Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Eastern Region, Zik aspired to lead the way to national independence-and to become free Nigeria's first Premier. So in the Western Region did rival Premier Obafemia Awolowo. Their press became their weapon: with Zik's Pilot expanded to five papers, and with a ten-paper group owned and controlled by Awolowo's Action Group party, Nigerians were treated to the regular spectacle of Awolowo and Zik slugging it out fiercely and brightly on their front pages...
News for the Natives. But along with Zik's polemics went a modest daily dose of unadulterated news. In 1947, observing with interest the growing Nigerian appetite for news, British Tabloid Publisher Sir Cecil Harmsworth King (the London Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group) picked up the Daily Times, an unimpressive Lagos paper of 7,000 circulation, which had stayed out of Nigeria's East-West...
...success that his Times today has the largest daily circulation in Nigeria-113,-ooo. A Sunday edition, introduced in 1953, has soared past 140,000. King's papers are for and by Nigerians. Eleven years ago there were ten Europeans and 100 Nigerians on the staff; today his group employs six Europeans and 563 Nigerians...
...editor, she got her impulse toward the stage from her mother, who as a girl ran away three times to become an actress but "was fetched back three times because it wasn't considered respectable." Joan had her first acting experience with her mother's amateur theatrical group...
...when demagogues could sway the great Southern Baptist Convention may be over, although the fear of the demagogue is still strong in official circles. The convention's greatest resource is in its increasing abundance of intelligent, well-trained young lay and clerical leadership. This group is sensitive to national and world opinion of Southern Baptists, and mindful of Baptist weaknesses as well as strength, it says, 'Give us time...