Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

' Several major contracts awarded under Olusegun Obasanjo's government (1999-2007) in oil refining power steel and transport have been reviewed criticised and sometimes revoked since Umaru Musa Yar'Adua became President in May 2007...

Emmanuel Egbogah Special Energy Advisor to Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua announced in January that ONGC-Mittal Energy will be unable to access new oil blocks because it has failed to deliver on its $6 bn...

There are currently 18 Nigerians awaiting execution for drugs offences in Indonesia; President Umaru Yar'Adua sent Foreign Affairs Minister Ojo Maduekwe to his counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to request lighter sentences...

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua scrupulously kept his distance and the only controversial moment came when the Dalai Lama opined that sexual relationships ‘are always full of trouble’...

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

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government is reviewing the award to Korean National Oil Company of Oil Prospecting Licences 321 and 323 in a bid to wipe out controversial contracts signed under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo...

On 2 December as President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was reading the 2009 budget in the National Assembly the naira went into free-fall with a decline of about 8% in the week to 5 December while the stock market shed N500 billion (US$3...

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua wants to use the budget to break political inertia so he will preside over the first reading in the National Assembly on 27 November and try to steer it through the two houses by the end of the year...

All stand ready to make their bid should President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua relinquish power before 2011 as many of the capital's pundits confidently predict...

After months of speculation President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has sacked half his cabinet but retained several of his old associates and surprisingly kept on a few of the worst-performing ministers presumably for political reasons...