Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

In August the Nigerian courts annulled President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s revocation of the Korea National Oil Corporation’s rights to the licences on blocks 321 and 323 (AAC Vol 2 No 10)...

Every day Nigeria's feistier newspapers remind their readers how long - more than three weeks so far - that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been out of Nigeria and receiving cardiac treatment at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia...

Should President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's health problems cause him to withdraw from office a number of People's Democratic Party (PDP) notables are poised to ascend...

The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s supporters are trying to steer through the National Assembly is meeting massive opposition from the major oil companies their political lobbyists and the Niger Delta militants who resent the lack of concessions offered...

Shell's Chief Executive Peter Voser has visited President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Shell has promised to cooperate with the government's post-amnesty programme...

5 million barrels per day President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua signed an amnesty on 25 October with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)...

To secure a second term President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua must persuade state governors to stick together and back the ruling People’s Democratic Party again...

According to Sanusi President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been kept informed of the actions taken against the banks and their chief executives...

South Africa takes that place now but 22% of Franco-African trade is with Nigeria; in 2008 when President Umaru Yar'Adua visited Paris Franco-Nigerian trade passed E4 bn...

As those caught in Sanusi's net try to fight back using their political protectors the stage is set for the most important battle of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's presidency: if he backs Sanusi then some of the key financiers of the ruling People's Democratic Party could fall from grace...