Just released via thisday.com
President Yar' Adua is Dead. THISDAY can confirm. He passed on earlier this night between 9.30 and 10pm Nigerian time.
He has been battling acute pericaditis, an inflammation of the membrane around the heart, since November last year for which he received treatment at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
He was brought back to the country under the cover of darkness in February and since then had been held incommunicado.
He will be buried tomorrow.
More details revealed as they surface.
via thisday.com
May his soul R.I.P and may GOD watch over his family.............