Muhammadu Buhari

Unlike South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa who has used the health crisis there to reassert his leadership position President Muhammadu Buhari has made just three broadcasts on the emergency in the past two months the latest was on 27 April when he announced a phased easing of the lockdown in Lagos Abuja and Ogun State...

On the same day the Senate in Abuja took just five minutes to approve a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to raise 850bn naira ($2...

His demise is a heavy personal and political blow to President Muhammadu Buhari...

As oil prices crash to an 18-year low in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic weakening global demand and a price war President Muhammadu Buhari's spending plans are being torn up...

After speculation about his health and whether he was even in the country President Muhammadu Buhari gave a belated televised address on 29 March announcing a lockdown of Abuja Lagos and its neighbouring Ogun and Osun states...

Despite this mockery of the government's anti-corruption claims Ganduje won President Muhammadu Buhari's endorsement...

Officials in President Muhammadu Buhari's government blame one another for the administration's failings especially in areas such as security...

Since he assumed office in 2015 the retired general President Muhammadu Buhari has taken a hands-off approach to the conflict deferring to his trusted army chief Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai...

A parade of generals President Muhammadu Buhari – President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces since May 2015...

But the neat Cartesian logic of this Francophone reform had paid little heed to the sensitive realities of West African intergovernmental politics particularly in the region's biggest economy and most populous nation led by a president Muhammadu Buhari whose first reflex is a defensive economic nationalism illustrated by the five-month closure of all its land borders (AC Vol 60 No 20 Protectionism and patronage & Vol 60 No 24 Hard economics meets political pageantry)...

Its government hopes its revenues and fiscal position will be boosted by President Muhammadu Buhari's finance bill raising the VAT rate and other measures...

As he wrestles with mutually reinforcing economic and security problems President Muhammadu Buhari can no longer blame an uncooperative national assembly or opposition state governors if his planned reforms stall again...

Facing urgent economic and security demands President Muhammadu Buhari's team team will need far more political will to fight vested interests in the bureaucracy and business...