By: Emmanuel Ogala
The Senate has approved a supplementary budget of N87.7 billion for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to aid the commission in organizing credible elections in 2011.
The approval is N2 billion less than the N89.59 billion the electoral body had requested. Following a meeting of INEC officials and INEC [...]
By: Olayinka Olukoya and Lekan Yinusa
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied rumour doing the rounds that he was shot by unknown gunmen, saying that nothing of such happened to him.
The former president, at the weekend, had given the hand of one of his daughters, Bunmi, in marriage at his Hill Top residence [...]
By: Alifa Daniel
• Senate rejects Obasanjo’s graft charges
APPARENTLY disturbed by the falling revenue and the need to develop infrastructure nationwide, jump-start the economy and create jobs, President Goodluck Jonathan has sent a proposal to the National Assembly seeking approval to borrow the sum of $4.427 billion.
Another plea that he sent [...]
By: Odunayo Ogunmola
A POLITICAL pressure group urging President Goodluck Jonathan to run for president in 2011 has said its position is consistent with the zoning arrangement of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Goodluck Support Group (GSG) made this claim during its inauguration in Ekiti State. The group said Jonathan “is [...]
By: Kehinde Akinyemi
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday denied rumoured assassination, linking it to ulterior motives of his detractors. He declared that it was the handiwork of wicked and mischievous people.
The rumour of Obasanjo’s death filtered into Abeokuta, Ogun State with a circulated Short Message Service (SMS) which the former president also [...]
By: Kunle Akogun
• No one can rig 2011 polls, says Presidency
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may at its meeting today stick to the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua/Goodluck Jonathan ticket till 2015.
The meeting is one of the crunch parleys fixed for this week by the PDP leadership. [...]
Exactly 70 days after he was flown back to Nigeria from treatment in Saudi Arabia, President Umaru Yar’Adua died on Wednesday night of undisclosed causes.
He became the second Nigerian leader to die of natural causes while in office, as the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, who died on June 8, 1998. [...]
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was Nigeria’s 13th Head of State. He served as governor of Katsina State in northern Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 28 May 2007. He was declared the winner of the presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He was a member of [...]
By Akeem Oyetunji:
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (1951 – 2010)
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AFTER 163 days on the sick bed, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua died last night.
Yar’Adua, who was the country’s 13th Commander-in-Chief, lost his long battle with acute pericarditis about 9 p.m.
The death was [...]
By Ibrahim Sheme, Iyobosa Uwugiaren, and Golu Timothy & Mojeed Jamiu:
Jonathan steps in as president || Nigeria’s 13th Head of State, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua succumbed to an acute heart disease last night, leaving a nation in deep pain and shock. He was 58 years old. Sources said Yar’Adua died at 9 p.m. at the [...]
