ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's National Assembly has empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to take over for the ill and absent president of oil-rich Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed measures Tuesday calling on Jonathan to take over for President Umaru Yar'Adua until he returns from Saudi Arabia, where he as been receiving medical treatment for a heart condition since late November.
Yar'Adua's absence has caused a cease-fire with militants in the oil-rich delta to unravel and had left no one formally in charge of the nation of 150 million.
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Nigeria: Lawmakers empower vice president
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's National Assembly has empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to take over for the ill and absent president of oil-rich Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
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Published: February 09, 2010
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