Tanimu Yakubu

The turfing out of Yar'Adua apparatchiks such as economic advisor Tanimu Yakubu and national security advisor Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar rang a few alarms in the north although few seem concerned about the arrest warrants for lacklustre Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa and former Delta State governor James Ibori currently in Dubai and facing extradition to Britain...

* The Executive Council of the Federation: Chief Economic Advisor to the President Tanimu Yakubu; Minister for the Federal Capital Territory Muhammadu Adamu Aliero; National Security Advisor Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar...

Yar’Adua’s closest and most powerful civilian allies – his wife Turai and Tanimu Yakubu his economic advisor – drew their authority directly from the presidency...

Commentators denounce a web of intrigue and deception orchestrated by Yar'Adua's wife and his Economic Advisor Tanimu Yakubu with Agriculture Minister Sayyadi Abba Ruma James Ibori and David Edevbie the President's Principal Secretary...

Turai and her allies – Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema Bauchi Governor Isa Yuguda Presidential Economic Advisor Tanimu Yakubu and Agriculture Minister Abba Sayyadi Ruma – hoped to assuage Delta militants with an allocation of 114 bn...

Tanimu Yakubu as YarA’dua’s leading economic advisor may be reluctant to move to the Central Bank of Nigeria from his current influential and powerful job at Aso Rock...

According to Tanimu Yakubu Chief Economic Adviser to the President: 'Even at this early stage where nothing has been agreed it is clear that the Chinese are ready to pay very very much more for some of these licences than the existing operators...

On 20 November Tanimu Yakubu Chief Economic Advisor to Nigeria’s President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua announced the government may cancel an $8...

All the key policymakers seem to advocate a different path whether it is Usman Soludo Director of the Budget Office Bright Okongwu or Yar’Adua’s financial advisor Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi...

Yet on many day-to-day decisions Usman is outflanked by the President's Economic Advisor Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi who was Finance Commissioner of Katsina State when Yar'Adua was State Governor...