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    Umaru Musa Yar'Adua GCFR ((listen); 16 August 1951 – 5 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his...
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    Umar Musa Yar'Adua (born 26 July 1957) is the widow of the former Nigerian president and former Katsina State Governor, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. She was the...
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    Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University (UMYU), formerly Katsina State University, was established by the Katsina State Government in 2006, to "serve as a nucleus...
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  • notably its 2010 exposé on the incapacitation of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s, titled "Yar’Adua is brain-damaged." Unlike many local outlets where journalists...
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    Cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua was made up of the Ministers and Ministers of State appointed by Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua. The cabinet continued...
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    Republic. Yar'Adua was minister when Lagos Island and the capital territory was designated as the city of Lagos in 1963. He is the father of Umaru Musa Yar'adua...
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  • State in Nigeria in July 1975 Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951–2010), the President of Nigeria and the 13th Head of State Umaru Mutallab (born 1939), Nigerian...
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    (keeper of the treasury). Yar'Adua's grandfather, Malam Umaru, was also the Mutawalli, and his younger brother Umaru Yar'Adua, who later became the president...
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    president of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010 under the administration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua; and in oil-rich Bayelsa State as governor from 2005 to 2007, and...
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    The Umaru Musa Yar'adua Expressway formerly known as Airport Road is a 10-lane expressway in Abuja, Nigeria, reconstructed to address the perennial traffic...
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    Governorship and State Assembly elections had been held on 14 April. Umaru Yar'Adua of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) won the highly controversial...
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    months prior. Obasanjo served two terms in office. On 29 May 2007, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and...
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  • The inauguration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as the 13th president of Nigeria, and 2nd in the fourth republic was held on Tuesday, 29 May 2007, marking the...
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    illness of President Umaru Yar'Adua. On 13 January 2010, a federal court empowered Jonathan to manage state affairs while Yar'Adua received medical treatment...
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  • Obasanjo, was re-elected with 61.9% of the vote. In December 2006, Umaru Yar'Adua (formerly of the Peoples Redemption Party and the Social Democratic...
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    Action Congress in the 2007 presidential election coming in third to Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP. He contested the presidential...
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    general election on 21 April 2007, Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP was elected president. Following the death of Umaru Yar'Adua on 5 May 2010, Goodluck Jonathan...
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    Police Force erupted in Kano, Yobe and Borno soon after. But President Umaru Yar’Adua disputed this version of events, claiming that government security forces...
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  • brother of former Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and former de facto vice president General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua. A retired Nigerian Army lieutenant...
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    v t e Cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua The Cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua, which was formed on 26 July 2007, is shown below. The list shows Federal...
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    Omar (name) (section Umaru)
    Umaru Tanko Al-Makura (born 1952), Nigerian politician and businessman Umaru Yar'Adua (1951–2010), the 2nd President of Nigeria's Fourth Republic Omarion...
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  • the victory of Umaru Yar'Adua, although it was announced on 27 June 2007 following talks, that the ANPP had agreed to join Yar'Adua's government of national...
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    Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) under President Umaru Yar'Adua from August 2007 until September 2010. Afakriya Aduwa Gadzama was born...
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  • 2007 was appointed Minister of Defence in the cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua. In 2008 he became Minister of the Interior but left office with the...
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    Murtala Muhammed), while two died of natural causes (Sani Abacha and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua). Three heads of state resigned, Olusegun Obasanjo and Abdulsalami...
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  • Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources in Nigeria by President Umaru Yar'Adua on 26 July 2007. He left office in March 2010 when acting president...
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    partnership with Nigeria at a meeting in Abuja with Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua. The company's name, a portmanteau of "Nigeria" and "Gazprom", attracted...
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  • married President Umaru Yar'Adua's daughter and decamped to the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Following the death of Umaru Yar'Adua, Mohammed joined...
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    progress in democratization under Obasanjo. In the 2007 general elections, Umaru Yar'Adua of the People's Democratic Party came to power. The international community...
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  • succeeded by Chief Ikedi Ohakim on 29 May 2007. In December 2008, President Umaru Yar'Adua appointed him Minister of Commerce and Industry. He left office in March...
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