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Headlines, Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Friday, August 6th, 2021
By NAN A Magistrate’s Court in Yola on Thursday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, the son of late former President Musa Yar’Adua, in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving […]
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Corruption Politics, General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Raw Politics, Top Stories, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The massive looting of public funds during the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan came to the fore, Monday, as top government officials and businessmen were said to have illicitly enriched themselves with public funds, amounting to over N1.35 trillion. The chairman of the Presidential […]
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Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Monday, May 22nd, 2017
As groups and individuals continue to claim that President Muhammadu Buhari’s health is deteriorating while his supporters say he’s getting better and, with the President’s return to the United Kingdom on an indefinite sick leave, BAYO AKINLOYE writes that not a few people are experiencing a sense of déjà vu With a gait less graceful, […]
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Corruption Politics, Headlines, Kogi, State News, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Monday, April 25th, 2016
-Punch Ramon Oladimeji A Federal High Court in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital on Monday convicted a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Gabriel Daudu, of money laundering and sentenced him to two years imprisonment. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Monday, found Daudu guilty on 77 out of the 208 […]
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Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Friday, July 17th, 2015
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Wednesday that he chose the late former President Umaru Yar’ Adua as his successor because the others, who wanted the post, were corrupt. Obasanjo said one of the people who wanted to succeed him in 2007 was “stinkingly corrupt” and that the only way he (Obasanjo) could justify himself […]
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Headlines, Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Thursday, September 19th, 2013
Suspected kidnappers THE State Security Service on Thursday said it had foiled a plot to abduct one of the daughters of late President Umaru Yar’Adua. The SSS said two suspects, Hamza Abubakar and Lawrence Okoro, had been arrested in connection with the foiled kidnap attempt. Deputy Director, SSS, Public Relations, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, told newsmen […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
By HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA—A Report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, presented to the Senate, yesterday, revealed how the Federal Government under three successive administrations from 2002 to 2012, grossly abused funds from the nation’s Special Funds Accounts to the tune of N1.2 trillion. According to the report presented by Senator […]
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EFCC Politics, Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
The former principal secretary to the late president Umaru Yar’adua, Mr. David Edevbie, has filed an action at the Federal High Court in Lagos, praying the court to either compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute him for his alleged involvement in money laundering or in the absence of any concrete evidence […]
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General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), National Politics, Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10), Women Politics
Friday, January 25th, 2013
A former Vice President (Africa), World Bank, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has said the Umaru Yar’Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan administrations need to tell Nigerians how they spent the $45bn left in the foreign reserves account and $22bn in the Excess Crude Account by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration. Ezekwesili, who was a former Minister […]