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Item Open Access West Africa magazine no. 2893, 20th November, 1972(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd., 1972-11-20) West Africa magazine■ Soldiers,chiefs and politicians: Men such ad Leopold Sedar Sengho whose remarkable address at the University is reported ■ Senghor at Ife: a report from our special correspondent- Flying in the early morning from the Harmattan-dried plains of Kano ■ Books and publications: The Cronje chronicle- The world and Nigeria by Suzanne Cronje ■ Ghana's subversion trial: The defence and the prosecution at the subversion trial have ended their closing addresses and the military tribunal has passed its verdict. ■ Commercial news: West African Cocoa production down ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana tribunal verdict- The military tribunal has declared a verdict of guilty against all nineItem Open Access West Africa magazine no. 2899, 1st January, 1973(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd., 1973-01-01) West Africa magazine■ Senghor seeks an opposition: Senghor and the State of Senegal ■ USSR in Africa now: ■ Matchet in the Gambia: ■ Can Ghana pay her debts? To assist Ghana to bring into production two sugar processing plants built by East European countries ■ Kano greets a President: "Who would ever believe that there had been a civil war in this country" said one of President Senghor's entourage during the Senegalese leader's visit to Kano. ■ Books and publications: Realism from the Russians- Soviet policy toward black Africa by Helen Desfosses Cohn ■ Developing an African economy: In the second of his articles on the planning of Nigeria's economic development. Dr. Green Nwankwo, no associate Professor in the Department of Finance in the University of Lagos, continues his discussion of the problems of planning ■ Commercial news: UK's new move on Aid- Select Committee on foreign aid is to be estab lished by the British govern ment. Sir Bernard Brainc, MP,Item Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 1, no.9 February, 1973(Lagos state(35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1973-02) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ Nigeria tomorrow: Africa games Round-up: To pretend that all was well, with that games, particularly reading from the confused nature of the progra mming, expensive meals and drinks, together with the games costly tickets are wrong ■ Entertainment: Osibisa latest: In our December issue we pub lished a pre-view on Osibisa's tour of West Africa. Mr. Tony Amadi, the Public Relations Director and Co Ordinator of Baba Artists, wrote then why the Osibisa's cannot but capture Africa. ■ International scene: Haiti: A 20-year old president When Papa Doc died in 1971, his eighteen-year old son, 'Baby Doc' assumed powers as the Seventh Haitian President for life. This was according to the will of his Voodoo ridden father who had ferociously ruled Haiti for twenty-two years. ■ Sex forum: Future of marriage: Our female contributor, BOK, investigated the various factors that are now working against marriage. ■ Newbreed personality: J. S. Tarka The history of Nigeria's power may be incomplete without mentioning the five-footer Grade Teacher, who in 1954 packed his chalk and the board to and the call of political history; that's Joseph Sarwuan Tarka.Item Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Nigeria's foremost News Magazine Every Fortnightly vol. 4, no.1, May, 1991(Lagos state( Plot 14, Western Avenue, Alaka Estate, P.O.Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1991-05) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ David-West: More scandal: December 1990, Newbreed was the only medium that cared to labour through the over 2,000 pages of the Daily Proceed ings, Judgements and Exhibits of the celebrated trial of Prof.Tam David-West, renowned virologist and former Minister of Petroleum Resources. ■ International: Stopping Arms Flow to the Third World In the aftermath ofGulfwar and with the thaw in the Cold War, the West is emphasising on existing arrangements to limit arms proliferation in the third world. ■ News: Awo Died of Frustration- SOLARIN: Two to three weeks before his death on May 9,1987, the late elder states man, and leader of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), Chief Obafemi Awolowo, shut out people in his inner circle. ■ Politics: To Jubril Aminu, An Invitation The northern caucus ofthe NationalRepublican Convention lobbies a man they believe to be the natural successor to Ahmadu Bello to enter the race to rule Nigeria, ■ Arts Book Review: The Asian Experience in book reviewEast Africa: Title = The Gunny Sack, Author = M. G. Vassanji, Reviewer = Maya Jaggi ■ Society: A Goldmine For The Talented: Disadvantaged and Talented Children get financial assistance from philanthropists impressed by the first lady's concert for them ■ Society: No to Rehabilitation Government faces problems as more and more beggars fill the streets refusing to move into dilapidated Rehabilitation centres ■ Society: To the Tiv, Unity Orchivirigh Alfred Akawe Torkula’s ascension promises to bring the polarised Tiv together ■ Showbusiness: Michael Jackson Comes Back in N12 billion Deal Jackson on issaid to be getting around $60million, with $5million up-frontfor his next album and more than 20 per cent royaltiesItem Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Nigeria's foremost News Magazine Every Fortnight vol. 3, no. 16. 15th April, 1991(Lagos state( Plot 14, Western Avenue, Alaka Estate, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1991-04-15) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ Cover: Johnson,Taylor: The untold story of two killers: Prince Yormie Johnson’s recent denial of allegations that he kil led his Nigerian aide, Mr. Emma Obuke, has been challenged by insiders who claim that such an act is just what the mercurial Liberian rebel leaderis capable of perpetrating. ■ Interview: It is a change not a distortion- Gado Nasko ■ Cover: Awotunsin, Imodibie's killer executed: Charles Taylor’s henchman, Putu Major, the man who was said to have murdered the two Nigerian Journalists in Liberia (Tayo Awotunsin and Krees Imodibie) is no more. ■ Cover: Another Blow For Liberia: Liberia already torn asunder by a savage civil war which has de stroyed its economy, is now trapped in a macabre drama which threatens to deplete the nation’s fast vanishing finances even further. ■ Politics: NRC begins mending fences in Anambra: As the political reality on the ground begins to unfold nationwide, following the re cent victory of social democrats over republicans at the December 8,1990 local government elections, ■ Society: So long prohibition: Soldiers and Wives flood Nigerian Market with banned Rice: Contrary to the brief of their jobs security agents in the country whose duty it is to control and check the influx of contraband food items into the country ■ PMAN'S night of missing stars: This year's Nigerian music award night has come and gone. Like last year's and it's maiden edition ■ Metroline still to wait: Commuters relief not in sight as Rasaki shifts metro funding private sector: Urban transportion in Lagos may collapse by the close of the century unless the multi million naira metroline project in the state is reviewed ■ Interview: We Are Moving With The National - Garba Duba As part ofthe restructuring exercise currently going on in the armed forces, the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is fine-tuning its training programmes in order to ensure that the Nigerian military officer of today is abreast with the challenges of modern Soldiering. ■ International: Gearing up for world’s biggest re-construction job: Rebuilding Kuwait will take at least decade and will cost billions ofdollars. It will be an enormous task— and the major international Firms get a slice of the work. ■ Sport: Return ofMunich: Terrorists May Disrupt All-African Games: The biggest sports event in Africa, the All-African Games billed for Cairo, Egypt, in September, may be stormed by terrorists.Item Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Nigeria's foremost News Magazine Every Fortnight 1st April , 1991(Lagos state (Plot 14, Western Avenue, Alaka Estate, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1991-04-01) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ Cover: Why Oyakhilome was removed: The former chairman of the National Drug Law Enforce ment Agency (NDLEA) would not have expected to end his career as a drug fighter in this manner, ■ Interview: I never knew it would lead to this: Newbreed’s interview with Fidelis Oyakhilome on his association with Jennifer ■ Everybody Uses Oyakhilome’s Name — Source X: Source X is a middle aged man who is me of the actors in the on going Oyakhilome-Jennifer Madike drug saga. ■ Cover: Shoot-out At Odilibe’s House: Policeman, nightguard wounded: Barely four months before Greg Odilibe fell into the dragnet purportedly set for him by the National Drug Law Enforce ment Agency (NDLEA) last October, his younger and more wealthy brother, Sunny Odilibe who is said to be in his late twen ties was embroiled in a controversy of his own. ■ Nation: Commercial Enterprises Stall Abuja’s Development: Industrial organisations and com mercial enterprises have been identified as part of the draw back to the full development of the new Federal Capital, Abuja. ■ News: NDA Braces Up for professionalism: One immediate fall-out of the current purge of personnel from the armed forces is the drastic reduction in the num ber of Cadets to be admitted into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), the only institution in the country ■ Environment: Inferno in the Desert: An awesome battle looms in the Kuwaiti desert to quell the fires raging at some 600 oil wells sabotaged by retreating Iraqi troops. The job will cost many millions of dollars, and experts fear it could cost human lives too. ■ Scene: Kubwa hill centre of the nation: Speculations and arguments as to whether the newly developed capital of the nation, Abuja, is actually situated in the middle of Nigeria. has generated national con oversy since the decision was taken to move the capital, fifteen years ago. ■ Sports: End in Sight for Maradona: Still, at his best, the most breathtaking talent in world foot ball, Diego Maradona is today an unhappy man. His club, Napoli, is suing him, vice police are investigating him and Maradona, now 30, says he’s going to get out of professional football ■ Snapshots: For Augustus —a feather: Vice President Augustus Aikhomu, a man who moves with the wind...But yet directs the wind. 51, added yet another bright feather to his privileged cap on Monday ■ Snapshots: A capful of millions: NIPSS Alumni launch endowment to uplift Kuru ■ Health: Malaria Here To Stay: Without improved sanitary conditions and greater public enlightenment, ma laria promises to retain its number one (1) position as the prime cause of absenteeism and low pro ductivity among students and workers.Item Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 3, no. 7 December, 1974(Lagos state (35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1974-12-07) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ The war on corruption - Who will bell the cat? NEWBREED subscribes to the view that the war on corruption could be won if we are sincere and practical about it. Who to bell the cat? The process of finding such a personality; ■ The whole truth about revenue allocation: In a Federal system of government, the problem arises how to achieve fairness in revenue matters between the centre and the states on one hand, and between the different States on the other. ■ Muhammed Ali: Champion and still Champion: October 30 established the date when the legendary Muhammed Ali knocked out in eight rounds odds on-favourite George Foreman in a world heavyweight boxing fight watched by millions of viewers all over the world. ■ Jackson five tours Africa: Motown comes home to Africa, but not so many of its world-famed artists. So it was that when in March the Jackson Five, easily the youngest; the most popular and successful of the groups recording under the Motown labelItem Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 2, no.10 March, 1974(Lagos state( 35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1974-03-10) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ Can the independence of Guinea Bissau be sustained. By our Political Analyst: The proclamation of the birth of Guinea Bissau albeit unilaterally by the P.A.I.G.C. on 23rd September 1973 was one of the most courageous acts of an oppressed indi genous people in modern Africa’s political history ■ Newbreed politics: 1976: Why the military should continue: 1976 is the target date the military voluntarily indicated as a possibility to hand over power to civilian politicians. ■ International scene: The world wide oil for arms scramble: As all the giant industrialised nations of the world brood hopelessly in the chil ling pool of the Arab oil squeeze, a new and potentially dangerous dimension in the pattern of international trade is begin ning to emerge—the "arms for oil" deals ■ The crisis of surplus women: MrsMary Babalola:Perhaps, one of the biggest setbacks to a place! There are so many sweet birds the women liberation movement in this about that you don't know which one to country today could be found in the pheno- choose". I answered him over my shoul menon called "Women Explosion". ■ Entertainment: The blues comes to Lagos: Sunday, the 25th day of November 1973 and Lagos, ever in search of new thrills, was listening to "The Thrill is Gone". The blues had come to Lagos in the person of the master of the art, Riley B. King, popularly known as B.B. King. B.B. had been to some African countries on a tourItem Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 2, no.9 February, 1974(Lagos state (35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1974-02) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ Newbreed politics: The war for economic justice in Nigeria by Olu Akaraogun: If the utterances of certain members of the Nigerian plutocratic elite are to be believed, there may be a change for the better, in the indeterminate future, for the poor and dispossessed Nigerian masses. ■ International scene: Ali defeat frazier in fight of the century: Before the superfight II, the contest of the century (Ali Vs. Frazier), Ali promi sed that he was going to put Joe Frazier's (smoking Joe) light out as part of his contribution to the energy crisis. ■ What married couples don't know about sex by Miss Febisola Akintelure: Much has been written about sex and the role of sex in the lives of a couple that very little is now left to be desired. We all know that to love and to be loved is an essential aspect of human nature. ■ Essay: Pan-Africanism some recent development: The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as it emerged in 1963 was a child of compromise. Before 1963, two broad political divisions were evident on the African scene. ■ Nigerian notes: Politics of the Nigerian iron and steel industry: As far back as 1952, Nigeria had been making preparations for the establishment of an Iron and Steel Industry. ■ Newbreed interview: Gentleman Mbu by Chris Okolie: Mathew Mbu an Ogoja man in South Eastern State of Nigeria entered politics with only little qualification above Stan dard Six, the matriculation. At the age 24, he won his first election under the candidacy of N.C.N.C. ■ Entertainment: The Pop generation: Conclusion of the counter culture serial: The pop revolution in music is a fairly recent phenomenon. If I were asked to put an arbitrary date on when the revolu tion erupted, I would say the middle 1950’s.Item Open Access NEWBREED Magazine: Africa's first Quality Magazine for Newbreed People vol. 2, no.8 January, 1974(Lagos state (35 Ogunlana Drive, P.O. Box 5414): New Breed Organisation Limited,, 1974-01) Edited by Chris Madu Abrochukwu Okolie■ Newbreed politics: The panacea for national upliftment and national unity in post military Nigeria by Chris Okolie: Despite several assurances to the con trary, it is still a matter for debate as to whether or not we shall ever have a post military Nigeria, that is a Nigeria in which public affairs would be run entirely by civilian politicians, while the Armed Forces would be confined to their barracks doing purely military duties. ■ The attitude of African states towards the middle east conflict: War is regarded by people of the Malthusian school of thought as a biolo gical necessity and a means of averting the dangers of over-population. ■ International scene: Petroleum and the middle-east war by Olu Akaraogun: Shortly before the outbreak of the last war in the Middle East, the countries represented in the Organisation of Petro leum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had made clear their intention to renegotiate the various agreements (Teheran, Libya and Lagos) which they had with the Western Oil Companies in 1971. ■ Nigerian notes: The golden 50ties by Alhaji Ishola Akindele-Eleku: If you are not in the class of the new rich in Nigeria who find life rather swinging in this era of Naira ■ Sex forum: Employment of housewives-a threat to marriage equilibrium: by James Egbuchulam ■ Entertainment: What kind of man is Africa shrine Chief priest Fela Ransome Kuti: “I don’t know what other people feel about it, but to me-this Afro-beat music is sacred”. That was Fela Ransome-Kuti during a rapping session at his house in Idi-Oro together with some of his close friends.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 government