Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua appointed his cabinet on 26 July and followed this four days later with a sweeping shake-up of the military...

Although most of the member states sided with South African President Thabo Mbeki Museveni Kibaki and Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua many are frustrated by the slow place of economic integration as well as the slow development of the AU...

At a subdued and well guarded inauguration ceremony in Abuja's Eagle Square parade ground on 29 May President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua talked about reforming Nigeria's rotten political system...

Omehia also travelled to Abuja on 4 June with Bayelsa Governor Timire Sylva and Delta Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to petition President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to release the gaoled militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari on health grounds...

Whitehall's froideur towards Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government in the wake of the flawed elections is likely to thaw fairly quickly following some bilateral meetings at the G8 meeting on 6-8 June in Heiligendamm Germany...

Gusau is proposed as Defence Minister in President Umaru Yar'Adua's new government...

The gulf between the aspirations of the new political team under President-elect Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and the consequences of last month's disastrous elections is widening dangerously...

El-Rufai's career is about to take another perhaps giant step forward under President-elect Umaru Musa Yar'Adua...

Time is pressing President-elect Umaru Yar'Adua ahead of the planned inauguration on 29 May...

South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki who knew the Yar'Adua family when he lived in Nigeria in the 1970s sent a formal note of congratulation to Umaru Yar'Adua on 25 April...

The northern politicians around President-elect Umaru Yar'Adua who will be influential in the new government have long resisted more increases in the Delta's share of federal oil revenues...