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Item Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 2, no.2 July,1973(Lagos state( 35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1973-07) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ NIXON, Watergate and the role of big business in America: The burglary of Watergate has wounded President Nixon, weak ened American political influence and subsequently exposed the bank ruptcy of the American political system. ■ Mariam Makeba sings to conquer: Right now in the United States of America, a new black identity and fashion awareness is gaining currency among the black com munity since the "Empress of Song" Miriam Makeba gave an all venue sold-out 'Coast to Coast' concert. ■ Peoples capitalism: Nigeria is a carnivorous society where a handful of people are massively rich and the vast majority are living in sorrowful starvation and squalor. ■ Francis Arthur Nzeribe: Mr. Arthur Francis Nzeribe was an unknown popular figure in Nigeria until in 1968 when he was accused of swindling £6,000,00y0 sterling from the government of Ghana.Item Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 1, no.12 May, 1973(Lagos state( 35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1973-05) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ One tough exciting year: This month NEWBREED is one year old. It has been one though exciting year during which "we have been intimidated, blackmailed and our ideas mockingly and cynically opposed . . ", that not withstand ing, " we will continue to set the pace ■ Kano State: In all sectors of social advance ment, the one time dull giant, Kano, is now pulling rapidly along side her progressing counterparts. ■ National budget 1973/74: At the beginning of last month, the Head of State, General Gowon announced his government's intended expenditure for the periods 1973/74. Reflecting the boom in Nigeria's Oil premiums and foreign reserves, the national annual budget keeps on mounting. ■ Newbreed personality: Mrs. Modupe Akintola Finnih) the erudite and verss legal practitioner, legal adviser chain of companies and a dire of New Breed Organisation Publishers of NEWBREED Magazine, is our personality for month of May.Item Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2903, 29th January, 1973(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1973-01-29) West Africa magazine■ Sport and politics: What significance should be attached to the second all-African games just finished in Lagos? ■ Inside Cabral's Guinea: To the grievous loss of Africa, his comrades, his wife, and children, and his countless friends up and down the world, Amilcar Cabral has been struck down ■ Ghana's local government ■ All-Africa games diary ■ An Independent Guinea-Bissau 2 political foundations: ■ Books and publications: Aid and politics- Aid and liberation: a socialist study of aid politics by Judith Hart ■ Dateline Africa: Guinea-Bissau Cabral murdered-Secretary general of the African independence party for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was assassi nated in ConakryItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 2706, Saturday April 12th, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-04-12) West Africa magazine■ Ghana’s Last Chance? Cynicism about public morality is still not so deep in Ghana that confirmation of one of the widespread allegations against men in high office can now be answered simply by the resignation of the guilty man ■ Portrait: New man in castle: In a previous portrait of an African military man a correspondent made a distinction between the avuncular and the dashing types of officers ■ Roundabout: Student of English: During his visit to Britain last week, President Hamani Diori of Niger discussed the sending of British teachers of English to Niger ■ Sierra Leone as a market: Credit is given to the sincere and hard working government of Sierra Leone in a report on their visit to the country last February by Sir Arthur Smith, chairman of the Africa committee of the British National export council ■ Nigeria's power struggle: So overwhelming has become the place of mineral oil in the Nigerian economy that it is easily forgotten that almost alone among the countries of tropical Africa ■ Books and publications: Cities in crisis: Urban government for metropolitan Lagos by Babatunde A. Williams and Annmarie Hauck Walsh ■ Commercial news: Nigeria: Groundnut Pyramids to Go? Nigeria's groundnut stocks may all have been reduced to negligible size at the end of the current season says the tropical products quarterly ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Afrifa installed: Politics on May day: Lt. Gen. Joseph Ankrah's resignation as chairman of the National Liberation Council was announced on April 2 ■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Federal forces near Umuahia: Biafran evacuation of Umuahia began about April 4 in face of the Federal attack, said a report in the French paper Le FigaroItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 2707, Saturday April 19th, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-04-19) West Africa magazine■ Traditional Trade? There are no reliable statistics for smuggling because of its very nature, but it would be safe to say that considering West Africa from Mauritania to Congo-Kinshasa ■ Making Ghana Democratic: Government in Ghana should be prohibited by the constitution from establishing a one-party state the constituent assembly has unanimously decided ■ Roundabout: The two Professions: Lt. Col. Alexandre Banza. who has just been executed in Bangui, capital of die Central African Republic, on a charge of attempting to overthrow President Bokassa was a visitor to London in May, 1966. ■ Books and publications: African soldiers in politics: The military in African politics by W. F. Gutteridge ■ Competing with France in Africa: Exporters in Britain still fear that France and to a lesser extent her common market partners monopolises the markets of former French colonies ■ Commercial news: UAC in Nigeria's war: Turnover and profit of the United Africa group increased in all parts of tropical Africa except Nigeria and this more than made up for the loss of business in Nigeria ■ Dateline Africa: Sierra Leone: Siaka's Sweeping Reshuffle: A major cabinet reshuffle has been carried out by Mr. Siaka Stevens. There are changes in the ministries of external affairs, interior, agriculture, education and health among othersItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2708, 26th April, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-04-26) West Africa magazine■ Stevens' first year: When Sierra Leone became independent on April 27, eight years ago, Mr Siaka Stevens was in detention ■ After Umuahia what? After several days of rumours especially prevalent in Lagos, it was finally announced at a news conference on Wednesday by Chief Enahoro ■ Roundabout: The great French arms mystery: What is the position now about the French and arms for Biafra? ■ Textbooks for Ghana Schools: Ghana's primary, middle and secondary schools will continue to have textbooks supplied free, apart from relatively small payments by parents. ■ Books and publications: A lesson for Nigeria: Federation and fiscal adjustment by R. I. May ■ Will farmers desert the land? At last month's Ibadan university conference on national reconstruction and development in Nigeria many speakers referred to the lack of progress in agriculture as contrasted with industry and mineral production ■ Commercial news: Cocoa 1968 exports: Accra talks: Ghana exported 330,100 tons of Cocoa in 1968 of which 72,575 tons went to the USA says the tropical products quarterly ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Victor Owusu and U.V. Campbell: Mr Victor Owusu, the new Commissioner for external affairs resigned on April 15 and Mr. P. D. Anin Commissioner for lands and mineral resources ■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Failure at Monrovia: The meeting in Monrovia of the OAU Consultative Committee on Nigeria was opened on April 18 by President Tubman. who said that all six heads of state were aware ot the progress of the OAU in trying to avert and avoid the conflict.Item Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2712, 24th May, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-05-24) West Africa magazine■ Paying for the War: Oil revenues will this year allow the Federal Govern ment to" undertake record expenditure without significantly increasing taxes; ■ Roundabout Paris: The headless Chicken: France, in this bizarre interim period this epilogue to the de Gaulle drama is full of contradiction not least the contradiction arising from the constitutional ■ In Memoriam: Native Authority: The second of two articles on the administrative reform in the new Northern States of Nigeria which are leading to sweeping changes in the Native Authority ■ Books and publications: The psychology of empire: Africa in English fiction, 1874-1939 by G. D. Killam ■ Commercial news: Agricultural output drops: Agricultural production per caput in most West African countries fell in 1968 according to a review ■ Commercial news: Exchange sweetener: For the first time ever, the Nigerian sugar company made a net profit last year. £N̈12,650 ■ Dateline Africa: Guinea: Thirteen sentenced to death: After transforming itself into a special revolutionary court from May 11 to 15 the National Revolutionary council of the ruling PDGItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2710, 10th May, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-05-10) West Africa magazine■ Merit or quotas: Accompanying advertisements of vacancies for senior United Nations staff there now appears a classification of member states ■ Roundabout: The Algiers festival: Two approaching events in the cultural field are well deserving of mention ■ Parties return to Ghana: Ghana has now returned to party politics after the publication of decree No. 347 lifting the bin on political parties ■ Books and publications: The continuing Congo story: Congo 1967 Les Dossiers du crisp ■ Books and publications: The conch A Biafran journal of literary and cultural analysis vol. 1 published by Conch magazine Ltd ■ Commercial news: Railways: Keeping on the right tracks: Most tropical African countries have failed to establish a satisfactory administrative structure between the minister responsible for transport ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Ankrah case dispute: Nunoo falls: Mr. John E. O. Nunoo Commissioner of police and member of the NLC was dismissed on May 5 ■ Dateline Africa Nigeria: Plans to retake Owerri: Supreme headquarters in Lagos announced last week that secret plans have been drawn up to recapture Owerri lost three weeks ago to the BiafransItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2712, 24th May, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1969-05-24) West Africa magazine■ Politics and promises: PROMISES to cure unemployment, to increase wages, to reduce the cost of living, and generally to make Ghana an earthly paradise are now coming from the mushroom parties ■ Portrait: Carving out tradition: Those who fear the dying out of traditional carving in Africa for want of contemporary use for their skills ■ In memoriam: Native authority: So it’s goodbye to “Native Authority.”One of the most ancient and most cherished products of the colonial period and beyond it ■ Roundabout: Defoccartisation: Most commentators seem to agree that M. Poher, the interim president of France did a world of good to his independent image by sacking M. Foccart as Secretary-General on African affairs at the Elysee ■ Books and publications: Economics and unity: Unity or poverty? The economics of Pan-Africanism by Reginald Green and Ann Seidman ■ Commercial news: Plan to boost Groundnuts: An outline for a promotional plan to boost the growth rate of groundnuts consumption in Western Europe ■ Commercial news: Iron ore forecast: Experts believe that deposits at Wologia in north West Liberia could produce about 10m tons of iron ore a year. ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Gbedemah's party and newspaper: Mr K. A. Gbedemah the former finance minister who was the chief organiser of the CPP but broke with it in 1961 ■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Commanders reshuffled: Following an important meeting of the supreme military council in Lagos at which the budget and the war were discussedItem Open Access West Africa no. Magazine 2716, 21st June, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1969-06-21) West Africa magazine■ Making relief work: The reported agreement for fiver transport of relief supplies to Biafran held territory is a success for those who have patiently pressed for a land or water corridor ■ Ghana: The state of local government:1:Local Government in Ghana is at present in a state of chaos: the reputation of local authorities has reached its nadir ■ Seven more years for Tombalbaye: To accept to run his country's affairs for another seven years must surely require a strong sense of duty and considerable courage on the part of M. François Tombalbaye ■ 600,000 cows but not enough: This week's international conference at Ahmadu Bello University on development of Livestock in the drier parts of Northern Nigeria will cover goats, poultry and pigs ■ Archbishop Patterson retires: Last week the most Revd Cecil John Patterson, C.M.G, C.B.E, D.D, M.A., retired as Bishop on the Niger and Archbishop of West Africa ■ Commercial news: UNCTAD irrelevant: UNCTAD the United Nations commission on trade and development has virtually ceased to be relevant to problems of international trade policy ■ Dateline Africa: Senegal: General strike flops: Union splits: A call for a 48-hour general strike on Wednesday of last week led to a declaration of a state of emergency by the governmentItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2713, 31st May, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-05-31) West Africa magazine■ Yaounde deadline: May 31 is the date of expiry of the Yaounde convention associating 18 African states (14 former French colonies, three former Belgian colonies and Somalia) ■ Personalities and Politics in Ghana-2: If as I suggested in my first article, Dr Busia's new Progress Party has certain clear links with the old opposition to Dr. Nkrumah ■ Books and publications: Peasants in the Guinea war: The liberation of Guinea aspects of an African revolution by Basil Davidson forwarded by Amilcar Cabral ■ Commercial news: CDC: profit and loss in West Africa: Cameroon wants the Commonwealth development corporation to continue as managing agents for the Cameroons development corporation after December 1969 ■ Commercial news: Japan buys Nigerian oil: For the first time, a Japanese oil concern, Idemitsu Kosan Kaisha has bought oil from Africa ■ Dateline Africa: Ivory Coast: Abidjan university closed down: The university of Abidjan and the schools attached to it have been closed until the reform of the higher education system ■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Biafra air raids start again: Night aircraft in the service of the Biafrans raided Port Harcourt airport on May 22 and Benin airport on May 24 at Port Harcourt at least one piston- engined aircraftItem Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 2743, 27th December, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-12-27) West Africa magazine■ Surviving the Sixties: Ten years ago there were only four independent states in black Africa 1960 began the rush to independence which has left only the Portuguese territories and a couple of insignificant enclaves under foreign rule ■ Analysing Nigeria's housing problem: No West African country has successfully tackling its housing problem partly because the very immensity of the task is so daunting ■ Books and publications: How the OAU was born: The organisation of African unity and its charter by Zdenek Cervenka ■ Commercial news: Japanese aid rise proposed: An increase in foreign aid from last year figure of 0.7per cent of gross national product (GNP) to 1 per cent by 1975Item Open Access West Africa Magazine no. 3269, 17th March, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd, 1980-03-17) West Africa magazine■ Problems of prosperity: Nigeria's budget to be presented later this month, will not introduce any dramatic changes, according to informed sources. It will be designed mostlyjust to hold the line for a short time until the next Budget in December. ■ Gloomy prospects for Sierra Leone: A correspondent reports on the annual banquet speech of the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone—a new Governorthis year, Mr. A. S. C. Johnson- and the response of the Minister of Finance, Mr. Francis Minah. ■ Land of disenchantment:In the second of two articles on Senegal's crises a correspondent looks this week at the political tensions within the country. ■ Colonising Volta valleys: A correspondent looks at some of the problems of over-hasty planning. Development of River basins is a thorny topic in West Africa: the Senegal river projects organised by the OMVS are in trouble ■ Economic and business news: Businessmen and the budget: Great expectations are being placed on Nigeria’s next Budget on April 1as Stanley Macebuh said in his articleItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 3270, 24th March, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1980-03-24) West Africa magazine■ Unanswered questions on Shugaba: The legal arguments that have been produced in a Maiduguri High Court in the case concerning the deportation of Alhaji Shugaba Abdulrahman Darman, the GNPP majority leader in the Bomo StateAssembly, are of great complexity ■ President Shagari replies:The President of Nigeria answers questions submitted by West Africa ■ Action on the Niger: President Sèkou Tourè made a speech recently on the implementation of the objectives of the recently created Niger River commission ■ Imperialism and the Volta Dam: A correspondent in the first of three articles analyses the politics and economics behind Ghana’s Volta Dam project ■ Books and publications: Nigerian indicator: Nigeria's leadership role in Africa by Joseph Wayas ■ Economic and business news: Fateful days of coca: Some sharp skirmishes are impending in the world of Cocoa and if the outcome from them is not satisfactory they could lead to some major battles in the years aheadItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 3282, 16th June, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd., 1980-06-16) West Africa magazine■ Options for South Africa: It has been a bad few weeks for the racialist South African rulers. The destruction of over £3m worth of oil-from- coal installation was the most successful act of sabotage ■ Problems that food aid creates: Alex Rondos analyses, with particular reference to the cases of Mali and Cape Verde. The relation between food aid and agricultural development ■ President Stevens reviews the year: President stake a Stevens of Sierra Leone at the state opening of parliament in Freetown on June 6, looked forward to the holding of the OAU summit ■ Mauritanian outlook: The author of this IMF Survey report feels that withdrawal from the Western Saharan conflict and an improvement in trade last year brightened the country’s prospects for 1980 ■ Books and publications: A dam mistake? The Volta river project, a case study in politics and technology's by David Hart ■ Problems of publishing in African languages: Hans M. Zell, editor and publisher of the African Book Publishing Record, delivered this paper to a meeting of the American African Studies Association in Los Angeles last November. ■ Four peoms by Demola Araoye: Reaction to the post-mortem; Elegg for the unsung heroes; Eko ( looking back from Yauri); Newsy silence ■ Economic and business news: Talking about trading: The annual general meeting of the London chapter of the Nigerian British chamber of commerce ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Limann stands firm on constitution: President Hilla Limann declared during a closed session of the People's National Party Congress in Kumasi that he had sworn before God and the nation to defend the constitution and would defend it.Item Open Access NEW Era Magazine vol. 2. no 2, English & Hausa National Monthly Magazine April, 1972.(Kano( No 26, Niger Road, P. O. Box 722): Oluseyi Press Limited, 1972-04) Edited by Dr. Omoh Esiemokai■ Kaduna Guinness Ophthalmic unit: More hope for the blind: The great day was February 23, 1972 in Kaduna, the capital of the North Central State ■ The world of science: New discovery in radio technology: Severally it has been that Nigeria requires men educated in field ov science and technology ■ Re-incarnation: Choose your sex in the next world by Eagle Chinagorom: The enigma of re-incarnation has defied Anthropolo gists since mankind started his quest for knowledge. ■ Destiny through perseverance by Rakiya Jose: It is of great importance that one lives comfortably and in luxuary, but it depends on the way one gets at it. ■ Is the idea of an Almighty God the creation of Man's imagination: There have been so many controversies about the existence of an Almighty God, His image and likeness that I feel it is worth the trouble trying to find out. ■ History repeats itself by Asabe Madaki: Fashion, nowadays, has ceased to become the sole monopoly of the ladies. Hot, potato pants, midis, maxis, see-through minis are the ‘Talk of the Town!.’Item Open Access West Africa Magazine 3272, 7th April, 1980(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd., 1980-04-07) West Africa magazine■ Political role for Rawlings: A long interview given by Flight-Lieutenant J. J. Rawlings to the people's evening news of Accra contained this significant paragraph: “I believe June 4 in the Forces will find its counterpart in the civilian sector of society. ■ Time for UN action on Chad: While some African leaders are calling for an end to the bitter fighting in Chad the one symbol which have given weight to their calls has been removed from Chad ■ Behind the strike call in Liberia: A correspondent discusses the background to the PPP call for a general strike, the subsequent arrests and President Tolbert s statement ■ Tribute to a leader of the Tiv: Martin Dent describes the qualities and recalls the career of Senator Joseph Sarwuan Tarka, who died in London last week. ■ Conservation means development by John Madeley: The world conservation strategy which has just been launched by the United Nations environment programme and other organisations is likely to have a considerable influence on the way that people and governments think about development ■ Books and publications: The importance of African music: African Rhythms and African Sensibility by John Miller Chernoff ■ A dictionary of modern idioms: Longmans dictionary of English idioms: This is a remarkable compilation covering more than 4,500 idioms and possible variations on them ■ Economic and business news: Approach to science: As Africa went into the third United Nations development decade last month's meeting in Addis Ababa ■ Dateline Africa:Chad: No lull in N'Djamena fighting continues in spite of the appeals from African heads of statesItem Open Access West Africa Magazine 2709, Saturday 3rd May, 1969(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd., 1969-05-03) West Africa magazine■ After de Gaulle: The place of foreign policy in General de Gaulle's years of power has been so significant that his departure from office in a strange act of political gambling ■ The great decoloniser: To look for a companion to de Gaulle in English-speaking Africa, you have to find a compound of Queen Victoria Winston Churchill ■ Cocoa After the Deluge: Delegates to the Cocoa Producers' Alliance, meeting in the territory of the Alliance’s most productive member state, were naturally promised visits to Ghana’s cocoa growing areas. ■ Books and publications: Nana of the River: Merchant Prince of the Niger Delta by Obaro Ikime ■ Commercial news: Shippers optimistic: Our Liverpool correspondent writes: Trade with West Africa in the first five months of this year will be 20 per cent up on the corresponding period of last year, the United Kingdom—West African Line joint service ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Politics decree: CPP leaders banned: A decree permitting the revival of political parties was published on April 28. ■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Biafra retake Owerri: Owerri, the important crossroads town captured from the Biafrans by Federal forces of the 3rd (Marine commando) division last SeptemberItem Open Access NEW Era Magazine vol. 2, no. 2, English & Hausa National Monthly Magazine May, 1972.(Kano( No. 26, Niger Road, P. O. Box 722): Oluseyi Press Limited, 1972-05) Edited by Dr. Omoh Esiemokai■ Concept of God in Islam: In your April issue, 1972 in which you explained your Painstaking investigation into the existence of God, ■ Evils of gambling: by Uyi Stephens: There is no doubt that one of the most serious social problems facing the country at present is GAMBLING. ■ Great footballers in world soccer history: The first trilogy in six instalments Pele of Brazil: Di Stefano of Spain: Charlton of England ■ Nawab challenge the near impossible: 105 hours fantastic show of endurance ■ The success story of Alhaji Goni Askira: The last two decades have produce! a new generation of indigenous businessmen in Nigeria. ■ How Malam Abdu Dutse's furniture enterprise grew from grass to grace: Today business in Nigeria is expanding rapidly. The establishment of companies and industries is now the order of the day.Item Open Access NEW Era Magazine vol. 2. no 3, English & Hausa National Monthly Magazine June 1972.(Kano( No 26, Niger Road, P. O. Box 722): Oluseyi Press Limited, 1972-06) Edited by Dr. Omoh Esiemokai■ Great footballers in world soccer history by Eagle Chinagorom ■ Meet the Dantatas: An affluent dynasty by Eagle Chinagorom: The contributions of the Dantatas to the nation and the society are immense. It is estimated that the enterprises bea ring the Dantata name employs about 1,600 Nigerians. ■ You will be paid in your own by Bola Adenuga: The youths must now learn at least a lesson each from the past happenings. ■ Aminu Ishola: The bizman who knows what he wants and works hard for it: Mr. Aminu Ishola, managing director, Owoni boys technical service ■ Sex industry: A growing commercial enterprise in Nigeria: If any of our forefathers were to resurrect today, he would be awed by the changes in our present age. ■ From our overseas desk: Mohamed Booth reporting in the crossword puzzle nation where Dr. Aggrey wouldn't go