Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has said the late President Umaru Yar’Adua wrote his name in gold as one of Nigeria’s leaders.
The late Yar’Adua died from an ailment in May 2010, three years after his election as President in 2007.to mark the tenth year since the passing of the late Nigerian leader, Ekweremadu said Yar’Adua made it possible for the South-East region to have an international airport, adding that he also created the Niger Delta Ministry and pulled the amnesty deal, thereby, restored peace to the South-South and South-East regions of the country.
“May God continue to have mercy on his soul and continue to grant his fine, gentle soul peaceful repose. Amen,” he wrote.reports that the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.
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