Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan is sworn in as president

Goodluck Jonathan new President of Nigeria

Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as president Thursday following his predecessor Umaru Yar'Adua’s death. All eyes now are on the delicate power balance between the Muslim North and Christian South in an ethnically fractious nation. Jonathan, a member of Nigeria’s ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP)

Muslims north, christian and animist south

The country’s religious tensions came under the international spotlight earlier this year when clashes between Muslims and Christians in and around the flashpoint city of Jos killed hundreds.A fractious democracy split between the Muslim-dominated north and Christian and animist-dominated South, Nigeria lurched from one military coup to another for nearly three decades following its 1960 independence from Britain.

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Nigeria's new leader Goodluck Jonathan

vowed on Thursday electoral reform and fighting graft would be top priorities as he steers the nation to its most fiercely contested polls since the end of military rule. source: reuters.com