Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Weeks after Information Minister Dora Akunyili announced a campaign to rehabilitate Nigeria’s international image President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government faces the strongest test of its corruption-fighting credentials in its response to the international investigation into corrupt payments on the US$6 billion liquefied natural gas project (AC Vol 50 No 5 et passim)...

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua knows that the public is aware that the 2007 elections were rigged and he will attempt to quell public criticism of the 2011 elections...

His relations with President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua have been poor and initially it seemed that his tenure at the CBN would not be extended...

Five other leading candidates for CBN Governor Isa Yuguda Governor of Bauchi State recently married President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s 23-year-old daughter Nafisat – his fourth wife – in an elaborate ceremony...

The PDP headed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua a northern Fulani Muslim is not identified by religion...

Lukman and Mukhtar both appointed in President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's reshuffle in December are experienced and forthright...

NIGERIA: Reform and unrest The Supreme Court’s validation of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s contentious 2007 election victory will do little to stabilise Nigeria’s fractious politics...

If nothing else it is a shrewd negotiating gambit by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government which has been besieged on all sides in domestic politics...

In mid-August Nigeria's Federal High Court overturned President Umaru Yar'Adua's revoking in January of Seoul-based Korea National Oil Company's rights to 60% of Oil Prospecting Licences 321 and 323 in a ruling that proved unexpectedly damning for the presidency and supportive of foreign oil companies...

Almost all Nigeria's countertrade deals with Asia have been abandoned after investigations by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's officials into their viability...

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua paid his first visit to China in March 2008...