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' The opaque system of multiple foreign exchange rates had become a hallmark of Emefiele's governorship but were strongly endorsed by outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari (AC Vol 64 No 12 When – not if – Emefiele leaves the bank)...
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Emefiele's decision without consulting Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed but backed by outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari to issue new naira banknotes and recall some 2...
Under advice from the World Bank and IMF President Muhammadu Buhari's government announced in November 2021 that it would eliminate fuel subsidies and granted approval to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency to remove the price cap for petrol...
The impasse over funding HYPREP projects comes as Giadom is challenging his dismissal by Environment Minister Abdullahi on 2 May and causing waves in the outgoing government led by President Muhammadu Buhari...
Shogbola told us that if we wanted to know we would have to contact President Muhammadu Buhari's office because that's where the demand for Giadom's dismissal originated...
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Tinubu had campaigned on 'consolidating the gains' of outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari's government but his earliest pronouncements amount to a wide-ranging ditching of its macro-economic and security policies...
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His allies have suggested Tinubu will push ahead much faster on reforms than outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari but the political realities in the legislature are likely to dilute them (especially in the case of ending subsidies) and slow them down...
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On 22 May outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari along with several regional leaders and top business figures formally commissioned the project...
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The head of the government agency charged with cleaning up decades of oil pollution by Shell in Ogoniland Ferdinand Giadom was summarily sacked without cause by President Muhammadu Buhari's Environment Minister Mohammed Abdullahi on 2 May...
We hear this followed an intervention from Deputy Secretary General of the UN Amina J Mohammed who was the Environment Minister under President Muhammadu Buhari who set up HYPREP for the second time in 2016...
That day in a grand ceremony before large crowds in Wiiyaakara Rivers State in the heart of Ogoniland Environment Minister Muhammed Abdullahi was to open representing President Muhammadu Buhari three flagship projects: a 100-bed specialist hospital an electrification project connecting Ogoniland to the national grid and ground-breaking for a Centre of Excellence for Environmental Restoration (AC Vol 63 No 24 Contractors who clean up)...
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Postponing the planned national census due to run from 3 to 7 May is the latest policy decision by the outgoing administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to be kicked into the long grass...
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This has been given added salience after recent media coverage about the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari's government to prosecute such figures as former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and oil trader Kola Aluko whom it accused of grand corruption...
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