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Article: Nigerian president to summon Niger Delta governors over master plan
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Nigerian president to summon Niger Delta governors over master
plan
LAGOS, June 22 (Xinhua) -- In a bid to restore peace and fast-
track development in the Niger Delta region, Nigerian President Umaru
Yar 'adua has said that he would soon summon governors of the nine
Niger Delta states to the State House over the implementation of the
Niger Delta Master Plan.
"I will call a meeting of my Vice President, the nine coastal
Governors and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)
management to discuss the issue of budgeting and coordination of the
execution of the Master Plan. If we need to deepen it, we will do so,
but you cannot achieve the Plan without a coordinated approach to its ...