May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the first university-educated president of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and second-biggest oil producer, has died. He was 58.
He died at 9 p.m. local time yesterday at the Aso Rock presidential villa in Lagos, the Associated Press reported, citing presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi. Vice President Goodluck Jonathan became acting president in February, three months after Yar’Adua left for Saudi Arabia to receive medical treatment.
The BBC reported in November 2009 that he had acute pericarditis, or inflammation of the lining around the heart.
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