Yar'adua is dead, true or false.

[F-GENESIS]

I heard something about the sick president. If true, may his soul R.I.P.

[Steven]

Breaking News, President Umaru Musa Yar' AduaPresident Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is dead, THISDAY can confirm. He passed on earlier this night between 9.30and 10pm
He has been battling acute pericaditis, an inflammation of the membrane around the heart, since November last year for which he received treatment at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
He was brought back to the country under the cover of darkness in February and since then had been held incommunicado.
He will be buried tomorrow.
A meeting is going on at present at the Presidential Villa.
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to be sworn in shortly.
Details later.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=172643

[phronesis]

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/05/05/nigeria.president.dead/index.html?hpt=T3

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, who gave amnesty to armed militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, died Wednesday, the country's information minister said. He was 58.

Yar'Adua had not been seen in public since November, when he went to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an inflammation of tissue around his heart. He was diagnosed with that condition, acute pericarditis, last fall after he complained of chest pain.

He returned to Nigeria in February but had remained out of sight.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has served as the country's acting leader since Yar'Adua fell ill.
Yar'Adua took office in 2007 in an election mired in controversy and accusations of vote-rigging.

"There was ballot snatching, voters were molested, voters were beaten ... and also payment inducement to vote for certain candidates," said Eneruvie Enakoko of the Civil Liberties Organization, a human rights group in Lagos.

The president, a soft-spoken and unassuming figure who did not bask in the media spotlight like past leaders of the West African nation, pledged to fight to improve the country of 150 million people despite the accusations.

"Our collective goal is to deliver for our children a Nigeria better, stronger, more peaceful, more secure and more prosperous than we met it," Yar'Adua said.

President Barack Obama issued a statement late Wednesday expressing his condolences to Yar'Adua's family and the Nigerian people.

"President Yar'Adua worked to promote peace and stability in Africa through his support of Nigerian peacekeeping efforts as well as his strong criticism of undemocratic actions in the region," Obama said in the statement. "He was committed to creating lasting peace and prosperity within Nigeria's own borders, and continuing that work will be an important part of honoring his legacy."

His election followed wide support from his predecessor, leading critics to label him a puppet of the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

After he was elected, Yar'Adua replaced some of Obasanjo's top officials, including the head of the army, a move analysts said was aimed at shedding off his predecessor's influence.

One of Yar'Adua's biggest successes was offering amnesty to militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, a move that brought fragile peace to the area after years of conflict. The well-armed Niger Delta rebels have been battling Nigeria's armed forces over oil profits, which they say are unequally distributed.

While he has hospitalized in Saudi Arabia, the militants called off the truce, dealing a blow to plans to end violence that has crippled oil production in the nation.

Analysts say he did little to institutionalize reform in a country where two-thirds of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.

"Because many people feel disillusioned economically and as long as they have those sentiments -- I think the risk of radical uprisings in places like northern Nigeria and certainly southern Nigeria in the Delta will continue regardless of who is in power," said Rolake Akinola, an analyst at Control Risks West Africa.
Yar'Adua, a former chemistry teacher, was married twice and has nine children.

[Igwe M.O.P]

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has
died at his presidential villa following a
long illness.
The government announced seven days of
national mourning and said the president would
be buried on Thursday.
Under the constitution, Vice-President Goodluck
Jonathan, in charge since February, is to be
sworn in as leader.
Mr Yar'Adua, 58, came to power in 2007
promising many reforms. Analysts say he made
the most progress in tackling unrest in the oil-
rich Niger Delta.
Nigerian TV interrupted normal programming to
announce the news in a brief statement early
on Thursday.
The announcer said: "The president and
commander-in-chief of the armed forces,
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, died a few hours ago at
the presidential villa.
"Security aides notified the national security
adviser, General Anou Bissou, who immediately
called the acting president. The late president
has been ill for some time."
Mr Yar'Adua will be buried in a Muslim ceremony
later on Thursday in his home state of Katsina,
in the north of the country.
A spokesman for Mr Jonathan said the acting
president received the news with "shock and
sadness".
Reports said Mr Yar'Adua died between 2100
(2000 GMT) and 2200 (2100 GMT) on
Wednesday in the capital, Abuja.
Obama tribute
US President Barack Obama led tributes from
world leaders.
Mr Obama praised "President Yar'Adua's
profound personal decency and integrity, his
deep commitment to public service, and his
passionate belief in the vast potential and
bright future of Nigeria's 150 million people".
In November, Mr Yar'Adua went to a hospital in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for several months,
during which time he was not heard from, apart
from a BBC interview.
He told the BBC by telephone in January that
he was recovering and hoped with
"tremendous progress" to resume his duties.
A presidential spokesman said at the time that
he was being treated for acute pericarditis, an
inflammation of the lining around the heart.
His long absence and the lack of detailed
information about his health led to a political
limbo in Nigeria that was only filled when Mr
Jonathan was named acting president.
Mr Yar'Adua returned to Nigeria later in
February, but Mr Jonathan remained as acting
president.
There had been tension between the two
men's supporters and in March Mr Jonathan
dissolved the cabinet and later put his own
team in place.
According to Nigeria's constitution, Mr
Jonathan is to choose a deputy with whom he
will serve out the remainder of the presidential
term until elections, which were due next year.
Quiet man
Mr Yar'Adua's election in 2007 marked the first
transfer of power from one civilian president to
another since Nigeria's independence in 1960.
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The life of Nigerian President Yar'Adua
He came to power promising a long list of
reforms, including tackling corruption and
reforming the inadequate power sector and the
flawed electoral system.
He made progress in banking reforms, but
analysts say he made the most progress of his
tenure in tackling unrest in the oil-rich Niger
Delta, by offering an amnesty to rebels.
The BBC's Caroline Duffield, in Jos, central
Nigeria, says President Yar'Adua will be fondly
remembered as a quiet and softly-spoken man
whose integrity was respected.
But in his last months, it was clear he was too ill
to take decisions himself.
His family and closest political advisers had
faced severe criticism and were accused of
using him to hold on to power, says our
correspondent.

[ejibond]

Rest in peace our dear lovely and peaceful president.

[Igwe M.O.P]

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
became the first civilian leader in
Nigeria to take over from another after
winning controversial polls in 2007.
The former chemistry teacher was also the first
Nigerian leader for 40 years to be university
educated.
But his academic background appears to have
done little to help him on the political stage and
mid-way through his first term in office, he was
saddled with the nickname "Baba-go-slow".
A reclusive Muslim ex-governor from the
northern state of Katsina, he promised a long
list of reforms at his inauguration - tackling
corruption, reforming the inadequate power
sector and the flawed electoral system.
The only point on the to-do list on which he
made some progress was tackling the unrest in
the oil-rich Niger Delta.
He met militant leaders and convinced them
and thousands of their fighters to give up their
weapons during a three-month amnesty in
2009, giving hope of peace at last for the
poverty-stricken region.
'In the hands of God'
Yet the issue that occupied more column inches
than anything else during his time in office was
his health.
The 58-year-old had suffered from a chronic
kidney condition for at least 10 years.
In the past three years he was twice flown to
Germany for emergency treatment and visited
hospitals in Saudi Arabia.
In November 2009 he went to a clinic in Jeddah
for three months, leaving a power vacuum and
intense speculation about the state of his
health.
His spokesman said he had pericarditis, an
inflammation of the lining around the heart.
In his absence, Vice-President Goodluck
Jonathan became acting leader in February
2010.
Later that month, Mr Yar'Adua was thought to
have returned home from Saudi Arabia to
Abuja, although there was still no word on his
medical condition.
In previous interviews, the president refused
to say what he suffered from and repeatedly
said that his life was "in the hands of God".
Although he did not prove himself a political
mover and shaker, he boasted a political
pedigree that dates back to the 1960s when
his father was appointed as a minister in the
post-independence administration.
His late elder brother - an army general -
served as deputy leader when Olusegun
Obasanjo was Nigeria's military ruler during the
1970s.
The pair were later imprisoned together after
they were accused of plotting a coup against
late military strongman Gen Sani Abacha.
Self-confessed Marxist
Mr Yar'Adua's emergence as the ruling People's
Democratic Party's (PDP) candidate in the
presidential election in April 2007 rested almost
exclusively on the support of Mr Obasanjo -
then the elected civilian president.
Nigerian presidency sources at the time said Mr
Obasanjo used a mixture of inducements and
threats of investigation by the anti-graft
agency to persuade 10 influential state
governors to withdraw from the race and back
Mr Yar'Adua.
Analysts said that by backing Mr Yar'Adua to
succeed him, Mr Obasanjo had hoped to
continue pulling the strings after leaving office.
But it did not turn out this way and Mr Yar'Adua
proved to be his own man.
Within months of taking over, he reversed
some dubious privatisations of state companies
approved by Mr Obasanjo when president -
and he also got rid of some key Obasanjo allies
in the PDP.
As an undergraduate student in Nigeria's
Ahmadu Bello University, Mr Yar'Adua was a
self-confessed Marxist and criticised his elder
brother's "capitalist" leanings.
During his seven years as Katsina State
governor, critics said contracts had gone to
companies with links to his family's vast
businesses.
Yet he was one of only a few Nigerian
politicians to publicly declare their assets -
twice before being sworn in as governor and
then again when he became president.
He was a father of nine children - five
daughters and two sons with his first wife
Turai, the first lady, whom he married in 1975 -
and two sons with Hajiya Hauwa, whom he
married in the 1990s.
He divorced Ms Hauwa in 1997 before first
running for governor.
As a governor he was known to have ignored
the advice of aides and bodyguards and
walked alone to tobacco kiosks to buy a single
cigarette.
Described by his critics as taciturn and not
known for his tolerance of opposition, Mr
Yar'Adua was sometimes underestimated.
As one commentator put it at the time of his
election "because he's quiet, people mistake
him for a weakling. But he's someone who
knows his own mind".

[edithspecials]

A sad news bt then dts life

[collinsreal]

I feel too emotional.the bible says the heart of a king is in the hands of God Almighty and He turns it whichever way He likes.

[Engr. Dayco]

    BUT HIS EXCELLENCY,WHY NOW? GOD MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE  

[Engr. Dayco]

This life is nothing but a walking shadow...Oh Musa haka ne ka yi tefiyar?....That's one thing in life we should learn.When the time comes for you,nothing can save you from it...God is the supreme watch your time and act well no one knows 2 morrows ooo! 

[ejibond]

Dayco,take am easy

[Igwe M.O.P]

regardless of whom, from where and personality of the deceased...

someone has passed on... a husband, a father and a friend... unchangeably... OUR PRESIDENT.

May we never play with the dead... it is a must deal... SAFE TRIP OUR DEAR PRESIDENT... UMARU MUSA YAR'ADUA.


umu igbo... mgbe onye kwara mmadu ka ona akwa owe ya...

[ugo banks]

mr presido....rest in eternal peace we are really gonna miss u and ur peaceful disposition....God knows best in all things.

[ejibond]

umu igbo... mgbe onye kwara mmadu ka ona akwa owe ya...

True talk

[Engr. Dayco]

Dayco,take am easy

..Eji. Why i go take am easy na..? Na my man be dat na..! Ooh Yar'Adua i nogo 4get dat ur handsome face ooo...Chei....

[ejibond]

I undastand how u feel but dat's life... we suppose thank God say nobi outside d country e happen if not,the mata for don get keyleg.