Nigeria: DFID Launches £35 Million Tier-Two Democracy Project

5 June 2014

In its effort to ensure the advancement of democracy in Nigeria, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) has set aside the sum £35 million to be spent on its project aimed at strengthening democracy in Nigeria in the next three and half years.

The project tagged 'Deepening Democracy in Nigeria 2 (DDiN2)' is an extension of DDiN, which will terminate in 2015. DDiN was conceived in 2009 with a similar budget of £35 million and approved in April 2010 in the run-up to the Nigerian presidential and National Assembly elections in April 2011.

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