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Japan donates for next year’s elections

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    Japan has donated US $80,000 to a UN project which aims to ensure that upcoming local and presidential elections take place in a peaceful and transparent manner and to support Nigeria’s return to civilian rule, Japan’s permanent mission to the United Nations said in a statement on Monday.

    The contribution would cover the cost of an upcoming conference on conflict management in the framework of the elections and the role of the civil society in addressing such issues.

    Local and presidential polls are slated to take place in Nigeria in 2002 and 2003. In 1999, current President Olusegun Obasanjo became the country’s first democratically-elected president after more than 15 years of military rule.

    Japan also contributed to Nigeria’s democratic process in 1999.

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