Topic: Umaru Yar'Adua

Pressure mounts for Nigerian leader to give up power

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ailing president, in hospital overseas for the past two months, faced mounting pressure on Thursday to end a power vacuum that is increasingly worrying investors.Critics want President Umaru Yar'adua to formally hand over executive powers to his deputy ...

Nigerian government sued over president's absence

LAGOS (Reuters) - A leading Nigerian human rights lawyer has launched legal action to try to force President Umaru Yar'Adua to hand executive powers to his deputy while he is receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.Femi Falana, who was a prominent pro-democracy ...