Jonathan Gives Almost N1billion To Turai, Others As 'Severance'?

The presidency has paid nearly N1billion to the family of late President Umaru Yar'Adua, according to an official memo obtained in Abuja. The slush funds were routed through the Katsina State government, the home state of the former president.

The payment includes about N150 million to Mrs. Turai Yar'adua, as well as others to the late president's aged mother, his married daughters, and sons.

Although the controversial former First Lady has got the biggest payout, it would be recalled that it she who pushed Nigeria to the brink of a political crisis between 2009 and May 2010 while her late husband was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.

Mrs. Yar'Adua was at the head of a cabal of Ministers, aides and security agents that manipulated the nation for many tense months as they clung to power, almost leading to the collapse of the government.

It remains unclear if Yar-adua's second wife, Hauwa Umar Radda, whom the late president divorced in 1997, benefited from the "free Nigerian money".

- Source: Sahara Reporters

GOV WADA DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State who was injured in an auto crash last week that claimed the life of his ADC was, Monday, discharged from the Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja where he has been receiving treatment for a broken thigh.

Chief Medical Director of the hospital,  Dr Felix Ogedengbe, certified Wada fit to be discharged and to allow him recuperate fully at home.

Dr Ogedengbe noted that though the governor had been discharged, the fracture would still require at least  six months to heal.

UPDATE PHOTOS: President Jonathan visits Gov. Wada in Hospital

Three days after Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada was involved in an auto crash that claimed the life of his aide de camp and landed him in hospital, President Goodluck Jonathan Monday visited the governor on his sick bed.

President Jonathan was on Monday at the Cedar Crest Hospital, Abuja where Governor Wada is said to be recovering from injuries he sustained in the incident.

Accompanied by few of his aides the President was received at Garki II premises of the private hospital by the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, and the hospital's Chief Medical Director (CMD), Felix Ogedengbe.