Starting out cautiously as bank governor in 2014 after a career in commercial banking Emefiele has become the second most influential person in the current government since the passing of Abba Kyari Buhari's long-time trusted advisor two years ago...
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Buhari's late chief of staff Abba Kyari championed the reform initiative as a blueprint both to take on corruption in oil and gas but also to trigger change in other sectors of the economy such as power manufacturing and agriculture...
Ripple effectAbba Kyari who served as Buhari's Chief of Staff until his death from coronavirus in April 2020 argued that value of the reforms went far beyond an oil sector that for 50 years has generated more than 90% of Nigeria's foreign exchange earnings (AC Vol 61 No 9 Abba Kyari 1952-2020)...
The death from complications arising from coronavirus in April of Abba Kyari the President's chief of staff created a vacuum that has been filled slowly and inconsistently...
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Slowing reformThis year Buhari has lost his closest confidant Chief of Staff Abba Kyari and businessman publisher Ismai'la Isa Funtua...
With a new team of advisors under Chief of Staff Ibrahim Gambari who stepped into the role after Covid-19 claimed the life of Abba Kyari in April Buhari appears to be revising key aspects of policy (AC Vol 61 No 12 New chief old battles)...
That is why President Buhari despatched his late chief of staff Abba Kyari to negotiate the Siemens deal at the company's headquarters in Germany...
The programme has been hit this year by the multiple challenges of the international health emergency and the death in April from Covid-19 of Abba Kyari who had been Buhari's Chief of Staff since 2015 (AC Vol 61 No 9 Abba Kyari 1952-2020)...
After the death of his chief of staff Abba Kyari in April a central figure and workaholic on policy and process in the executive another of Buhari'slong-time associates businessman and publisher Ismai'la Isa Funtua died on 20 July (AC Vol 61 No 9 Abba Kyari 1952-2020)...
Public complaints from his foes in the party of an abrasive and abrupt style of management masked more private concerns that he was too close to Buhari's then Chief of Staff Abba Kyari and more significantly to Bola Tinubu Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and one of the richest men in the country with a formidable real estate portfolio in the commercial capital...
