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Diplomatic Baggage (Part II) How Britain Tried to Get Dikko out of London Diplomatic Baggage (Part II) How Britain tried to get Dikko Out of London FORCES AINST Saudi Arabia RisICOO Germany DM3.50 CFA Zone 500 ^^A $3 50 Zimbabwe $1.30 France 13F Kenya Sh 20 UK £1 50 The Gambia D4 Liberia .. L$ 2.00 Be sure your Anchor holds a Solid Rock In times like these, when the financial climate is rough and uncertain, you need Citizens Bank to anchor onto. Introducing Citizens Anchor Account. 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PNL aapn/0038 Outline FEBRUARY 13,1995 NIGERIA’S WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE VOL. 21 NO. 7 Nigeria: Cover: 12 Umaru Dikko advocates defence pact with a Super Power as a way out of frequent military The Unforgiven intervention in Nigeria's politics • The Nigeria Union of Teachers The Yoruba and the Igbo suspends its nation-wide strike but the problem with the face a difficult task of education system lingers • The building a bridge over a Nigeria Medical Association and gap created by factors of the Confederation of African history, politics and hatred Medical Association wash their dirty linen in public Africa: Warlords in Liberia's civil war once again fail to give peace a Business + chance in their war-tom country Economy: 27 • A guerrilla warfare in Sierra Leone threatens the government Haven for of Valentine Strasser Fraudsters Business + Economy: 31 Savannah Bank of Nigeria Pic is certified "technically States' budgets for 1995 fiscal year insolvent" by the Central reflect their various economic Bankfollowingwide-spread capacities and developmental malpractices by directors, needs management and staff 6 Letters Special 7 Cartoon Section: 35 8 Osundare 9 Editorial Suite 11 Essay Diplomatic 32 Sports Baggage 33 Book Review Cover MOSSAD and Nigeria: The Dikko Story - Part II Design by Tunde Soyinka Newswatch (ISSN 0189-8892) is published weekly by Newswatch Communications Limited, No. 3 Billings Way (off Secretariat Road), Oregun Industrial Estate, Oregun, P.M.B. 21499, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. 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You should not have overlooked I wish to point out that the informa tion an event which affected the youths in provided in Science/Technology section particular and our nation in general pertaining to the fossil, Lucy, does not adversely. contain the up to date facts. Although Achusi Celestine Chinedu, "until this year the famed Lucy and her Lagos. fellow members of the species, Events of the year 1994 gave insight to Australopithecus afarensis, were the oldest the fact that creation has one eternal God, known members of the human family," but not one temporal destiny. this is not the case any more for "at 4.4 Peter Dominic Anyanzou, million years of age, the newly unearthed Obowo, Imo State. Australopithecus ramidus is the closest link yet (no longer missing) to the common In 1993, Nigerians survived three As we recapture and shudder at those ancestor of apes and humans." different governments. 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