Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
Nigeria's Third National Development Plan is based on the proposition that judicious use of current oil revenues to build social and economic infrastructures, and to radically transform the nature of economic activity, represents the quickest and most effective means of development.1 Top priority is to be given during the period 1975 to 1980 to manufacturing in the belief that an industrial base is the firmest foundation for self-sustained growth.
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page 687 note 3 Ibid. p. 29.
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page 692 note 1 Third National Development Plan, pp. 151–2.
page 692 note 2 Ibid. pp. 373–5.
page 692 note 3 I am indebted to my colleague, Peter Henning, for pointing this out to me.
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