Britain, nigeria restore links
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LONDON — Britain restored full diplomatic relations with Nigeria today, repairing a rift that began two years ago after a Nigerian attempt to smuggle a kidnaped former Nigerian official back
to Lagos in an aircraft crate. The Foreign Office said veteran diplomat Martin Ewans has been appointed high commissioner to Nigeria, Britain’s biggest trading partner in black Africa. The
two countries downgraded their diplomatic links and withdrew their high commissioners in July, 1984, after a bungled attempt to whisk Umaru Dikko, a former transport minister, to Lagos to
face charges of misusing public funds. MORE TO READ