Umaru Musa Yaradua

September 5, 2023

Tinubu Expresses Fear Over Bloated Civil Service Payroll; Obasanjo Reveals Truth About Yar’Adua’s Illness | 5 Things That Should Matter Today

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss Tinubu Expresses Fear Over Bloated Civil Service Payroll The President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, has expressed his feelings towards the bloated civil service payroll as he stated his desire to digitalise the public service administration.... Read More

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10 years after, Nigerians immortalize their ‘Darling President’ | The #YNaijaCover

Nigerians on social media today are celebrating the memory of a former president, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who died in office on this day, ten years ago. The two-time Katsina Governor is revered by most Nigerians as the best President by far since the return to multi-party democracy in 1999. He was the second civilian president... Read More

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November 22, 2019

The Buhari government is losing its mind on the matter of Sowore

It has been 20 years since Nigeria returned to a hard-fought democratic system of government. Four since President Muhammadu Buhari, reinvented himself as a “converted democrat” in a well-received Chatham House speech in London, and only a few short months since Buhari was reelected for a second term in office. By all means, it would... Read More

Editor's Pick, Specials

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The YNaija Cover – the 6th of May

Follow the links below to check out our weekend stories: The Big 5: Sharia police in Kano to arrest people eating in public during Ramadan; DSS arrests commercial sex workers in Calabar | Other top stories Entertainment roundup: Tiwa Savage leaves Mavin, signs new record deal with Universal Music Group; ‘Game of... Read More

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October 24, 2018

INEC reportedly does not have full results of 2007 Presidential election

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not have the full results of the highly controversial 2007 presidential election, The Cable reports. As reported on its website Wednesday, the news medium said it had sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the electoral umpire for a state-by-state breakdown of the 2007 presidential results, ahead of... Read More

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[#YNaijaEssays] The good, the bad and the ugly: What the Nigerian elections really cost

There are few events that can come to define a nation’s identity quite like how it approaches elections. This is because elections expose the priorities and motives of the men and women who seek to lead their country and reveals the electorate’s ethno-religious biases. This is true, even for long-established democracies in seemingly progressive countries... Read More

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October 16, 2017

“We have been having successive accidental leaders since 1999” – Na’Abba

A former Speaker, House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba says all the Presidents since Nigerian went back to democratic rule in 1999, have been accidental. He is, therefore, referring to former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Na’abba stated this in Abuja at the 2016/2017 Matriculation and Fellowship... Read More

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Opinion: We’re drinking our oil and eating our children’s future

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo In 2007, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was desperate to solve a conundrum that was nearly as old as Nigeria’s independence. It was an especially recalcitrant problem. Ibrahim Babangida, former Military President, also attempted to solve it in the late 80s but he failed. Upon return to democracy, Olusegun Obasanjo, then... Read More

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YNaija Analysis: This Buhari matter has stopped making sense

“Can anyone please tell me where is our president?” This was one of the tweets that was posted with the hashtag #WhereIsBuhari which trended for two days on Twitter. Over the past two weeks, since the hashtag started being used, about 6500 tweets were published with it, reaching approximately 25.6 million people. This is a... Read More

Thinking Through

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YNaija Says: Buhari if you can’t do your job, do the right thing

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the death of the second president in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Until his passing away that morning, Nigeria went through one of the most tense political periods in its existence with controversy after controversy surrounding his illness, the refusal of his close... Read More

Thinking Through

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President Buhari

It may make sense for Buhari to resign, but the cabal is the problem

Editor When President Muhammadu Buhari on January 19 communicated a letter to the Senate informing them of his decision to proceed on a planned two-week medical vacation to the United Kingdom, little did we know that Nigeria will experience what would turn out to become a déjà vu. Buhari travelled same day after briefing the Service... Read More

Thinking Through

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We have your receipts: Going by what he said in 2010, Buhari should call for his own impeachment

by Soma Oj. It was 2010. We had an ailing President. President Umaru Musa Yar’adua who was snuck out of the country to Germany where he was terminally ill while his closest advisers lied to Nigerians that things were alright. As an opposition leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, joined joined many other Nigerians to call for... Read More

Thinking Through

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PROFILE: Who is afraid of Ibrahim Magu?

by Wilfred Okiche “In the light of the foregoing, Magu has failed the integrity test and will eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption stand of the current government.” Thus ended the official security report from the Department of State Services on the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Mustafa... Read More

Cover Stories, Thinking Through

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The YNaija Tracklist: Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan agreed to $1.1bn Malabu oil deal – Adoke | NLC kicks against Customs directive on old vehicles | More stories

by Dolapo Adelana From the papers this morning – a Tracklist. “In 24 hours, the truth will be exposed” | Apostle Suleman responds to allegations (WATCH) – YNaija Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan agreed to $1.1bn Malabu oil deal – Adoke – YNaija NLC kicks against Customs directive on old vehicles – YNaija NANS appeals to Buhari... Read More

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Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan agreed to $1.1bn Malabu oil deal – Adoke

by Dolapo Adelana A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Adoke has written a letter to the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, declaring his innocence in the controversial Malabu oil deal. Two major international oil companies, Shell and Agip were alleged to have bribed Nigerian officials to secure an oil prospecting licence for... Read More

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February 15, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] We have a book: Buhari Vs Yar’Adua | But it has nothing to do with health

Apparently, President Muhammadu Buhari and the late former president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua have more in common other than taking off in the middle of heated affairs for a vacation that somehow led to health complications. While the case of Yar’Adua has been resolved, with his death in 2010, confirming that he tried to keep the... Read More

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October 20, 2016

Reuben Abati: Aisha Buhari and that BBC interview

by Reuben Abati Public communication is one of the most delicate challenges that people in public life face, either in the corporate or the public sector. Many people suddenly find themselves in high places, and they become a source of news, a potential interview subject, and they get chased around by journalists and other media figures... Read More

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September 21, 2016

The Media Blog: Dapo Olorunyomi steps (just a bit) aside at Premium Times

This didn’t make as much of a splash as it should have. Understandable sha – it’s Nigeria after all, where the present has very little knowledge of its provenance. Dapo Olorunyomi is one of Nigerian journalism’s true greats. Almost every important milestone of the past 20 years has his footprints all over it – until... Read More

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September 19, 2016

The Explainer: This is what is going on with the aviation industry

Arik, Nigeria’s largest airline, blamed the cancellation of all of its flights last week to a delay in getting insurance documentation as a result of the Sallah break. This left hundreds of people stranded. The documentation was sorted out though, and flights resumed on Wednesday. That was not the only reason put forward for their... Read More

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Akin Osuntokun-YNaija

September 17, 2016

Akin Osuntokun: As politics goes, so does the economy

If I were addressing myself to the exclusive audience of a social science class seminar, the topic above would be more appropriately entitled the political economy of Nigeria-under which specialisation, the interaction between politics and the economy is adequately studied and explained. ‘It defines how the economic system, political institutions and the political environment affect... Read More

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Buhari flags off Abuja-Kaduna rail project (DETAILS)

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday commissioned the Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail project. The president, in his speech, commended both the Yar’adua and Jonathan-led governments for conceiving and starting the project respectively. He also promised that his administration will put plans in place for a 25-year strategic railway plan. Read full speech below: “BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU... Read More

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Buhari to implement militants’ agreement with Yar’Adua

President Muhammadu Buhari is reportedly evaluating the gazette signed by late President Umaru Yar’Adua on the Niger Delta crisis. Buhari is expected to peruse and lift from the gazette, a way of dealing with the growing menace of militant group, Niger Delta Avengers. The main objective of revisiting the gazette, Punch reports, is to ascertain... Read More

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Tinubu will destroy himself, Obasanjo will fight with Buhari – This PDP chieftain predicts doom for APC

by Kolapio Olapoju A member of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has predicted that National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, would end up destroying himself. Babatope also stated that former president, Olusegun Obasanjo will end up getting into a political battle with President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari. In an... Read More

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February 7, 2015

Olusegun Adeniyi: 2015 elections – This is the time to choose

by Olusegun Adeniyi I am quite aware that religion and politics have so intertwined in Nigeria that there is hardly any public official who does not openly identify with one and no Government House in Nigeria is complete without either a Church or a Mosque, or in some instances both. While I have no problem... Read More

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January 19, 2015

“This is imbecillic” – Tolu Ogunlesi rips apart Fayose’s advert for GEJ campaign (TWEETS)

by Kolapo Olapoju Following the political advert placed on the cover of Punch Newspaper, by the governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose, journalist, Tolu Ogunlesi has described the move as distasteful and crass. In the advert, Fayose compared the presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, to former leaders, who died in office. The... Read More

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December 28, 2013

CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido to begin retirement leave in April

by Oke Efagene Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido, will commence his retirement leave as from April 1, 2014, which is 2 months to the end of his tenure. Lamido, was nominated as the CBN governor by the late former Nigeria President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 1, 2009. His appointment... Read More

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September 29, 2013

Opinion: The lies we tell ourselves

by Anwal Auwal ‘We all know how we rig elections in this country. We compromise security agencies, we pay the electoral officials and party agents while on the eve of the elections we merely distribute logistics all designed to buy the votes…’ ‘Now that journalists have left and all of us are politicians, we should be... Read More

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Opinion: 2015 – Lamido and Obasanjo’s selfish endorsement

by Iyobosa Uwugiaren Obasanjo knew the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was suffering from a terminal ailment and may not be able to finish his tenure but he chose to impose him on the nation…. Alhaji Sule Lamido, the governor of Jigawa State, is seen by his political fans and followers as a star among his... Read More

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Simon Kolawole: Nigerians are full of hypocrisy and prejudice

by Simon Kolawole If we believe in fairness, what is pepper soup for Yahaya should not be poison for Yohanna. As Nigeria gallops towards 100 years of amalgamation, one of the most contentious issues has been the place of quota system and meritocracy in government. Meritocracy campaigners argue that Nigeria is “backward” because public offices... Read More

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