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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has honoured the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on the 16th anniversary of his death, describing him as a selfless leader whose legacy of integrity, justice and ...

We believe the best way to go now is to take it to the south so that we can eliminate the confusion, the confusion that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian President Umaru Yar’ Adua flew home to Abuja early Wednesday after three months in a Saudi hospital — but his secretive return ...

Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin and the chairman of Southern Senators’ Forum, Tokunbo Abiru, have expressed condolences on the passing of Hajiya Dada, the mother of the late President Umaru Musa ...

When Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who died on Wednesday at age 58, took power in May 2007, he did not look like the most promising of leaders. The first democratic change of civilian power ...

There was a torrent of tributes for Hajia Dada Yar’Adua, the mother of the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, as she was laid to rest yesterday in Katsina. Hajia Dada Yar’Adua died on Monday and was ...

She was also the mother of former Vice President, Late Shehu Yar’adua. She died at the Katsina Teaching Hospital on Monday evening after a brief illness at 102. Funeral prayer will be conducted at the ...

The inauguration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as Nigeria's new president Tuesday marks a significant point in the nation's history — the first time since independence from Britain in 1960 that Nigeria has ...

Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua waves to the crowd following a swearing-in ceremony at Eagles Square in Abuja on May 29. The inauguration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as Nigeria's new president Tuesday ...