Pressure is mounting on President Muhammadu Buhari's government after the shooting of protestors at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on 20 October with the African Union and the United Nations condemning the violence calling for a full investigation of the deaths and negotiations to resolve the crisis...
30 years of protests against Nigeria's police 1984: The military government led by General Muhammadu Buhari and Brigadier Tunde Idiagbon sets up a special section of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to combat armed robbery...
August 2018: Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo during President Muhammadu Buhari's medical leave in London orders the 'immediate overhaul' of SARS after a succession of well documented reports of abuses...
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The Bill backed by President Muhammadu Buhari does not become a public document until parliamentary hearings later this year...
Frontier registered in the Dominican Republic is owned by Nigerian oil billionaire Benedict Peters who moved to Ghana after President Muhammadu Buhari's government came to power in Abuja in 2015...
These developments seem to be forcing President Muhammadu Buhari's hand...
Godwin Obaseki the incumbent governor was dropped by President Muhammadu Buhari's All Progressives' Congress (APC) after falling out with his political godfather former party chairman and predecessor as governor Adams Oshiomhole (AC Vol 61 No 14 Divided we stand & Vol 61 No 16 In Edo all politics is national)...
Many Nigerians are disappointed that as President Muhammadu Buhari is a year into his second term he has not done more to halt the scourge of corrupt trading deals and build up national oil production and increase its value...
The government's projects team Hadi Sirika Minister of Aviation: close to President Muhammadu Buhari Sirika is seen as a professional who has tackled some of the aviation industry's multiple problems in Nigeria on regulations security and cost structure...
There is no sign that President Muhammadu Buhari wants to reopen the debate about constitutional reform let alone push through any radical measures in his second term...
Politicians and pundits in Nigeria have shown a rare unanimity in outrage at comments by Mamman Daura widely regarded as President Muhammadu Buhari's most influential advisor about the rotation of power between north and south in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on 31 July (AC Vol 61 No 15 The shake-up that didn't happen)...
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On 23 July a procession of regional heads of state gathered in Bamako: President Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria) Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger) Nana Akufo-Addo (Ghana) Alassane Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire) and Macky Sall (Senegal)...
The protagonists in this dispute which has dragged on for a decade returned to the virtual commercial courts in London on 13-14 July as the government of President Muhammadu Buhari tried to overturn the gigantic award made by an arbitration tribunal in favour of P&ID...