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    Nigerian President Yar'Adua dies after long illness

    Umaru Yar'Adua's death is announced on state TV

    Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has died at his presidential villa following a long illness.

    The government announced seven days of national mourning and said the president would be buried on Thursday.

    Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan has been sworn in as head of state in a ceremony in the capital Abuja.

    Mr Yar'Adua, 58, came to power in 2007 promising many reforms. Analysts say he made the most progress in tackling unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

    Nigerian TV interrupted normal programming to announce the news in a brief statement early on Thursday.

    ANALYSIS

    Martin Plaut, BBC World Service Africa editor

    The uncertainty at the heart of Nigeria has been tremendously destabilising.

    There has been considerable unrest in the central state of Jos recently with clashes between Muslims and Christians, and people put this down partly at l

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    Martin Luther Agwai

    10th Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria (born 1948)

    Martin Luther AgwaiCFR FSSMSS DSS fwc (born 8 November 1948) is a retired Nigerian Armygeneral who served as Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of Army Staff. He was the 13th Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council of the University of Calabar[1]

    Early life and education

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    Agwai was born on November 8, 1948, in Kaduna, a city in Northern Nigeria, to the family of Agwai Gidan Mana, a Police Constable and Shera Agwai, a housewife. He hailed from Gidan Mana in Kachia Local Government Area of present day Kaduna state.[2]

    He hails from a Christian home and later became the President of Fellowship of Christian Students at Government Secondary School, Zaria in 1967.

    He started out his primary education at the Native Authority School in Jaban Kogo where he was living with his maternal grandmother. He was soon moved to the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) School, in Kurmin Musa,