Umaru Yar'adua News

By Emmanuel Aziken & AbdulSalam Muhammad Abuja - Northern politicians and some of their Southern allies, seeking for better relevance in the post-Yar - Adua's era, are directing arrows at the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark and other potential rivals, Vanguard learnt, weekend.

By Luka Binniyat &Inalegwu Shaibu Elder statesman and former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nation, Alhaji Maitama Sule, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi, have described the over N127 billion allocated to National Assembly in the 2010 budget as "wasteful" and "unacceptable." The duo, however prayed for the ...

By Henry Umoru ABUJA - VICE-President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that he was not worried by the political logjam in Anambra State, stressing that the Independent National Electoral Commission cannot stop the Peoples' Democratic Party, (PDP, from contesting the next February 6, governorship election.

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA - AS pressure continues to mount on ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua to resign immediately or unconditionally handover to the Vice-President, Dr.

By Dayo Bensom Political Editor, Okey Ndiribe & Emeka Mamah LAGOS - Amid growing concern and uncertainty over President Umar Yar' Adua's health, there are indications that the North is divided over a possible successor in 2011 just as the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, governors, particularly those of Northern extraction insist that the ...

Doctors treating Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua in Sa udi Arabia say their patient will soon be well and could be discharged next week, according to local Nigerian Television station, AIT.

GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State has condemned the calls by some Nigerians for ailing President Yar'Adua to resign.

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna - A member of the extended family of President Umaru Yar'Adua, Hajia Binta Kuraje, yesterday rose in strong defence of her brother, for the first time, describing those calling for the resignation of the ailing President as corrupt.

GOMBE State governor, Alhaji Danjuma Goje, declared yesterday at Okada, near Benin that those asking President Umaru Yar'Adua to resign from office on grounds of ill-health were doing so with a view to gainingA power through the backA door.

The Nigerian government on Wednesday flatly rejected calls by dozens of public figures for ailing president Umaru Yar'Adua to resign, according to a statement released after a Cabinet meeting.

Eseme Eyibo, chairman House of Representatives Committee on Media and Publicity explains why the House objected to the use of Senate chambers for the joint sitting of the National Assembly to receive Budget 2010 in an interview with Tobs Agbaegbu, senior associate editor.

By Emmanuel Aziken & Henry Umoru ABUJA - RELIABLE sources in Saudi Arabia, yesterday, told Vanguard that the President, Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua was in stable condition, even as the Senate President, ChiefA David Mark, called on Nigerians to pray for nine consecutive days for the quick recovery of the President.

Abuja - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, who is undergoing treatment for a heart condition in a Saudi hospital, is "improving steadily", his ruling party said in a statement on Monday.

By Les Leba President Yar'Adua, on Tuesday 24/11/2009, by proxy, laid before the Legislature the 2010 National appropriation Bill.A In view of the results and products of our national budgetS over the years, it has become patently obvious to even a blind man that in spite of abundant resources at government's disposal, the annual budget rituals of ...

THE pericardium is the thin layer of specialised tissue that covers the outer surfaces of the heart.

Cause of Yar'Adua's ailment still unknown, *Report on Pericarditis*List of ailing Presidents, what the constitution says Who is in charge in the event of Presidential disability? This is the question that has been agitating Nigerians at home and abroad since the news of President Umaru Yar'Adua's health condition broke.

Yar'Adua is at King Faisal hospital in Jeddah for acute pericarditis, inflammation of the membrane covering the heart.

By Tordue Salem ABUJA - A miffed House of Representatives yesterday described the Minister of Niger Delta, Mr.

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA - PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday flew to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for medical check-up. According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr.

By Luka Binniyat CALABAR - The governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, said that the ceding of 76 oil wells from the state to Akwa Ibom State in June this year has caused untold hardship to the state, noting that President Umaru Yar'Adua had taken a critical look into the matter and has ordered for a review of the directive.