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Umaru Yar'Adua
22/07/2011

African press review 22 July 2011

A crackdown on protests in Malawi, hunger and starvation in Kenya and a call by Nobel laureat Wole Soyinka for a investigation into the death of late Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua are some of ...

20/08/2010 - Nigeria

Electoral bill signed by Jonathan and funds released

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a new electoral bill into law on Friday paving the way for elections next year.

04/06/2010 - Nigeria - from our correspondent

Nigeria votes for constitution amendments

The Nigerian National Assembly has voted for the amendment of many portions of the country's constitution.

New dawn for Nigeria? South Africa and Zimbabwe
08/05/2010 - Spotlight on Africa

New dawn for Nigeria? South Africa and Zimbabwe

Is it the dawn of a new era in Nigeria after the death of President Umaru Musa Yar'adua, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu's continuing fallout with the Zuma administration, and signals from ...

06/05/2010 - Nigeria

Jonathan takes helm as Nigerian leader is laid to rest

Nigeria's Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been sworn in as President, following the death of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Yar’Adua's body was laid to rest Thursday in his native ...

06/05/2010 - Nigeria

Yar'Adua - short-lived and frustrated reformer

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua died on Wednesday from heart complications, aged 58.

06/05/2010 - Nigeria

Nigerian President Yar'Adua dies

Nigerian President, Umaru Yar'Adua, died on Wednesday night at the age of 58. He had been ill for several months with a heart condition.

02/04/2010 - Nigeria

Yar'Adua fails to show at Friday prayers

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua failed to turn up at mandatory Friday prayers, despite an invitation by leading Islamic preachers. On Thursday night three prominent imams in Abuja met the ...

18/03/2010 - Nigeria

Acting president sacks entire Nigerian cabinet

Nigerian acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved the cabinet on Wednesday, just a month after taking over from President Umaru Yar’Adua who spent three months in a Saudi Arabian hospital.

An ambulance takes Yar'Adua out of Nnamdi Azikiwe airport
25/02/2010 - Nigeria

Where is Yar'Adua? Nigerians ask

More than a day after President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua returned to Nigeria, uncertainty persists over his state of health. Nobody has had access to him, not even acting President Goodluck Jonathan

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