GLOBAL PULSE: Nigeria's Power Vacuum (2/12/2010)

(February 12, 2010) Nigeria's president has been in a Saudi hospital for months, and the people and government of Nigeria are wondering who is in control. While President Umaru Yar'Adua seeks medical treatment, there have been mass protests, rowdy government debates, and a severed cease fire with Niger Delta militants, who have now gone back to disrupting Nigeria's oil and gas exports. Vice President Goodluck Jonathan is now officially in command, but even the legality of that is in question.

SOURCES: AL Jazeera English, Qatar; TV5, France; Press TV, Iran; BBC, U.K; African Independent Television, Nigeria

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[chaizor1]

@odin19681 God doesnt shit on anyone. God is loving and merciful to everyone. He forgives sinners...If not u and I wont be living and still breathing.

[odin19681]

@chaizor1 hey u nigerian are only shitt

u ........ and god if he will see your contrie he will shitt all over u

[Awofaasky]

really YARADUA is a very nice man but the people around him are evil

[dewerare]

huhouirfeugb vfgyibtfi

[Nnfefe]

Murtala, Abacha, and now Yar'dua, curses in the making

[chaizor1]

Nigerians started praying from the Abacha days and God has answered,things started unfolding bit by bit .Obasanjo didn't know he'll be president for a second time,he thought he will be president for the third time when he had all the money,influence and power but that was not God's will;Yar'adua did not know he'll be president, he became president because he had a role to play in God's plan. Goodluck and Akunyili also have a role to play. God put them there. No one can bring them down.Watch out!

[dipo84]

this is nigeria problem; they need to kill all these politicians, all these greedy guys. this is common sense. if the president is sick or temporary imcompetent to run an organization, you hand over to your vice president to take over. that is why he is your vice president. your second in command. it is simple. and when you get better, power is handed back to the president. all these illeterate people are power hungry and would rather see a muslim come in than a stable country.

[TheEvilOyo]

Yes he needs to step down he is not fit to rule effectively.