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You are missing the point. Every body have the right to a private life -whether or not they are in public office. Secondly the press should not have cultivated a childish habit of prying and speculating about people's health state. It is despicable and disgusting.

@Asha80 How Ironic will it be if you are to die before him?

Another excellent thread highlighting the unhealthy obsessesion of the NIgerian press with the President's health. I wont even bother with this one.

It means that only the Northern Nigeria was sensible enough to enact a law that will protect the value of womanhood.

The chances of students getting admitted in SE areas are almost 100%(Nobody wants to really school there).

My friend dont you get tired of listening to your own voice. The point other people are making is that your reference document as presented is defective and unreliable to change whatever impression exists. Thank you.

Yar’Adua Bans Close-up Pictures to Prevent Public from Observing His Physical Condition.
Due to his gaunt and emaciated appearance occasioned by sickness¸ Nigeria’s “Supreme Court President”, Umaru Yar'Adua, has taken unprecedented steps to prevent his image and likeness from appearing in the press.

First, he has banned photojournalists from taking close shots of him and publishing such in any newspaper. And the communication department at the presidency has stopped uploading photographs of Yar'Adua to the website of the State house (www.nigeriafirst.org) pending the time its principal subject would have gained enough weight to look like the doctor, not the patient.

Saharareporters has learned that a photojournalist at the New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has been queried for "taking and circulating pictures of Mr. Yar'Adua that his office considers embarrassing."

The new policy was devised after a series of photos emerged in several newspapers following Yar'Adua’s so-called two-week vacation. When accurate but unflattering reports of Yar’Adua’s preparations for a medical leave surfaced in SaharaReporters and other media, those arrangements were cancelled at the last minute and a “vacation” announced in its place.


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But although spokesman Segun Adeniyi told the press his boss would spend the vacation at the Obudu Ranch in Cross River State, Dodan Barracks in Lagos, and Yar’Adua’s home state of Katsina, Yar’Adua was instead marooned in the Aso Rock villa residence in Abuja. Reports said he had been too weak to travel. A medical source had also told Saharareporters that given the state of Yar’Adua’s weakened lungs, his doctors would not medically permit travel to Obudu Ranch, where the high altitude heights would have made breathing a nightmare for him.

The state of Yar'Adua's health has reduced State activities to the barest minimum. One of his ministers told Saharareporters after yesterday's Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that Yar'Adua could not stay longer than 30 minutes in what he said was the shortest FEC he had ever attended.

At that meeting, photojournalists were forbidden from taking close shots of Yar'Adua. A number of newspaper editors were warned to carry embarrassing photos of Yar'Adua at their own risk. Since Yar’Adua does not have a choice in whether or in what circumstances public pictures of him are published, it remains to be seen if editors nationwide will go along with what amounts to providing the nation with part of the truth. For today, a majority of the mainstream newspapers only settled for front-page photos of ministers as they engaged in staged-managed "photo ops" banter at the State House . It is not clear how the television stations plan to report public appearances of Yar’Adua, if any.

Look at President Umaru Yar adua for example. He has refused to resign even when he is sick because he want to serve the term of the north. This is based on fear by northerner.
tribalist is based on fear of domination. Yar adua is ready to die in office than hand over to the southener vice president because of this fear. If you remove this fear of domination you solve the problem. And you can only solve this fear by removing the Yoruba and bendle are from nigeria.

Have we solved the problem of citizenship yet? Do our votes count?
When are we going to end the slavish dependence on oil alone?

the day we get those three right we'd be far better than Kigali.

I do no think so. It is easier to destroy, than to build. If what we have on ground is not working, development is not staring at us vividly in the face, why continue with the system? Is there any point to it?

The who south west too is disappointed with waziri. she only arrest people of Yorubas origin. I think she need to change her approach too. What did the Yorubas do to her. She is the one who got yar adua in trouble with the Yoruba leaders

Typical Nigerian! Quick to open his gob and spit out nonsense. If we had the Biafran war, what progress has it brought unto us unlike what is obtainable with Rwanda today? Has it made any lasting realization on the need for development in Nigeria?