Document #1198554
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
No reports on "The Guard" an underground
bulletin produced weekly and distributed to the public on the
streets of Lagos could be found among the sources consulted by the
Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is
not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any
particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the
list of sources consulted in researching this Information
Request.
Sources Consulted
Africa Confidential [London].
January - December 1997. Vol. 38. No. 1-24.
_____. January - December 1997. Vol. 37.
No. 1-25.
Africa Research Bulletin [Oxford].
January 1996- December 1997 . Vols. 33-34. Nos. 1-12
Human Rights Watch (HRW)/Africa. October
1997. Vol. 9. No. 6 (A). Nigeria: Transition or Travesty?
Nigeria's Endless Process of Return to Civilian Rule. New
York: Human Rights Watch.
_____. September 1996. Vol. 8. No.
(3A). Nigeria: Permanent Transition: Current Violations of
Human Rights in Nigeria. New York: Human Rights Watch.
Keesing's Record of World Events
[Cambridge]. 1996 - 1997. Vols. 42 - 43.
New African [London]. January
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Political Handbook of the World.
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- December 1997. Nos 4093 - 4131.
Electronic sources: IRB Databases,
LEXIS/NEXIS, Internet, REFWORLD, World News Connection (WNC).
Two oral sources consulted could not
provide information on the requested subject.
Additional Sources Consulted
Commitee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Attacks on the Press. Yearly.
Index on Censorship. 1996 - 1997. Vols. 25
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Lettre de Rapporteurs sans
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