Muawuya Zakariah Adam Gombe

Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, president of Nigeria from29th may 2007- 5th May 2010. was born in Katsina Town, Katsina State in 1951 into a family active in Nigerian political and military affairs. He started his primar y education at Rafukka Primary School, Katsina in 1958. He left Rafukka for Dutsinma Boarding Primary School in 1962 from where he completed his primary education in 1964. Umaru Yar’Adua was at Government College, Keffi in present-day Nasarawa State for his secondary education from 1965-1969. He then moved to the famous Barewa College Zaria for his Higher School Certificate from 1970-1971. For his university education, Yar’Adua attended the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria from 1972-1975 where he obtained the B.Sc Education/Chemistry. He returned to the same University from 1978-1980 for his M.Sc Degree in Analytical Chemistry. Umaru Yar’Adua working career began at the Holy Child College, Lagos for the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) between 1975 and 19...

Governor of Gombe State Muhammadu Danjuma Goje (left) with Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswan at the Northern Governors’ meeting in Kaduna, yesterday. An invitation extended to governors of the 19 Northern states by former Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] national chairman Chief Solomon Daushep Lar to attend a Political Summit being organised in Abuja by a group campaigning to drop the zoning principle was rejected yesterday in what a source said was a pointer to where the wind was blowing on the contentious issue of zoning and power rotation. C hief Lar had led a delegation to make a case at the meeting in Kaduna for the Northern Governors’ Forum to support the discarding of PDP’s power rotation formula in order to enable President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 elections on the party’s platform. Lar’s delegation included former Information Minister Professor Jerry Gana as well as Senator Jonathan Zwingina. After arguing against zoning, Lar announced that his gro...

Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC chairman IS the conduct of the 2011 general elections feasible? Without doubt, the sky looks cloudy and based on the time factor and the visible level of preparation seen on the ground, the thinking of ordinary Nigerians on the goes otherwise. The possibility of organising the election as scheduled by the electoral umpire - the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) - is not there, not even with the appointment of a new INEC chairman, its commissioners and the voters register which has been condemned by all, including the commission itself. But to INEC, everything is in top gear and preparations are going on. INEC has come out to declare that it is prepared for the election ether in January or April as earlier spelt out in its dual timetable released early in the year. Many Nigerians including the real political actors have voiced their concerns about the lack of preparedness of INEC, and ...