Although through, Amodu's team will have done little to silence the critical voices from within Nigeria about the state of the national team.
Within months, Nigeria was engulfed in independent Africa's first humanitarian catastrophe: a war for the independence of Mr. Achebe's Igbo homeland that left one million people dead, most of them children who starved.
The main difference between the East and West African pirate activities is that almost all the incidents in Nigeria are conducted within its territorial waters, whereas most of the incidents along the East coast of Africa and the Gulf of Aden occur on the high seas, the report said.
Films are usually low-budget, star locally famous actors and are filmed, edited and released on DVD or VCD within a month -- going on sale at local marketplaces across Nigeria.
Analysts say such a shutdown could cut production in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, by one-quarter within weeks or sooner if security forces guarding the facilities sympathize with union demands.
According to Lucian Pugliaresi, president of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, a Washington-based group that analyzes oil economics, a "perfect storm" of events within the last five years--including political instability in Iraq, Venezuela and Nigeria--has undermined production expectations by as much as 3 million barrels per day.
Western diplomats tell CNN that Nigeria, for example, is more concerned about the threat from Boko Haram within than jihadist safe havens in Mali.
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Yet - within less than a year of that disaster - Zambia fielded a new team that faced Nigeria in the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations Final - and lost by just 2-1.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Nigeria's biggest cities this month after government scrapped a subsidy that had kept gasoline within the reach of the deeply poor population.
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