The two hit it off at a press conference after the meeting a far warmer show than Trump's painful meeting with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari in May...
Presidency sources say the bill was returned to the Senate later that month with recommendations and revisions shortly before Saraki announced his defection from President Muhammadu Buhari's All Progressives Congress to return to the People's Democratic Party which he left for the APC in 2014 (AC Vol 59 No 11 Cracks spread in APC alliance)...
Saraki joined President Muhammadu Buhari's All Progressives Congress in December 2013 but returned to the rival People's Democratic Party on 31 July in a coordinated wave of defections...
Kenyatta became the second sub-Saharan African head of state after Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari in April to be received at the Trump White House on 27 August and AGOA and increased trade and investment with the US were at the top of the agenda...
The All Progressives' Congress whose leader President Muhammadu Buhari is taking a holiday in London has been under political siege for weeks while its senior members contemplated a mass defection to the opposition...
The bill was blocked by the National Assembly until 2015 when Goodluck Jonathan lost power to Muhammadu Buhari...
This followed a meeting of reconciliation in Lagos between President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu the estranged national leader of the APC who secured much of the funding for Buhari's 2015 election campaign...
With primaries for the 2019 election fast approaching President Muhammadu Buhari is under pressure to push ahead with his anti-graft campaign...
The latest round of defections and manoeuvrings in Abuja give weight to the opposition People's Democratic Party announcement that it will lead a new Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) grouping at least 35 parties to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari in the elections in February and March (AC Vol 59 No 10 Friends with benefits)...
Vol 59 No 13 |
- MOROCCO
- ECOWAS
Following up on an earlier visit President Muhammadu Buhari visited Morocco on 10 June to sign further undertakings on a long-mooted gas pipeline which would run from Nigeria across nine Ecowas member states to Morocco's Mediterranean coast...
Oil industry sources murmur that President Muhammadu Buhari's initiatives to sustain peace in the restive Niger Delta may not prevail as political dirty tricks accelerate in the run-up to next year's elections...
Nor has Morocco's wooing of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and others across the sub-region done much to help its application to join the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) or reduce their willingness to de-recognise the SADR...
