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  • "That was just a love-pat," says the boorish Australian "Dikko" Henderson in For Your Eyes Only, after he's floored a Japanese chick.

    Bottoms Up 2006

  • "That was just a love-pat," says the boorish Australian "Dikko" Henderson in For Your Eyes Only, after he's floored a Japanese chick.

    Bottoms Up 2006

  • The imams understand our angle to this story," says Dikko, noting that religious authorities, including the ulama council – comprised of imams who officially oversee Muslim affairs in the city – have welcomed dialogue with hospital staff and public health groups about how women in their communities can give birth more safely."

    The main causes of maternal death in Nigeria can be avoided | Maggie Flick 2011

  • Dr Bello Umar Dikko, an obstetrician-gynecologist by training and the chief medical officer at Murtala Mohammed, says this is dramatically improving the hospital's ability to give transfusions to mothers whose relatives may not be able to immediately donate or purchase the blood required in an emergency.

    The main causes of maternal death in Nigeria can be avoided | Maggie Flick 2011

  • Dikko, drugged but unharmed, was released, and the three Israelis were arrested and received prison sentences of between ten and fourteen years.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • To bring Dikko back, Elisha assembled an Israeli crew–including an anesthesiologist–and led them to believe that this was a Mossad job rather than a kidnapping-for-hire.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • Believing diplomatic immunity could shield them, the men sped the drugged Dikko to the airport and placed him and the doctor in a wooden crate sealed by a Nigerian military intelligence officer attached to the embassy and stamped “Diplomatic Mail”; two of the other kidnappers were sealed in a second crate.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • Dikko, drugged but unharmed, was released, and the three Israelis were arrested and received prison sentences of between ten and fourteen years.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • When the abductors grabbed Dikko in front of his home at noon on July 5, 1984, his secretary witnessed it and immediately called the police.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • To bring Dikko back, Elisha assembled an Israeli crew–including an anesthesiologist–and led them to believe that this was a Mossad job rather than a kidnapping-for-hire.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

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