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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Nigerian officials Sunday dismissed widespread rumors that the health condition of Nigerian President Umaru Yar’adua had worsened after a surgery in Saudi Arabia. Nigerian presidency sources told APA by telephone from Abuja on Sunday that President Umaru Yar’adua was expected back in the country either today (Sunday) or early next week. The sources, who could not [...]
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Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has purged several top military leaders during August of 2008. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Yar'Adua - Reports of My 'Death' Exaggerated This Day (Lagos) 1 September 2008 By Simon Kolawole Like the classic humourist, Mark Twain, who had the distinction of reading his obituary while still alive, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
President, West African Bar Association (WABA), Mr Femi Falana, has written to the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, asking him to set up a medical panel to determine whether President Umaru Yar'Adua's alleged infirmity of body has rendered him permanently incapable of discharging the functions of his office.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
THE Federal Government said, yesterday, that President Umaru Yar'Adua was in good health "to steer the affairs of the state," following media reports about his state of health.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Barring any last minute development, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, who has been away for over two weeks after reportedly undergoing some medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, will be back to the country today.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
There is uncertainty yesterday over the state of health of President Umaru Yar’adua, with government officials insisting that the president is very well in spite of reports that he underwent surgery in a Saudi hospital.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
The Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) has alleged that their kinsman, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was being marginalised in the day-to-day running of affairs by President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
President Umaru Yar'Adua has undergone successfully a serious surgery suspected to be kidney related ailment in a Saudi Arabia hospital where he has been receiving treatment for days now, Saturday Vanguard can authoritatively reveal.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Nigerians United for Democracy (NUD), a platform comprising political parties, civil society and self-determination groups in the country, met in Lagos on Monday and reiterated its call for the constitution of an Interim National Government (ING) as a replacement for the incumbent administration of President Umaru Yar'Adua. Charles Ajunwa who witnessed the event, reports
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the second week running, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, presided over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua who, the Federal Government said yesterday, was still performing the Umrah, otherwise known as lesser hajj.
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NIGERIAN CURIOSITY (Free subscription) | yesterday
In August, Umaru Yar'Adua announced that the nation has 187 cubic feet of gas reserves , making it the seventh largest gas reserve in the world. These gas reserves were all discovered while searching for oil reserves and because of the abundance of the resource, the President was confident that the gas will lead to "aggressive GDP growth and national energy sufficiency". NIGERIA'S ENERGY WOES...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... that it regards PDP as a serious threat to the current outcry against corruption by President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration.It insisted that the reconciliatory meeting is an unethical and veiled strategy to douse the raging tension from the power probe and the insistence of Bankole to bring all the culprits to book.Relevant Links"The threat resonating from the speaker's public speeches...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Nigeria: We Never Apologised to Zimbabwe - Maduekwe (Lagos)Jude OparaAbujaNIGERIA has denied ever apologizing to Zimbabwe over its comments after the disputed elections in that country two months ago.Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe stated this in Abuja earlier before he jetted out to Zambia to represent President Umaru Yar'Adua at the burial of late President Levi Nwanawasa,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... outlets including the NNPC mega stations. Yet, we recall that some few weeks ago, President Umaru Yar'adua launched the N50 per litre kerosene initiative introduced by African Petroleum,[AP] aimed at alleviating scarcity of the product.According to accounts, many reasons including hoarding, smuggling and diversion of the product for use as aviation fuel explain the acute shortage of the...
