Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

GIRARD — Adua Maria Zuppo, 85, passed away Sunday afternoon, June 27, 2021, at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, following an extended illness. Adua was born April 10, 1936, in Rovigno d’Istria, ...

There are leaders who speak about change. And then there are those who become it. Today, as we mark the birthday of Hadiza Abubakar Yar’Adua, Northern Nigeria pauses to celebrate not just a woman ...

LAGOS, Nigeria, May 5 (UPI) -- Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua died Wednesday after an extended illness. He was 58. The Nigerian information minister announced Yar'Adua's death Wednesday on state ...

KATSINA, Nigeria, May 6 (UPI) -- Nigeria Thursday buried its late president, Umaru Yar'Adua, in Katsina, 10 weeks after he had been treated for heart problems in Saudi Arabia. Yar'Adua, 58, died ...

The inauguration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as Nigeria's new president Tuesday marks a significant point in the nation's history — the first time since independence from Britain in 1960 that Nigeria has ...

LAGOS, Nigeria – LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, whose election marked the country's first peaceful transition of power from one civilian to another, has died following a ...

When Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who died on Wednesday at age 58, took power in May 2007, he did not look like the most promising of leaders. The first democratic change of civilian power ...

Reporting from Johannesburg — Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, who died Wednesday night at 58, was a leader with the giant ambition of dragging Africa’s most populous nation from a backward, corrupt ...

Yar’Adua was sworn in at a ceremony in Abuja as the successor to Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s president for the last eight years, marking the first changeover of power from one elected civilian to ...

The late President Umaru Yar’Adua was in office for a little less than three years. Three years after his demise, AUGUSTINE AVWODE writes on those things for which he would always be remembered. I ...

She was also the mother of former Vice President, Late Shehu Yar’adua. She died at the Katsina Teaching Hospital on Monday evening after a brief illness at 102. Funeral prayer will be conducted at the ...