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Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA'S PLEDGE TO INCREASE NIGER DELTA SPENDING ELICITS SKEPTICAL RESPONSE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 11, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Gilbert da Costa
The Nigerian government plans to increase federal spending on the volatile Niger Delta in 2008, in a bid to stem an insurgency that has curtailed output in the oil-rich region. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports that some of the region's powerful groups appear unimpressed.
President Musa Yar'Adua has allotted 20 percent of the country's $20-billion federal budget for 2008 for security in the Niger Delta and projects to ease social and infrastructural difficulties in the oil-rich mangrove.
The decision to spend a considerable amount of the 2008 budget on the delta could prove vital in the president's quest for a peaceful ...