■ Russia in Africa: Alone among those of non-African states, the government of the Soviet Union has never faltered in giving com plete support to Nigeria’s Federal Government during the conflict with Biafra ■ The Russians in Nigeria: Victoria Island is now becoming one of the enclaves in the Nigerian capital. The India, Danes, French and West Germans are all there and the Italians ars in the course of building a new embassy ■ ECA's next ten years: Opening the ninth-full meeting of the UN Economic commission for Africa in Addis Ababa this month ■ Dialogue at Ife: Last year Nigerian administration and it's political setting the book edited by Adebayo Adedeji was reviewed in West Africa (December 14) ■ Books and publications: C.P.P. and C.P.SU. Modernisation in Ghana and the USSR by Robert E. Dowse ■ Commercial news: Kainji dam opened: The Niger dam at Kainji was opened on Feb 15 by Gen. Gowon head of the Federal military government ■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Assembly discusses first clauses: Mr. S. G. Antor former leader of the Togoland Congress which advocated the union of all Ewes in both French Togo and British Togoland