FEBRUARY 24 IN NIGERIA HISTORY.

       On the 24th February in year 2010, Former Nigerian President Umar Musa Yar’Adua came back to Nigeria after staying in Saudi Arabia for three months due to health issues.           

          After being absence from the country and away from presidential duties for ninety-three days, President Umaru Musa YarAdua ...
returned to Nigeria, but his health conditions still remained uncertain and unclear as there were speculations that he had remained on life-support machine.

         Yar’Adua finally gave up the ghost on the fifth (5) of  May, that same year at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja.  

        The country’s political elite were consumed by a power struggle. Then Vice-President, Goodluck Jonathan had been reshuffling ministers, pledging to tackle power shortages and forging ahead with an amnesty for militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta.