Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan has had to fight attempts by People’s Deomocratic Party barons in President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government to block him from filling the constitutional role left vacant by the ailing leader...

Projects like that are likely to meet a good reception when they match domestic political goals: ailing Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has failed to deliver on his promise to produce 6 000 MW by the end of 2009...

In January 2009 President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua cancelled KNOC's licences and his officials complained the company had not paid the agreed signature bonus...

South Korea's state-run Land and Housing Corporation is offering investments and technical cooperation in the oil-rich Niger Delta a move that might help the ambitions of Seoul's energy companies and appeal to President Umaru Yar'Adua's efforts to win hearts and minds following his amnesty offer to Delta militants in October...

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)...