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 Sule Lazarus, Abuja & Isa Umar Gusau:
The hazy public knowledge on the exact state of the bedridden president, Umaru Yar’adua, would have to linger till God-knows-when as the no access order on the president is strictly being enforced by the Saudi Arabian authorities under the close supervision of the kingdom’s king, Abdallah.
Sunday Trust [...]
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 [...]
By Oguwike Nwachuku, Baba Negedu:
Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the nation’s resort to the Acting Presidency as a way of stabilising the polity in the absence of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua should not be regarded as a permanent solution.
Instead, he said further steps ought to be taken to arrive at a more [...]
