Well, this is sad. I think he really was trying. You might remember this picture from Mme. Secretary's visit to Nigeria in August of last year. The President of Nigeria, ill for months, has passed away. His VP, Goodluck Jonathan, has been Acting President for a few months now, but will now, I guess, become President officially. He met with President Obama not long ago.
I must include a short, mild rant since the article I am linking to comes from CNN from which I switched only 20 minutes ago, and there was not a word about this. Neither was there on the network news.
Read the rest here>>>Nigerian President Yar'Adua has died
By the CNN Wire StaffLagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, who gave amnesty to armed militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, died Wednesday, the country's information minister said. He was 58.
Yar'Adua had not been seen in public since November, when he went to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an inflammation of tissue around his heart. He was diagnosed with that condition, acute pericarditis, last fall after he complained of chest pain.
He returned to Nigeria in February but had remained out of sight.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has served as the country's acting leader since Yar'Adua fell ill.
Below he was addressing the U.N. General Assembly last September.
Condolences to the People of Nigeria.
