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10/10/2007

Nigerian government pays 4.3m dollars to bird flu affected farmers



Nigerian federal government has so far paid 546 million naira (about 4.3 million U.S. dollars) as compensation to poultry farmers affected by the outbreak of bird flu in 25 states and the federal capital Abuja, according to a government official's dis




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