 issue
• Warning over currency smuggling - Economic emergency regulations - Night of Songs for Idiagbon
  December 9, 1985 issue
• Release of prisoners - Two more explosions in Lome - Col. Qadhafi in Accra
  December 16, 1985 issue
• Sankara proclaims Jamahiriyah - Displeasure over Qadhafi's bodyguards - Communique condemns CIA
  December 23, 1985 issue

Articles - (1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986)

• Doe sworn in as President - The Libyan "invasion" - Sentences in trial of secessionists - Coup plotters 'killed in air crash'
  January 13, 1986 issue
• Happenings - 'Mother' of Ghanaian students dies
  January 20, 1986 issue
• Big devaluation of cedi - Kankam da Costa released - Nothing to prove Shagari's involvement in 'fraud'
  January 20, 1986 issue
• Rawlings' trail of death and destruction - Former minister charged with treason
  January 27, 1986 issue
• Jackson Doe charged with treason - Workers Hold Demos Against Rawlings - Views on release of Shehu Shagari and Ekwueme
  February 3, 1986 issue
• Ex-detainee seeks answers - Discharge Fela
  February 10, 1986 issue
• Recent deportation of illegal aliens - Gen. Doe receives Baby Doc - Dismissals after coup attempt
  February 17, 1986 issue
• Libya bombs Ndjamena airport - Why Rawlings has put on weight - Outbreak of cholera
  February 24, 1986 issue
• Vatsa and others to face firing squad - Rawlings statement is offensive
  March 3, 1986 issue
• Fuel crisis worsens
  March 10, 1986 issue
• The last hours of the executed officers
  March 17, 1986 issue