I can't even recall the last time I saw an African piece in the Glob, readers.
And this is the one they chose after so long?
"Nigeria’s second in command takes helm" by Associated Press | February 10, 2010
ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria’s Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa’s most populous nation yesterday 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.
Yes, that's why it made the agenda-pushing newspaper.
Related: Missing Nigerians
And that can't be the guy's real name, can it?
He'll need all the luck he can get.
But the move is not contemplated in the constitution, legal specialists say, and could cause more friction between the Christian south, which gains the presidency at least temporarily, and Muslim north....
And WHO (rhymes with) BENEFITS when Christian and Muslim are at each others throats for no reason?
Also see: All Religion is Local in Nigeria
My *ewspaper lying and pushing its prism again?
President Umaru Yar’Adua’s absence has caused a cease-fire he negotiated with insurgents in the country’s oil-rich Niger Delta to unravel, and oil contracts have gone unsigned.
Oh, that's why it is making the agenda-pushing papers. Oil contracts. Nothing else going on in Africa at all, huh, Glob?
The political turmoil recently prompted US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and European leaders to call on the nation to follow its constitution.
And get those contracts signed!
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