Nigerian president dies, acting leader to take over

2010/05/05 23:19:09 @Reuters: World News

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua died late on Wednesday, aged 58, after a long battle with kidney and heart ailments, paving the way for the most hotly contested succession since the country's return to democracy a decade ago. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zx68ubpEtlc:Lbg4iw3ohjE:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zx68ubpEtlc:Lbg4iw3ohjE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zx68ubpEtlc:Lbg4iw3ohjE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zx68ubpEtlc:Lbg4iw3ohjE:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zx68ubpEtlc:Lbg4iw3ohjE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/zx68ubpEtlc" height="1" width="1"/
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