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Article: Nigeria works out plan to resolve oil-rich Niger Delta crisis
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 19, 2006
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Nigeria works out plan to resolve oil-rich Niger Delta crisis
LAGOS, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government has worked out
a nine-point package plan to resolve the restive oil-rich Niger Delta
crisis, local newspaper Vanguard reported Wednesday.
The report quoted Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as saying
that the federal government had rolled out a string of definitive
measures to develop the coastal states of the Niger Delta covering
employment generation, transportation, education, health,
telecommunications, environment, agriculture, power and water
resources.
Under the development plan, Obasanjo said the government would
resume construction of the abandoned East-West ...