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At 07:56 PM 6/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>"One ship drives east and another drives west
>With the selfsame winds that blow.
>'Tis the set of sails and not the gales which tells us the way to go."
> ----------Ella Wheeler Wilcox
>
>Category: News
> Date of Article: 06/11/98
> Topic: Rawlings, Kabbah, Others Fly in to Console
>Nigerians
> Author: Tom Chiahemen, Abuja
> Full Text of Article:
>
> HEAD of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar,
>performed his first public engagement on
> Tuesday as he was at the Nnamdi Azikiwe
>International Airport Abuja, to receive and send
> off some of the African heads of government on
>condolence mission to the country.
> Abubakar, who was sworn in as successor to the late
>Head of State, General Sani Abacha,
> in the early hours of Tuesday, was, first, at the
>airport to receive visiting Sierra Leonean
> President, Alhaji Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.
> Kabbah, who was reinstated in office last March by
>the Nigerian-led ECOMOG soldiers,
> was, perhaps, in a show of appreciation to Nigeria,
>the first West African head of state to
> jet in on Tuesday, barely 12 hours of General
>Abacha's burial in Kano.
> The presidents of Ghana, Ft. Lt. Jerry Rawlings;
>Niger, Alhaji Mainnasseri and Mali were
> also being expected in the country on Tuesday, to
>condole the people and government of
> Nigeria over the death of General Abacha, who was,
>until his death on Monday, the
> chairman of the Economic Community of West African
>States (ECOWAS).
> The Ghanaian President, Ft. Lt. Rawlings, had told
>the British Broadcasting Corporation
> (BBC) that the demise of General Abacha was "a big
>loss not only to Nigeria but Africa as
> a whole."
> He remembered the former head of state as an African
>patriot who was committed to the
> sustenance of peace and unity in the region.
>
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