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President inaugurates Niger Delta Commission

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    President Olusegun Obasanjo has inaugurated the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission marking the beginning of his long-delayed modernisation plan for the country’s underdeveloped southern oil region, local newspapers said on Friday.
    The inauguration of the body, headed by senior presidential aide Onyema Ugochukwu, on Thursday, followed confirmation of the president’s appointees to the commission’s board by the country’s legislature earlier in the week.

    “I will want the board to give the issue of development of a master plan for the region a very high priority,” Obasanjo was quoted as saying by the privately-owned Lagos newspaper, ‘The Guardian’. Other newspapers also carried the report.

    [For full story see item ‘NIGERIA: President inaugurates Niger Delta Commission’]

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