The sale of the refineries to Bluestar was reversed following a probe by incoming President Umaru Yar'Adua and the money refunded...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     First E&P was set up in 2011 by Odein Ajumogobia  a prominent commercial lawyer who served as Minister of State at Petroleum Resources in President Umaru Yar'Adua's government (2007-10) and then as Foreign Minister under Goodluck Jonathan in 2010-11...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     When the Umaru Yar'Adua government (2007-2010) looked like it was serious about plans to stop gas flaring  they partnered with an old associate  General T...
	 
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	     The SCL group  of which CA was a subsidiary  was also involved in Nigeria's 2007 elections won by Umaru Yar'Adua...
	 
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	      His successor  Umaru Yar'Adua  declared the organisation of the sector as not fit for purpose in 2007 – but both his administration and Goodluck Jonathan's which followed in 2010 foundered in their efforts to adopt a new reform initiative (AC Vol 50 No 23  The biggest reform of all & Vol 54 No 11  Blocking the great reform bill)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     But rotation at the top is more delicate: in 2011 Goodluck Jonathan  decided to contest  arguing that the idea of a 'gentleman's agreement' that the Presidency should return to the north following the death in office of Umaru Yar'Adua had no standing  in law...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	       Just after becoming the first northern chief executive of the Lagos-based First Bank in 2009  Sanusi was appointed governor of the central bank by the ailing Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (AC Vol 50 No 14  Half-time for Yar'Adua)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     First  Process and Industrial Development (P&ID)  an Irish-based company founded by Brendan Cahill and Michael Quinn  which won a power sector contract in the final days of the Umaru Yar'Adua administration  has secured a judgement debt in the United States against the government that with daily interest is pushing US$10 billion  over 2...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Dahiru Mangal  leading shareholder in Oando PLCA close friend of the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua  Mangal was said to be one of his main financial backers...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The corrosive qualities of the OPL 245 saga dripped across three People's Democratic Party administrations  from Olusegun Obasanjo  through Umaru Musa Yar'Adua – who was lukewarm on all the proposed resolutions – and Goodluck Jonathan...