Nigeria reels from car bomb

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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo faced growing pressure on Thursday with militants in the oil-producing south killing two people in a car bomb attack and thousands of opposition supporters rallying against him in the capital.

Militants detonated the car bomb on Wednesday night in the southern city of Port Harcourt, extending a four-month campaign of sabotage and kidnapping that has already cut output from the world's eighth-largest oil exporter by a quarter.

In the capital Abuja, thousands of opposition supporters rallied on Thursday against a campaign by the ruling party to change the constitution and allow Obasanjo to run for a third term.

"The two events are coincidental, but the instability created by the third-term campaign has allowed all sorts of interest groups to push their agendas," said John Adeleke, an independent analyst.

Reuters

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1. seems like Hugo Chavez runs the only stable democracy

that exports Oil.

makes you think, don't it?

:yoiks:

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2. makes me think of moving to venezuela?