PREMIER’S TOUR

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29104, 16 January 1960, Page 13

PREMIER’S TOUR

Reception At Ibadan (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) IBADAN (Western Nigeria), January 15. The British Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan) leaves today with his wife on the second stage of his four-day tour of Nigeria, after receiving a varied reception from the public and from students yesterday. They will fly over the huge Niger river valley into the eastern region. On his arrival yesterday at Iba-dan-renowned for its university college—Mr Macmillan received a warm welcome from crowds who thronged the streets. But at the university college itself he ran the gauntlet of hundreds of students demonstrating for “freedom for Africa.” Slogans and placards called for the release of Dr. Hastings Banda, the detained Nyasaland African nationalist leader, and the banning of the proposed French atomic test in the Sahara. “Freedom, freedom, freedom.” the African students chanted. Mr Macmillan, unperturbed, smiled and waved back to the demonstrators. A British Columbian who built a 28-foot yawl In his living room had to remove one end of his house to get the boat out “The more the merrier, the fewer the better fare.”—John Palgrave.