Nigerian VP assumes office as acting president (Reuters)

Nigeria's Vice President Jonathan Goodluck attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit in Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia RawlinsReuters – Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office as acting president on Tuesday to fill a power vacuum more than two months after President Umaru Yar’Adua left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.

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