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Local election test for Nigerian regime (1997-03-14)

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1997-03-14
Financial Times

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"Local election test for Nigerian regime", Financial Times, 14 Mar 1997, p. 4 Financial Times Historical Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/HS2305913608/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=9376d371. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

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Nigerians go to the polls tomorrow in the first test of the military government's declared intention to return the country to civilian rule by October next year. The local multi-party elections take place against a background of renewed focus on the administration's human rights record, following the charging with treason this week of 15 opposition activitists, including Mr Wole Soyinka, the Nobel prize winner...

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