Contrary to claims by some clerics who visited ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua last week that the President is recovering and will soon return to his post, Africa’s finest heart surgeon, Professor Martin Anthony Aghaji, has explained why President Yar’Adua recovery from his illness is very slow. He also gives an insight into why the former Kano state governor, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi died.

DESPITE the orientation on acceptable practices in the conduct of cabinet members, staged at Wednesday’s meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, three of the ministers came late to their first public function in the State House yesterday.

THE Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, handed down a riot act to the newly appointed ministers, just as he gave directives to them on business of governance.

SET to make a mark within the next one year, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is to head the nation’s moribund power industry; even as he has concluded plans to unveil new initiatives aimed at improving power supply in the next few days, in the reconstituted Federal Executive Council, yesterday.

ONE week after the visit of some Muslim clerics to the ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, Christian leaders, yesterday, visited the Aso Rock to pray with the president.