“The US wants political stability in Nigeria so that’s there’s stability in the oil sector.... Nigeria was the number four oil exporter to the United States in February.... outstripping even Saudi Arabia.’’
How come it ALWAYS comes back to BLACK -- as in OIL -- when it come to my agenda-pushing MSM newspaper articles?
"As Nigerian leader is buried, nation swears in new president" by Jon Gambrell, Associated Press | May 7, 2010
LAGOS, Nigeria — Acting leader Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in yesterday as president of Africa’s most populous nation, as officials buried the flag-draped corpse of his Muslim predecessor before sundown.
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The power shift to Jonathan, a Christian, peacefully ended a profound leadership crisis triggered last November when President Umaru Yar’Adua, who died Wednesday at the age of 58, left the country for medical treatment without transferring authority to his deputy.
See: Missing Nigerians
Jonathan had already assumed presidential powers Feb. 9 after an extraordinary National Assembly vote was called to resolve the leadership vacuum left when Yar’Adua was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia for an inflamed heart.
How strange that is where he went for treatment.
Nigeria has been plagued by military coups for much of its 50 years of independence, and Jonathan will have to keep a lid on the volatile nation’s sectarian divisions as well as violence and kidnappings in the oil industry as it edges toward a tense presidential election next year....
The tried and true U.S. method of keeping "stability."
And they will just have to rig that election like they have so many before.
Soldiers and police officers accompanied Yar’Adua corpse on a flight yesterday to his home state of Katsina in the country’s Muslim north. There, mourners carried his body on their shoulders into a local soccer stadium for a final prayer service. A local imam led the prayers, calling out “God is great’’ in Arabic and raising his hands to the sky as an anxious and curious crowd jostled around the coffin before it was buried at a cemetery near his home....
No violence?
If Jonathan runs for the office, his candidacy could shatter the ruling party, which has the political muscle necessary to manipulate Nigeria’s unruly and corrupt electoral system.
Then everything should turn out fine, 'er, stable.
Analysts also warn a Jonathan presidential bid could spark fresh violence in a nation of 150 million people split between Christians and Muslims, especially if northern leaders believe they will lose power in the process....
Why?
See: All Religion is Local in Nigeria
Oh, not over religion but LAND?
Where have we SEEN THAT BEFORE, 'eh?
And the SAME FORCES that are a MOUTHPIECE for that tribe PUSHING the CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM DIVISION when there IS NONE!
Mark Schroeder, the director of sub-Saharan Africa analysis for STRATFOR, a private security think tank based in Austin, Texas, said Nigeria’s political leaders knew they needed to quickly swear Jonathan in as president to show the world there was no power vacuum.
You people are NOT IMPORTANT, did you know that?
“The US wants political stability in Nigeria so that’s there’s stability in the oil sector,’’ Schroeder said.
Nigeria was the number four oil exporter to the United States in February, sending about 896,000 barrels of crude a day, outstripping even Saudi Arabia.
Jonathan said peace in the Niger Delta, home to the country’s oil industry, remains a priority. Attacks by militants there last year crippled oil production. Yar’Adua had tried to peacefully end the insurgency but those efforts frayed because of his increasing illness....
Pretty doggone young, too.
Hmmmmmmmmmm!!!
How come the PRO-PEACE GUYS are always DROPPING DEAD or GETTING GUNNED DOWN?
“It now revolves around what the informal power-sharing between the north and the south, the Christians and the Muslims, is actually going to work out,’’ said John Campbell, a former US ambassador to Nigeria who now is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Look at the paper's agenda-pushing globalist sources!
Yeah, real balanced article.
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