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CAN820 DELEGATES MEET IN LAGOS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL TALKS
Regional delegates meet in Lagos for constitutional talks. The talks are attended by the new Nigerian Head of State Yakubu Gowon.
1. ws exterior Senate building
2. ms delegates of midwestern provinces arrive
3. vs ms western delegation...
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Videophone pix of Taylor arrives in Nigeria
1. Plane on runway, Liberian President Charles Taylor comes out and walks down plane steps, is greeted by officials, walks through crowd of officials
Liberia's former President Charles Taylor arrived in Nigeria on Monday after going...
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Leaders and officials from US, SAfrica, Zimbabwe, DRC, Nigeria and UN arrive for 50 year AU anniversary
1. Various of US Secretary of State John Kerry walking along corridor and going into hall, for 50th anniversary celebration of African Union
2. Various of South African president Jacob Zuma and Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe...
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SYND 17/01/70
First film taken in the heartland of Biafra after the collapse of the breakaway state
1) traveling shot along road from Owerri to Aba, with refugees walking along side
2) various the Biafran radio station at Obodo - Ukwu troops assembled...
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Cuts 6 2 70 RED CROSS RELIEF SUPPLIES ARRIVE IN NIGERIA
Relief suplies ferried from Port Harcourt docks and distributed by troops to refugees at Owerri.
1. ws Port Harcourt wharf food unloaded from ship
2. cu ships name "Hereon"
3. ms Red Cross truck into warehouse
4. ms porters handle food...
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FILE of area where militants reported to have launched new attacks
1. Tracking shot of Niger Delta
2. An oil installation in Niger Delta
3. Pull out from black smoke rising following attack on pipeline
Militants holding nine foreigners hostage on Monday launched attacks on a Shell oil pipeline and a...
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Body of president laid to rest in his home state
1. Wide of mourners at site where deceased Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua is to be buried
2. Mourners gathered around grave site that has been prepared for Yar'Adua
3. Various of mourners
4. Various of media gathered as Yar'Adua's...
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SYND 18 7 67 MORE RECRUITS ENLIST FOR GOWON'S ARMY
More recruits for Gowon's Nigerian federal army.
1. ws crowd gathers at recruiting ground
2. vs crowd
3. vs officer pushes recruits
4. vs official at table takes details from new recruits
5. ms recruits looking on
6. ms officer checks...
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Nigeria - Oil Workers' Strike
The effects of a two-month-old strike by Nigerian oil workers
demanding the release of presidential claimant Moshood Abiola were
waning on Friday (2/9) although leaders of the action said the
stoppage was still on.
queues at petrol...
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SYND 18 4 68 NIGERIAN HIGH COMMISIONER TO TANZANIA RECALLED AND RETURNS TO LAGOS
Nigerian High Commisioner to Tanzania recalled over Biafra conflict and returns to Lagos.
1. ms Williams leaving aircraft
2. various of Williams walking along tarmac with officials
3. ms interior, Williams handing over documents
4. ms...
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SYND 3 10 76 16TH NIGERIAN INDEPENDANCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Nigeria celebrates the sixteenth anniversary of her independence from British rule. Head of State General Obasanjo leads the celebrations.
1. ws Obasanjo climbing onto back of open Landrover
2. ms Obasanjo reviewing troops from back of...
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Fuel strikers and police scuffle during protest
1. Mid of police cordon around protesters
2. Protesters break through police barrier
3. Pan of police van speeding past protesters
4. Various of protesters marching through police barrier
5. Protesters march past police riot van as one...
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SYND 15 7 79 SCENES IN LAGOS DURING NIGERIAN FEDERAL ELECTIONS
Scenes in Lagos as Nigerians go to the polls to elect members of the Federal House of Representatives which together with Senate make the Nigerian National Assembly.
1. gv pan along queue of women voters outside polling station, many...
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Nigeria - Suicide bomb kills at least 38 people in Kaduna
Nigeria - Aftermath of suicide bombing that killed at least 38 people
Kaduna - 9 April 2012
1. Mid of people at blast site, inspecting damage
2. Wide of blast scene
3. Wide of building left badly damaged following the explosion
4....
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SYND 12 5 67 MEETING BACKGROUND
Nigerian leaders meet to discuss the rift which is developing in the country.
1. mcu sign 'Welcome to Enugu"
2. vs of the countryside and town
3. vs of a men using machines
4. vs of a man at a desk working
5. mcu sign 'Director of...
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Obasanjo nominee Yar'adua at Friday prayers
1. Exterior of main mosque
2. Mid shot of minaret
3. Obasanjo candidate, Katsina Governor, Umaru Yar'Adua entering court yard of mosque
4. Cutaway of two seated men
5. Wide of candidate Umaru Yar'Adua sitting down in courtyard
6. Mid...
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SYND 26 9 67 MISSING BRIGADIER THOUGHT DEAD REAPPEARS IN LAGOS
Brigadier David Ejoor, who was presumed dead and thought to have been killed prior to the recent coup, re-appears in Lagos.
1. ms brigadier into room
2. ms Ejoor sits down
3. ms press
4. ms Ejoor
5. cu same
6. ms press pan to...
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CAN710 CROWD PRAYING ON FIELD NEAR LAGOS WHERE BODY OF KILLED PRIME MINISTER BALEWA IS FOUND
Crowd gather for prayers on a field near Lagos where the bodies of murdered Nigerian Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Finance Minister Festus Okotie-Eboh were found.
1. gv crowd by roadside
2. various of people in crowd looking...
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SYND 27 6 78 WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT VISITS GENERAL OBASANJO
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Nigerian head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo met in Lagos on Tuesday (June 27th) to consider the crisis in Southern Africa, the north-south economic dialogue and trade relations between their...
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ITALY: NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OBASANJO VISIT
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The president of Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo, met Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as part of a two day trip to Rome on Monday.
The Nigerian president was given a ceremonial greeting at the Presidential palace...
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SYND 22 8 77 PRESIDENT KAUNDA ARRIVES FOR UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE
President Kaunda of Zambia arriving at Lagos Airport for a United Nations-sponsored conference on apartheid. He was greeted by the Nigerian commissioner for external affairs, Brigadier Joe Garba, and Governor Kanu of Lagos, in naval...
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SYND 28-6-69 AMERICAN RELIEF SHIP FOR BIAFRA HELD UP IN LAGOS HARBOUR
American relief ship for Biafra held up in Lagos Harbour.
1. gv ship in Lagos harbour
2. ms crewman onboard ship
3. ms life belt with ship's name "Dona Mercedes"
4. various of rain falling on tarpaulin
5. various of crewman asleep...
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CAN322 TEACHERS DEMONSTRATIONS IN LAGOS
Angry scenes as teachers demonstrate over pay, in Nigeria's capitol, Lagos
***date is approximate***
1. ms teachers march along street with placards, escorted by police
2. ms teachers march, ms placard: Teachers Build The Nation,...
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SYND 29 4 80 VARIOUS DIGNITARIES ARRIVE FOR OAU (ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY) CONFERENCE
Nigeria is this year's host nation for the summit meeting of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Some twenty African heads of state had arrived in Lagos, including the presidents of Somalia, Cameroon, Kenya, Sudan, Senegal,...