Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

She organised the clandestine return to Nigeria of her husband President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on 23 February...

His many supporters across the country say it's not before time: they are frustrated by the refusal of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and his aides to transfer full executive powers to Jonathan during the President's prolonged medical treatment...

Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's long stay in Saudi Arabia has delayed the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill a radical attempt to rewrite Nigeria's relationships with the international oil companies...

Instead they argue that a strong delegation of senior PDP officials should propose a lucrative package under which Jonathan would agree to stand aside to allow a northern candidate to replace Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in the presidency...

Asian interests grew under President Obasanjo (1999-2007) then waned under Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-2010) and are now in the ascendant again...

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)...