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Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
124 [3]
Article-Summary: 

More than 100 villages were flooded at the weekend after Nigeria's state power firm opened an endangered hydroelectric dam, a government spokesman said Monday. Mahmud Abdullahi, a spokesman for the northern state of Niger, told AFP that the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) had opened the gates on Nigeria’s largest hydroelectric station on Saturday.

Category: 
Land & Environment [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/17132 [5]
Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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