Word: abuja
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...Nigeria has spent $80 billion on economic development, and it now plans to spend $128 billion more by 1985. Housing programs alone call for $3.8 billion in new construction during the period. In addition, the government has been pushing forward with the development of an entirely new federal capital, Abuja, in Nigeria's sparsely populated central region, 300 miles inland from Lagos, the present capital. Spending for the project now runs at $2 billion a year...