Nigeria's speaker will step aside
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Nigeria's embattled parliament speaker agrees to step aside while MPs debate a $5m contracts scandal.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo spoke to his annointed successor live on television on Wednesday in an effort to dispel rumours that Umaru Yar'Adua had died.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 4 -- Nigerian anti-corruption official Nuhu Ribadu agreed late Thursday to demands that he relinquish his post to take a training course, but he left open the possibility of returning later in the year.
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Tanzania's prime minister tenders his resignation after being implicated in an energy deal corruption scandal.
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NAACP President Kweisi Mfume announced Tuesday that he is stepping down after a nearly nine-year tenure in which he helped rescue the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group from debt and scandal.
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South African president likely to lose party leadership to man he sacked as deputy president, Jacob Zuma
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Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has announced that he is to quit, and is set to be replaced by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS), party officials said.
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The chief of Nigeria's main labor organization vowed that a four-day nationwide strike to protest fuel price hikes will go ahead Monday as planned, and accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of shunning dialogue to resolve union grievances.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation at a Wednesday news conference.
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One of the most prominent critics of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe resigns as an archbishop.
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The hard-line US ambassador to the UN said Monday that he will step down within weeks.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The head of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's party said Friday he would step down after a campaign mudslinging scandal.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria's oil-rich south said yesterday he agreed to a tentative deal with President Olusegun Obasanjo to end fighting in Africa's leading petroleum exporter that has riled global oil markets.
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The former SDLP Lord Mayor of Belfast announces that he will be retiring from Northern Ireland politics.
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Shinzo Abe tells ruling party officials he will resign as Japan's PM, local media reports say.
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The chief of Nigeria&#39;s main labor organization vowed that a four-day nationwide strike to protest fuel price hikes will go ahead yesterday as planned, and accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of shunning dialogue to resolve union grievances.
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The announcement came amid reports that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell told top aides today that he intends to step down.