Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Archdiocese, Kaduna, pays glowing tribute to Nigeria’s Late President Umaru Yar’ Adua
There’s no gainsaying the fact that Nigerian sports is generally in a comatose state right now. Not too long ago, Nigeria literally bred sporting virtuosos – from athletics, boxing, football, to table tennis, lawn tennis and Greco-Roman wrestling.
Nigerian football club sides and national teams were held in considerable awe within and outside Africa. In fact, going by the way our footballers were carting away the CAF African Footballer of the Year Award, one would’ve thought that it was the sole preserve of Nigerians! But today the story is pathetically different. (more…)
Segun Adeniyi, former Spokesman to late Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’ Adua gives an insight into the character of the late Nigerian leader who died May 5, 2010
There has been a massive outpouring of tributes to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since his passing a few weeks ago. So much so that it is now becoming increasingly difficult for me to recognise the man I served for almost three years. In typical Nigerian fashion, everybody, including those who ‘cabalised’ his last days, is now eulogising the late President. It seems one of our major attributes as a nation is that we are ever generous to, and most often hypocritical about, the dead. (more…)
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Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba Aji says Nigeria needs a Jonathan Presidency in 2011 to move forward.
Addressing members of the Goodluck Jonathan Support Group
(GJSG), last weekend, Senator Abba Aji prayed that President Jonathan would be the first elected PhD president in 2011.
Nigeria’s Railway Corporation
has received five diesel locomotives from the General Electric Co. the first in an order of 25, with the rest to be delivered in the second half of this year..
The locomotives were built by a GE subsidiary in Brazil.
Press Statement by Founder of the Odua Peoples Congress, Dr Frederick Fasehun
Having watched with a mixture of disbelief, disgust and disappointment the unfolding events that have beset our Beloved Nation these past days, we wish to bring to your attention the need for the National Assembly to act promptly and decisively to stave off calamity arising from this disquieting drift.
Like anybody with any tinge of human feeling, we strongly wish Alhaji Umar Yar’Adua ultimate recovery from the ailment he suffers from. However, we wish to place on record that because of the impunity with which he has treated the Nigerian people and the Constitution that he swore to uphold, His Excellency has completely spent the goodwill of majority of Nigerians. (more…)
A posting at CNN ireport states that Nigeria’s President Yar adua died yesterday in Saudi Arabia. The full story is reproduced below:
AMERICAN CHRONICLE
By Hodderway Books
January 11, 2010
Nigerian President, His Excellency Umaru Yaradua
is dead according to authoritative sources at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre.
He died on the 10th of December at 3.30pm at an Intensive Care Unit at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah Saudi-Arabia. Sources at the Hospital say that the First lady wants to keep the news secret for the next few days for personal reasons.
At the time of his death he was surrounded by his wife, Turai and a childhood friend, Nigerian Member of Parliament,
The president left Nigeria fifty days ago after complaining of Chest pains. Sources at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah say that the president suffered among many other things, kidney failure, stroke and massive brain damage.
The President has been bedridden ever since. Nigerian officials had previously lied to the country that the president’s health was getting better while his situation got worse. The president was conspicuously silent regarding the Christmas day bombing in which a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb on an aircraft that carried nearly 300 people.
by Bankole Olubamise
Karl Maier’s seminal book on Nigeria –This House Has Fallen (Public Affairs 2000), Robert Kaplan’s “The Coming Anarchy” – The Atlantic Monthly – Feb 1994 and the recent presentation by Ambassador Princeton Lyman at the Brown University Colloquia on Chinua Achebe (2009), especially the statement that – “Nigeria is fast becoming irrelevant to the world”- which more or less sums up the entire presentation, are three external commentaries on Nigeria that we must all take to mind when considering the current state of the Nigerian nation.
We have been praying for many things! However, we have to face reality and do the RIGHT things for our prayers to be meaningful. (more…)
Save Nigeria Group is organising protests in Abuja, Nigeria and several other world cities from tomorrow to pressurise Nigeria’s National Assembly to resolve the constitutional logjam created by the absence of of Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’adua
for the past 49 days ago
Contacts:
C/o Suite 4, 7 & 8, Metro Plaza, Annex 8, Plot 991-992,Zakariya Maimalari, Central Business District, Abuja
Tel: 09-8706714, 07042479429
E-mail:savenaija@gmail.com
A Nigerian-born academic Osaore Aideyan says the U.S. has every right to take stricter security measures agaisnt nationals of several countries including Nigeria considered as security risks
Osaore Aideyan, a visiting assistant professor of government at Franklin & Marshall College, said in a phone interview Thursday that some Muslims in his native country “have become too radicalized” and that Nigeria could develop into a fertile ground for al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations. (more…)
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