LAGOS, Nigeria – LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, whose election marked the country's first peaceful transition of power from one civilian to another, has died following a ...

GIRARD — Adua Maria Zuppo, 85, passed away Sunday afternoon, June 27, 2021, at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, following an extended illness. Adua was born April 10, 1936, in Rovigno d’Istria, ...

The inauguration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as Nigeria's new president Tuesday marks a significant point in the nation's history — the first time since independence from Britain in 1960 that Nigeria has ...

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, long plagued by poor health, has died at age 58, almost three months after his vice president assumed control of Africa’s most populous nation, ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said on Tuesday Nigerians would not forget the “undisputable” achievements of late former President Umaru Yar’Adua’s short-lived administration. Abubakar stated ...

Nigeria’s citizens have taken to the internet to air the dirty laundry of ministerial nominees — sparking something that looks a lot like democracy. Two explosions shook the state governor’s office in ...

KATSINA, Nigeria, May 6 (UPI) -- Nigeria Thursday buried its late president, Umaru Yar'Adua, in Katsina, 10 weeks after he had been treated for heart problems in Saudi Arabia. Yar'Adua, 58, died ...

When Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who died on Wednesday at age 58, took power in May 2007, he did not look like the most promising of leaders. The first democratic change of civilian power ...

I have visited the magnificent architectural edifice that is the Shehu Musa Yar'adua Centre on several occasions, and only a few of those visits were for events rather than courtesy calls on my elder ...

LAGOS, Nigeria, May 5 (UPI) -- Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua died Wednesday after an extended illness. He was 58. The Nigerian information minister announced Yar'Adua's death Wednesday on state ...

Reporting from Johannesburg — Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, who died Wednesday night at 58, was a leader with the giant ambition of dragging Africa’s most populous nation from a backward, corrupt ...