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Yar’Adua to seek vacation in letter to Assembly

The President may write the National Assembly that he is proceeding on vacation to take care of his health, it was learnt yesterday.
The vacation is to enable President Umaru Yar’Adua, who has been in Saudi Arabia since November 23 for treatment of acute pericarditis (inflammation of the heart’s lining) have enough time to recuperate.
The letter will also pave the way for Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to act as president.
Sources said his family may bring him back home for recuperation once his condition stabilises. He may be followed home by some of his doctors, a source said...

 

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Cover Analysis: Death by installment - The eruption of violence in parts of the North Central Nigeria city of Jos in the wake of Local Government Council elections late in November 2008 exposed once again the fragility of the social fabric...   Commentary Failed leaders, blood and narrow interest - At the end of the Rwandan political upheaval just over a decade ago, more than one million people had been massacred... Jos under the flames The violence took just three days. But the healing of wounds will take longer, perhaps decades...

Critical Essay How Rwanda’s traditional courts are speeding up trials of genocide suspects
The traditional courts are fostering a spirit of reconciliation among the victims and perpetrators of the genocide. ZACHARY OCHIENG...

Analysis Gloom, doom and boom!
The global meltdown and Africa ICT sectors
The global financial crisis may be taking its toll on advanced economies with financial houses collapsing, companies closing down and the unemployment rate hitting the ceiling; but developing countries with lower deficit profile and more urgent need for infrastructural development could ramp up on their inward strengths to record more optimistic growth in spite of the global gloomy outlook ...

Analysis Meles Zenawi Quitting Ethiopian politics; Isn't It a Joke? - Austin Ejiet According to reliable news reports, Ethiopia's political strongman of some three decades, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, has indicated that he is to relinquish power and step down voluntarily.   The Famished Road - CHINWEOKE OBI writes that Gombe offers a paradox of how government policy on poverty alleviation runs outside the circle of the people’s expectations.   ‘Power is the highest priority of this administration’ After about two years in power, President Yar Adua finally spoke with the media in an interaction he bared his mind on issues of curuption, the Niger Delta and plans for development under his 7-Point Agenda   Helpers of the poor Civil society and all the missed points Prof. BALA DOGO raises questions on how to tell the chaff from the grain among civil society organizations purportedly set up to help the poor...   When life is brutish and dreams fade away HALIMA MUSA sieves the arguments on ending the almajiri problem, one of the worst forms of child destitution in Nigeria.   In the Name of God ... the commoditization of faith By Samuel Zalanga The need for African Liberation Theology...   A business called Education - Private sector education is a get-rich scheme in Nigeria. By By Halima Hamidu Musa

Creative In Africa, art has always been a part of the people.  Jerry Buhari holds a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He has had three solo shows and has taken part in 38 group shows and seven international exhibitions. Theatre reflects the deepness of a people Professor Jenkeri Zakari Okwori is Head of Department, Theatre and Performing Arts, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. An experienced actor, director, and producer, Professor Jenkeri Zakari Okwori has been teaching Participatory / Development Communication at the ABU since 1984. A short story 8-8-8: The journey to Prayer City By I. D Ogbekene   Sex and the City: A city finds peace in its night clubs despite years of political turbulence - By Chinweoke Obis   Critical Essays: Muslim Hausa hegemony and the Jos crisis Many in the media have severally commented on the recent Jos mayhem, but in the spirit of political correctness virtually none has broached the touchy issue of real and perceived fears of Muslim Hausa domination by the Jos indigenes...

 

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