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It is hoped the move will provide a political end to a crisis that has ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.But the move is not...
It is the season of ultimatums and every Nigerian of voting age knows a thing or two about ultimatums. Soldiers, our ex-rulers are best at giving it. They want anything done with immediate effect and they are equipped with the gun, the jackboots and the koboko to get it done.
NIGERIA'S parliament empowered vice- president Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation in place of an ill and absent president.
A unanimous resolution by the National Assembly set the stage yesterday for Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to take charge as Acting President.
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NIGERIA'S parliament yesterday empowered vice-president Goodluck Jonathan to run the country in place of an ailing and absent president.
Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.
Nigeria's vice president is telling the nation he has assumed the presidency as the West African nation's leader remains hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.
Yar'Adua's absence has caused a cease-fire he negotiated with insurgents in the country's oil-rich Niger Delta to unravel and left no one formally in charge of the nation of 150 million.
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