Nigeria pays U.K. $18M debt
NZPA-Reuter London Nigeria’s military Government reiterated a pledge to honour all foreign debts when it handed Britain a £6.9million (SNZIB.4 million) cheque in outstanding payments. “I wish to assure all our creditors that, given time and patience, Nigeria will honour its commitments to them,” Nigeria’s top diplomat iii London told a news conference. Mr Ezekiel Dimka was speaking before presenting Britain with a lump sum for pensions paid to British civil servants who served in Nigeria before its independence in 1960. The foiled kidnapping of a prominent opposition politician, Umaru Dikko, found drugged in a diplomatic air crate last month, severely tested relations between Britain and its former colony. Mr Dikko, Transport Minister in the previous Government toppled by the military in a bloodless coup on New Year’s Eve, was to have stood trial in Nigeria on charges of large-scale corruption.
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