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The Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation carried a report in its 7 a. m. news on April 17, 1970. The Ahmadiyya Movement of Nigeria is to build sixteen Secondary Schools and four medical centres in the country within the next five years. This was announced at a news conference in Lagos yesterday by the Supreme Head of the World Ahmadiyya Muslim Organisation, Nasir Ahmad, the Khalifatul Masih the third. The· Muslim Leader said, the decision, to build the schools, is in conformity with the Organisation's policy to give maximum opportunity and material help to all people to enable them to develop their talents. The Khalifa, who has been touring parts of the federation, said that he was impressed by the development of his movement in the country. The Nigerian Press met Hazrat Khalifatul Masih at the Federal Palace Hotel. The DAIL Y TIMES (April 17) carried a report about it. PANEL TO BUILD 16 HIGH SCHOOLS FIVE-YEAR PROJECT The Supreme Head of Avid Ahmadiyya Muslim Organisation, Hazrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih III, said in Lagos yesterday that "It is only Islam that has so far helped to solve the economic problems of mankind". This, he said, had been so because Islam preached tolerance, love and respect for others' feelings. Hazrat Ahmad was addressing newsmen at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, yesterday. Every individual, he said, must be allowed to "develop his faculties with the aid of material means to the advantage of others". 26