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/ 10 February 2010
Nigeria’s Vice-President, Goodluck Jonathan, took office as acting head of state on Tuesday from ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua.
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/ 9 February 2010
Nigeria’s Parliament on Tuesday voted to suspend ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua and hand power to his deputy until he is well enough to resume.
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/ 14 January 2010
Lawyers have petitioned a Nigerian court to install President Umaru Yar’Adua’s deputy as acting president until the leader returns from hospital.
”I did my best,” Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said in an interview with the media as he looked back on eight years in office and rejected foreign and domestic criticism of the country’s flawed polls last weekend. ”The day I meet God I’ll tell him: not everything was perfect, but I did my best,” the president said in his office late on Wednesday.
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/ 15 December 2006
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) decided on Thursday to enlarge its membership for the first time in 30 years by admitting African producer Angola, a decision aimed at reinforcing the cartel’s grip on world oil resources. Angola was one of three possible new members waiting to join Opec.
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/ 30 November 2006
Whether one sees Abuja, Nigeria’s 30-year-old federal capital, as an urban paradise or a place where survival is a constant struggle depends largely on one’s income bracket. Set on the dry plateau in the centre of this West African country, Abuja is the Nigerian authorities’ attempt to build a world-class city from scratch, an urban centre far removed from the deafening, refuse-strewn chaos of the commercial capital, Lagos.
Nigeria announced on Tuesday that state and presidential polls ushering in a new government to succeed President Olusegun Obasanjo will be held in April next year. The former army general, who came to power in May 1999 to end more than 15 years of military rule, has vowed to organise credible, free and fair elections when his two terms expire in May 2007.
Nigeria captured former Liberian leader and warlord Charles Taylor on Wednesday and deported him towards Monrovia, where United Nations peacekeepers were waiting to arrest him on charges of crimes against humanity. West Africa’s most notorious fugitive was flown out of the northern city of Maiduguri on board a Nigerian presidential jet.
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/ 15 September 2005
African Union officials were to launch a final round of peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Thursday to bring an end to slaughter and starvation in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur. AU mediator Sam Ibok told Agence France Presse that the opening ceremony would be held at around 6pm (5pm GMT) but could not confirm whether all the delegates had arrived.
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo set off for France on Monday on a mission to win debt relief and greater inward investment and to push his country’s case for a seat on an expanded United Nations Security Council. Most importantly, Obasanjo will urge Paris to cancel Nigeria’s -billion external debt.