18th January 1966 - ITN News (video clip)
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1st June 1966 - ITN News
GENERAL AGUIYI- IRONSI SENDS POLICE REINFORCEMENTS TO KANO TO QUENCH RIOTS IN WHICH 80 PEOPLE DIED
NORTHERN NIGERIA IS REPORTED TO BE QUIET, BUT TENSE, WITH POLICE UNITS PATROLLING KANO FOLLOWING RIOTS LAST WEEKEND (28/29 MAY) IN WHICH MORE THAN EIGHTY PEOPLE WERE KILLED, AND SEVERAL HUNDRED INJURED.
THE RIOTING IN KANO, ONE OF AFRICA'S LARGEST MOSLEM CITIES BORDERING ON THE SAHARA DESERT, BEGAN WHEN NORTHERNERS DEMONSTRATED AGAINST PLANS BY THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF MAJOR GENERAL JOHNSON AGUIYI-IRONSI, TO WELD THE COUNTRY'S FOUR FEDERAL REGIONS INTO ONE STATE.
THE NORTHERN NIGERIANS FEAR THAT THE MORE SOPHISTICATED AND EDUCATIONALLY MORE ADVANCED IBOS, FROM EASTERN NIGERIA, WILL RIVAL THEM FOR JOBS IF THE PROVINCES ARE UNIFIED.
POLICE REINFORCEMENTS FROM LAGOS AND OTHER SOUTHERN CITIES WERE RUSHED TO THE AREA. DURING THE RIOTS BUILDINGS AND VEHICLES WERE BURNT, AND SEVERAL EUROPEANS IN CARS WERE STONED.
MILITARY RULER MAJOR-GENERAL AGUIYI-IRONSI VISITS TROOPS IN LAGOS AND REVEALS PLAN TO COMBAT CORRUPTION AND TRIBALISM
THE HEAD OF NIGERIA'S MILITARY REGIME, MAJOR-GENERAL J.T. AGUIYI-IRONSI, SAYS MILITARY COURTS ARE TO BE SET UP IN THE COUNTRY'S FOUR PROVINCIAL CAPITALS TO DEAL WITH NEPOTISM AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF CORRUPTION. HE WAS SPEAKING DURING AN INSPECTION TOUR ON FRIDAY OF THREE LAGOS UNITS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
GENERAL IRONSI TOLD THE SOLDIERS THAT THE AIM OF THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT WAS UNITY IN NIGERIA. HE REITERATED HIS REGIME'S POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTING A NEW NATION, ECONOMICALLY VIABLE AND FREE FROM HATRED AND CORRUPTION.
AS PART OF IMPROVING UNITY, THE REGIME PLANNED TO ESTABLISH BOARDING PRIMARY SCHOOLS WHERE CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT AREAS WOULD IMBIBE THE IDEA OF BELONGING TO ONE COUNTRY. GENERAL IRONSI SAID HE BELIEVED IN NIGERIAN PARTICIPATING FULLY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA.
GENERAL IRONSI SAID: "A TRUE NIGERIAN OF TODAY OS INCORRUPTIBLE, KNOWS NO TRIBALISM, PROUD OF THINGS NIGERIAN, AND MAKES USE OF THINGS MADE IN NIGERIA. OUR PLANS ARE FREE FROM SENTIMENT AND EMOTION".
17 July 1966 - ITN News
MILITARY RULER GENERAL IRONSI SIGNS AGREEMENT TO LINK NIGERIA WITH EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
THE AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED YESTERDAY (SATURDAY) FORMALLY ESTABLISHING NIGERIA AS AN ASSOCIATE OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY.
NIGERIA BECOMES THE 19TH AND BIGGEST AFRICAN COUNTRY AND THE FIRST ENGLISH-SPEAKING COMMONWEALTH COUNTRY TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY.
NEGOTIATIONS BEGAN THREE YEARS AGO SOON AFTER THE SIGNING OF A SIMILAR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EEC AND THE 18 AFRICAN AND MALAGASY COUNTRIES. THE AGREEMENT MEANS NIGERIA'S EXPORTS TO THE COMMUNITY WILL BE DUTY-FREE, WITH QUOTAS FIXED FOR THE MAIN ONES -- GROUND-NUT OIL, PALM-OIL AND PLYWOOD. IN RETURN NIGERIA WILL GRANT TARIFF PREFERENCES ON 26 MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OF THE COMMON MARKET.
AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY BRIGADIER B.A. OGUNDIPE, NIGERIA'S CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES, SAID THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SIX EEC COUNTRIES IN ESTABLISHING THE COMMUNITY HAD BEEN A LESSON AND AN EXAMPLE WHICH DEMONSTRATED THE IRRELEVANCE OF POLITICAL BOUNDARIES. HE SAID THE CONVENTION NOW BEING SIGNED SIMILARLY PROVIDED FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTER--AFRICAN CO-OPERATION.
DOCTOR JOSEPH LUNS, THE DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER AND PRESIDENT OF THE EEC MINISTERIAL COUNCIL SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY. HE SAID THE TALKS LEADING TO THE AGREEMENT HAD "BRISTLED WITH DIFFICULTIES." THE FACT THAT THEY WERE OVERCOME WAS PROOF THAT FORMULAE COULD BE FOUND FOR RECONCILING THE INTERESTS OF AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES WITH THOSE OF COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE MAINTAINED ASSOCIATION RELATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY.
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1966/01/18/FS180166003/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=34&sortBy=date
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//BHC_ITN/1966/01/19/X19016603/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=34&sortBy=date
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1966/01/23/FS230166001/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=34&sortBy=date
1st June 1966 - ITN NewsGENERAL AGUIYI- IRONSI SENDS POLICE REINFORCEMENTS TO KANO TO QUENCH RIOTS IN WHICH 80 PEOPLE DIED
NORTHERN NIGERIA IS REPORTED TO BE QUIET, BUT TENSE, WITH POLICE UNITS PATROLLING KANO FOLLOWING RIOTS LAST WEEKEND (28/29 MAY) IN WHICH MORE THAN EIGHTY PEOPLE WERE KILLED, AND SEVERAL HUNDRED INJURED.
THE RIOTING IN KANO, ONE OF AFRICA'S LARGEST MOSLEM CITIES BORDERING ON THE SAHARA DESERT, BEGAN WHEN NORTHERNERS DEMONSTRATED AGAINST PLANS BY THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF MAJOR GENERAL JOHNSON AGUIYI-IRONSI, TO WELD THE COUNTRY'S FOUR FEDERAL REGIONS INTO ONE STATE.
THE NORTHERN NIGERIANS FEAR THAT THE MORE SOPHISTICATED AND EDUCATIONALLY MORE ADVANCED IBOS, FROM EASTERN NIGERIA, WILL RIVAL THEM FOR JOBS IF THE PROVINCES ARE UNIFIED.
POLICE REINFORCEMENTS FROM LAGOS AND OTHER SOUTHERN CITIES WERE RUSHED TO THE AREA. DURING THE RIOTS BUILDINGS AND VEHICLES WERE BURNT, AND SEVERAL EUROPEANS IN CARS WERE STONED.
MILITARY RULER MAJOR-GENERAL AGUIYI-IRONSI VISITS TROOPS IN LAGOS AND REVEALS PLAN TO COMBAT CORRUPTION AND TRIBALISM
THE HEAD OF NIGERIA'S MILITARY REGIME, MAJOR-GENERAL J.T. AGUIYI-IRONSI, SAYS MILITARY COURTS ARE TO BE SET UP IN THE COUNTRY'S FOUR PROVINCIAL CAPITALS TO DEAL WITH NEPOTISM AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF CORRUPTION. HE WAS SPEAKING DURING AN INSPECTION TOUR ON FRIDAY OF THREE LAGOS UNITS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
GENERAL IRONSI TOLD THE SOLDIERS THAT THE AIM OF THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT WAS UNITY IN NIGERIA. HE REITERATED HIS REGIME'S POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTING A NEW NATION, ECONOMICALLY VIABLE AND FREE FROM HATRED AND CORRUPTION.
AS PART OF IMPROVING UNITY, THE REGIME PLANNED TO ESTABLISH BOARDING PRIMARY SCHOOLS WHERE CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT AREAS WOULD IMBIBE THE IDEA OF BELONGING TO ONE COUNTRY. GENERAL IRONSI SAID HE BELIEVED IN NIGERIAN PARTICIPATING FULLY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA.
GENERAL IRONSI SAID: "A TRUE NIGERIAN OF TODAY OS INCORRUPTIBLE, KNOWS NO TRIBALISM, PROUD OF THINGS NIGERIAN, AND MAKES USE OF THINGS MADE IN NIGERIA. OUR PLANS ARE FREE FROM SENTIMENT AND EMOTION".
17 July 1966 - ITN News
MILITARY RULER GENERAL IRONSI SIGNS AGREEMENT TO LINK NIGERIA WITH EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
THE AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED YESTERDAY (SATURDAY) FORMALLY ESTABLISHING NIGERIA AS AN ASSOCIATE OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY.
NIGERIA BECOMES THE 19TH AND BIGGEST AFRICAN COUNTRY AND THE FIRST ENGLISH-SPEAKING COMMONWEALTH COUNTRY TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY.
NEGOTIATIONS BEGAN THREE YEARS AGO SOON AFTER THE SIGNING OF A SIMILAR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EEC AND THE 18 AFRICAN AND MALAGASY COUNTRIES. THE AGREEMENT MEANS NIGERIA'S EXPORTS TO THE COMMUNITY WILL BE DUTY-FREE, WITH QUOTAS FIXED FOR THE MAIN ONES -- GROUND-NUT OIL, PALM-OIL AND PLYWOOD. IN RETURN NIGERIA WILL GRANT TARIFF PREFERENCES ON 26 MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OF THE COMMON MARKET.
AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY BRIGADIER B.A. OGUNDIPE, NIGERIA'S CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES, SAID THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SIX EEC COUNTRIES IN ESTABLISHING THE COMMUNITY HAD BEEN A LESSON AND AN EXAMPLE WHICH DEMONSTRATED THE IRRELEVANCE OF POLITICAL BOUNDARIES. HE SAID THE CONVENTION NOW BEING SIGNED SIMILARLY PROVIDED FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTER--AFRICAN CO-OPERATION.
DOCTOR JOSEPH LUNS, THE DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER AND PRESIDENT OF THE EEC MINISTERIAL COUNCIL SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY. HE SAID THE TALKS LEADING TO THE AGREEMENT HAD "BRISTLED WITH DIFFICULTIES." THE FACT THAT THEY WERE OVERCOME WAS PROOF THAT FORMULAE COULD BE FOUND FOR RECONCILING THE INTERESTS OF AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES WITH THOSE OF COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE MAINTAINED ASSOCIATION RELATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY.
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