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Nigeria's constitutional conference opens.

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire

| February 21, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire)

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's national conference, the fifth such attempt since the country's independence in 1960 to get a constitution acceptable to some 250 ethnic groups in Africa's most populous nation opens here Monday.

President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is serving his second four-year term will personally open the parley, which is holding at the cavernous international conference centre in Abuja.

More than 2,000 policemen have been deployed at the venue, as well as strategic points in the capital after some youth organisations, citing poor representation, threatened to disrupt the …

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