Nigeria Seeks Independence
LAGOS, August 5. The Nigerian Federal Government today decided to seek independence from Britain on April 2, 1960. The House of Representatives passed without division a private member’s motion to this effect. The Prime Minister (Albaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa) told the House that he was considering with the Governor-General methods by which the outstanding difficulties could be overcome in time. He appealed to all members to treat independence as a national issue and not try to make political capital from it. Introducing the motion, Mr Fani Kayode said: “If Britain is sincere, and I believe she is, nothing stands between us and independence.” . Mr Jaja Wachuku, of t£e National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons, said that Nigeria had come to the verge of independence without a violent struggle or bloodshed under the British regime.
Care must be taken that after independence the machinery of government was not upset by violence, he declared.
Trade Agreement.— The Foreign Ministry said today that the Indo-nesian-Polish trade agreement would be signed tomorrow, when details will also be announced.— Jakarta, August 6.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28658, 7 August 1958, Page 11
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