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SYND 12/07/1969 RED CROSS MEETS WITH GENERAL GOWON
Marcel Naville, President of Inernational Committee of Red Cross, meets with General Yakubu Gowon, of Nigeria
1) ms exterior Dodan Barracks, location of meeting
2) ms car arrives:
3) ms Marcel Naville out of car
4) ms press
5) ms...
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SYND 16 8 68 ANTI DE GAULLE DEMONSTRATION IN NIGERIA
Nigerians demonstrate over French President De Gaulle's support for Biafra
1. pan across demonstrators with banners, zoom to cu banner: De gaulle is Mad for our Oil Reserve
2. various shots, anti De Gaulle banners
3. demonstrators march...
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4:3 At least two dead in explosion at police headquarters
1. Wide of police force headquarters building, large plume of black smoke rising behind it, pull out to wide
2. Pan of fire raging in car park
3. Close up of flames, thick black smoke rising
4. Mid of police, people at blast site
5. Fire...
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SYND 5 6 67 BRITS AND AMERICANS EVACUATE FROM EASTERN NIGERIA TO LAGOS
British and Americans arrive in Lagos from eastern Nigeria following the federal government announcement that foreign nationals should evacuate.
1. ms people with children walk down plane steps
2. cu baby in arms
3. vs more people off...
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Cuts 6 2 70 RED CROSS RELIEF SUPPLIES ARRIVE IN NIGERIA
Red Cross relief supplies arrive in Nigeria.
1. vs of the supplies being organised in the warehouse
2. vs of crowded streets
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sYND 28 8 67 ANTHONY ENAHORO GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE IN LAGOS
Nigerian Minister for Information and Labour Anthony Enahoro gives Lagos press confernce.
1. ms Enahoro greeting other chiefs
2. ms open air conference
3. ms chief speaking, Enahoro listens
4. cu Enahoro
5. cu speaker addressing...
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SYND 19 11 67 SEAMEN ACCUSED OF GUN-RUNNING ARRIVE FROM LAGOS
The crew of gun running ship have arrived home after being released by the Nigerian authorities. Theair leader Captain WIlliam Platinga spoke ot reporters.
1. ws Schiphol airport
2. mcu airport building and name
3. ms seamen through...
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SYND 24-11-69 INVESTIGATION OF CRASHED VC 10 AIRLINER IN LAGOS
Bristish and Negerian investigators examine wreckage of crashed VC - 10 at Lagos
1) ms team of investigators at crash site
2) investigators, pan to emblem on plane wreckage
3) experts next to plane wreckage
4) ms experts talking amongst...
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500 killed in raid on Muslim village
1. Tracking shot off back of jeep past village houses, pan from muzzle of gun to policeman
2. Tracking shot past people packing into trucks and fleeing
3. Tracking shot of people walking along road
4. Tracking shot past ruined Apostolic...
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SYND 27-10-69 OAO ENVOYS MEET GOWAN
Organization of African Unity sends envoy to Nigeria in bid to find solution to war crisis
1 ms Ketema Yifru greeted by Nigerian officials at airport
2 ms Yifru and Diallo Telli with Nigerian officials walking across tarmac
3 ms General...
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SYND 17 9 68 FOOF AND SUPPLIES FOR BIAFRA ARRIVE IN CALABAR
Calabar becomes the base for Nigerian relief services. Food and suppies arriving for the bealeaguered victims of the civil war in Biafra.
1. vs food unload, carried on Nigerians' heads
2. cu Red Cross sign pan to group and supplies
3....
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Nigerians marched on the streets of Abuja on Tuesday calling for more more do be done to secure the release of the abducted schoolgirls from the militant group Boko Haram. (May 13)
Nigerians marched on the streets of Abuja on Tuesday calling for more more do be done to secure the release of the abducted schoolgirls from the militant group Boko Haram.
The demonstrators wore red t-shirts and held up banners reading...
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NIGERIA PLANE CRASHES KILLING ALL ON BOARD
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday - killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground.
It was the country's worst air disaster in nearly two decades.
The cause...
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SYND 1 4 78 PRESIDENT CARTER ARRIVES IN LAGOS
Murtala Mohammed, Nigeria's Head of State, welcomes US President Jimmy Carter and his family to Nigeria.
1. US plane taxiing to standstill
2. ms welcoming party
3. ws Carter and family descending plane steps
4. ms Carter talking with...
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DISASTERS: Nigeria - Plane crash kills at least 150 in Lagos
1. Wide of emergency workers at scene of wreckage
2. Wide of wreckage with man standing in smoke in background
3. Close-up of fire burning in wreckage
4. Wide of smouldering wreckage
5. Wide of building which has been virtually...
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Body of Italian hostage killed in Nigeria is repatriated
1. Italian Air Force jet with body of hostage Franco Lamolinara taxiing
2. Italian and EU flags
3. Relatives and officials waiting on tarmac
4. Wide, relatives waiting on tarmac near airplane
5. Franco Taffuri, head of the Foreign...
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CAN818 JOURNALIST RELEASED FROM PRISON
The journalist Lateef Jakande is released from prison in Lagos by the new Nigerian regime.
1. ns sign 'Maximum Security Prison' tilt down to crowd
2. ms crowd cheering
3. ms Jakande walks out of prison
4. ms Jakande with cheering...
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SYND 10 9 67 GNERAL GOWON INSPECTS TROOPS IN TRAINING
Major-General Yakubu Gowon reviews troops under training in Lagos.
1. ms Gowman and staff, pan to marching troops
2. cu Gowon address troops
3. ms Gowon in front speaking
4. ms troops listening
5. vs Gowon speaks, troops listen
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A rare solar eclipse swept across parts of the US, Africa and Europe on Sunday. Described as a "hybrid eclipse," some areas were witnessing a total blackout with others experiencing a partial version. (Nov. 3)
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A rare solar eclipse swept across parts of the US, Africa and Europe on Sunday.
Described as a "hybrid eclipse," some areas were witnessing a total blackout with others experiencing a...
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AP COVER OF SITE OF CRASH IN WHICH AT LEAST 150 KILLED
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled...
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4:3 Thousands displaced in north as Boko Haram insurgents close in
Thousands of people fleeing violence in northeastern Nigeria have sought refuge in the city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, after militants mounted an attack on the nearby city of Bama earlier this week.
Bama, a city of about...
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Massive explosion rips through warehouse full of fireworks
1. Wide of buildings on fire, plumes of grey smoke billowing out of them
2. Mid of man on roof top trying to put out fire using a bucket of water
3. Mid of flames and smoke billowing from burning buildings
4. Various of burnt out cars...
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CAN818 MILITARY COUP IN NIGERIA
People move out of the Nigerian capital of Lagos as a military coup threatens further disruption.
1. ms sign 'Lagos Terminus'
2. vs ms armoured vehicle and jeep
3. ms woman with child in street
4. ms men loading cupboard onto truck
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Aftermath of deadly clashes in Plateau State capital
1. Wide of car on fire
2. Zoom out from rubble
3. Burnt out cars
4. Dead body in street covered by boards and tyres
5. Bodies on floor
6. Zoom out of injured man receiving stitches to injury on his back
7. Injured man in hospital bed
8....