Daily Times Newspaper For October 1st 1960

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THE green an~ wh!te ~ational flag flying at the ~=~rse, Just after mi~~ight when it was. unfurled to N1ger1a's tndependen~,. The ceremon ~41110.wed. by a magmf1.eent fireworks display,..

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PRINCESS ·VISITS EXHIBITION .

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{>Rl1'CESS ALEXANDRA, yesterday had a preview of the fantastic £1,000,000 'Nigeria Exhibition at the Vic•• toria Island, Lagos which depicts the various aspects of Nigerian social, economic and political life. The theme of the exhibition is " Nigeria today and tomorrow."

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by Alhaji ·---Sir Abubakar Tafawa Bale- ever found, and other bronze r, wa, the Prime Minister, Her and metal work.

Royal Highncs~ ~~s welAt the gate of the Northcorned at the Exh_1b11ion_ by ern Pavilion Her Royal Zana., Bu k_a~ . Dipcharima, Highness was' met by Alhaji Federal Minister of Corn- Sir Ahrnadu Bello Sardauna rnerce and lndust~y, who 111• of Sokoto and Premier of troduccd orftcials of the h · · 1 Exhibition to· the Royal visi- No~t ern Nige~ia. On ~er ' tor The first stand to be arrival she was gr~eted with visited by Her Royal High- a fanfare from gaily dressed ness was th~. Federal Govern- tru;npctcrs mounted on cament Pavilion where Mr. mes.

B. B. Fagg. Director of AntiAt the Western Nigerian quitics, explained the various, Pavilion, Her Royal High. exhibits. ness was conducted round "Some of these comprised by. the Regi~n·s Premier. carved works, a seventeenth Chief S. L. Akmtola. century Holy Koran from At the Eastern NigeBornu; ceremonial robes and ria Pavilion, Her Royal regalia from Eastern, West- Highness was conducted ern and Northern Regions: round by Dr. M. I. Okpara, the Jema 'a head - the first Premier of Eastern Nigeria.

NIGERIANS IN GHANA DANCE TO FREEDOM ACCRA, Friday. three hundred guests danced until the early hours of this morning at a grand ball which launched four days of Independence Celebrations by Nigerians in Ghana.

The ball was held in the Great Hall, decorated with the green, white, green colours of Nigeria of Ghana 's University College, at l.egon near Accra, Ghana's Minister of Labour and Co-operatives, Mr. R. 0. Arnuako Atta. the United Kingdom High Commissioner. Sir Arthur Snelling, and other personalities were among the guests.

The Nigerian Cornrnis sioner in Ghana. Chief Kolawole Balogun greeted the guests and later moved among them to chat and toast Nigeria 's Independence.

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PRIME MINISTER RESHUFFLES CABINET

'rffE Prime Minister of Nigeria, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, ycster. day, announced his Cabinet for an Independent Nigeria, with the creation of five new ministerial appointments, The Prime Minister, in addition, ret-•• ins the portfolio of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations. The ne,~ Government will comprise : Alhaji Mohammadu Ribadu, M inistcr or Defence (formerly l.agns Affairs).

Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Minister of Finanee (no chaugcj.

Mr. R.. \. Njoku, Minister of Transport and Aviation (no change).

Alhaji Muhammudu Inuwa Wada, Minister ,,f Works and Survcvs (110 change).

Mr. J. l\'.J. Johnson, \·1 inis-

:tcr of Labour (no change).

Zanna Bukar Dipcbarima, Minister of Commerce and Industry (no change). .

Mr. Aja Nwachnku, M inistcr of Education (no change). . \lhaji Shehu Shagarl, ;\I mister of Pensions (formerly Economic Developmcnrj.,

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Mi~i~ter of Internal . .\if.1ir, (no change).

Maitama~'Sule, J\.I ini,tcr •• t Mines and Power (n,, change).

Mr. T. 0. S. Benson.

Minister of Information (no change).

Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim • Minister of Health (no change.)

Mr. Olu Akinf~e, Sa r k i, Minister of Communications. (no change).

Musa Yar'Adua, Ministrr of Lagos Affairs (formerly Pensions).

J\fr. Ja.ia Wachuku. Mini~ter of Economic Development (formerly Speaker of the House).

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Dr. T. Elias, AttornevGeneral and Minister ~,( Justice (new Ministry), Mr. M. T. Mbu, and Dr. :\I. A. Majekodunmi, Mini~ters of State in the Minisl, v of Defence (Navy and Arml" respectively).

Dr. E. A. Esin 11nd M. Nuhn Bamalli, Mini\ters of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations [the latter being a ne11 appoint .•. -0

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Mr. M. A. O. Olarewajo.

Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (formerly as~"tmg on Police matters).

Mr. J. C. Obande, !'.\ini~tcr of State in the Prime Minister', om., (new appointment). !I.I inistcr of Srate not of Cabinet rank --- Chief II. 1\1 ini,try of Omo-Osagie, Finance (new appointment).

A ._.-,\:"oiDA, a native drummer, was in the happiest mood when hr was being greeted by Princess Alexandra, t,f Kent, during her short ,·isit to the .~•~eria Exhibition, in Lagos, )'esterday. Others in the picture arc, /.anna Buknr Dipchnrima, 1'ii2eria s Ministtr of Commerce and Industry, and Mr. •· O. S. Benson, Minister of Information. Between the Princess :11d :t.:mn:i Dipcharima, is .\lllilji·Sir Abo!Jakar Tafawu 8,rlc"a, the Prime :O.linis· · :r of .:\ igcria.

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Mr. F. E. Offor. ITr:,n~-· port .1nJ Aviation i.

Mallam Usuman '.\T:titambari, (Wort.., anJ Survcv •.

M:dlmn Usman ,\n~ul~ Ahmed, (C,1111111.:1-.:e J11J. Inuustry).

Chief 0. 0\\elr. [l.abour), Mr. I>. C. ljg\\ u, (Edu.:.tiion), · Mallam limaru "vim, (Mines and Powcr r, Mr. S. I;, Nwik:1. (C,•,•,:nunicationj, Mal~am Ali~·u Zuaeumo.

(Internal AIIai;·,1. ·Mr. ;\I • .\mechi. (lnform:.tion).

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\YHAT is changed by the formal declaration of Nigeria's independence?

If a single reply is needed, it is this: at independence the position of the Prime Minister of the Federation is transformed. He inherits the powers of the Governor-General, who becomes a constitutional monarch. He speaks for Nigeria abroad, and because Nigeria is Africa's most popi,.loµs country, many will also suppose that he speaks for a continent - a continent whose international significance deepens daily, He stands out clearly as Nigeria's most important citizen.

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In most parts of Africa, political success is open to al1 with the necessary talent.

But the:e are still are~s where birth and wealth, if not essential to his success smooth the path of a politician and of nowhere is this mor~ true than of Northern Nigeria. Though the Prime

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We salute the Govenors, Preruiers and Ministers of w the three Regional Governments, .

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1 . · ·~ · ·' ... ·.. ,;:_J · .t,.f, I·' • wJlb •• dftktVw•o obeyed · I . , .1 ae Government and I~· .

IF~. (ff: l!'lldet.ia face· the die . faW M part of their . · , faturt witla confidenctt ilit~t~I kl~~n to uture,,;who knew lad1'?1i1111l · work hard, harder tblllt ey•r IJ.fure to make the U~ttf-i · . : · · ·, country a better place turi ,.. ••• Jt was ·yesterdav He r~turn~d to, ~e. thf ,N.~. . r , · · · - • Education Officet but mev1fwo great assets we have inlierlttd Jioni the Britilb- ·tably became a :nembet of -parliamentary democracy an~ the . nde of the law. the first Northern House ~f • We shall firmly uphold these p~··n~iples. And we Assembly, and was unarnsbaU do more. We ibaJI. a...1«- . onarct the sane- mously elected from t~ere. to • , ,..,,,. .

111-: . the Nigerian Legislative tity of our constitution aa• bur fundamental c_ ouncil, In 1951, he was h11111an rights. . · elected to the new Northern Tile .••0aj1y Tfmes" is tha~. e . ao,d then . to . the ; ·. ~'1'.to wtaobi •Britain I ·. · •h~eri 1J ~\Jse : . 9f. · Rep~~t1yes.· ·_a~-. ottb_·. ·.·.~ !ID ·. .. l , '..;i.: ·, He_ wa~ ~e.·P.U~e. ~m,1pal • • ". . )', Oi; U-,.

• . '. ~ ••••• ·O Centra\. ~m1stm ·1 ihavmg • , Nigen11 ,llJld •••• whoi '1\t' lf•i ·ft>\' •• ear couti· be(n ,1ven ~· , \port• flationa~ clltinte~~ i ,~er·.tlat ·~o~i,iment, ha.e folio II\ January, by their past · ormances proud their ability . ~ · Minister 0~ • , • . m the new Council of M 101sto preserve parliamea~ ~ocracy and the role ters in 1954, he was senior of law and our fundamen~ human rights.

Minister, i~ader of the bigWe assure the Govenunent, ti die= Federation of gest. party m the House. and N" erl f ti ed ·· h · . obviously a man whG could . 1g a o our con nu . 1upport 1n w atever it one day be Prime Minister. does for the peace, happmess and progress of our Like most Northerners of country and people; always reserving the right to his type he had served on criticise its actions when it is in the public interest innum.crable ~oards and to do O comm1ttees. His C.B.E. res • • cognised his status as a H(aJ Offo, We .shall continue, as we have done in the past, to 'public man', and his knight· 16/18 Balogun Squa stimulate the growth of a virile and well-informed hood in this year's New PO re, 8 381 public opinion to sustain our democracy, Year honours. showed that • • os • LONG LIVE 1HE FEDERATION OF NICERIA he was expected to. become Telephone 20409, LAGOS. · • ' · a Commonwealth statesman.

- THE EDITOR. He has supported, and on 111111~

\lgcria, the French bomb and other African issues he is as uncom~romising ~ the most ardent Pa~Af~n, and on th~ co~ten~1ous issue of Israel m Nlgeria he hll!I shown great statesmanship. , . The Prime 1\1 inistcr beuevcs that courteous personal behaviour and respect for each other's organisations can alto •••• parties deeply divided to work together.

'Oneness will come wilh lhe years.' he's answered. And he. points to the example which years ago impressed him deeply in the United Kingdom where p e op I e from different parts get on with each other as soon as they meet; they might be from the same town.' n is because he has no itlusions about the difficulties in tho way of Nigeria's success, and because of his realisation of the greatness of the prize which success will bring. that there is universal confidence in his capacity to steer his team through the con,i,,: years.

I .- . . . . _Tffit :!:. .1: . ; . · · ,..,,., ~'.'ff'!!.: · . , .<. II ANGLO~ FRENCH. f~l~au,.Jllll ~ N.h.tG Al~ji Sir Abubaur llad I .· oo time to lltudy for. a -• •••••. . de!P'ff~ thQSe who' lnew him. I aau durioi bis year .1n London . · · · · 11meml>tre4 that be was a re. I . .•, . . 1 Il · · :

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in indirect rule'. he said. ·11 allows us to retain good tra 1 diu~ms. f ~u\ ~~hor the 0 n_otwn e Native Authonty_ which has th.e. support n.e i t h er 0~ religion nor history, Ending that status }~r~h: most important reAlh .. Si1~t Ab b· . . . iddl aJ~ . b u ''.kar is ~I !111 e erg ut cornrnan · hg :r:arance.. ~e has a 1 tw · e ascetic ace, a~d c ;3r, pel ntratmg eyes. el 0 ten 0 s careworn anc rle"°!n; b~t '!-fter d:•c d~h: eratron ( e 1.s '!- dcl.1he~~tc man) he. breaks mto_ a w idc an~ delightful . smile.

He enjoys Pl!t.tmg his case u~10 compror!!151ngly, though fact hf is the most reasonable O men, and-~~ so~etm,1es. confuse~ cnucs ,. , ith quizzical questions.

He constantly thinks in all-Nigerian terms - even if his thoughts might sometimes depress him and. even if his approach differs from Dr. Nkrumah's, he sees the deep Importance of African unity.

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occasion initiated reform in Minister is an aristocrat in Northern Ni~eria;. but he is appearance and bearing, and sure that drastic change is a man of wide culture, makes pi:op\e unhappy, so he lacks the conventional we are bringing them in graHausa-Fulani aristocratic dually". While in the North, background of the most ,he has o~ten · been thought leaders of the Northern dangerous ,. as he admits People's Congress. His sue- with a sl!uie, he has been cess m Northern politics can attacked m the South bebe attributed entirely to his cause he said what he personal qualifications. thought without equivocaHe was born in 1912; his tion. father was District Head of In the great House of ReLere in Bauc~i, and belonged presentatives debate on th_e to the Jere tnbe. He went. to date for self-government 11 local schools and to Katsina was his quiet announcement College (which has produced t~at he "saw no 'reason why" sa many Northern Nigerian his party (which had hitherleaders) where the Sardauna, to refused to be committed Sh~ttima Kashirn, ~lhaji Isa to a date) _should not agree Kaita and Madakin K~no 10 1959 w~1cb tu~ned the day were among contempor~nes. mto an 1~press1ve national He returned to Bauchi to demonstration.

It was his teach. He was a ~een. athlete motion in the Northern -a runn.er, a high Jumper, Ho,1-1se of Assembly in 1951 and a cncke!er-:--but he was which led to the appointment a very consctentious teacher. of a Joint Select Committee By pnvate study he passed on local government, whose the Senior. Teaeher's Certifi- reccmmendatlons were emcate exam1~at1on ID history. b~d1ed IQ ~ n.ew, law _for He taught. at. a trarning 1'iorthern Nigeria. I believe college until, IQ 1945, he

~:e.:::mall We greet the traders &Jld JJ.-ibt!Mbleb who have I invested money in this countr)' .: as. an ad of faith in the mi.re stai.mtw of ·the·;coiJ..._. .

•.••• -' . , I . . . · ..1,J:jl Yesterday ended 100 yea11 of:Bl!i~ tole In Nigeria.

It bu not been an u4;~ntfuJ ~tiod. -Bat thanks to the tad and politicid m~tiliilJ o, our. leaders 11ened. earnest •••••.•• _ wlio and the British Govenmeaa• ·~md•efl our seemed intenl o.i1. ~· ~ii

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Uncommitted world leaders hold 'summit' NEW YORK, Friday.

LEADERS of the uncommitted world began a five-· Pbwer "summit'' conference here yesterday when the Heads of Government of Ghana, Yugoslavia, lndi11, Indonesia and the United Arab Republic met for the first time in one room. .-

except President Nkrumah.

After one of these meetings, President Sukarno, asked what had been discussed.' replied: "Just listen tomorrow." This led diplomatic observers to speculate that he might be the spokesman for the group when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today.

President Sukarno was meeting the o th er four leaders for the fl rst ti me since he arrived here by air on Thursday to attend the General Assembly. The other leaders, however, had e'l{..1 changed a number of bilate'.5. ral visits in the last Icw days.

Asked whether thev had reached anv conclusions, the Indian leader smiled and ,~·.::--.~SHINGTON. Fridav. answered "Conclusions ? We Af\IERICAN residents 111 just talked things over."

Cuba have been advised He declined to answer any to send their wives and child- other questions. ren to the United States in The five leaders were in view of the attitude of the jocular .in,iod a, they came Cuban Government to the down the ornate staircase at United States, and its past the Yugoslav United Nations treatment -of Americans.vthe mission headquarters.

State Department said yeserMr. Nehru led the gror\· day. followed bv President Suk' f' The State Department said no in his· bemcdallcd darkthere were about 4,500 green uniform with President Americans in Cuba, apart Nkrumah and Marshal Tito from official personnel. walking together and PresiA State Department Press dent Nasser bringing up the officer, Mr. Francis Tully, rear As they all sh.:!::>J.c. said that this year jnore than hands before leaving, Pres1f' .

40 American citizens· had dent Nasser said to Presiden been "detained and harass- Nkrumah: "Tll see you again ed" by Cuban Police. -(R.) in Cairo.t-=Reurcr.

The leaders present were President Tito of Yugoslavia, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru of India, President Sukarno of Indonesia, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of "the U.A.R., and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana The five-Power Heads of Government meeting Ioltowed a series of other conferences at the Yugoslav delegation headquarters between all the Heads o[ Government

Americans in Cuba advised to send milies home

Mjjmil~an triu_?'ph: a'fT Un:ted. Nations ~ UNITED NATIONS, Friday.

HAROLD MACMILLAN, yesterday scored wbaf " many United Nations diplomats described as a great personal triumph when making a dramatic bid for a new spirit of negotiation between East and West. His speech from the rostrum of the General Assembly was hailed in the lobbies as one of the finest heard for many years.

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Stung by Mr. Macmillan's words, Mr. Khrushchev leapt

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to his feet at one point to declare: "Accept · our disarmament proposals and we will accept your controls." At another stage, shouting in Russian. he interjected: "Don't send your spy planes to our country-don't send your U-2's.".

Mr. Macmillan, in a wry aside, simply said: "I would like to have that translated, if I may." , ,I I' · Mr. Khrushchev countered Western applause for Mr. Macmillan's speech at several points by thumping on his desk with both fists clench· ed.

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THE NJIKOKA COUNTY

COUNCIL IS TO SPEND A TOTAL OF £300 FOR THE l:"DEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS IN ITS AREA OF At.,:THORITY: OUT OF THIS SUM £200 WILL BE USED ON FEASTING THE SCHOOL CHLDREN AND uoo sH.\1,{EI_> A_:\~ONC? THE LOCAL COUNCILS WITHIN THE COUNCILS AREA OF AUTHORITY. . d 1 t Announcing this at Njiko- the m_depen ence ce_ e rralea the Secretary of the lions in the OgbDa-.Eg~ma .·1 l\lr T N o Oke- County. Ahoada rvisionC''oun(1. _ · · · · . will take place. buywu, said the celebrations . . . would begin in the county . Highlight« of the celeb_raon October 3.

Irons will include the fi:mg The Ogba-E~?ema ·In- of guns,_ church services, dependence Celebrations Sub- march · pa_st and sports by committee has started clean- school children. baby show, ing UrJ and decorating Omo folk dances and wrestling town 'where all the events of competitions.

"Durin the visits th I paid to ~iger·a S .. ~ 1.

1.. as ;.ee1e ·r' S. ary o . rate, 1 wa S everywhere received with the greatest cordiality and goodwill and made rnanv friends in all parts of the country. ,. r • • So now . \I hen I say that [ sh?tild like lo se~d !11} gr_eetrngs to all my Nigerian friends, I mean not only the leaders and the. notables 11 horn I met r?t111d the conference table in Lagos and Lancaster House •. and who came to my home m London. but a great ~any others who have stayed in my memory.

"I <peak now as a private citizen, and not as a member of Her Majesty's Govern-

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'THE Dean of the Ohio University's Department of Education in the 1 • l!mtcd State~, Dr. F~neis N. Hamblin, has amved in Ibadan on a twoweek educational visit to \Yestern Niaeria. "' Dr, Hnmblin 11 ill studv the progrevs being made iii the traininc of teachers in the Region~ under a project run by t he Western Nigeria Governmcnt jointly with the Ohio L,niYersity and the lntcrna tion.d Co-operation Adrnini-tr.uion of America.

It 11 ill be recalled that in 19~6 Dr. Hamblin came to Nigeria to make plans with Lile Western Nigerian Government and the LC.A. This led to the establishment of the present six-year teacher training project in t958.

Dr. Hamblin will meet the new team of ten American educationists who are at present running the scheme at the Government Teacher Training College in Ibadan.

He will also have discussions with officials of the Ministrv of l.duca t ion. ·

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C.F.A.O. offer their heartiest congratulations to the new Independent Nigeria and her people, and are proud to have contributed toward their development. They will continue to use their vast experience in helping to bring prosperity to· this new Nation.

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"We in Britain pointed the way; we gave what help and adv(1:e we could, But the achievement JS yours. the people of Nigeria, and I congratulate you 011 it with all my heart," .

MR. MACLEOD s111d: "As the successor to Alan Lennox-Beyd (as we still know him), if now falls to me to say 'good-bye to Nigeria [ wish I could have been in Nigeria to say it in person hut this was not possible. and I am glad to know that the Colonial Office is being reprc-

For nearly 100 years C.F.A.O. have materially helped in -the development of ihis West African territory. From small beginnings they have built up a great network of shops and stores bringing products from nil over the world to the Nigerian people.

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BOTH the former and pr+-nt Secretaries of State for the Colonies. Viscount Lennox-Boyd and Mr Jail' Macleod respectively have sent meSS'l"CS of . . . · . .· . · - , '° goodwill to Nigeria on the ~ca~10~ of the country s lndcpenden_ce. B~Hh messages were relayed to Nigeria JO the B.B.C. Programme "Calling Nigeria."

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9.30 a.m. Ceremony of Oathtukiru, h_, the (;oHrnorGc11cral on the Racecourse, Lagos. l 0.15 a.ru, [ndcpendencc CcrcmonJ' on the Racecourse. Lagos.

111.;iO a.111. Ministerial Drh·c round Lagos an<l Official opening of the lga of the ()ha of Lagos by the Prime :\ Iinister, · 5 p.m, Ottidal opening of ii,~ Nil!cria b,hihitiun h 1· I he Prime '.\ Iiuister nnd ddi,, r.1 of a messa)!:!

10.1 ally lo the Priutc , 1 :ni,tcr h~ the llo, s Brii.:ad,· from all part~ or lhc l'c<lcrat:on. p.rn, Onward, traditional <l::nn·~ on the Racecourve, l.a:!m, and in all hotels an<l clubs, 8.30 p.m. Prime :\linister's dinner purtv, 9 p.111. Slak Ball al the Federal l'abt•-, I Intl'! inelu, dir,t: :, Caharct hy "iigerian ,\r1;,1s.

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sented at. your celebrations by my friend and colleague. the Minister of State, Lord 1,,<f.t h . . [he connection between my office and your _cou~try rs not. lo~g. a~ h1ston~n~ count tune, yet only srxty years ~ most frn:ndly cooperative and fruitful relationship has developed, "Now that Nigeria has hecome a sovereign country. .md an independent member of the Commonwealth, I look forward to our friendship .leepening and enduring ....

"I would like to send to each and every one of you. our warmest good wishes in the opportunities which now lie ahead."

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He entered , the Provincial School .vecy, 1,ate partly because . he b~p _to finish his Koranic ed1,1fat10n first and partly : because it was not thought necessary earlier, He . later entered that · T rammr; · · C o II ege K atsina where he passed out with fly. ing colours in 1930 his best bi t b · E '1· h d SU jec s emg ng IS an ma th ema tiics w hire h h e I a t er taught from 1931 to 1934 at the Sokoto Middle School.

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of Rabbah: His name is on record as one w~o helped to ~evelop the agnculturi and h~e • cf th: peop!e 0~ the distri~t. This, he did !!'rough practical demonstration to th local farmers aocl the F 0el • of th ams e area.

Four years later, he was made the Sardauna of Sokoto and Member of the Sokoto Native Authority Councii. Thi_s wa_s ':"here .he came lo. acouire . . · . his trrgenuity . . in a~mmrstrat1?n and public relations. He is well ~eloved by people who come m coo. . tact with him because h he w~s prepared ~o help t em with good advice.

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bAssemblyth ufinoppMo~e?· He ecame e rst mister of Works, Northern Nigeria.

Following changes in 1953 Alhaji Sir Ahmadu was a~ pointed the Minister for Local Government and Com. munity Development as well as Head of Government· Business.

• During furthe_r constitn· honal changes m October, · 195~. Alha]! Sir Ahmado i became the Region's first Premier, A L d f th N th s ea er o •• e or ern .

People's Congress, be led his I team to many constitutional I talks in both Nigeria and the , United Kingdom.

He made I his sixth "Hajj" - Holy · pilgrimage to Mecca. early : , this year, He . is ~·.idely j travelled , • . and ~ n_as . . visited . ! Egypt, !--1by~ oy na, ~eba· . non, fo.• q, ve~many ;taly, 1 Holland and Switzerland and h d f ! recently tatcs o . · t I\! nite America, He was awarded the C.B.E. for improving local gover ment in the North and «: p knighted in 1959.

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J..adoke Ak irltola, lawyer, by reputation on the public independence." .vfrcr leaving, 'the H:q,1:,1 rnent.

The Premier al-o h:,, ..c'l 11ewspaperm:rn, teacher, poll- platform or m the Press are Chief Akintola docs not.

C4.l!kge in Ozbom.r-ho ill' tician, Chief and now Premier always surprised to find him however, hold out much 1:111gh-t at the· fiapti,r Acu- impressive record ,,r J,-"_,l _Nigeria's fast-growing, so c~ncil~atory ~nd under- hope or faith in a United 1kmy in Lagos (r,.•m J ,1_;0 successes, not only in l'rl •.:.ice practice but also in ,:rie bustling Western Region. standmg 10 practice.

States of Africa. "After a11.·· to 19-C. l-edera! Legislature ,, here ;rn;: Fifty-year-old S.L.A., as S.L.A. is a fervent nation- he quipped, "I don't think . .

Heleft hi, teaching proserved as Principal I ~I he's popularly called, has alist, Before assuming the the world is ready for more agriculture, We have dev,_scd f cs-ion to accept the editorAdviser to the House liJl emerged from Nigeria's Premiership of Western than one USA at a time." a five-year _plan that rcalistiptrnggle for independence Nigeria, he was Federal He considers, rather, that ~ally appraises what we need ship of the "Daily Service" in Representatives.

In 1958, he introduced .ll:11 as one of the most promising Minister of Labour, Federal a loosely knit Common- ,ind. what w~ can expect t_o Lagos to which he brought an leaders on the African scene. Minister of Health and wealth of African nations achieve within our econonuc impressively successful hack- historic motion to Ct'l..i1:b>l11 ground of freelance writing. Nigerians to be appo •• :1.:J A man of keen intelligence eventually Federal Minister would be more beneficial in framework.

While \I ith the "Service." he Queen's Counsel, l he ,u.:.::•• and a "straight shooter," of Communications and rclaxi~g trade, travel and "Our social amenities arc founded "Irohln Yoruba." a of the motion is :,ttril>SlicJ S.L.A. is respected by friends Aviation. economic barriers. excellent. We arc the only vernacular newspaper which t<> the authoritative . .:amr~rand foes alike. He is, withHis wide experience in The members of the Afri- Region in Nigeria which ha, is still flourishing today. ent manner in whi,·!1 (. b,-f out dou~t: ~Jne of the shrew- administration, plus a period can Commonwealt~ _would free. education and f_rce Jn 19-16, the British Coun- Akintola jirescnted it. dest politicians on the con- as Leader of the Opposition be free to stay I\ 1th111 the medical treatment for childcil awarded him a scholarChief Akintola, a «k-olrd tinent, a political realise who in the Federal Parliament economic and political rcn up to the age of .18, sincerely believes that poli- made him the logical choic~ frarnew ork of Great Britain.

"Western Nigeria may we! ship to study in the United family man, married .\Ii<,, tics really matter. for Premier of the Western France. or other European be called a Welfare State tha: Kingdom .. He studied both al F.mily Federera A"mllOlo.. • Barnet House and Lincoln's trained nurse and qlllllli&c4 Active in Nigerian politics Region.

A post he was powers if they so chose. works." in 19J5, llle7 since 1951, Chief Akintola sworn-in into earty January. "we've struggled too hard Chier Akintola was born Inn and Wai called to the dressmaker have five children. has. been charged with every Premier Akintola has in- for our independence," the on J'l!Y 10, 1910 at Ogbomo· Bar in 19-N.

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His credo is that when one disagrees one should say so m no uncertain terms. He never permits anyone to get awav with fal,e claims, wild s1atcmrnts or procrastination. To S.L:\. politics is not a game hut the serious business of nation-building.

1:J1~ twinkling eyes. bright smile and ready witt tend lo disconcert the unwary.

For Chief Ak iuto!a, a naturally grcf::,ri,nr, personality, is al,o :, ,k,JkJ public speaker and a master of invective who never hesitates to call a spade a spade, His fearkss outspoken criticisms of what· he considers unhealthy tendencies in the development of the country have revealed him as a man who is completely disinterested in building up personal popularity,

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Chief Obafemi Awolowo Federal Leader of the Opposition since the general elections last December - a Western Region which is not only administratively cornpetent and financially stable but which has set the pace for all Nigeria in most fields of human endeavour.

His task is to build on these solid foundations and to inaugurate a massive agricultural and industrial revolution. That he is more than equal to this formidable job. there Is no doubt.

The Premier, his face furrowed by deer "Eke" or tribal scars. his voice high and musically penetrating, has definite ideas on what the future should hold not only for .hi-, "" n Region and country but for all of Africa as well.

'The countries of Africa," he said recently, "are united on two point.Ii if nolhin~ else. First, al( of -us arc opposed to· .· colooialism.

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"You . slate that 'South each Commonwealth mem\\l:st-:\11.i,a is a burning ber was free to decide as to i· -ue . . !M many members its form of government.

•. r the United Nations· and He expressed his surprise , ou refer to •'the awkward that the "otherwise staid and :1uc,1inn,· which will be put sedate''. "Ti~es" shoul~ int,, me here (al the United dulge ID an orgy of vitupe"··!1nn<·1 Mr. 1 ouw wrote ration which is curiously iu a letter published in the akin to the Khrushchev•· J 11m,··.

Nkrumah outbursts in the ·1 woul.] add that per- United. Nations Assembly li•'llally I 11;i1c Jillie doubt last Fnday.-Reuler. tlut the 1i11u11g of your two t·,111.11 ial, \\ ;,, intended also 1,1 i11n11c11,·c the re-ult of the r,-p::bl1c'.111 rcfvrcuduru 1, hich FREETOWN, Friday.

1, iii take pLt,·c in South ~FRIC,vNISATION OF 1\fr:ca 0;1 Oct.ibci 5. ~ THE SIERRA LEONE "In thi-, conucvion. it is CIVIL SERVICE AND GOrcrh.1p, ·wcc,\.11"\ 1,1 remind VERNMENT IS NOW ~·lll th:d the .reccnt confc- UNDER WAY, IN PRE; cnce of Commonwealth PARATION FOR THE J>ri111c I\! ini,t,·h dcc·idc<l that COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE NEXT APRIL, ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT HERE. S·\I l\Bl;RY .. l-ridav.

About 60 per cent of the \\11.LIA\I H.\RPEI{, senior Civil Service posts are · Leader of rhc Opposi- filled by Africans, the re1;,111 in the Southern Rhodeport said, and there are 89 ~1.111 I er ritur i«! Purliamcnt , Government scholarship ~:, 1,I i."t night that if the Land holders whose present train1\pp.i11111m·1it Act was re- ing overseas should equip r,-;1kd .. t.iu le Rock "ill look them for government posts. hl.c a tc.i narty." -Reuter.

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;wazffr~:~o~~!sit~:oci;tf~~ in South Africa, has been ban~ed by the Minister, . of Justice, Mr .. F. C. ~rasmus from attending meetings for five years and barred from t~kmg . part ID _29 orgamzations, it was disclosed here last night The order _was made under the Suppression of Communism Act. It is the second such ban on Mr. Maseko.

•• In 1~~2 he was officially named· as a member of and an active supporter of the Communist Party. Two years later he was banned for five years from attending meetmgs. - Reuter.

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(over half of them to overseas establishments) have been awarded for the new academic year. In addition · ten local candidates are in training for Foreign Service.

The Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, has stated that those overseas officials who are willing to stay on working with the Government and help the country would be welcome to do so.

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South West Africa is·--administered by S o u t h in association with the GoAfrica °l;inder an old League vernrnent of Ethiopia intends of Nations' mandate.

The to file a contentious proUnited Nations has repeated- ceeding against the Union of ly asked the Union Govern- South Africa with th~ Interment to place- the former national Court of Justice and Germany colony under its it is our sincere. hope that trusteeship system, but South the court will give this matAfrica has declined to do so. ter the serious attention and The South African Govern- consideration it deserves and ment's position is that the that a decision will be renmandate died when the Lea, dered as speedily as posgue became aefunct. sible", Mr. Grimes said.

Mr. Grimes said the prob, .1 Earlier, Mr. Grimes reIem of South West Africa ferred to the apartheid (raremained unresolved and its cial) policies being applied people were still without by the Union Government relief. in South Africa itself, "The Mr. Grimes recalled an Union of South Africa has Assembly resolution on the continued Jts opprobrious legal action open to member policy of apartheid and in States to refer their dispute March, 1960, there was an with South Africa to the unwarranted slaughter of World Court under Article defenceless Africans at 37 of the Court's Statute, in Sharpeville which touched order to obtain an interpre- the conscience of the world". tation of application of the he said. mandate.

"Any situation based on a "My delegation wishes to master race theory is a senotify member-governments rious threat to peace. Goand the United Nations that vernments which fail to in order to bring to an end recognise this may have to this Jong and vexing issue. be saved from the consethe Government of Liberia quences of their acts."-(R).

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TUNIS, Friday, MAMADOU DIA, Se, negalese Prime Minister, and President Habib Bour. guiba conferred for nearly 90 minutes last night. M. Dia, who had arrived earlie: from Paris, told reporters afterwards that their talks "covered the horizon of problems interesting the African States."

In answer to a reporter's question, he said: "Naturally we discussed the Algerian problem. It is a burning question ..••. " Asked what the 'Senegalese position would be at the United Nations on the Algerian Provisional Government's suggestion that a U.N. supervised referendum should be held in Alceria, he replied.

"My Government has 11ut yet had time to examine this proposition. It is going to do so in the next few days." (R).

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Dr. Michael Okpara- East Premier .dist Scbool, Aga~ the Mltbodlmi Ollej'e, UzuakoII. .Dr, OkpaJ'll qualified as a ••. prac:fitioner at t~e School of Medi-

f~ORTY years ago, on a · merry Christmas Uay. December 25, 1920, (the birthday of Jesus Christ), a child was born unto the family of Okpara Asonye, and his wife, Enyidiya Asonye, in their cheerful country house in Rende Division, ·r he child was named

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Following - cabinet reshuffle in 1957, Dr. Okpara became Minister of Production and in 1959 'tlie-- was appointed Ministet _rij Agti• culture. Dr. · Okpara's.: elo_quent emphasis on the agricultural development of the Region has evolved a gig!n:tic agricult~ral pr_ogramme for the· Region which w~eq fully completed, would placfl the Region second to none in fto~:~~l the ~:J'eralop:::,:t : Dr. Okpara visited, Puerf?

Rico in November l!J.58 and much, of his experience from the country's economic planniJig has helped him in advancing -his ,Plans for economic planning in Eastern Nigeria.

An enthusiastic amateur photographer, Dr. Okpara is also a keen lawn tennis player. . . . . The Premier, with a rea;. fistlc economic dev~lop11_1ent pr?~ramme for his . e1gllj million people was rec~ntly. appointed national president of the NCNC. . .

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SPECIAL INDEPENDENCE POEMS Today a Nation great is born On Afric's rich and fertile land; Today the age-long chains we've worn Lie broken on our golden sand ; Today victorious Freedom reigns O'er Afric's green-clad hills and plains.

Vast land of promise, swathed In coat of many colours each one born Of nature, chieftaincy and high design., Bring now your richness to the centre stage Anif raise your standard high •

The lordly Niger River flows , Its joyous rippling rapids play As the wind of change oe'r Afric blows Sweeping imperialist schemes away , The tropic sky in great delight Shall bless this day with sunshine bright.

To-day . by gentle touch' of Royal hand, The nourishing. but now constricting cord Which hound you to your past Is severed. There can be No voice but that which speaks With honesty and well-proportioned love.

Today we stand before the world With noble purpose .in. our eyes , Our banners spread , eur Flag unfurled With brand new Preedom as our prize, We'll guard our unity and might And always fight for what is right •

Drive out your fears, for we have none Who let you go. Our part Has been to guide you, watch you grow And make you strong. So Now .

Fare well. You shall, from now, to us, Be as a son grown up to manhood or As is a lovely daughter ripe For marriage. You ban pow er To choose your path The strength to order and the right To join the squadrons of contending powers,

Ring on • ye bells of Freedom ring.

As we our grateful voices raise In church or mosque to pray or sing To Gou· by whose unfailing grace Nigeria ri~e, bold and free To wave the Flag of Liberty.

Your Unity of purpose, Faith in God A re both engrossed :1 nd blazoned on your coat And seen as evidence of national pride, Let Faith in progress be achievement'< robe.

And Unity the strength which drives )PU on l

This Day shall be for evermore A "day of joy, Nigeria Day, · When we shall rich libation 'pour, When Giria's sons and daughters gay Shall always dance or march around, While Afric drums and trumpets sound • -DENNIS

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HERBERT MACAULAY THE~ FIGHTER

THE story ls told of a high newspaper which used to be He was a man of many · ' Crown Lands. to London in 1920 to deG over nm e D t official highly critical of him, Mr. parts, as the Lagos newsBut it is as politician and mand economic and constiwho, in the heat of a debate M~caulay was "a prolific paper I have quoted truly journalist that the people of tutional improvements. on the deportation of a Lagos ".'rtter, a great orator, an out- recorded. In some respects Nigeria and West Africa The middle thirties saw the Chief during the nineteen standing pamphleteer, a pro- he lived and behaved ahead knew the great Herbert Ma- progressive decline of his twenties declared that as fessional politician, an un- of his· days. He lent colour caulay. His political and influence. Several developlong as' the sun rose from rivalled journalist, a pioneer and romance to the formajournalistic careers seem to ments contributed to this, the East and set in the West civil engineer and an accorn- live stages of nationalist polihave progressed side byside. First the La JI: o s "Daily this Chief would never re- plished musician." lies in Nigeria during the 20As far back as 1909, we find News," the chief vehicle of turn to Lagos. Many years This detached incident year period 1910 to 1930. him writing fiery articles in his tumultuous agitations, passed and· the bitter strug- illustrates one of the qualities These activities and their the "Nigerian Chronicle" went out of print some time ate for the return of. this which ma?e for some of Mr. implicatio1~s to Nigeria and and _!he "Lagos Weekly Re- in 1936. Second, a new political party '. had arrived in Chief dragged on from Macaulay s successes and elsewhere m West Africa, are cord .

Lagos to London .. When some of. his difficulties. It a whole st_udy by themselves.

If it was not on the impo- 1934 to challenge the predoeventually this Chief was was the quality of utter dog- It is sufficient for the present sition of Water Rate, then minance of this doyen of allowed to return to his gedness as a fighter. To the to outline his career as a it was on the Seditious Offen- Lagos politics. This was the bomeland, tile high Govern- simple masses of Lagos he practical ~oliticia~, a re. ces Ordinance, the proposal Lagos Youth Movement. ment official had lone left ••••••• doubtable Journah~t. a nato prohibit the importation Then a new set of men of Niaerla on retiremeD;t, . tionalist and a patriot. of foreign spirits, or the new affairs had arisen, led by But to mark the tnumphal · · To begin with, certain Land Acquisition Ordinance. people like Dr. Nnamdi Azi· kiwe, Chief H. 0. Davies occasion, the ringleader of aspects of his background He was member, instigator and Mr. Ernest Ikoli, · this successful struggle was and early life seem to have HERBERT MACAULA y or actual leader of many reported to have add!essed a •••••••.••••••-•••4 influenced his later life. Her· protest deputations ·to Go- The eclipse cablegram to the ageing offi· was somet~mg of a legend, bert Macaulay was born in ted Clerk of Grants and vernment House. cia\ thousands of miles ~way, p o.s s es s 1 ~ g su~matural Lagos <?n November · 14; Draughtsman after underPromi!lent among hi~ col· The eclipse of Mr. Macauinformmg him that Chief so powers of dts~~earmg from 1864. His father was the studying several ~urope~n leagues m the new national lay seemed completed by dw and so had returned to a crowd or vtsuing Govern· Reverend Thomas Babing- surveyors and architects m ism were two Lagosians of total defeat of his Niaeriaa Lagos, and yet the sun con- ment House unseen. by ton Macaulay, founder and the department.

Liberian origin: the famous National Democratic Party tinued to rise from the East human eyes.. . . first Principal of C.M;S. From 1890 to 1_896 the educationist, Dr, Edward W. at the polls in 1938, thereby and to set in the West.

Among his more sophisti- Grammar School. Lagos, young man found himself m Blyden, and "the equally ending once and for all time Now this story, ~Ou~ cated _supporte~ hi: bore and son_ of a Sierra Leonean Brit~in either ~t~dying a~ the famous journalist,. Mr. John th:1t party's 1.5-year-old dovory popular at one ~1me in such ~1gh-sound11~g titles as from. K,~sy District of Free- Institute Qf British _Architects Payne Jackson of !he "Lagos ruination of the Lagos ~Laios, may not be quite.true the Wizard of Kirsten Hall. town. His mother was Mrs. m London or articled to a Weekly Record," .· torate. But the aJDClllC in every detail. But it is typi- the Ghandi of West Africa, Abigail Crowther, daughter firm of Civil Engineers at In 1912. Mr. Macaulay led Wizard of Kirsten Hall cal of the many apocryphal the, Defender of Native of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Plymouth. Before he return- one protest, deputation to seemed destined to die ill narratives and . household Rights and Liberties, and Crowther. ed to Nigeria in 1896 he was Lord Lugard agamst the new harness. For in 1944, be was sagas associated with the Minister Plenipotentiary of The. young man - finished elected Fellow of the Royal Land Acquisition Ordinance. invited by the NiFian · name of Herbert Samuel the House of Docemo. his -early education in the Geographical Society, , like He was always in the van-. Union of Students to bccomo Heelas Macaulay, Leader of To his political opponents C.M.S. Grammar School his grandfather, Bis ii op guard of agitations organised the first President of tbe the first .organised political be was a career demagogue which he attended for two. Crowther, many years before by the Lagos branch of the Nationa1 Council of Ni8eria party ... in Nigeria, the Nige- and a seditious upst~rt. Al1 years before. his father, . the .him. He returned also as :1 A!)ti-Slavery .a~d Aborigines and the Cameroons. On rian National ·· Democratic however will agree, -at any principal, died.

Out of graduate of the Royal lnsti- Rights Association. He was May 7, 1946, a few 1R:ICks Party, and first President of rate in retrospect, that Her· school in 1880, he joined the lute of British Architects and also leader of the Nigerian after he was taken ill ill tbe the National Council of Ni· bert Macaulay made a sub- Government service as an an Associate Member of the branch of the National Con- course of an N.C:N..C: ddcgeria and the· Cameroons, stantial contribution towards Assistant Clerk of Grants Institution o~ . Civil Engi- gress of British West Africa gation he was leadn~ _:>n taul' who died on May 7, 1946; the final attainment of Inde- ~nd lndexe~ of Crown Lands neers. He reJ~med the Go- whose parent branch was of the ~oun1ry.he~~ aged 81. pendence which we celebrate in the Public Works Depart- vernment Service and was based on the Gold Coast. fully m his Balb1na Slrl:d Jn the words of a Lagos today. · ment. He was later promo- appointed a Surveyor of Congress sent a delegation residence.

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FIRST LAGOS 'INDEPENDENCE' 1886

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celebrations now taking place are not the first that Lagos has " held in honour of obtaining independence.

Though the "Settlement'. of Lagos in ·1862 was originally a separate administration, as early as 1866, is was included . in the 'West African Settlements' under a Governor-in-Chief resident in Sierra Leone. Local affairs were controlled by an Ad· ministrator advised by a Legislative Council and good progress wits made but in 1874 the government of Lagos and Colony was transferred to the Governor of the Gold Coast.

This remote control was not satisfactory. and was unpopular locally, resulting in agitation for Lagos to manage its own affairs. After 12 long years the prayer was answered and we read in Payne's Lagos and West African Almanack that on 13th February 1886 :.

"The mall-boat from England brought the new Charter, and by a Government notice of that day, the reading of the Charter and Letters Patent, dated 13th January, 1886, separating Lagos from the Gold Coast Colony, and J constitutinr the office of ; Governor l!Dd Commander ;j in-Chief of the Colony of , lag~ and provldi111 for 1 the• government thereof, ~d the l";ommission,dated

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It was a day to be remernbered in the annals of Lagos.

All the Government offices and principal shops in Lagos were closed; the ships in the harbour were decorated with flags: the different Consulates and commercial houses displayed their flags; and the Royal Standard was seen hoisted on the Government flagstaff.

The day was observed as a public ~oliday, in accordance with the general wish and convenience of the public. The guard of honour was under the command of Captain Moran, the Assistant Inspector. The sight was in'describa ble.

The Governor, with his Honour the Judge, drove up to the Court premises, and alter the reading over the Judge administered the oath to the Governor, and a salute of seventeen guns was fired, thereby ending the ceremony. The Governor made a short speech, congra tulating the people, for which he was loudly cheered. The Court Hall was crowded with the elite of Lagos, in· eluding several ladies, both Europeans and native.

At four m.p., the Governor held a levee. at Government House, which was well atten-

ded. In honour of the event, a series of evening entertainments, etc., were held. There are great rejoicings all over the town. The Judge .read the Charter, erc., in a loud and distinct tone. His Honour was robed in scarlet, and his Excellency wore his . uniform." r Following the formal declaration of the Charter and the taking of the oath by the Governor It was felt that further efforts should be made to celebrate the Independence of Lagos and our chronicler goes on to say that on the 17th February." A committee meetinlil of some of the innuential and leading native gentlemen at Lagos was held at the rest. deuce of C. J, George, &q.,

congratulation respecting the separation of Lagos from the Gold Coast Colony; and in the evening of the same day to have a grand ball at the Customs warehouse, and invitatit to be sent out accor ngly, Messrs Payne, Thom s and Benjamin were deputed to wait on the Governor, ~q . ,ki.ndly grant the use of the warehouse, &c.-.. for the occasion." ' The young men of the town did not wait on Iorrnilities but took quick action for we learn that on the evening of he 19th:. ' "At Phoenix Hall, on the night of the 19th February, a musical eveni111 party and dancin1 was held in honour of the separation of Lagos from Gold Coast Colony,

By D. MILLER Secretary of the Lagos Historical Society.

Marian, when there were present Messrs, J, A, Payne, T. G. Hoare, J, S, Leigh, J, J. Thomas, R. B, Blaize, J. W. Cole, J, S. Burknor, J, B. Benjamin, Z. A. Williams, J, B, Williams, and W. E. Cole as Secretary.

After. some deliberation and discussion, it was unanimously resolved that a public demonstration be held on Friday, the 26th March; and a representative body waited on his Excellency Governor Moloney, and and presented an address of

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tain Moloney as its first Governor. His Excellency was present with his staff, and bis Honour the Judge ; they left u early as 10.30 p.m. The arra111emcnt w •• , 1ot up by a party of young men. aided by certain gentle. men (European and native).

They kept It up to the Sl\lllll boon of the morning."

The Committee Meeting at the house of Mr. C. J. George 10 days previously had borne fruit and a splen,d.id ball had been arranged.

All this before electric light came to Lagos; kerosene lamps, no fans, no cold drinks, thick old . fashioned clothing, think what the heat must have been like in February.

Payne's Almanack adequately describes the affair in these terms :" A grand evening party took place at the Customs Warehouse, under the auspices of Mr. Charles J. George, J. P.; J. S. Leigh, T. G. Roars, J. W. Cole, J. H. Willoughby, R. B. Blaize, J. S. Bucknor, J. J. Thomas, Z. A. Williams. W. Shitta, J. B. Williams, J. A. Campos, W. E. Cole, J. A. Sava. ge, and J. B. Benjamin in commemoration of the sepation of Lagos from the Gold- Coast, and in congratulation of the safe return and assumption of power of his Excellency Capt. Moloney as Governor of the new Colony of I .agos.

"Some time before the hour stated in the invitations, the ha" was crowded with ladies and gentlemen; indeed, since the cession of Lagos to the Crown of England there has not been known such a well-attended social gathering.

"Mrs. J. S. Leigh was the lady of the evening, and she was supported in her hich position by Mr. R. B. Blaize and others. About 9 o'clock p.m., His Excellency Governor Moloney, with his suite, arrived at the entrance of the hall, to the right and

left of . which the Hausa: force. in parade uniform. stood in attendance.

After the National Anthem by the band. His Excellency the Governor entered the hall, richly dressed in a splendid Windsor suit, his presence being honoured by the assembly rising. The lidy of the evening, with her supporters, escorted him to the special seat, and the gentlemen of the Committee, formed in two circles. marched in front of bis Excellency, and presented him with an address, whic:li was read by Mr. W. E. Cole, Among the distinguished guests were his Honour Mr. Justice Smalman Smith.

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::?m! 10 Ist Millcniu B.C.Su;:~t~1ctl period of early migrations of Yoruba ancest!mi from l\1iddlc East (other 1r·omba legends place these -,,·eat.,; in relation to the e4ablishment of the Moslem nligjon at Mecca and thus llate the early migrations about the 8th century A.O.) c. 1st century A.D.Founding of the original seven Hausa banza or states (legend places the incident of the slaying of the sacred make at DAURA and the founding of the Hausa states about 2.000 years ago). e, 1000-1500-Kingdom of Xanem flourished (incorporating the present state of

; Born u), 1237-King of Bornu sends embassy to Tunis.

1472 Portuguese vrsit Benin, at the time a well established kingdom.

1500 - Mohammedanism established by this date throughout Northern states.

1513-Katsina, Kano and Zaria overrun and became provinces of Songhai Empire.

1553-First English ship's captain (Windham) visits Benin.

1588-First recorded export of palm oil from Benin (Captain Welsh).

From the end of the 16th tu the end of the 18th centuries few positive dates are found except those relating to

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dealing principally with the! records of slave trade ,·.-hlcl-, rapidly supplanted other forms of b trade with1·1 the t peop I e o f t e coast, unui.

1772 - Lord ,i,iansfield's judgment that any slave setting foot in England became free under the common law.

1777 - Establishment of Society for the Abolition of Slavery.

1780-Yoruba states of Oyo, _Egba, Ketu and Jcbu established.

1796-Mungo Park reached the Niger River from Gambia.

1802-Fulani Jihad launchcd under Usman dan Fodio.

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Nigeria, 1823 Denham visited capital of Bornu, 1824 - Clapperton , isitcd Sokoto and Kano.

1830-Foundlng of Abeokuta by refugees from Ibadan. - Lander reaches mouth of Niger at Brass.

1832-Quorra and Alburkah, first British ships to sail up Niger reach the eonfluenee of the Niger and Benue.

H3S -- Muharnrn.d.: el r"~;nen1i dii:icr:1t·'f ()[ Bornu ir1..1:r: Fu.auis) i 1:i..:U. J:..i7-Sultan Bello died s~):~'..·io.

13~!.-Methodists ('.Vc,i.:yans) established at Badagry.

1842-CMS established at Badagry, 1843 _ Missionaries csiahr h d t Ab k ta 1, e a eo u · 1843-Rev. Samuel Crowther ordained.

1849-First British Consul for Bights of Benin and Biafra (H.Q. at Fernando Po).

1851-Attack on Lagos.

Kosoko deposed and Akitoye made king (died l 853).

1852-C.M.S. established in Lagos.

First Treaty with Lagos for abolition of slavery, !

1854 King Pepple of!

Bonny deposed and sent into exile.

1857-Dayspring wrecked on Juju Rock at Jcbba.

1861-Lagos ceded to British Crown. Trcatv ofCession signed by Docerno.

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lll5i!s--Commencement o] construction of the railwaY. 1ro111 Lagvs. ~ ,9ih1-Royal Niger Com~ ' nanv Charter withdrawn, Protectorates o[ Northern and Southern _N_igcri~ dec-.

Jared and admm1strat1on of• whole country formally. taken over by British Crown.

-Completion of railway to: , Ibadan.

1901-Expedition againsd Emirs of Bida and Koma gora.

1906-The Satiru inciden and Mahdi risings in North crn Provinces. conquest o Northern Nigeria completed 1907-\V,irk co111mcnce, on Lagos harbour develop mcnt, .

1 l - Rail11 ay cxtcnde to Kano, 1912-Coal mining com mcnccd at Udi, rail11,1y Jin from Port Harcourt t, Enugu opened.

1914 - Amalgamation o Northern and Southern Niee ria as the Colonv (I ag~s and Protectorate of Niccria Sir . Frederick l. u g"a r~ appointed \I 11h pcr-unal titld of Governor-General. -:\be1' okuta, last rcm.uning inde pendent kingdom, joi11_1 pro1 tcctorate. - Death of Overarni, former Oba or Benin, deposed in 1897, - Nigerian troops take part in 19141918 war, invade Cameroons .conqucst completed in 1916) and then take part in ?l;,, ··.: 1j E::,t African campaign.

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1864-Rcv. Samuel Crowther consecrated Bishop of the Niger.

1864 - Dalrnmians attack Abeokuta.

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1866-Colony of Lagos administered ,,s p:,rl of West Afric an Settlements.

18i0-Lago~ part: illy -dcstroyed by fire.

1871 Second lire of Lagos.

1874 - Administration of Lagos transferred, ·1,, Governor of Gold Coast.

1877 - Yoruba War I badans against Egbas and liebus, Lagosians sit for the first time as assessors in Supreme-Court, 1878-lbadans defeat Fulanis at lkirun.

18~4- King Doceruo died 1884-Treatv of peace and friendship with Asaba signed

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11185 - Berlin Confcren-e - British "sphere of inlluence over Niger" rec:1:iniscd 1885-0H Rinrs Protectorate established.

1886 - Colon" or 1.a'!O!' finally cstablislll·d under . its own administration. Rovat Nii?er Company fonned and granted charter for administration of Oil Rivers Protectorate and the Nizer hinterland.

1887 - Deportation or King Jaja. - Foundation of Glover Memorial Hall laid ti,,u-Second Treah with Sokoto for "trade and jurisdiction."

189.J-Treaty signed with Abeokuta for "peaceful trade." - Niger Coast Protectorate established.

1896 - Building of Government House.

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1925 - Prince of Wal!! (now Duke of Windsor) visits Nigeria. : 1929 Disturbances at Aba oraanised h~ "omen.

1931-1\ew Carter Bridge opened.

1937-Dr. Azikinc rclurned lo Nigeria and fonned the N.C.N.C. 1938 Sir ,\hubakar in~falled Sultan ul 'iokoto~ 1939-Southern PrO\·in 9 divided into !·'.,;stern a W;:slcrn Provinces. -Seco . j "'orld War. ''' -1940-41 Nirc1 i:,i, 1roorJt,1 lake part in the Italian Easd, African campaign 1942-45-Nict·rian troops. forming pan · <1f 81 st and.

82nd Division. rake part ID Burma campaign.

1946 - Death of Herbert Macaulay at age of 82. ren- Year Plan of Developrncnt for Nigeria introduced., 1947-lntroducli1.in of ne\'k.· Constitution wherein Legisla· tive Council had juris~icti~n · over whole of N1gena..

Houses of Assembly set up ~no:!~~. Region with advisorj~ 1947-49 - Establishment of Marketing Boards for th orderly purchasing and sal of the main cash crops.

1948-0pening ot Univer sity College, Ibadan. .

1949-0ba Adele II o~ Lagos installed. - Disturb

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Riots in a nee hem Pcoplc"s Congress Kano between Northerners in rort d and Southerners. ,- Iruernarorme · . .

IC tional Bank survey of Nigeo] 1950-Corstuti~narev~~; ria's resources and poten0 . , ference at,, I a an . . _ tials, ay_. "Richards ~onstitutioip 195"-Constitutional Con' ., Nort~crn _E.cments d ro- ference resumed in Lagos n. gressivc Union forme. · . and new Federal Constitun, 1951 - New C.:onst1rut1~>n tion introduced from Octorn introduced r_rovidin~ . tor ber I. Direct elections to .c- Central Council of Ministers House of Representatives, of· and House of RcpresentaRegional legislatures given lly Lives and Regional House of greatly increased autonomy n., Assembly and Houses of and entire reponsibility for to. Chiefs in Northern and specified subjects.

- :\lost Western Nigeria.

Chief Rev. LG. Vining first Anali1sd Awolowo formed the Action can Archbishop of West a.i Group.

Africa died and succeeded j 195J-Brc:ikdo11n of Con- by Mo~ Rev. J. _L. C. Horsn6 stitutiou over :11,,11P!l lfl tead, Bishop o_f Sierra Leone.

House o[ Representatives Rt. Re;-. A.\\. Howells. cono asking Ior ,.:lf-g .vernmcnt secrate:·. i,ro.:t :\ig~ri:m Bi-d in 1956. Constinuional shop of L:i;:os. i • Conference held in Lond1>11. i . 1'.'55-':,; J ,:::,·; Rob.:rt· -Storey C>mr,,i,,in,, 0:1 ! son apnointcd Governor! Lagos Town Council pub- J General ol the Fcclcr.uion of ' J,C,G<:--£',">2'Z'--~-,:.:/·>~-'2·D~,~ ..~~--<3-~/2.-2-<:2-'C'.~::·-C:<"·G.~:(,

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Shell llP announce important oil strike .,t Ol.iibiri.-:\1:din of 010 dq1tl,cJ by Rcgionn] Govern. mcnt. - N.P.C. returned to r;i1,cr in No.rthern Nigeria c1ection,.-:-- N1ger1a11 :itJ1ktcs t:1'.:c prt 1:1 Oly111r1c G.1mcs :it \lc-lb,>u: nc. ; '.J:-7 - e:.:,umcci Contiiuti,,nal Contvrcncc at Lancast~r House, Lendon -. First federal Prime Minister appointed (Alh.rji Abubakar 1·aLt\\ ~1 Bulew«). - National

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•J m Kaduna m 1959. ~ K. 0. !llbadi~1·c anJ Chief -. ,. -~ ~k <Z 4 Kolawolc fl:tlo[!Ull from Fed c r al Go\·crnmcnt. .. Made in Niucri.i" l.vhibition held in l~t!!PS - Control of '.\tili;:,n: Forces passes lo F~dn:ii Governmcnt. - I irst _shipment oi crude oil Irorn - Nigcri«. Sir Adctok unbuh Adcmol.i appointed Chier Justice of the Federation.

Nigeria N,11·y created.

Nigeria obt.rin-, CS million loan from \\',>rlJ Bank. - work cornmcnccd on -!00-milc r.iilwa , c xtcnsion from Jos to Mat· duguri - Nigerian Aim ays inaugurated.

1959 - Northern Nigeria attains self-government on Gon:rnn1cnt. o[ m.iin politi- March J 5. - Celebrations cal parties l ormc.j at centre. in May attended by Duke - All-Niccrian r c d c r a I and Duchess of Gloucester.

Coun, ii of ;-,! misters fo:11:1ed -Central Bank of Nigeria ,. and cx-otlicio British orlicials formally opened and new c:c;,sc to be members.

- Nigerian currency issued.N.C.'.~.C.'. returned to power Nigerian Shipping Line comin Eastern Nigcri« elections menced operations.-Federal -C:11k11.,ry of Niger Mis- elections to enlarged House sion celebrated at Onitsha, - of :~eprcsentati\"C~ and selecVisit of Princess Royal. - tion cf -l-! members of new University College Hospital Upper House or Senate. opened by Princess Royal.

Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa 1958 Conference on Balewa reappointed Prime future of Marketing Boards. Minister· and Dr. :Nnamdi -Death in car accident of Azikiwe appointed President

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'NIGERIA COMES OF AGE' SHOW OPENS

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PHOTOGRAPHIC show illustrating the many facets of modern Nigeria opens in New of the ladqendence- of York today in observance the IWlt' Afriau nation.

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H-\ "i been announced in Kadunu that the next meeting 01· the Northern House of Chiefs, formerly scheduled to start on October 7, has been postponed to October 19.

The joint meeting of the Chiefs and the House of Assembly is to he held on October· I~. to welcome Princes» Alexandra of Kent.

. 1:he . exhibition, . c.11J~d 'Nigeria comes of age. meludes more than 40 bla<:kand-white works by Ni#fian photographer, Mr. Milton Abjcdun Macauly. The' e-xflibition will continue till Nc1'vernber 6 at the American Museum of Natural History In addition to the photographs the Museum is displaying articles of Nigerian handiwork from its anthropological collection.

The photographs, taken within the last few years, show the contrast between the old and

new Nigeria and illuvtrate some of the custom, uf the more than .250 tribes in the

n •• tion.

They show market places a1on!J.'ide modern skyscrapen. There are pictures of \t,01TIC11 of the Efik tribe per(Ofming native dances and scenes of Nigeiran school children, in western dress, pr~tisinJ with "hula hoops."

A· photegraph of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. who becomes Governor-General of Nigeria in November, is in· eluded in the show.

The handicrafts on view include a wooden doll. Omo Lafogido, a toy used by

children of the Yoruba tribe: a tr,t1 (Ifa ): .urd i1,,rv carved

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The Museum of Natural History is a public institution 11 ith collections covering all areas of the natural sciences.

It also has a research staff working in 13 scientific areas.

MR. T. O. S. BENSON, Minister of Information, with an American woman journalist at a party arranged by the Minister for visiting journalists.·

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According to the Bill, which will come before the October · session of the tion wilt consist of a chairNorthern House of Assem- man and five other members. bly in''-Kaduna the corpora· Two of them will be mem: !;i... bers of th.: Native ,fo1liori'.1·: appointed by the M iuistcr ti!

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Three other members II ill be appointed by the ,",I inistcr of Social Welfare. the vl ini». ' tcr cf Finance and the M'inisrcr of Local GO\crn-· meut.

The corporation will be empowered to borrow money t,1 enable any N. A. to help people build their homes.

'BRIDGE IMO RIVER'

people of F.zinihi1te,1bi\c, in Owerri have .ippealcd lo the Eastern Nii:eria Cm crnmenj lo build a hridge across the Imo Rinr connecting Itu-Ngwu an<.1 , I hai,t· wuterside to lessen constant canoe tragedies.

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Lislnn :'\!iniskr of Ec,111<1mic l'l.11111i11g. during his recent , i,it 1,1 their town.

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L I. Din,_!ha. secretary of ELi11ihi1t,·. r,·krreJ the Minister 1,, one recent canoe dis·htcr on the 11110 River. in II hich eight 110111cn were dro\\"ncd.

The addrL',s al~o appealed to the Re!!ion:d Government to better - t hc condition of their r<1;1d, :111d hasten its prnp<1,;il 1.,, pi pc-bL1111.: 11;i1cr l.;1 t hc di, i,i,,n_.

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The mothers of the babies, aged from one month lo 13 months, died after delivery and the hospital has been t:irinl! for them.

The JJ.ifts included cotton and woollen dresses, booties, soap, combs and toys. l\1rs. M. Anyansi, leader of the women. told the "Dail) Times" later that thcv were eonsidcr!ng ~dopting the babies.

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is a mos! pain· tut, street corner speech delivered by an English countrysicJe beggar early in an April month. It was painiul to the beggar because he once had eyes and Our mathematics. could sec. When he saw, he loved and adored the injunction. our French, let alone our beauty that was spring. The sweet smelling flowers tanning or welding or cigawith the most luscious colours, with petals that were rette selling. we cannot leave as rich as a sweet woman's full lips. The variegated into· any other person's no matter how altruleaves that lacked words to describe them. The hands, sive that person is or how sharp, exceedingly clean pebbles that have been powerful his hands are.

Rather, this is my advice, cleaned and chiselled by snow and frost; the real feeling that goes witb seeing in the gentle breeze and I take it from an issue the Reader's Digest I that forced irlll foliage to dance to its own music; be of read several years ago adored the mist blue sky. These are things too possibly in 1944_ A man great for any blind man to miss, particularly if he went on a walk with his saw and felt these things fc~ some thirty yean be· young son. Fhey covered · a pretty long distance and as fore he ran blind. catalogue, al least he half· they returned homewards, "'j'l11S is Spring, and I cannot see l"

.- .ir Nigeria. l congratuia .• ,n , -n this day of days.

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Today, October I. 1960, our lnoepedence Day, I seem to hear many voices, but three of them loudest most sonorous, and most shatter· ing to my nerves. Ibey are the voices of the Nigerian Herbert Macaulay, the Eng· lish man. Dr. Stuart Young - who later became the Odoziaku - of Onitsha, and that of Herbert George Wells, who goes down in history as· H. G Wells. I seem to bear them blare ii out like an air-raid siren, only much more agonizingly so - "This is October I, 1960, and I am not alive!"

Back to them we can only return four words - "Toll •r the brave."

1 wish rierbert Macaulay were alive today, great Herbert, the father of Nigerian nationalism; the man who was incredibly alive when, almost literally, all the other Nigerians around him were dead.

He impotently ranted and spat against imperialism. He was bleakly alone in the suuggle.

"Sure, sure," assured his father who quickly dashed to the side of the road and snapped off a twig and offered the "horse" to his son to ride home. The son took the "horse", beamed, and started riding home. He rode home, way ahead of his father ! But we all know that the bo) had carried himself home under his own steam. To me, that is a truer way of getting a people to acknowledge and accept the responsibility of its own burden than in a negath·e made them, irrespective or the boy could not take it way of asking it to surwhat they themselves might any more and asked to be render that which it thinks !!a¥ - does not action speak mounted on the father's it cannot do on its own. lo -louder than words 1 somebody else. neck.

When H. G. Wells was getting near the end ot his tetner he yet had enough energy to cry out in his "Outlook ot Homo Sapiens": "You could educate the whole world to the not-very· exalted level of a Cambridge graduate in a single life time If you had the schools ....

And. he ended this most devastating of l:iis break-theshackle anvils with the challenge "suppose we stopped this old cant about politically immature peoples?"

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\\ hil,r the lll1J1<:ri:d. c,1!0:d ad111i111,tr,11,,r w ork cd three w cck-, in the 111<1nth and rcxtcd one. worked or. rat hcr, ,i):!ncd other man's \\,>r~ Id! eighteen nHlillh, .md ",·nt home I .u: ", m<1nth, t,, r,·,t_ l), _ 'ituart Young. p,,pul:,rl~ ~ 11"" n as ·· 1 hr Odoziaku ,,t Onitsha · di"·arded the pith helmet \\ hich hr thought \\ as ridin1lous, lived simply, ate I rug.di) and identified himself w ith the Nigerian around him. not lik e a man living w it h the slum-dweller. hut he would more aptly compare with the biblical Jesus who like "a high priest who cannot be touched \\ ith the feelings of our infirmities but who in all points tempt· ed-like as we are. yet ... , . : ,.

Th,,•'s Odoziaku, I am an idol worshipper.

One of mv Idols is H. G. Wells. He made me. but not ·,c alone, He made Dr ·ikc Obi. He made Chief 1)b:.femi Awolowo, He made Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe He made Dr. Sanya Dejo Ona· ~.:.:~1!r\1 He made Mr Tunde l.awson, He made Dr. H. A Oluwasanmi. He made Qiuwole Awok oya, He made Mrs Olufunmilayo Kuti.

He made Mr Oratunde Bain gun. He made Dr S. A. Aluko He made l\·1 rs Sheila vlary Solarin He made Dr l.ruest Ak paby He nude a le\\ ,,ore othcr« Ii he did 11,it fully make all io thi,

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It is no use wishing you only the good things on earth for you will meet, inevitably.' the bad ones as well in the years that lie ahead. You will have obfuscation and perspicacity, failures and successes. fortune and misfortune.

But rny greatest wish is that your obfuscation be greatly outweighed by your perspicacity; your misfortunes by fortunes; and your failures by successes.

Hail Nigeria glorious land, Ever blest by God's com· mand; Land of heroes and our pride, May true Justice be th) guide; .\nd thy sons and d;iugh· ters be

Ever happy ever free.

Great Nigeria we l~c thee, I.and of wealth and lihcrt~: We shall fighl to save thy name From oppression and fr-un shame; !\'lay thy friends find all they seek And thy sons be wise and meek.

Ma~· the Niger ever flolf And the green fields ever grow In our fatherland and home While the waves on beaches foam As Nigeria's ensign flies And our happ~ anrhem1 rise.

To Herbert Macaulay, tu the Odoziaku of Onitsha. to H G. Wells, it must have been most painful to plead from their subterranean home - "It is October I. I 960. and we are not alive!"

Apart from being a great honour, it is. therefore, a great responsibility that \\L" should be alive t0J:1} t« w itncv-, the cmcruence into Slall"-h1lllU of our countrv.

Niacria. .

During the past twelve months so man)" of us. as anxious people, have been pounding out in the political meetings, in the Press. in the r \illagc ·councils, churches, in I the mosques, what we must ' do to make the independence work B, and large ,,c· are ai=reei on a few fundamental issues. We arc ai=reed. all ot us, that independencc would be still-born if we took its arrival for :1 parennial holidav for an\ of us. In other w~rds, we· are · agreed that the thing tlml could gin us lasting independence is WORK. That we must all resolve lo work and work, even if we musl work our fingers to the bone.

That we must all work and not to count the cost; that we must . all fight and not to heed the wounds.

That we must spend each post-independence day as if it is our last.

The most sublime question here is. how much work must, or can. we do our· selves? When the stormy ~r trying times arrive, the religionists, particularly the Christians. would tell us: "Leave all your affairs in rhe hands of God who can do e\·er)·thint,! for you." As a native pc,,plc• we have ,:,b,ita~rd our 0\\11 _ .-11,>rts with ,1 [itcru] bcliel 111 this

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The road to Independence

GOOD FORTUNE-- TO -NIGERIA !

,VE haye heard it e.v~r. t<><_> often how the first European visited Benin in 1472

to discover ~ civilisation and to find 6road paved streets. How a la e followedand society deg~nerated. How . the slave trade and human sacnK8ce replaced order and happiness and how m the last days, the British trader and slave dealer became preacher and turned saviour.

For human purposes Lagos was ceded to the British Crown.

For human reasons Kano was sacked, sokoro captured, 1:3 e n j n burnt. Whatever the opinion of the people or of the historians who came after, some ordered Government was established, and Nigeria grew.

It would appear to me, however that in telling the story of our Independence this October Day lay the long history of the deeds and misdeeds of the past - at least all o'f "them need not be recapitulated.

It is adequate for our purposes here merely to look back upon the last ten years when the journey actively began, whe . n. th e wor k b egan o f building or re-surfacing of the road to Independence started •

. At ,loggers tlrawn Take' for example, the end of the last World War. The various political parties were "--.t1t daggers drawn in their traditional factions, The newspapers were full ol life, if of abuse, and the doubt was universally expressed as if it was never possible for the people to get together for a common .purpose. It was in that doubt .that the British rightly revelled and those of them· in private business, apart and distinct from those in the administration. religiously worshipped and believed that the Nigerian had yet a long way to go to get to Independence.

When therefore in 1946 the N.C.N:C. began a cam paign to raise money for a delegation to go to the Uni· red Kingdom to protest against the Richards Constitution and to demand homerule, it was not only the lack of organisation of the N.C.N.C. itself or of the clash of personalities which made its leadership apparently incoherent that made the news. It was the almost inexplicable attitude of the · Nigerian Youth Movement which, although it might have good reasons tu auack some of the doings of the N.C.N.C., really had no justification for making the purpose of the proposed delegation entirely ridiculous.

But again, the Nigerian character.

When, following the 'dis missal' of the delegation in L.ondon, a year later the re, view of the Con-c.rution . Which the N.C.N.C. demand ed began leaders of the Nigerian ·Youth Movement did not fail to put intelligent proposals before Government and at the C onstitu tional Conference that was \Jdd in Ibadan in 1950 they

. . . joined hands with some ot the leaders. of the N.C.N.( ~ tell ret~ent Northerners that self-Government was good for the country and that the[e were many m the North w_ho were good enough to be Mm1st~rs. .

Tha_t ~s it may. IS bow the Nigerian _story_ such as is our _concern m this short refl~ct1on began about 1950. laid stress _on .another aspect of. the Nigerian . character The love of negotiations.

The 195~ Conference bore som~ fruit.

In !951 the Regional Assem~hes . were elected, albeit with limited powers. The gain had been satisfactory, but . was not enough. The campaigp began for more p o w e- r. The recrimination b an as bet R . eg . weenth egion 81?~ Region on e competition over which of the three _ East.

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. . . . . There. was a political crisis in the East (19~~). . Soon followed by a crrsis ID t_he Federal ·· Government. "'.tth the supporter~ of the Acl!On Group (a direc~ off-spring of the N1gen.an Youth Moveme?t) walking out of the Cabinet. When next the House of Representatives met it was to indicate once again that the country could not go It together. . .

I remember now the bitteroess within the Chambers of the House, and recall the demonstrations outside Par· liarnent Buildings.

To the most ardent appeared no longer worth the candle.

The North no longer wanted a Federation but 8 customs Union: the South wanted a Southern Nigerian Dominion such as, io due. course. would tight it out with the North and chase out the British, such as had made it its hide-out and springboard. The best that was ex· · b pecte d. was c1v1I war etween the South, that wanted

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and the North that wanted independence "as . s·~oo as possible."

• But the era oi conferences had come.

At the close of 1956 the North was talking about a United Nigeria. And I remember the Press Conference which the Sardauna of Sokoto held a year later, in 1957 in which he said that Nfgerian leaders had come to London to demand independence. When he was asked questions about how he hoped all wormvwork out well. 'how the traders of the North now tl]l)ughl the cdu-

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~.ated ~utherners would not cheat ~he uneducated Northerner in the. bargain, his answer _was simple: Every country m the world had its troubles. Whateve~ the case, he bad agreed ~v}th leaders of the other political parties m the country _and all they wanted was a hrm date for Independence l';!u more, ~o less, What_ Nigerians did wit~ theu: independence was their business Casting a glimpse at the' past 1 was happily disarmed.

But my only strength was that J knew the Nigerian character. On that occasion Sir Ahmadu Bello was mere. ly its exponent.

And the celebrations of 'Independence today prove him right.

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'YOUR CONFIRMING HOUSE'

No stol')' of Nigerian In· dependence can be complete however even ~·hen deaf!-" .• . au.i. only w!tb the. character of t~e nation, without a men. tto!l. of the character of. !he Bntisb the!11selves. • Wntmg a profile of Dr. · Azikiwe In a recent issue of the magazibe WEST ,\f'RICA, a correspondent -suggested, the building of II monument for the nationalist in London.

But he went further to suggest "Ten or e,·~n five years ago, the .suggestion that the leader of the N.C.N.C would be recommended to the. Queen as Governor-General - would have been regarded as fantastic."

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Such then, to me, has I been the road _to Indepen- ) d~nce. It would !l has proved right the working together of peoples and races, and I successful the experiment in ) orderly democratic living upon which the British Comrnonwcalth embarked ten or so years ago, and which only the Brit ish Commonwealth could have embarked upon.

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been said that in~e~esting to recal!, _the contribution to the work she was to uct there b.:i'orc the the results of his ambition. tivc, powers but ~' [ r·_;,ard J ',. · . ·, · of British o_n~in _of the name N1~e- did for Northern . N1gcn!l, F rcnch -who \\ ere pushing Iu I 9ll6, Lugard resigned said at its fir,,! 111.:c:1:1:;. "It N1ga1a :s rra briefly and to examine Lady Lugard published in their wav towards the Region his post as High Commis- enabled the GcJ1,'rn,1i'c1,t l<l creation. It IS true that the part that great British I Y05 ''A Tropical Depen- from Dahomey. sioner and spent the next six gi\'e a summan ,.,J n:::i:c·r, hefore the Uri:ish ca~e to soldier and administrato.r, dc~cy"' a work of scholarship years· as Governor-General of interest dU!·ing lht: pa,t His second period in "ii~eia there existed LORD LUGARD played m which she dedicated to her ria was from 1900 to 1906 of Hong Kong. When he re- year, h1 review and fo:·,·, :"t 'ias

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Historical records say that in 1888, a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" aud "Pall Mail Gazette", ~Ii~s Flura Shaw arrived i_n

husband. And thus the one family shared the honour of creating the new Nigeria.

And now Lord Lugard, It is sometimes difficult to write on the history of such a great :d111i1'.i,trawr Those who Cairo where she met a 1:01- k nc« him 11e!I sa1J he was !ca~_u,.·, 1',lohcriy l:tll, ··Ti,~ ,hn1t 111 st.uurc :1nJ slim but Timc-," t'orrcsr?~!lcnl. .Th~:~ h·~:, ind this kg·:nJ:, r·y tigurc dc1d::pd a lrn·n:l,he:1 0:1 ,1:., :. consuming energy :'.:·: iPnif:'"i~;;onal side \\h:r~1 Tf1;:rc is in L1·:i fh) section ie~J iu 1··iu~·.1 s,,aw h~:ng lif l\ig,.:ri~t\\ hi~::1 tk1e..; not iin il:·:I to rnn:r;;m,c an ides 1~.::ir hi, imprint.

1 k r,,twht ,o ···1 he Times", and she :,·, " ~ ,l I d i c r :,.!d :, : ·"

when he was High Commissioner for Northern ;\'igc:ria.

This was believed to b~ his great constructive period when with a handful· of llri· tish administrativa oflicers and a few hundred Hausa troops he g.tined control ot' this vast tcrrltor-, and estublished his administratiun.

turned to Afr:o in 1912, he became the Governor of the Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria.

In J944 an advisory bod}, including African- members wus set up in Lagos.

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the positiun of trade ., ntl llnancc. and to en,;,iJ:1 ,i,e and explain ;;.111 ~uesti"1;, of policy and kgi,l,di,., of importance :\nd that , ... 1~ the beginning Lll deliher:,1:·. c and lc!!i,lati1.: ass.:mblic, 111 Nigeria·.

The occupatiou 1, as peaceful over much of the area although he l:d ta w,1ge wars with Him•: of the Emirs. The 1:1.; ,I rirama-

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- V.· I J,.l •• olC v t"i' 1> ,• HI which lc:1 to h:~ o~T11,,atir>n ~ ' u " " .· h . expert on l'U.!J- A • ! l:U~ ( :1<:?,a!:1~, of Kano and Sol,o:o 11 :,kh ·.•;ff,". lll,U a a,r,. . . . . . .ldll. · ' ull is still remembered till this It wa, 111 an a1 ticlc publivh- a.lmiuistrator he ,,. orkcd day by some. . · .I anu- ,::1rJ · ,:d 111 .. 'I -1 1c 1··1111c, .. 111 to restore or, I· er out o f ·• I His third period in :-,.;;),'· a r y, !':•nI tl·;,t lInra Sn:,\\ c1,w, and_, to build up1· a , .. v -: • · 1 ria after going ou• tu the lur \11:'l•c·.'::( l!!<: ruuuc "·'-'·~· 111,,,1.c:il state 1,111 a 1r111 · . · ' · ,. · • b East to govern the tiny but 11:, . l'r1.:·, 1"11, n::mc; ll.1c,grou:1J a, 11.- pitied y · I'11; ,",C · d N. rich colony of Hong Kong l".1 lkd l{c~wn _u ~II: pr:,.:nl ay : 1geria. was from 1912-1:i. 11:,,·n he \\·L,lt:,11j S,111:,11 h:id 111<.:l1l'Jt:o Fhe history ot Lord ·1 1.:ri,1,,:1..:, · · ··· [ .uz.u, J' s rcmarxa kbJ ti,·· ·· L,u·.:, e au1111111- amalgamated the t·.1 ,, Nige• .. · ., , .::H..1.I vtr.-urm •• ' ' ts gene- rian provinces and L':> rricd I -'11.: N1g·:r /.rPp;r1.: o ,· JN'rgcrra .

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1 '': •• I•" 111 c., 1.:riJt,ii,,' He fir,t came 1,; Nigeria in the Southern ( umcroons It was during th:, third ''Ni;'.•:r . ( ""'1 !'.r<ikct1JJ:il1.: between 11\94 and 1895 on :,iul · (j,'; RI\-:,'> · behalf of the /{o>,d Niger period he crcar,·71 hi, l..:,iing ·1 he: ,ITJry ha-, one rcnu.rk- Company on a hurried expe- impression and \' url . .:d <>11 :ihl·~ link with Nigeria. for in di1inn to Borgu. He \1:t~ his system of !nd;r,·c! R ule.

As we said earlier. hi, pri l'J02, l·lr,;·:, Sh:,v. m~;ricJ believed to be the fj;·,1 v.hitc"iir Frvderick l.ugard. then :,;:,n to come I•> th1., once rnarv motive was to ',av the lli1•!1 Commi-.-,1,,ncr of the independent p:1g;,n kingdom. foundation, of a g ,; () d '--:ortt.:.:rn Nigeria Protecro- I he object rii the dramatic government for Nigeria but r::t..: ;,nd a5 her cro·.,,nin~ da,h to Kia'.n:i and ]';ikki he did not live long to see S(il'1111 <·1;.:

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NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE WIEDEMANN & WALTERS {NIGERIA) LIMITED TECHNICAL AND ENGINEERING Congratulate the Prime Minister

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economic pro1'ii.:,·ri.t, likl' ;m, other countrv , on the l'\ ~ of independence, rml) he described as financial, technoloi:irnl anti administrativ e.

But the most importunr ol" these seems to be the finaneial: for, if we have enough tu spend on the acquisition of knowledge, the improvement of skills, and the payment of administrative personnel, economic growth will be reasonably ensured.

But how is the necessary capital lo be obtained"!

Voluntarv saving in Nigeria is low, and there is only one way ·by which ii can be increased - namely by keeping dow n the standard of living. \\ hich includes the standard· or living of most ,if the pcop.e -whosc standard of living is very [O\\ ina'eelJ. at present This mav cause social and political strife.

One of the ways to escaping such hardship, is to have capital from abroad. from loans or grants, fro 111 private or public. national or international agencies. No new nation has developed or can develop as rapidly as modern circumstances require, without foreign aid.

Th c developed nation, themselves ha \"C come to realise that thcv cannot live happily as ,,,~ses of prosperity in a desert of misery, and have therefore voluntarily agreed to share part of their wealth ,,'i• h their lessprivileged neighbours. so that the countries can have a bit more to spend in increasing the national income, the per ca p i t a wealth, increased standard of living. education and technical. knowledge, help to stabi~ their internal administration by helping to train more capable personnel, and thus save the country from endless political and social upheavals which are unavoidable in a backward and unbalanced society. hlcrus

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In the same way, national goHirnntents often try to interfere in the naiional and international affairs of the aid-receitin2 eountrles, The donor countries are divided

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The real question is not the desirabililv of foreign aid and its consequential benefits, but the least objectionable way of making the donor to give it and the receiver to have it. For, the situation depicted ::i b o v e occurs only if the aid is given disinterestedly, and there is close co-operation between the giver and the receiver. But in a world where "nothing goes for nothing", it might be . worthwhile to consider what are the likely effects of foreign economic aid on the domestic life of a newly independent country, and the best way of organising world development effort.

The sources of capital may be classified, broadly, into private, national and international. Profit is a major aim of the private and national investors. Past experience shows that private investors often tried to alter the lnt!.!rnal political situation in the countries of their operation, in order to guarantee the safety of their investments a n d advance their own speciat interests.

That was why. in the past. private investors moved with

proclaims neutrality in their I)' o m i c and political systems.

But whether you can spend someone else's money and freely throw dust on his face remains to be seen. Up till now there has not been a successful instance of that.

When the greatest of all neutrals, India, intervened to overthrow the Communist regime in Krela Stale (one of India's states), Khrushchev withdrew many of his Russian technicians. and deferred the technical and financial aid promised to India, and refused to build the technical college promised Krcia. Cuba has become the economic battlefield for Russia and America. and the Communist technicians have just been expelled from the Congo.

Puppet government, are sustained in the Middle East, or law ful governments overthrown with dollars or roubles. In most cases, over 60 per cent of economic aid is given as mititary aid, either designed to combat Communist revolutionaries or .. countcr-revolu tionarics."

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ALHAJI SHEHU SHAG ARI Minister of Economic Development. into Communist and nonCommunist blocs, each distrustful of the other and is anxious to hpve the greatest influence in, and capture the imagination of, the underdeveloped territories.

One therefore sees the amount of propaganda that precedes and follows any assistance given by each of these two blocs, and the unhealthy rivalry-that is the consequence. By the Western bloc singing the tune that Communism can only be driven out in poor countries only by giving them aid to improve their standard of living, they tend to make it a condition of aid that the receiving country will not deal tao closely with the Communist bloc. • The Communist bloc, on the other hand, uses the "new cotonialism" stunt to arouse suspicion against the Western powers. and to pretend that to be nro-Cornmunists is the only way out. The receiving countries, confused about this International hideand-seek economic ame

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Some or biese , tnmas could obviously happen in Nigeria, particularly in the immediate vears after independence, ~hen we shall be tryi112 to find our feet in all fields, and no non-alignment slogan will succeed in preventin" their happening.

That is whv econornists from the "poor countries" have been insisting, and will continue to insist, that more and more aid should be given by international, r .r than nationa1 agencies, .rd that countries wishing to help in the development of poorer countries should contribute generously to a fund which has been cailed. the Specia] United Nations Fund for Economic Development (SUNFED). In spite of the many difficulties that may arise in the coltection, distribution and administration of such Fund, it is the only way by which the "East and the West" can convince the receiving countries that they are really willing to give aid without strings. Funds would be given to areas that are most need, and duplication and rivalry would be avoided.

Furthermore. a co-ordinated development of the world's resources will play an important part in building a united world organisation, and would help in giving the united nations more authority which it deserves, whilst ensuring more internal peace and co-operation among the various sections of the population in the poor countries, which are being set against one another by 'ideological' capital.

Perhaps, Nigeria will help to strengthen the voice of those countries that have long, but feebly, been ur.ging the establishment of SUN· FED as an agency of the United Nations.

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INDEPENDENCE, · CHRISTIANITY: f Thls word .is on. the hps" of rule · · . . .. .

If · · t · · If-e:11. cnsion · • , se -suppor • 1 :NJgenans and their fnends as the idea of Nige- This fact 'can be. illustra- 1..and self-aovernment.'' ri.a's attainment of the status of a Sovereign State tcd by rcferencam Abeokuta history of Christianity gradually assumes a practical form. The steps to- "here Christianity had ope- in The Nigeria records the unfold.n ard s t h e goa I ha H. b een ar d uous an d t h e success Jll . vears rated for about .seventy before th r ing of the policy of training · · 'f · · , a country 1 ost indigenous people to have a attaining it. are grab ymg. All .over the country its independence. there are great rejoicings and expressions of con· The recognition of this fair share in the management gratulation and good wishes, fact should dispel the ~·r?ng of their own affairs, and ah,>

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Closely associated with the . . [celings of joy are feelings helpl ul _ in the grc.it las~ ferJerated by an appreciation 1'~1.ch hes_ ahead r,i the responsibilnv which l ~e:e _ is _no doubt. th«: f1as now devolved upon the Chm11an1t~ 1· one. of the .cw Sovereign Stare: Allain- powerful iorces which have »cnt to the statt,s i, .i nrivi. succcsstuliv led Nigeria to l'~l· but 1t enrau-, u.c great independence. Chrisrianity i', c~nonsihilit" ur sdf-~nvern- a vua] force. Wherever ih 11c.nt. ·1 ht:· wvli a re ·,,r th~! pr;ilcipks arc faithfully praccouurrv ~nd tl11! Iulfrirnent · used peace, progress «nJ ,,r its· destiny will depend happiness have been upon tilt determination of envurcd, For more than a n , people 1,, shoulder the centu{y Christianity ha, cxcrrevponsibilit y ;aitilfuliy and ciscd great intluence in N1c llicic.tl lv. gcr:u. · It ha, helped i1s peoNi ge ria 's :,chic, ,·n1c111 o1J pk, in variou-, v, ay,-,piri:j,.,dq,cndencc "c:,nnot but uallj, morally. rnentall , and 1.,lll to a con-idcr.rtion of the ph,,i,::dh·.

It, coutribution powerful forces which have to .the ~!c1clnpmcnt of the proved helpful in its mightj country is bj no mean, ncgiibid for attarnrncnt 1<1 the giblc, goa l. J\lany and varied were The fht notcworth, pornt the · difficulties which con- is th:.1 Chri·,tiJnit\ preceded fronted it. but powerful were imperialism or colonialism in t he torces which constituted the territories 11 hich arc colih inner strength and. gua- lcctivcly J.;11011 n as Nigcri:1. r.uuced it: ultimate success. It had been exercising it, ·• 11. apprais«! of these forces bencficcnt influence 111a111 nd .uuarantcc of their con- ve.rr-, before s,1111c territ1nucJ .oper:1tio11 must prov~ t1111c, ,;.111~ under Bri1i,h

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The third point i, ih.u government or political pat· 011 the historic :.111.d mernoru blv occa -iou tern.

Chri-tiauuv docs 11<11 1111, I The second point is that 11i1h politics, 11 ha, ,·rca1pl );n,,d Christiani!~· in !\igcria has an atmosphere !11r always stressed the import- cov ernmcnt arid h:;.; pn,, idcd ance of freedom - spiritual ihc cducatiorut b;1d1:rn1111,I and p h ~ sic a I freedom. fnr those of its· ;,dh, nnt-, Oil . tht Chnsriau '.\lissium1rics have II ho "i,h to g11 into p,>l1ti::{ .Tt .has ah,a)s tllfd declared that their aim is the c,1a1Jt;~hmcnt of ind::;;,.~uou,J church 111<:111h~r., 1'.1111 ;11<.: Churd1cs on tlw prindpl,·s o:· c;u:ilifi.:d r,1 J,1 · ,,, to L.l,c JI-· --·-----

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Before the meeting adjourned. it observed two minutes silence. in honour of three dead comrades. Chief Ezc ldigo of Aguleri, Chief P. B. Okon of Uy,, and Chief Da\id Osuji of 01..ig\\i. ·

Worke.rs protest aga~nst transfer to Mali .Republic

..\ NU\IBER of R,,}al Air ~ Force Valiant bombers and other [et aircraft ,, ill gi,'e a displav over Kano citv at 10.lO a.m, on October J J. F,1rtv leading citizens of Kauo \\ ill bi: THE Association of Garage and General Employers' flown over the city in a J>R. i\l. I. OKPARA . Comet aircraft.

Union has protested Ill the ruauagerncnt of Messrs :\. J, Karouni Motors. Limited, A A UA II~ Kano. against the proposed Ult Dlt f ,,,, rr,1.

Rlf r& · move to transfer some of its ·• · staff to the Mali Republic, In a letter to the lll:l)l:lgc&~ I 1111,I, IW&A, I &It merit, the secretary of the :\{,UAM MANSUR MUHAMMED, KANO N. A. union pointed out that the• DE\'El.OPMENT INSPECTOR, HAS TOLD A. move sh?uld be made knl)\' n MEETING OF THE DAMBAITA DISTRICTCOUNCIL to !he Government (!f N1geOF THE PLAN TO SUPPLY THEM WITH ELECTRI· gena \~·horn. he said. was CIT\' EARLY NEXT \'EAR. · r_espon_s1bl~ for the prote..:Ma!Jm Muhammed. who lion of Nigerians outside t ie was addressing the meeting thanked the N.A. for Includ- country. of the couacil during his re- ing Dambatta in its developHe .stated 1ha( the arran.:ent. vrstt, urged them ~o ment programme and ex- gement was being pursued ,,,n111rne. their noble task rn pressed the desire of the under duress without the the district, He advised them council to . press for the least regard for the safeguard to put t~e welfare of their establlshment of telephone of tl~e workers: interests, e..::~people tirst m everything services between Kano and nornically, socially and polithey did. .

Dambatta, and the setting up tically. The letter also ad_d_eJ . Th" chairman of the coun- of an oil mill, and sugar that the tempo of . politics ..::1!. and member for Dam· factory on Dambatta Road. in. th~t part of ~fnca was batta m the Federal House. Other decisions taken before anything but predictable and \fat1m · Muhtari Sarki Bai. the meeting adjourned in-. therefore . vehemently proeluded the.collection of rates tested against the transfer of for the purchase of a · new Nigerian employees ·to the ambulance van.

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He also drew attention of the conference to the work of the Governor-Generaldesignate, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe - "the architect of the

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About :?00 members of the union demonstrated in Enugu on Wednesday in protest against the refusal of the ri.i Government has cornmis- management to negotiate sioned ~fr. Ben Enwonwu with the union on its I ,,, execute, \\ ill in due demands and when the Police , ~,,,:;;.·. be erected at the In- were called in t,1 disperse t J:.."p:n1.k~n.:c LJ~ ""t!t1 Eiu.gu. them, they refused to go,

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Xt:H.l' RIJ:\::,;',an agent of U ..-\.C. Minna. \\ ho has been standing trial i,'r the then uf .t844 .::s. 6J .. fro.n the company has been cornmitted for trial at the Assizes by the Kontagora rnagistrate's court.

According to the prosecution, Nuhu claimed that h~ gave out the monev 10 l-c changed into currency 001e,. and kepr them in his sate.

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THE WORLD SENDS GREETINGS TO NIGERIA

reign place in the 11or!J comGREETINGS W e r e muruty. ceived from all parts "I am k~cn1y conscious of re d the .. fricnu,,h1~ .. v hich has of the world yester ay marked the rcl.uion-, of 0111 . gratulating t h e t'-'.." _cou:llri•:,. \\ e l.!f.i lC:'t con . , , • pride II, bond. e,t.,,,,hh,d Federation of N1ger1a hv ..)\.":-'',~1,[11 ..• (:.'.'.:.-'.lll!llint t • nt of l<.. ld,1·,_ ·1":' .. ::c_ '. et, J'!.'11.· on h er a t a1nme J,."c·d ILLLllL '" g,,c,\S, independence today ll/i,! !,i: d:c !;\ii)\'. ~ig~Ji:l!l'i . . th B iti h 1•.h,1 h.i ,.ud,cd Ill c• .. r within e ri IS l.md. "_l",,r the Future in the Co mmonwealth of Na- l , nucd SLtlt.:"i rc.1dy tu tinns. \\,)!'K w ith the J'C•IJ'lc of t<l

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Nigeria t,, reach the 1w:tls v.e all share of health. enlightencal parties, universities, men! and m.ucr ial wc'i] hetrade unions, students' ing. I am confident that in unions, governments. and years to cornc our t 11 o countries will stand J, one in safereligious organisations. tuarding the grc.ue-« of all Text of the messages bonds between th, our common belief in a free and reads: democratic -,.. ay of life."

President Dwi_2l!t Eisenbower of the United States : Rev, Edward Rogers, pre"On behalf of the people sident of the Methodist of the United States of Ame- Church Conference, Lon· rica, I wish to extend to the don, Government and people of "THROUGH the witness Nigeria heartiest .congratul~and devoted service nf tinns on the occasion of their those who have gone in independence. friendship to your people to "We in the United States preach the good ne1,s. of the have watched with sympathy gospel of Jesus Christ, we and admiration the progress 'have to come to learn much of the people of Nigeria to- about you and to hold you ward this historic and wel- in affectionate regard. c,,nie events 1, hich is the re"As you go forward now suit of fn;itful co-opernuon into the future as an indebetween the people of Nige- pendent nation, we would ria and the Government and assure \'OU that 11 e rejoice pc,1ple of the United King- with you, and that 11<! s~all tl,1111. We arc confident that continually pray . th.u God t hi-, spiri: of c·o-,,rc1·;i1i1)n "ill may guide y,11, .nul bless i:hpirc Nigcriu, future- rel a- ~ vu.

11,111,Jiip,; I•. uh ;.I\ w ho h,1Jd fr ,·cd,11n dear.

Christian Council of '.\igeria: !he· .chrj-t1:Jn Coun"In l'\pr1..•,:\[ng the b1.:-:.t "\\T. cil uf !\ 1gcr1a, are deep\\:,lie·~ c,f :11\ countrv. I ,,,,. ,f ;',,, a pcnr,I: 1, h,l · chc- ly gr.nct ul to Almighty God r;,li i·•di1,d11,rl lih·,1v and in- th.ti our countr, h:" attained d-.· 111..'lhkn\.·c. and \1. ·h,1 h~1 \ L' such a , t a t u x . and 11 e :,re cspcciall , grateful . tu l!Ltdl.'.' g;·1,,.-.;t( \:lt...Ti1i1 .."l'" :-id t h.rt 1iic,,· , ii.ii rrin,i,,k, rnl;!ht (i,id that this urcat and position h~1, b e en t'1>,J,11c. It i, 11 ith ,pc,·i:rl nllhlc by orderly and r!c,,111c. thercf.uc. thu t .Ill'. :,c:hicved \\ ii 11c"s the a-vu nl pt i,111 b) peaceful processes \\'e theret hi , 11c11· nation n!' it, sovc- f'cll·<! congratulate the G,1-

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vcrnmcnt and the people of our country I 11r the achievement of ,•.:(h a n1agnike11t ,,b1~, . 1.1.1c 1,:, ;·,.·ans SU pr.use110,11,.,. '. \\ c 11.11.:·1 1.:-.•r:c,!lv greet n•:1 lh".1i·.,:·1 '.t.,:;- ni '.\1~.:1·:a ;111d rk,i·'.· ,11;r 1.,,,,i;y t,1 the '-1 ><L !:1 ,;.J '. :·~,. !!:.it ;1r·: I!\. h.tl'll:.'li', \' 1:1\ [!,<'. wil! [•1 (."id ,11:,J !i:'1 .: 1,,,1:,•1;;,: \1) the J.,11 ,,: \ '.i•·I. \\c 111.:y th:tt < •• ,d ,:;hi,111 the (J·.•1,·;11111:·•1; ,::: ·.· i,d,,,.,, .uid cnur:1~~·111 it '.li . t\ 111\kr the ;i!Jair,- 1•1 I',,: \:,,:L' vit h j11,ti,·c :,;1d ; •:cgr:11. ,,1 1h:1t at h,H11c th,· 1'i11,1.-.,I. 1n,11·11J and ,11,r,1 1.,I <.•.,·:1.,re of :ill ,L'ctio11, •. 1 ,,,; p,,1111c rn:11 be pr,Hn,11,·,I. "11, I . .l-r. ud o:i r 1.;_----------------------1!

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'13.u( . , .. IJ l!cul,ll,I 11,1:11 direct ':''.'.',,'Jldl~I. rnk ·--.~ lc\l, l::1111,1'''."·,,.>•,.,n,l \<II.• '·.• /.,!:·: j',,,I .Lllh ,llld \ .I.. Ii, .I_,.{ 111 !!ic l:L:L:·.i:•11: I:',. ,1,.,., ''.L,11 11'.':' "u, 111g 1!::.i,ig,1,,,1( ·\!,:,,!. .. J k 1,,,11,J,; of i1np,·:'i.rli,1 rule :111...• hrlll.;cn. but rh . .· link , ,,f lricndvlup h,'llll'L'll t(lc, Hriti,h :111d Nigcri.m p,·,1pks can s,·nc !<> aciv.urcc the ,1rnggk 1,1 end l·,1l,1ni11li,m .md xtrcugthcn the cause ol 11 ,11 IJ rc:1c·c.''

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N1,!l'nan Union of (,rc..>r: Britain: b,·h:.ilf ,,f the Nigerivi Ln,,,11 ol <,rcai Britain and lr.:'.:,nd. I .'l'llU vou ti.e 1•:1r:11c,t grc·c:•11g, '.li. th:, '"'' irn1''1,t.1i,l ,•,c.,,,.,,,. \\':; re~:;,·! th·![ \IC :,:e n.u w ith ',,ll.J ,Li t lu-, !ilLHl"ll"'H i,1 r.un Ill t!•,• Cc'i. .:br.1ll\•C1' h'.'IL", but '.IL' t.,,,, "'''':•lat.,ll, "' the ,.,ct 11;,I{ p,···lh<••ll h:1, been 11,.,d,· r.,, 11, tc> c·~khr:il<! (he ·._·.1"-!Ufl in l ltn'-!nn and 10 the pr,11i1:;,~I C,'ll!r.cs. .

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Trades Union Conarese of able to brinJ you greetinp "The problems facinr Ni&e- pendence celebrations. . may look confidently to the of our own dealcountry that Great Britain: and best wishes from the rla today parallel the prob"This new country .has future and with great ex-: we shall march forward to "THE T:U.C. Gener al people of the United Stites lems which faced an emerg- made great strides in recent pectarions £€r their young progress and prosperity with -~ Council have watched of America, iroro my own iog free group in America 95 years as it has appreached its people." the rest of Afric; " with great interest 'the prac- city of Atlanta and from my years ago. Although this new status as an independ~!;tical skill and realism y,1:uch university - Atlan~ Univer- poup has still n~ ac~eved ent. nation. .

Sir <Xateru Olacbe&i Ii, Seaium of Sdkoto to the have drawn together millions sity - all of which your its greatest potential, 1t · has 'I was here two years ago, Olowo of Owo: GoYemor-Gelleral: of people into one united Speaker and many other very rlearned through these sources, Both then and now - but "ON this ausplcious oeca"May I on behalf of the country. distinguished Nigerians have and failure, experience, train· especially today - it is inssion of the • attainment people of this Region oifer "We have assisted and recently visited. ing and ~e opitOing of new (!iring to se~ ti : spirit and of independence by Nigeria. t~ you sincere c_ongratulaobserved with sympat~y the "The people of my coun- opportumues, The lesson· toe determinati "1 of the I wish to convey to all Ni,e-' trons on the attainment of sustained effort made by try rejoice with you in the learned through these sour- Nigerian people -s they as- rians . both at borne and l~depende?ce _by the FederaNigerian students and. wor~- achievement of your inde- ces, to a !arge degree, can be sume fol'IDaj dependent· abroad, .this measare of non of Nigeria, ers, many of ~hem m this pendence; they pledge you made. available to the people status: . goodwill and felicitation.

"In recent years ;And country, to equip themselves their continued and generous of Nigeria.

"Nigeria takes .ts ;:-1ace as "Considering the fact that during the most difficult by training for skilled work interest znd bdp; they are "As a representative of a responsible democracy This it v;as achieved without aay period of our nation your in all fields, and the measures happy to see the great pro- Negro-American business in position in the fanuly of na- marked bitterness or blood- statesmanship has been a taken by ~igerian Govern- gress which you have already the United States, I will ;tate tions will contribute mucb to shed we have cause to thank great stabilizing influence ments to stimulate the econo- made and they know that in that we, too want to partici- the peace, prosperity, and God for His mercies bestow- and Nigeria owes a great mic development of the being true to your national pate in this great transition happiness of all the world's ed on us and also to congra- deal to your wide experience country." motto: "Unity and Faith" by contributing whatever we people. tulate ourselves for this big and tactful leadership. ·k all goo~ t~ngs will come to can toward.. helping to build "It is heartening t_<? observe fo~u?e. _ . _ "All of us in Nigeria are Dr. Clement, president of this _nation. a strong Nigerian eco~omy. the great emphasis being While looking forward to greatly indebted 10 you for Atlanta Universltv in Geor• +,· ..,_ 1.

This must be, then, the oonds placed <?D education a~d tile the advantages and benefits your ·expert piloting of the Jill. linitetl Staies·:' . ' '' f of brotherhood, which al- recognition of its role m_ ~he a_ttached tJ this consutu- ship of state to this great O A'1-,1 delighted to be Mr. Watson,8P":51dent ready exist, will be forged country's very promising tiona! advance, we shoul~ goal wiih the minimum of ~.

N. ia: thi the New York UllDell Lea- solidly and irrevocably." future. not overlook the fact that it friction time aga~n ;n gu:~enof th! gue, U.S, young people of a~~. entails heavier respon"We .are indeed rateful to Speaker of the House and of is with a feeling of pride Mr. Foater, president of the America ~re ~specially happy sibility and bard~r i~ork on d . Go! that you the new nation at the bistoand grateful humility be· Tu*~Jee lmtitute, Alabama, to note Nigeria s approaching our part _both individually yo~ ar lra)tobertson will · 'd l · · f th be' th t United States." independence and to extend and collectively. an_ a Y ~1i:~/~~d~~~:n~~s %e1~fr1~= :;e salu~trt';eri:; it~n~pje "IT is a thrill and an h<?nour th~ ~a?d of. fellowship to "~et us · therefore pray to enjoy ~~~n_y years of happy tions and its Government on this to have the opportumtv of Nigeria s youtn. ~l'!light~ God to grant. us rcnrem · . "i · am honoured in being historic occasion. sharing in the Nigeri:in inde- "Nigeria and all the world d1V1ne wisdom m the services More ltJ'tthngs on Pa~e 55

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~l!:t k ~ Ill- ~-Rc"!cmb~r there AT CABAN BAMBOU HOTP like Beck a Ptrst and · . " WILLIAMS In affectionate GREETINGS - I congratulate is no beer flavour. strength, ouritv DE BOBBY - ~1ggest Ind~pendmemory of our beloved father : the Leaders and people of Nige- finest.

Drink Bed:'• RO haoo, ence dance torught ; _music. by ria on our attaming IndependCASINO: New Indian film! James Mayoml Williams. who ence. Wishing the Nation pros· dlt WISI!.. llt:J.Nt:Kl!:NISI!: Bobby Beoso~ a~ ~ts 9ui1.ar. l.AGOS ··MAlJARI" with sub-titles. 4s .. died at lfe, October l, 19S6. The perity, harmony and peaceful GoDance to TaJU Driver s Highlife, villains that cast the die are still AT THE TROCADERO,. Adeoyo Your visit to Lagos is incomplete REX: Rank Org;onis~1ion's sparkzs. I Id., Is. 9d vernment.

E. A. Sorunmu.

Insurworse o:r: blessed Is the memory Road, .

Ibadan : ea] dn!Jk an~ without visiting the beautiful ling comedy, as fresh as a snnng U,NTRAL: India's immortal anee ·, Agent, 60 Strachan Street, dance in. tblll exclusive, air-condi- Caban Bamboo at Ikorodu Road. dav. "MAKE MINE MINK" production "INSANIYAT'' (Hu· c,f the just. Fondly remembered Ebute Metia, 44738. by entire ~istina family.

Olajide Tirry Thomas.

Athene Seyler. rnanity 1 3s. 6d.. Is. 9d.. Is. 2d. uoned night club.

Caban Bamboo is the leadin11 Williams.

CONGRATULATIONS - Inde- AT TOYIN BAR-Daily Hallie Jacques. ~s. !Od. Inde- night club in Lagos. Your friends OOEON: Burt Lancaster. Jacobo pendent Nigeria. Happiness and pendence Celebrations on T. V. : will tell y.ou. Delicious fried rice ROYAL: Thrilling Indian film I "THE AND THE pro5pcrity ' to her citizens. An- drinks at cheap prices; Bulldog and other chop served anytime -nowaxu URIDGE" with sub- ARROW".FLAME Technicolor. Action, thony Ade. Oshinubi Stores (alias amplifier. till dawn. titles. 2s. 11 d ., Is. 9d. heroism. adventure, bravery.

Independence Extravaganza), re- AT CABAN BAMBOO TO- BIGGEST DANCE TONIGHT by .JC&Dt CAPn'Of.: New excuing Indian Is. <JJ .. Is. 2J. gistered in Nigeria. Fidipote NIGHT Independence dance.

U1e City Club, Lagos, at St. ftlm ! ''K\STJK" with sub-titles. ml-ORO Twin Three ALL-NON ,IGERIAN appUc:Hts Ogunja Manson, Joseph's Jubilee Hall, 30 Ikoyl ROAllHOUSE: "GIRL IN THE for em·,lny, wnt are advised that Storey Building, Oyingbo Square, Two bands in attendance.

4s. 2s. I Id., Is. 9d.

AT 111E 'COOJ..-l.Ai'S INN Road, Lagos: music by Empire KRl:MUN" 2s. I Id., ls. 9d. they 1 t . f'lu,rrd to ohtal11 prior 2A · Ejinr!o Road, ljebu-Ode. CORO.!'iA 8.IS Unusual lndinn TONIGHT - Specially arranged Rhythn:i Orchestra and ~Y!nde AG EGE apprr ,aJ of the lmn1lgratlon MR. SALIU SUNMONU ADE· Independence Day Dance with Bakare's Inner Circle: admission : tilm ;n colour ! KITNA BADAL CA YA INSAN" with sub-titles. PEN: New print of "GllENGIZ Auf.irnriti,:s beror• 1rreptla1 1111 GBITE (alias Baba Daada) Cabaret (new performances). You by invitation from Bolaji Finih, KHAN" with sub-urles. 2s. lid .. aorwintmrot.

2s. lid .• ls. 9d.

Congratulations on your 68th can't beat it I Big hits; big dance Secretary, l Paley Street. Lazos, Is. 9d Birlhd~y which falls on Octo- everything done with the out- (Phone 2447n. SS Idumagbo AveRIAL TO: Douulas Fair hanks, Jr. Cl.F.RK REQUIRED IMMESHAGA~IU as -rnr f I G II T I N G RF.X: Indian film I "SAMUN- l>IA TFt, \' : sound knowkdge of ber 2. 1%0. Long life and man) bursts of great Independence nue, Lagos (Phone 24127).

O' FLYN:--" 2s. I Id .. Is. 9J. Admission: ISs. CABAN BAMBOO HOTEL Dl!l essen1ial.

Write harlpy returns or the day. Lamidi happiness.

OARI DAKU" with sub-titles. hook-keeping Adtsa Fa,hesan. couple, !Os. single. Also Special BOBBY BENSON - Central atAd\'t. 755. "Daily Times".

JONG'S: New print of the most !s. lid .. Is 9d.

Dance tomorrow, Sunday .. Nice traction for Independence: music IBADAN dramatic Indian lilm I "Gii F.N· C0'1PF.TEl\T COMPANY SF.CSunday E v en In a. Admisson : and delicious food served daily.

GIZ KllAN" w irh sub-titles. -RFX: Daring . ,1nry I Techni- RETARV: previou~ company color. "RAW wrxo IN EDEN". secretarial 7s. 6d.

FEDERATION UN ION OF 4s .. 2s. I Id.. Is 9d. experience essential.

Fsthcr Williams. )elf Chandler. Ar1111: Director, Rox 49, Aba- AT 2 P.M •• OCTOBER 1, this AHALABI - Dance to Freedom ! ORCHESTRA AlliD ARTISll::S RF.GAi.: Technicolor.

"DAY 4s. Id .. 1s. ltd., ls. 9d. first day of Nigeria's lndependot. the l~nbeatat:ole 7b:ila~i.

Musinging their Independence Maid· OF THE RADMAN" Freet Mac· ODF.Olli: India's new collossal k:dik1. F:J,tcrn Nigeria. Applica- end:, friends of Jesus Christ will shin, V. est Africa s . K1n11 of en Dance at C:lbGD Bamboo, tion~ close (ktoher 12, 1960.

Murrav. 41 .. 2s. 1 IJ., Is. 9d. gather at the Glover Memorial mgb; clubs: a truly National pro- October 6. Music by I luhcrt production ''JALWA" Rhythm.

CASINO: New Indian film! action, song. adventure, dance. E U R OP [AN SHORTHAND/ Hall, Lagos. for the inaugural gramme featurmg an array of Ogunde Band. Victor Olaiva and TYPl!I, required immedialely: worship service of the Paradise Nauon.il artistes and music. Non- his All Stars, Charles Iwegbue Packed "ii h black magic, music, Js. 6d., ls. 9d. laughter and romance.

"MA- Qt 'FF.N'S: New rnizhtv Indian air-conditiontt! office near Race- l'il!(ri,n Church (Holiness) - an stop programme. OCl!Jber I, Inde- and his Archibogs. Teddy lhiarn DARI" with sub-titles 4s .. lilm ! "NFK KATHOON'' wirh course, Phone 22699. day, Big all-night and his Cool Droppers. Bobby indi~enous, national. cvang~lhlic pendcnce 2s. I Id •. ls. 9d.

Benson and his Guitar and other holiness mission. Sermon: John dance: special Cabaret. by Hubert ,uh-titles. 4s. Id., 2s. I Id., Is. 9d. H,ROPEAN l,ADli SECRk,A· RIES SllORTIIA!liDJTYPISTS 8: )(,.· Preacher: Timothy B. Ogunde and Party; ticket: 10s. popular leading orchestra.

CENTRAL I What price Freerequired for lari::e commercial conMoholurin.

Come l single: 15s. double.

October.

2, MACEDONI BAR/llF.STAUR· dom ? What pr ice I iberty 't S1ory cern in l.ngos: hours, MondaysIndependence Sunday: all-night ANT, 163 Apapa Road, Ebute of the relcntlcvs strugj!le of an crucnamment a1_1d dance. ¥ect Metta (around Western Round· oppressed people a;.:ainst domina- AM I WORRIED i 1"11 sav I am! l'riJ.,ys: 8-2 p.m.; Saturdays: Hubert Ogunde ~ a. play _emllled about) welcomes Independent tion and tvrannv. Action, advcn- The boss will he Ii vid "hen he 8-12 noon. Please Phone Staff _an_d. Half, tickets· gents Nigeria and invites you \o. celcbture, heroism, sacrifice. Burl I un- ta<le~ his ten - it isn't Lipton', r-.fanogcr. 24821/19.

Al'RIC'AN INSURANCE C'0\1p.m: rate joyfullly at Maccdoni 111 coneaster, Virginia Ma1·0. Jacobo Yellow l.abcl I GRADF. II MIDWIVES wanted PA!'i\' LTD., I~ Cus1om S1rcet 10,., ladles 5s. 8 a.m. to 4 96 genial atmosphere where delicious ••Tl-fP. FLAME AND TltE ur~cnlh. Anrly: S Bishop Street, (P.O. D,1x 27~) Lagos, Telcr,hone Ocwb~r. 1 to October 3, br~.1i,.f,1st and lunch. dance_, nd,1 African food, sandwid,es, drinks ARROW".

Technicolor.

4s .. GIFT-ART SHOP-Independence .

24987, Branches at Port Hnr.:ourt, m.i1.u and refreshment. G.,mes. gir, articles of intrinsic value : !Ji-Ow. nu melodious mu ·ic galore a,1 ait 2s. 4d • ls. 9d. ' l·honv leather. ivory. horn. thcrn. I.All\ U.FRKS: must he decent. K:,no and Ibadan. ludo, draught, cards and mono- ''. O u > OUF.ON: Ihe birth of a new hone, r.arfin, antiques, etc Visit inklligc111 r,,r otlicc. 22 Ojuelegba roly. Tickets: 21s. flat. £3,000 l • , HOTF.J OOYf TlKE RISKS WITH Nation. The dawn of a new D.,v JI I Victoria 11or1h of drinks to freeze in our QUEENS , .. , Suru I ere, Street, L..E.D.FI.. Road. Surukre.

INSt.:R.'\NCE, and for snfctv's and new Frn. The dawn of nc.rce Telephone 23237. Free illustrated coli.I store ready for you. Mu,ic Yaba: meet (,aim _H:ir Orch~,.'.ra and prospc. :1y.

Be among the catalogue on application. n:TORS: Arts.

Mathem~tics. sake consult: Thomas Insurance by the Abalab1 ,Rhythm Dandies led by H., E. U..,nem to1,1'.'ht thousands -clebraring Indenendprerer:lhlv Gr:iduntes.

Aquinas Broker's Company, 29 Berkley Jed by Roy Chicago and J. 0. ;it _Queens Hotd, Su,uk_re.

Street. Lagos, Phone 23894. We Araba and hi$ Afro-Ski!Ile Band. Special lndepend~nce ~ckhrnt,on ence DH·. ('.ume along and thrill (;I.ASS WREATHS. '.!81 Akanni College Ool 59, Akure. can give advice upon Insurance to Ind.., ·s collowal production Street.

HOTEL l•LOOR d;ince: d!) not n:i1ss this wonder· for your particular AMBASS:U>OR KEEP \'OUR BAB\' FIT for the TWO 1-ADY CLF.RKS wanted. m;itters "JAL\\',\". 2~. 4.1 .• Is. 9d.

• , ful occasion : enJOY yourself also Independence with A.B.C. Bahv Arply: Bale Commission Agency, policy. Be secured by takin11 out GARDEN prcsen\s tonight t~e with King-Kong anll his Rock'N 11>1-0RO SA lmt>ru, Mushin. a life policy.

Mixture, Ss., 3s.

From Banks biggest . dance !)f !lJ,e year !n roll, admission : Ladies free.

ROAOllO .ss '"Al\SIIA" Indian Stores 19 Victoria Street, Lagos.

GL'INEA JNSllllANCE COM· celebrauon of Nigeria s lndepen- Oents 4s double Js 6rl Welcome film. 2s. 1,i.1Adrd( dence.

Two great bands pbymg: to Queen's Hotel. . .

POTATOES: 3d. lb. Contact PA1"Y LTD .• (Incorporated in the Starga;:eu; from Kumas, and 1 Nigeria). ~/7 Balogun Street, Ambn,sndor Down Beats Band. RITZ HOTEl., LAGOS: PF."'!: 111,fon titr.i "APRl\0111 Allcoruf'onr o, Jos. f~e KAI'~·.•" w ii l: ,11h-1i1ks. 2~. I Id .. l<'IA 1 1 The most inexpensive to (P.O. Boll SW), Lagos. Telephone your farnuritc b.tnd. Come anJ only dance spot w11h hand m ls. 9<1 listen to the Jate,t numbers of cci:i1:·al Lagos, presents a Rlnd buy and operate new cars in 24<,JJ:4. .

SltAGAl'tltJ UNION AND ROCK Highlifc from Stnrgall'" sreci;ill_v Wuh,n ~ Band. For the pk:1,ant Nigeria Full four ,eaters Fiat ~00. LAW Rf.X: :,l'w print of h:ifflin~. 1101-U!\IOl,E - In thankfulness 600: ca•h only 046 lSs. £422 15s. INSURANCE COMPANY LTD., rtsrned for lndcrcnJenc, nt W>te of its many cusJomeLs. Meet .11i11lin11 Indian film I "C.LU.'' to God and affectionate rcmem- h.p terms Alwavs available. Clock House, 19 Victoria Street. l\mh;1ssador Jlotcl. Uilly Frid:iy: Ma~stro Ehony Black. t\~in Ade; -.. ith sub-rules. 2,. 1 IJ .. Is. Qd. P .0. Box 7S, Lagos. Branches mu,ic or (Bosuc, Bobo Boho b~,111 lca.d111g the Rn, 1 cmno hrance of our beloved father: Leven1io Motors Ebute-Metta Daniel Olumanumi Bolumole, branches. at Ibadan. B.enin, Sapele, Eriu!lU. Uo,ucl. Come c:irly; we can't as· and Bullington kading the C I BA DAN Port Ila rcou rl sure se;ds and 1:ible, :iftrr 11 p.111. conul Grc,ve Dance llanJ. Pni RFX: Mn,t tremendous new lute Chief Ogboye of the Chris- 11<· YOlJ l'iEED ANY TYPE ol A ba, Onitsha, K:¥10 and Jos. All ,\mh:",.:idor Hold is llic "'"'' for the IOOrh gentleman 10 .e!ltt.

1 •. ,k,11 film• "NrK KAJl!OON" tian,.·'[J,!haland and Baba Iio of accident cnrs. lorries or second- Umuahia, Agbl'ni Methodist Church.

Ibaclasses of Jnsur,1r\ce transacted. rwrul:ir pl.ice tor your tor enjoy- ·rnd the 50th bdy.

Oun I ba 1Ai1h •.uh-title."'\ 4~. Id. ls I Id .. d,111 c.1lled home on Friday, hand c:irs, lorries any motor spare LONDON ASSURANCE for all 1110111. Rl'mcmher there will he Am- 1old: -you must be tliere.

1,. 9.t. . . pnrts. contact A. A. Olopade, InOctober I, 194]. Av the famih b,",ador's Sunday Night Dance. T011i1GllT is the grc31cst mu,i~:il Ollf.O-.;: 1 he birth or ~ new ·,nd children sm ance Agent nt 12 Oyingbo classes of insurance. 3/7 Viclori.1 tomorrow. Sunday from 7 p.m. news. Mr. Mu,ic Zeal ()11\ta, Street. (P .0 Box 427). Lagos.

1'.ilir,n lhe d;i\\ 11 of .1 l\t'\\ l).,v Road Ehute·Mel!l, Telephone Telephone tilt mid-ni~hl Music by ,he Am· 8.11.C. Radio Star; also f-loor 2466[.

F. R N EST AKINSANYA nnd .I nc» ir a , Tiu. · d.:\\I\ of 45142. pc.ice alhl 010,pcrit,. lk .11~inn).! UROWNF. - 1:,·ery lir,t day nf VOD'O 121: IS 000 miles: 3S N A T I O N A L EMPLOYERS' h:"s:idor 'om, n Beals R.1nd led Show at Coconut Gro"o Club, the 11'011,.:ndc-, c..:Jch1.11i11l! l1~d\.-. October hrin~s sweet memor ic- m.p.g. ; Fch11ury I ~S9 registered: LU•K 1'.!i14 Broad Street, Lagos. hv Q,ief Billy Frili"Y· Admis- Rondhouse, lcli-Oro. ncndcnce n. iv. Come .i1n1w. ancf of vour hirrhday to us. May your owner tl,i,er only and in imma- Life Assurance specialists includ· ·,i'ou: ".Is. 6d. flat. Note: our air- TEAS AND PASTRIES at lkeja conditioned Bar is the only bar Arms Hotel every Sa!urday. Sun· thrill to the hra\'e, w ho died . . oul rest in pr-ace. Yinka culate conJition. Agents report ing endowment and educJt iona I with their lvnot c on Georne K lJl I - In evergreen and cheri- avni)Jhk. Urgent sale. Haggling policies. Phone 24674 (six li11csl. that opens .on Sunday. D:.nce ,to d,iy and Bank HoliJay ~t the the hent. n1ano and record music,- ,wunming pool.

No en1rarice Montaonv-r v K:Hin Hn1Hh in vhcd memory of our mother and NIGERlAN GENERAL INSl 'R· SunJay · charge afteJ 3 o.m. unless swtmMadam' I bnnah begins £1\50. Telephone Mr. Wil- ANCE COMPAl'liY tTlJ. All Remt!'mher tomorr_c,w.

"SrM!:SOI !' lll'IU\IN(;" T•d1 ~rein.I-mother: liams.

55561.

Anapa. !t:n:.:h. cuiry 3nd nee. min~. nicolor ,.... 6d .. 1 s ~ll Olahono Kuti, who di,·,I 011 OrtoSAl.OON I milage classes of Insurance tran,ncl<'d. AT WfSTFRN HOTF.L - lnde- y A B A CF.'.'1/TRAL llOIEL ODISFSA:,.;: \\':1r11,·1 nrn1hers' her I. Jl.l~O. Forty vc.ir-, of vour \\'II.I. \'S I Victoria Strert, Phone 2066 7.

27 .397 Norn.

553(16. rcnJ,·ni:c . dance: m11,1<: by the c:iiling ;ill to grand Jndepcndonce dep.H!LITC to us is \'t',li'l1.bv. \Vl." slr,r1 ,ha1's a 10,· i o he told.

Lagos. \\ L"-.tc:rn l ilppcr~ Orche:,!r.1 !nJ J:,nct• d:•y from 10 p.m. t1.m1ght I T : c h n i c o I " r. g~1 \.·t•,1 mu,l,.C'~d ,11:111 al! live to remember \'(1u1 ROY AL EXCHAl\GF. ASSl R· b\ Ban<lt•lc Bamgbose. h s gc:1111~ till duybr~oJk under the: c1nopy ''APRii IN l'.-\RIS'" Dor i-, Oov. loving memory. \lrcp on and ANCE. All •:la""' of ln,ur.,11,e 10 1--c a non-stop dance o,:.a"on. of our newly crecteJ F,ccJom rest.

What, if vou h.nl livc.l F. v B,,lt!·.·:. ~·; IOd., ~"- I l d , lransactrd. :l I M.1ri11J l.a'!.t"I:-,, lonucr tn eniov the Iruit, or your Flc ""c \'OU .ar,, there w11h 1our llmhrella wllh the Central H:inll 01.FF'.\'S · t.A",t Jra111.,1i,· Indian l:ihcH11 \\\.• believe vou .ire corn- ASS<I( 'I.\ TION OF CHVRCll Tele11ho11e 236J I 1 [11c11J_, 10. cnioy the beg,nmn!(• or led by Eric Onu;Ihl. Gr,·,·1 t;,,le· t \POi :rr .. v 11h sub-titles. 4s. Id. ron;1hle wiih our Ol.nlunwo. MCSlCIANS, Nigeria, presents a SOl Tll BRITISH l'.\SL'RA:'\CE our trccaom. Remembl'r tome,- rc11c;ent NigcriJ 111 a moH joyou1 1- ".:·: 1 Id. Is. <iJ. Those oi u, ldr behind will GrnnJ S"ned Concert of lnlli- - Bc'!>l lcrms for Ma1ine,, l'i,r. row _SunJay: it's anolber t:oig d,I\·: mood. mourn your 1,,,.s. Mr F Ade- gc11ous lndepcndena Music to he Motor :ind Accide11t. 12 M,11 ket musrc by two famous hand, -------------compri,ing the S•argazcrs. the :wst,a Kuti. lhule. Mella (•:on). rcnJer,:d hy a ma"ed Choir on Strerl. Lagos. leadm11 band in Ghana and tiie Mr. M A. o Kuti. 1,,1,oJ,i (som. Oe1okr 3. 1%0, al St. Jude's Western Topper~ Orchestra. No11- ADMISSION Ol<' BOYS;GIRLS, Mr M. A. Oiumidc K11ti. l.011- Chur,h. Fhul~·Mrtt:l. at 7 p.m. s1op Janee. Meet the prominent 1961, foe pupils now in (ll Stand· don (~r:111<1~,on). Miss Yctundc Chairman: Or. Nnjmdi Azii:iwe, l.AGOS p~orle in town.

You mu,t he arJ \'I nnd (21 Modern 111. All of PRlN'flNG Kuti, Ehule M•:!la (liran,1-dau~h· Governor-General De,ignatc MACHINERY RO\ Al.: ''" lmli,i<1 film 1 ter). there.

M3ximum enjoyment as· applicatic,ns stating cln~s should Nigeria. ,unporkd by eminent Miss Sunbn Kuti.

Fbute Cropper. Arab, Heidleberg, Har sured ··~AS r: K · 11i1h sub-titles. Mella he sent thrOUl,(h lhe resr,ectiva (grand-daughter).

Miss per-uuages. Thu unity o[ Nigeria rild. Golding, etc. Guaranteed rc-2~. t:d .. i v. 0d Bimpe Kuti. Pbute Mella. ,~rand- may st.in from the Church, .who buill : low prices; prcmpt shir,· LIUO B.\R ANNOUNCEMl:]\T lleadmasters with Ss. for a form ( :Arn 01., R • nk Oruanivation's doughter). Master Scaun Kuti. kno" s? ,howing examination d;ites.'infor· The management of Lillo Rar ment Liggins (Machinery), 77 "1'.CRCJ".S l !IE 13RIOGE" Rod Ebute Metta Entries close (grand-son).

Miss 1'RA VELU.NG? whol<-hcartedly congratulates Ni- m~lion required.

By air, sea, Stdgrr. 4s., !s. uu., Is. 9d. l.a11os Bola Kuti. Ebute Mella, (grand- road to U.K. or world-wide. l.ondon Road. Leicester. England gerians in general \for the hii: November 7. Principal.

RILEY PATHFINDNER, £400: Clerical Training School, Surulere, d•u~hl•r}, Miss Dnne Kuti.

Ebute event Independence anJ C'OP.O~A H.15: Indian film I Consult West African Travel Standard Vanguard, £300; and · wbh them best of luck 'for future. Vaba "APRADllJ KALIN'?" with sub- Metta (grand-daughter].

Agency Ltd., Box i81, Telephone tonight we arc:' ~H'..Sl'ERN CIVIL EN(.11'11'.Ul· FUNLAYO - In evergreen and 23237. Lagos. ,. .aocbes: Abe- Ford Prefect, £350: for sale. All Furthermore titles. 2s. 11<1., Is. 9d. regularly strviced and· in good haviug the biggest dance of the ING TECHNICAL TRAINING affectionate memory of Madam okutP.. lbadar.

Benin, ~pelc, RIALTO: Indian film I "HOW- Patience condition.• Telephone 21982. Also year. Come to the most beautiful INSTITUTE, Box 396, Mushin, Funlayo. Thou hast RAH llRIDGE" witl, sub-titles. ceased from troubles and thy Kano. Port u~. -""1111. Accra, your El«troluxe Electric/Kerosene Re- gJrden; music by the Wizzard Lago,:: Entrance Eumination with own Nigerian '"'.fCllCf, .,..;..__.; :2s. ue., Is. ~d. frigerator. £30. trumpeter. Chari~ Iwegbue and Scholarship to the .abo"e ln,1iruto spirit at rest. Steen well. John KING'S: S,mdav Show ! Rank Oshite her husband.

TIGER BRAND CEMENT BSS his Archibogs. Come r.arlv 10 for 1961 will b~ • on SJturday, Or!l~"',ntkn's "GIRi. IN THE OGt;NADE - In "evergreen, and avoiJ disappointment. Also li,1cn November 19. There are centrea 12/1958 12s. per bag, I Is 6d.

WOOD''. A new ~Im ! Forrest aflecticnate memory of our du· quantity Contact Tekumo Onalai~ to the late~t hits which will be at Ibadan, Akure, Benin, Warr!.

Tucxer. 4s., 2s. 11 d., Is. 9d.

Abeolcuta, AJ,a, Onitsha Er,u11,11. ling rnorher : Mrs, Beatrice Jimi PRINUtR"S AlTENDUN - for ~11d Company, I ldumagbo Ave- played to-night.

Kano. /aduna.

REGAi'..: Ga vest Indian film ' Ogunadc, who pas.std to glory all your printing matcriale, Phone nue and 10 Market Street, Lagos. NEW NIGERIA,- Special <lance Port-Harcourt.

M,•,ical I "KITNA BADAi° three vears today. · The .memory or call M Tika Tore PlllS Ltd. Phones: 23211 and 20867: also on Octobez l, at the Rainhow Jos and L3gos. Question. ; Arilh(.iA v A INSA N" with sub-titles. "~ the just fs blessed. Fred and Stationery Shop, 77 8J'Qlld Street. a v~ilable at our Ibadan and I jcba- Hotel; Aor,IY r., .. music by Calm Bar metic and Engltsh 4s., 21. I Id .. is. 9d. rqrms with Ss fron- Reei,1rar l.agos. Phc,ne 23 In . grand-ehildren, Orchosl ra. Ss. flat.

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In Memoriam

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EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY

DAILY TIMES October 1, 1960 Page 55

Still more greetings from all over the world nm SARDAUNA:our thanks for unparalleled To the Prime Minister of ership to men of experience pRWE Minister Nehru veins." r110 DR. AZIKIWE: service to the nation. the Federation: and toleration for the ideas . . . · 1n a message to th; In another greetings mes-

FROM

"On behalf of the people Region, .1 send to you and Mrs. Az1,dwc most sincere gr~ctin_gs and good wishes on this histurk occasion.

You, more ihan anv other person, dc~cne the gratitude am! elfcclion of all Nigerians for the achievement of indepcndcncc.

"I· or :1 quarter of a centun. vou have sounueu the clarion call and your voice ha~ rallied round fighters for freedom not only i11 Nigeria hut also in other pans of Africa. You truly deserve

of the Northern

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"I assure you that the p~ople of thi~ Region are anxiously looking forward ~o the gre:11,day when you will assume duty as our Governor-General and the leader of our nation. '.'We expect of you great things and are confident that you will be able to rise up to th: occa-ion .. We pray that God wi',, as\1.;t you and tk,t his gr~:,, attribute of Juxt rec 1, i;J be •. ou: gur.Jc, "Will you h~ so kind as to convey the congratulations of thi., Region to the Senate."

"I send you my very sinc:re congratulations on t_he historic occasion of the mdependence of Nigeria, _\'ery many Nigerians Will rightly deserve credit on the attainment of independence for the Federation, but you espccially richly deserve our gratitude for your wise leadership of the nation _during the delicate period with the approach of indencndcnce.

"It is a matter of pride particularly for me, and indeed for all Nigerians,· that you have proved that we in this countrv. given the lead-

of others, can work together for the com~on .good. I pray God will give you courage and bless your efforts to lead a prosperous and stable nation in the difficult years ahead."

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To the Governor of We'iter~. Nigeria: May I offer to you and to tile people of the Western Region the warmest good wishes of the people at the Northern Region on the great occasion of the independence of Nigeria."

people of Nigeria· said yesterday that the att~inment of Nigerian independence was "indeed a happy day for Nigeria for Africa and for the world:'' In a greeting sent for use by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation on the occasion of today's independence celebrations_. Mr. N~hru said: "There is nolhing more exciting today in the world than the emergence of inde pendent nations in Africa .. the whole of that great continent is astir and a new lite is pulsating through il:i

sage sent to the Federal Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Mr. Nehru sent cordial felicitations and best wishes for the Prime Minister's personal happiness and the progress and prosperity of the Nigerian people.

"We are confident that the bonds of friendship between India and N igcri., will he strengthened 111 th~ coming vcars and t'i:1! th, Fcdcr.ition of Nigeria \\ ill be able to contribute appreciablv •,)ws·,.!·: ,h~ nror-iotion · of world pc :~c.·

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NIGERIA The United.Africa Company is proud of its long and close association with Nigeria and shares the Nation's Joy on the .Attainment oflndependence. The C.Ompany re-affirms its faith and confidence ip the future prosperity of this Great Land.

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I have only one major complsint : the Games .were far too unw ieldy.

With events in I 7 sports squeezed into I 6 days and staged at 20 different centres, miles apart, the visitor could not hope to follow more than a fraction of the events.

The solution is obvious.

Either the Games must be held over a considerably longer period, or pruned dow n to something like the original Greek conception.

And in my view it would be a tragedy to reduce this sporting extravaganza to the scale of, say, the Empire or European Games.

These are splendid international jamborees, but they should not be allow ed to compare with the Olympies in size and splendour.

Traditional demands that the Olympics should be the greatest sports festival on earth. .

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More competitors took part in the athletic events than ever before owing to the improved performances throughout the world.

· Olympic purification ' Next Spring, when the International Olympic Committee meets at Athens, the president, Mr. Avery Brundage, is expected to advocate the "purification of the Olympics" by dropping those sports which have professional governing bodies as well as amateur ones fooball, cycling and boxing for example.

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men and University subsidised athletes. If the ideals of the founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, were strictly interpreted today there would be no Olympic Games worthy of that title.

I am not suggesting that the Olympic Stadium should be thrown open to recognised professionals; only that the problems of sha.mateurism should be tackled sympathetically.

If the legislators wish to conform more closely with the· 'original Olympic ideals, they can do so hy allowing all first-class athletes to lake part in the Games. De Coubertin never intended that the Games should be limited to the most outstanding of athletes.

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Before t:•~ matches began, all 1:1ember-c~u~rries_ in West A HECTIC moment in Nigeria's goal area in the World Cup mat.ch against Ghana, Africa were divided into four ·oict ended in ii 2-2 draw. Wit1' goalkeeper Andre down, Salisu tries to flick the ball as . zones. .. ;I nvlam ~igerii;\: captain) an~ Aggrey-Fynn (Ghana's captain) run in. Soccer folio~- , At ~. later ,.st:•~e o.~ the :1 em iortcast th2t the two teams wiii me~t i:u tile Gollli Cuo fina! on October !}. : competiuon, Nigeria .. Gn:in::. / ,1

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MAIL BAG 5084 IBADAN

T AIN AND NORTH· ERN IRELAND HA VE FORMED AN ASSO· CIATION WHICH ISTO BE KNOWN AS THE WEST AFRICAN BOX· ERS' ASSOCIATION, W I T H ITS HEAD· QUARTEP:S IN LIVERPOOL. The assoc .ion. which was formed car in March this year, is pu. ,y social, and it intends , c ., :r for the welfare o' the past and present West African boxers in the U.K.

The aims of the association arc: + To promote friendship among the past and the present West African boxers in Great Britain, and to give advice to members, if need be, especially when a member feels home-sick or is in difficulty. + To give members the opportunity of seeking advice on their career outside boxing - further education or personal and domestic affairs. + It will also foster and promote liaison between other clubs or associations in Great Britain and the Commonwealth as a whole,.

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secure for its members, financial aid and moral 11Upport whenever necessary, + Tlie association will encourage all West African boxers - past and present - who are resident in Great Britain and Northern Ireland to live peacefully and happily during their period of stay in the United Kingdom in such a way as to bring honour and glory to the African race.

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THE. Federal Minister of . The ceremony was watch~mance, Chief F. S. 'ed by frincess Alexandra of Okotie-Eboh, ye st er day Kent, · . announced that . Nigeria And as the clock struck G) was for"'!ally admitted to 12 midnight, Sir James membership of the Inter- Robertson and the Prime <' national . Bank for Re- Minister of the Federation of construction and Deve,.op- Nigeria, Al. haji Si.r Abubakar ment (the World Bank) on Tafawa Balewa, took their September 27; lo· the Inter· position on a dais and watch~ationai Monetary Fund ed the lowering of the Union I cptem _er 28,Fand to t e Jack and the hoisting of the ,..., nternational mance Cor- Ngierian national flag. ' r, poration on September 29.

And so the independence pt~,.,. of Nigeria was proclaimed. r,~:l_ And so, the Union Jack, *'' 1,,-:,;,; ltd symbolising the Imperial power of Britain was hauled d own w1'th th e II oodi'ig,1 t s pu t ~;. and. the green ~nd wh1t_e national ft~g of N1ge· na was u~f'!rled m the glow of floodligh;:s. And 5?, !he peo~e · sang the Nigerian National Anthem. And so e~~d,. one h,undr!al ~ears of '.~h ruff bf00:ie~a.

No . e • I rio'f',, n? : And Nigeria becomes free, I free for ever. ..

L l·am·editing this edition of Fthe "Daily Times" from !Racecourse, Lagos, For here on this spot; history is/being l\l.ade'. Representatives of I more than fifty nations of r the w,orld are here watching the end C?f one hundred years of ~Ol?iµ.at bondage and the ll)egmm~g- _of_ freedom for forty million people. I have ; in. t~i( sixty seconds at 12 _lll1~ght1 watcbed the SUI!, of 1Bnt1sh - imperlalism sett!ng; I and a_ new moon, destined lto radiate all over Africa and : penetrate to other parts of the. world, emerging on the horizon . · And I am happy, I · .

I And I am sobbing. For I remember . Nigerians who [lived and died during the bloodless fight for Nigeria's independence. Men like Herbert Macaulay; Sir Adeyemo A,l~kija; Q.r. J. C. Vaughan; 'Chief Bode Thomas; Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu: Malam Zaad Zung1.1r, ~d many I ~thers,. They were not desn~· to see the. promised

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~ Prizes will include high ~ quality cameras, tidies anI Q gentlemen's wrist watches and umbrellas, a flight in an ,~ aircraft over Lagos, a firstclass train journey -to any c5 destination in Nigeria and back, and other valuable gifts lo be announced later.

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which opens today, October . I until October 22. 011 the Victoria Island will LAGOS, SATURDAY, QCT. 1, 1960.

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. And at this mom~nt,, J remember the. N1~enan youths !fhO we'! 11npnsoned for '!3rm~ t(!. attac.k ~riti!b ~e !n N1ger1a 7 it hi!d 1tl 1mqu1tous and highly exemplary·aspec~. . Men like Anthony E~~horo ("Bravo Sir Bernard ); Oslta' Agwuna ("A call for revolution"); Mok w u go Okoye (sedition); Majarn Raji Abdallah ("I hate the Union Jack"); A y S . ' · · . · Tm~?~ ("Whos~ ~mpire Day ), F:ed Anyiam,. O~e~ Macaulay; Ikenna Nzimiro; and many members of. the outlawed Zikist Movement.

And I remember youths like R A Fani-Ka ~de QC· N A. 13 Kotoye; Ba~riste~-at~ law· Oxford University educat~ Fred. McEwen; who voluntarily trooped to the Lagos prison in protest against the official celebration of the Queen's coronation.

Broad smile .. At this moment, I can see the broad smile of Alhaji Sir Abubakar, who by the grace of God becomes the first Prime Minister of an independent Nigeria. And I see :Pr~ .Nnamdi Azikiwe in the happiest moment of his life.

And I remember when in the bitter struggle for independ. e~ce, he once threatened ~•r Hu~h Foot, at that time Chief Secretary to the Government of -Nigeria, that "the tree of· liberty shall be watered by . the blood of tyr~ ts •" A nd I • pie · t ure d Chief Awolowo, JOY filled; and remember many years.. ago when he threatened Britain that "we shall proclaim self-government and proceed to assert It," And I am happy.

NIGERIA , IS FREE, FREE FORE\ ER. It was indeed a happy day that Nigeria decided lo, adopt a federal system of government, More than anything else, ft fa ll>• set op of 'bo,

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constitution and' the diver ~1t!e~ of ou~ people t~at 1~ spir~{onfiQep.~~1n_ the ftlturc stlli!i11ty of the .country, ~I th~eat ef a-oRe_man:-1'hctat1' ship, No_ f~.ar .:of a gov~. mept sett11?g a~1de the co v, tuhon. a.r bitr~.n!Y· . . ._· · · Indeed,· this rs a greafo ment for we Nigeriims: "'it ~ also a great moment fir Britain and the Britis•• P~ pie.. . . .

At id - ht , d ti m1 nig , rn a ramii ~ moment, they re-lcJse_d_ ·111, shook hands_ ,,ah_~.1£Da!1~ accepted us irnmewatf:llY ii1 friends on an equal basis, _h . hd • . id • l .. ey _wit re,;v at mt . night satisfied that. they had helped ·Jls to _the promised land-helped with, money, by way o_f grants and _ I<;>ans; and with men, adm1q1str:1·1 tor~, engineers, d_oc_tors,, .ed'}, canonists and m1s~10nanf~·:,:· And at this d.ramatic·mo, ment, I see them giving. the utmost respect, to our na tion-: al flag and anthem. They stand· at attention and they salute our flag.

And as I visualise' the African scene in this never, to-be-forgotten moment, I say "salam'' to the British adil the Nigerian leaders the fol,, for .. llidlil .and the lat _ .. embracing,·iar• liamen · · . .- democracx_ and., the rule of law, and fundamental human rigllts. ..

For East, West; North M• South of. the. great centlnent of Africa, our counir, ; my country 0J'.. country lhe only independent African country with an estiili~I' heil Government and · a · po . . ,. ul opposition party, . . · , This mor!lm~ ~t the Racec~urse, Princess- Alexa_lldra will _for_mally present the Co~st1tut10~a1.Instrument by which Britain trans_fcrrcd sovereignty to_ . Nigeria t~ t~e Pri111c M1111stcr. '.~lha!1 Sir Abubakar 1 at a 11 ,1 Balewa.

Then Sir James Robert~on will be sworn-in as the first.

Governor-General of an In· dependent Nigeria.

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