- Title: NIGERIA: "SOLDIER OF PEACE" STATUE UNVEILED IN REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY.
- Date: 11th November 1970
- Summary: 1. SV Troops, followed by sailors, march 0.13 2. SV Sailors 0.19 3. MV More troops 0.27 4. SV & MV Veiled statue, and "Soldier of Peace" drapped with Nigerian flag 0.34 5. SV Crowd 0.37 6. GV Sailors lined up 0.42 7. MV Armoured vehicle comes towards camera followed by car 0.46 8. MV Outriders (police) and General Gowon's car arrive 0.54 9. SV Gowon gets out of car to dais(3 shots) 1.01 10. SV&BV Gowon salutes (2 shots) 1.07 11. GV&MV Gowon down from dais, inspects troops and others including scouts and guides in slow march (5 shots) 1.31 12. MV&CU Gowon and party walk to cenotaph 1.34 13. MV Soldiers pick up wreath, MV hands to officer, MV hands to Gowon who lays wreath and salutes, TILT UP TO see statues of two soldiers on cenotaph (3 shots) 1.47 14. CU Wreath at cenotaph 1.52 15. BV Officer salutes in front of new "Soldier of Peace" monument 1.54 16. MV Statue TILT DOWN TO Gowon speaking to officers 2.06 17. MBV Gowon laying wreath on new monument 2.13 18. GV Gowon on dais as troops march past in foreground 2.19 Initials MG/JF/MH/1600 MF/JF/MH/1636 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: Lagos, NIGERIA
- Country: Nigeria
- Reuters ID: LVA6MSZLMYXZEF2ZDFHJUXR12HY2
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