His successor Umaru Yar'Adua declared the organisation of the sector as not fit for purpose in 2007 – but both his administration and Goodluck Jonathan's which followed in 2010 foundered in their efforts to adopt a new reform initiative (AC Vol 50 No 23 The biggest reform of all & Vol 54 No 11 Blocking the great reform bill)...
But rotation at the top is more delicate: in 2011 Goodluck Jonathan decided to contest arguing that the idea of a 'gentleman's agreement' that the Presidency should return to the north following the death in office of Umaru Yar'Adua had no standing in law...
Just after becoming the first northern chief executive of the Lagos-based First Bank in 2009 Sanusi was appointed governor of the central bank by the ailing Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (AC Vol 50 No 14 Half-time for Yar'Adua)...
First Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) an Irish-based company founded by Brendan Cahill and Michael Quinn which won a power sector contract in the final days of the Umaru Yar'Adua administration has secured a judgement debt in the United States against the government that with daily interest is pushing US$10 billion over 2...
Dahiru Mangal leading shareholder in Oando PLCA close friend of the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Mangal was said to be one of his main financial backers...
The corrosive qualities of the OPL 245 saga dripped across three People's Democratic Party administrations from Olusegun Obasanjo through Umaru Musa Yar'Adua – who was lukewarm on all the proposed resolutions – and Goodluck Jonathan...
Before his struggle with Obasanjo Atiku led the influential People's Democratic Movement (PDM) which was originally built by Shehu Musa Yar'Adua President Umaru Yar'Adua's elder brother who was murdered by General Sani Abacha's assassins in prison in 1997 (AC Vol 38 No 25 After Yar'Adua)...
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A draft was finished in 2008 under his successor the late Umaru Yar'Adua setting out a new tax and regulation framework for the sector Nigeria's only major source of exports and government revenue...
Oando's management are in dispute with the minority shareholders Gabriele Volpi the Italian owner of leading oil service company Intels and Dahiru Mangal one of the wealthiest businessmen in the north who was close to the late President Umaru Yar'Adua...
Reappointed in 2007 and simultaneously promoted by Obasanjo to Assistant Inspector General of Police – three weeks before the President's successor the late Umaru Yar'Adua was sworn in – Ribadu was instantly demoted by the then Inspector General of Police Mike Okiro on a flimsy excuse concerning a training course...
The question is whether Atiku from Adamawa State in the north-east and a veteran ally of Umaru Yar'Adua's north-western political dynasty can rejuvenate the north-south axis which with the help of a formidable rigging machine secured four presidential election victories for the PDP...
