President Muhammadu Buhari appointed the powerful Ogoni Senator Magnus Abe to the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 2020 and the Delta's Rivers State government recently took over the strategically important Oil Mining Licence 11 (OML 11) in Ogoniland – a move that Shell is challenging through Nigeria's courts...
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It's not clear from where United States-based Kanu gets his funding but he's paying $80 000 a month to lobbyists Mercury Public Affairs in Washington DC to proselytise against President Muhammadu Buhari's government and call for the break-up of Nigeria...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Matters were made worse by President Muhammadu Buhari's closure of the country's land borders to trade which was lifted late last year...
Insiders at Aso Rock in Abuja were saying that was precisely why President Muhammadu Buhari who prides himself on his resilience to outside pressure would never do it...
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That is driving President Muhammadu Buhari's belated rethink of the government's security strategy and his sacking the four service chiefs on 26 January...
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In May President Muhammadu Buhari will reach the halfway point of his second and final four-year term...
Although President Muhammadu Buhari is re-opening the land borders to trade he and CBN governor Emefiele are unlikely to roll back the numerous foreign exchange restrictions designed to shore up the currency and help domestic producers...
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NIGERIA'S SECURITY AND SUCCESSION QUESTIONSPressure will mount on President Muhammadu Buhari to reorganise the national security system in the wake of an attack by insurgents killing over 59 rice farmers in Borno State in the north-east and then the kidnapping of over 300 students from a boarding school in Katsina State in the north-west...
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This time last year President Muhammadu Buhari and his numerous economic policymakers were optimistic that 2020 could see growth acceleration job creation significant infrastructure investments and progress on major oil projects...
CensorshipSources in the presidency say the government is more determined than ever before to restrict freedom of expression on social media which has been the springboard for the #EndSARS protests and other criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration including the rising insecurity in the north (AC Vol 61 No 5 Aides leak north-east burns)...
We hear that Lt Gen Buratai along with Chief of Defence Staff Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin and Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (with whom Buratai has his own disputes) – all of whom were appointed as service chiefs in 2015 and have been under pressure to retire – told President Muhammadu Buhari that the protest movement was being backed by clandestine local and foreign forces (AC Vol 61 No 4 Generals on the run)...