Along with Ibori some of those threatened with prosecution by the EFCC such as ex-Governor of Rivers State Peter Odili also claim to have contributed to the election funds of the PDP and to the campaign of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua...
The Nigerian authorities denied involvement and President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua sent his Foreign Minister Alhaji Tijjani Yahaya Kaura and a delegation to pay condolences to Biya and to repeat that the Nigerian army was in no way responsible for the soldiers' deaths...
The Nigerian delegation drew attention to the statement on Zimbabwe made in October by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua at a German-African summit in Wiesbaden...
Vol 48 No 24 |
- COMMONWEALTH
Presidents Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone were warmly welcomed to their first CHOGM...
Vol 48 No 23 |
- NIGERIA
- ANALYSIS
The most important case is the complaint by opposition presidential candidates Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar against the election of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua...
These judgements and the prospect of more against the PDP are upsetting for President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and his government casting a long shadow over the April 2007 elections in which he was declared the winner...
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua talks about the rule of law while his own party remains populated by politicians and godfathers widely suspected of corruption electoral fraud and violence...
Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's maiden voyage to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly was choreographed by an improbable band of bankers publishers itinerant politicians and veteran diplomats...
It has been the worst of times in the oil capital of Port Harcourt in the 100 days since President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was elected...
Vol 48 No 18 |
- COMMONWEALTH
The most important African newcomer should be President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria whose predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo hosted the CHOGM four years ago...