A firm in which a company owned by Israel’s federation of labor has a 40 percent interest won today an $800,000 contract to build a new Soviet Embassy at Lagos, capital of Nigeria.
The contract went to the East Nigerian Furniture and Construction Company. Solel Boneh’s Overseas and Harbor Company holds 40 percent of the stock in the East Nigerian firm. Solel Boneh is a construction firm owned by Histadrut, Israel’s federation of labor.
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