By Yusuf Alli
The President returned from Saudi Arabia this morning – 93 days after he left for medical reasons.
An air ambulance landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport at 1.46a.m., carrying President Umaru Yar’Adua. Then a presidential jet landed at 1.55a.m. It was carrying presidential aides and First Lady Turai Yar’Adua.
There was excitement on the faces [...]
By Donald Ojogo, Chris Agbambu, Ayodele Adesanmi and Biodun Muhammed:
PALPABLE tension and anxiety appear to be pervading the nation’s seat of power as reports filtered through on Tuesday morning that members of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet have perfected plans to forcibly bring in the ailing president before the end of the week.
Acting President Goodluck [...]
Indications emerged on Monday that the six-man delegation raised by the Federal Executive Council to visit ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua in Saudi Arabia might only be on an appreciation visit and may not necessarily see the President.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, told journalists in Abuja that the delegation’s mission was to thank the [...]
By Olusola Sanni:
A plot to kill the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, through poisoning, has been uncovered by security agents.
The plot, which is allegedly being driven by forces opposed to the emergence of Vice-President Jonathan as the acting president, has a budget of N30 billion, the Nigerian Compass also gathered.
The plot was said to have [...]
By AMOS DUNIA, Abuja:
Following the National Assembly resolution empowering Dr Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President, the cabal sympathetic to ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua has intensified [...]
From Alifa Daniel (Asst. Political Editor, Abuja):
THOUGH comments by its leaders came under stern rebuke from the Senate session last Tuesday, the group of Senators in the forefront of the move to make Dr. Goodluck Jonathan Acting President and Commander-in-Chief continued to meet in Abuja last week.
The Senators, on the platform of [...]
