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Political Overview
Reforming and strengthening institutional frameworks
It is testament to the country’s newfound political stability that in 2010 Nigeria has avoided a potentially dangerous political vacuum, instead seeing the peaceful transition of power from Umaru Yar’Adua to his former vice-president Goodluck Jonathan. At the beginning of 2009, few could have expected the next year to be marked by a new president, followed by a succession of political scandals as President Jonathan made new and vigorous attempts to stamp out the corruption that has dogged the Nigerian political sphere for so long.
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