Yar’Adua: Zamfara recruits 1,767 prayer warriors •Pays them N10,000 each – Tribune
February 3, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Zamfara State government has recruited 1,767 Islamic clerics to pray for the quick recovery of President Umaru Yar’Adua.
Disclosing this at the 481- week Friday preaching in Gusau, the state governor, Alhaji Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, said the Islamic clerics would lead the special prayers in the 1,767 Friday Juma’at mosques across the state.
Obasanjo, a confusionist — ACF – The Punch
January 25, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Arewa Youth Forum on Sunday described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an ungrateful and unrepentant confusionist for asking President Umaru Yar’Adua to resign from office on account of his ill-health.
Yar’adua returns home this week – Daily Trust
January 25, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
President Umaru Yar’adua’s controversial two-month stay in a Saudi Arabian hospital will shortly come to an end when he returns to the country later this week, most likely on Friday, Daily Trust learnt from senior officials in Abuja and Jeddah last night. The sources said elaborate arrangements have been made for the president’s return, including a facelift of his office at the State House.
Life support machines arrive ahead of Yar’Adua – The Punch
January 25, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
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.
Soyinka, Ojukwu, Musa march against Yar’adua – Daily Trust
January 11, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The heat is expected to be turned up against the ailing President Umaru Yar’adua tomorrow when leading activists led by Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa lead a protest march in Abuja urging him to resign from office due to his protracted ill-health.
Yar’Adua: Massive looting in govt – Balarabe Musa, group allege – Tribune
January 8, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
A group of independent civil society organisations (CSOs), including human rights groups and professional associations working on anti-corruption issues, has raised the alarm over what it described as the rising wave of corruption in government circles, occasioned by the prolonged absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country.
AC seeks evidence of President’s improving health – The Nation
January 5, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Action Congress (AC) has asked the Presidency to show evidence that the health of President Umaru Yar’Adua is improving as claimed by some of his aides.
In a statement in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, AC said such evidence could be in form of a video recording of the President in his hospital room in Saudi Arabia.
FG lying about Yar’Adua’s health – Arewa – Tribune
December 18, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Thursday, appeared to have run out of patience over the controversy surrounding the health of President Umaru Yar’Adua and chided the Federal Government and other government officials for presenting conflicting reports to Nigerians.
FG inaugurates five committees on post-amnesty in Niger Delta – Tribune
December 17, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Federal Government has inaugurated five committees to handle various aspects of the post-amnesty programme in the Niger Delta.
Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan who performed the inauguration on Wednesday, reiterated Federal Government’s resolve to develop the entire Niger Delta region so as to enthrone peace, transformation of the region and engender economic growth in the country at large.
24 days after, Ministers still can’t reach Yar’Adua – Vanguard
December 17, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Twenty four days after he was taken to Saudi Arabia for medical attention, the hide-and- seek game over the state of health of President Umaru Yar’Adua continued yesterday with top Federal Government officials preferring that Nigerians be silent over the all-important issue for which virtually no information has been released.
