ABUJA – AFTER five months of a deadly encounter with precaditis which took him away from public life, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua last night gave up the ghost. The late President died after a protracted illness which created a political tension in the country for the period the terminal illness lasted. Vanguard gathered that Yar’Adua [...]
ABUJA—THERE were more questions than answers about happenings at the nation’s seat of power, the Aso Rock, yesterday. The signs of cleavages and outright disloyalty to the Acting President were glaring. This may have even landed the Commander, Guards Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Abdul Mustapha a verbal query. Also, the core team [...]
President Umaru Yar’Adua returned to the country this morning, 91 days after his departure to Saudi Arabia to attend to his failing health. He left Abuja on November 23, 2009. Mr. President is suffering from acute pericarditis. Indications that the president would return today emerged last night as security was beefed up at the Nnamdi [...]
NIGERIA’S Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Abdullah Aminchi said, yesterday, that it was doctors attending to ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua who had denied Nigerians access to their President in his Jeddah hospital and not Saudi authorities. He said he visited the President last Saturday and that “he is really feeling better now.” Meanwhile, the Saudi [...]
LAGOS — MEDIA stakeholders in the nation have asked President Umaru Yar’Adua to cede power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan or resign within seven days. Also yesterday, the Senate restated its stand on President Umaru Yar’adua’s prolonged absence from the country, and reaffirmed its resolution that the President should transmit a letter of his medical vacation [...]
ABUJA —THE plot to ferry ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua back to the country may have been concluded as the consent of the Saudi Arabian monarch, Sheik Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz has been secured for the use of the king’s air ambulance suitable for the nearly six-hour trip back home. Saudi Arabian sources told Vanguard, yesterday, [...]
There were strong indications on Sunday that the Presidency had imported two life support machines for use by ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, preparatory, apparently, to his planned return later this week. A very reliable source in the aviation sector disclosed to our correspondents that the equipment arrived in the country from Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
A Federal High Court, at the weekend, slammed a 14- day ultimatumon members of the Executive Council of the Federation (Federal Executive Council) to pass a resolution as to whether ailing President Umar Musa Yar’Adua is permanently incapacitated to exercise the duties of his office or not. The resolution, according to the orders of the [...]
Former president Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, broke his silence on President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s ailment yesterday, saying the ailing number one citizen should take the path of honour and morality by throwing in the towel. This is even as he vehemently denied the allegations that he deliberately imposed ailing President Yar’Adua on Nigerians to punish them, [...]
Following doubts expressed by many Nigerians about the authenticity of interview granted by President Umaryu Musa Yar’Adua to the BBC in Saudi Arabia, the British radio service has shed more light on how it got the telephone conversation. The BBC had to introduce Jamila Tangaza, the Head of its Hausa Service, to speak on how [...]
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday spoke at last , 51 days after leaving Nigeria for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, saying he was getting better and hopes to return home when fully recovered. There are insinuation that it might not have been President Yar’Adua who spoke on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio interview programme. [...]
“Yar´Adua is dead” American Chronicle …. “Yar`dua is alive”- Tanimu Yakubu According to American Chronicle, Nigerian President, His Excellency Umaru Yar`adua is dead according to authoritative sources at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre He died on the 10th of December at 3.30pm at an Intensive Care Unit at the King Faisal Specialist [...]
President Umaru Yar’Adua left the Intensive Care Unit of the King-Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia five days ago, and is recuperating under the watchful eyes of the medical team attached to him, Daily Sun learnt yesterday. Although, he is still screened from public glare, a source at the Abuja seat of [...]
Amidst growing confusion on the true state of health of President Umaru Yar’Adua, state governors held an emergency meeting on Thursday night in Abuja ahead of today’s National Economic Council conference at the Presidential Villa. Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who was one of the 20 governors and two deputy governors in attendance, told journalists [...]
More than 50 prominent Nigerians across professions and spanning the six geopolitical zones yesterday told ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to resign his office immediately or unconditionally hand over to the Vice-President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who keeps pledging his loyalty to Yar’Adua. Their demand is that Goodluck should complete the current term of office, and conduct [...]
Yar’Adua suffering from heart ailment Hospitalized President Umaru Yar’Adua has been diagnosed with acute pericarditis, an inflammatory condition of the coverings of the heart, presidential spokesman, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, has confirmed. He told the State House correspondents in Abuja yesterday that the president who was rumoured to have died two days ago in far away [...]
