First E&P was set up in 2011 by Odein Ajumogobia a prominent commercial lawyer who served as Minister of State at Petroleum Resources in President Umaru Yar'Adua's government (2007-10) and then as Foreign Minister under Goodluck Jonathan in 2010-11...

When the Umaru Yar'Adua government (2007-2010) looked like it was serious about plans to stop gas flaring they partnered with an old associate General T...

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)...