All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The 26-member House of Representatives Committee investigating the activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiaries from 1999-2007, has said it would not hesitate to invite President Umaru Yar'Adua and his predecessor Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to answer questions on their stewardship in the years under review.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has approved the appointment of Mrs. Farida Waziri as the acting Chairman of the country's anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
AFTER the last eight of speeches, the President Umaru Yar'Adua's government is adopting the same approach in dealing with national issues that beckon for urgent solutions.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Apparently worried by certain disturbing signals from the polity, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Abdulwahab Omar recently tasked President Umaru Yar' Adua to ensure that the wishes of the people of Edo State, as expressed through their votes on April 14, 2007 governorship poll, are not upturned.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Abuja, Nigeria - Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has ordered the arrest and interrogation of four key officials of the National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), over their roles in the alleged doctoring of the transcript of the Voice Flight Recorder between the pilot of the missing Beechcraft 1900D plane and the control tower of the Port Harcourt airport in southern Nigeria.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Hints emerged at the weekend that President Umaru Yar'Adua has cancelled the decision of his predecessor, President Olusegun Obasanjo to merge the Nigerian Institute of Social Economic Research (NISER) with the premier university, University of Ibadan.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday called on Nigerians to partner with the Red Cross in addressing the humanitarian needs of society.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Nigeria's president is troubled by his predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo's reputation as a financially prudent president is being undermined by a series of investigations. This presents his successor with a dilemma. A year after coming to power, Umaru Yar'Adua is finding it increasingly difficult to fulfil his campaign pledge of tackling Nigeria's endemic corruption. While the Nigerian president...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua has directed the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), and his counterpart in the Housing and Environment Ministry, Mr. Chuka Odom, to dialogue with officials of the Lagos State government with a view to resolving the dispute between the two sides over some landed properties.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
SENATOR George Sekibo has urged President Umaru Yar'Adua to uphold his claim to the rule of law by releasing withheld funds of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) using the same criteria applied in releasing the withheld Local Government funds of Lagos State.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
RECENTLY, the President Umaru Yar'Adua government revoked the concessioning agreement that his immediate predecessor, General Olusegun Obasanjo reached with Global Infrastructure on Ajaokuta Steel Complex (ASC) and Aladja in Kogi State, accusing Global of asset stripping, among others.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
President Umaru Yar'Adua has challenged Heads of the Committee of Intelligence and Services of West Africa to map out strategies of checking the spread of divisive extremist ideologies, by elements and interests external to the region.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Abuja, Nigeria - Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua Monday called on intelligence and security chiefs from West Africa to offer regional perspectives that would bring the benefits of "shared neighbourhood experience to bear on the management of intelligence and security within the sub-region."
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Abuja - Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua called Monday for global networking by intelligence and security services to counteract international terrorism. No single country is either immune or capable of engaging these threats alone, he said at th...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
As events unfold from the National Assembly probes, president of the Civil Rights Congress, Malam Shehu Sani said former President Olusegun Obasanjo must be prosecuted or President Umaru Yar'adua should forget about fighting corruption. Sani spoke with Isa Sa'idu in Zaria. Excerpts:
