Thursday, May 6, 2010

YARADUA IS DEAD






Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua (16 August 1951 – 5 May 2010) died Wednesday 5th at the Aso Rock presidential villa in the capital Abuja after a protracted illness of kidney and heart ailments.

The 58-year-old ex-president of Nigeria returned to Nigeria in February after three months of medical treatment in Kind Fad Hospital, Saudi Arabia, but was never seen in public since then.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was appointed as Nigeria's acting president back in February, but he has had little time to turnaround an electoral system known for being plagued by corruption.

Jonathan has been sworn in now as the president until the next elections scheduled to be held by April 2011.

Seven days of national mourning has been declared during which the Nigerian national flag will fly at half mast..

R.I.P YARADUA

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