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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Hajiya Turai Umaru Yar'Adua has set up a skills acquisition centre at the Maitama General Hospital, Abuja, for the training of special patients in income generating trades by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE).
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
First Lady, Hajiya Turai Umaru Yar'Adua, yesterday flagged off the national distribution of more than eight million English Language and Mathematics textbooks, science-based activity books to primary four pupils and assorted library books for Junior Secondary Schools (JSS), worth N4.287 billion.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Second Republic Speaker of the House of Representatives Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke has described the rift between the Senate and the House of Representatives over sitting venue to allow President Umaru Yar'adua present the 2010 Appropriation Bill as "a joke".
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday overruled the Senate and directed that the chambers of the House of Representative should be the venue for the presentation of the 2010 Appropriation Bill by President Umaru Yar'Adua as practiced since 1999.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Arch Bishop of the New Aba Province of the Anglican Communion, Dr. Ugochukwu Ezuoke, has commended President Umaru Yar'Adua, the ex-militants and the peace advocates involved in the recent amnesty plan of the Federal Government, describing them as patriots that would never be forgotten by the people of the Niger Delta region.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
BARELY 24 hours after he denied media reports that he was planning to run for the Presidency come 2011, Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State has donated a campaign car to President Umaru Yar'Adua's 2011 presidential ambition.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Tension heightened yesterday in the National Assembly as the two chambers failed to agree on a common venue to receive President Umaru Yar'Adua, who is billed to present the 2010 budget to the lawmakers today.
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turenchi (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The House of Representatives yesterday consented to President Umaru Yar'Adua's request to get $500 million loan from the World Bank.The loan was approved after a motion sponsored by the Chief Whip, Emeka Ihedioha, and seconded by John Kalipa (PDP, Rivers).
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The war of supremacy between the Senate and the House of Representatives became an issue again yesterday, threatening today's presentation of the 2010 federal budget by President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
NFF President,Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi has commended the effort and contributions of President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua in ensuring that the Super Eagles qualify for the first World Cup in African soil. Lulu who spoke before setting out to Dubai where the Super Sand Eagles are taking part in the Beach Soccer Championship said "we at the Football Federation don't know how to thank President Umaru...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday dismissed media reports that some governors have been jostling to take over the position of President Umaru Yar'adua come 2011.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State has commended President Umaru Yar'Adua over the award of contracts for various Federal roads across the country, particularly, the N2.3 billion contract for the construction of Daura Bridge and rehabilitation of Kano-Kazaure-Daura-Katsina road.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Opposition against President Umaru Yar'Adua's second term in 2011 appears to have heightened with the preparation of some Northern governors to have a shot at the presidency.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Nairobi/Abuja - Nigeria's main rebel group said it welcomed peace talks with President Umaru Yar'Adua to end a long-running conflict in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has conducted a extensi...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The first Vice President of the South Africa-based Pan African Parliament, Bethel Amadi, expressed to Nigerian President Umaru Yar’adua the support of the continental House to the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regarding the political situations in Guinea Conakry and Niger Republic. Vice President Amadi was paying a courtesy call to [...]