The idea is similar to the administration's four billion dollar Race to the Top competition to reform schools.

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Other opposition parties,rights groups, anti-corruption campaigners and the Nigerian Bar Association have criticized the government over its handling of the multi-million-dollar cash-for-contract scandal involving U.S.company Halliburton and top Nigerian officials.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

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