The head of the government agency charged with cleaning up decades of oil pollution by Shell in Ogoniland Ferdinand Giadom was summarily sacked without cause by President Muhammadu Buhari's Environment Minister Mohammed Abdullahi on 2 May...
We hear this followed an intervention from Deputy Secretary General of the UN Amina J Mohammed who was the Environment Minister under President Muhammadu Buhari who set up HYPREP for the second time in 2016...
That day in a grand ceremony before large crowds in Wiiyaakara Rivers State in the heart of Ogoniland Environment Minister Muhammed Abdullahi was to open representing President Muhammadu Buhari three flagship projects: a 100-bed specialist hospital an electrification project connecting Ogoniland to the national grid and ground-breaking for a Centre of Excellence for Environmental Restoration (AC Vol 63 No 24 Contractors who clean up)...
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Postponing the planned national census due to run from 3 to 7 May is the latest policy decision by the outgoing administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to be kicked into the long grass...
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This has been given added salience after recent media coverage about the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari's government to prosecute such figures as former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and oil trader Kola Aluko whom it accused of grand corruption...
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Government spending and public indebtedness have soared under President Muhammadu Buhari's administration which has overlooked the ceiling for the deficit (3...
Even that number falls far short of election turnout in Ghana Kenya and South Africa where the political leaders are no more popular than Nigeria's outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari...
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They see the Court's ruling as a victory against the central bank but also against President Muhammadu Buhari who has personally endorsed the currency exchange policy...
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It has emerged that Team Jorge was also involved in a failed plan in 2015 to get Goodluck Jonathan re-elected as Nigeria's president and discredit his challenger Muhammadu Buhari...
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Whatever the merits of his eight-year rule President Muhammadu Buhari had seemed emotionally disengaged from the election and unconcerned about whether his All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerge victorious (AC Vol 64 No 3 Economic woes test voter loyalties)...
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Although Tinubu's advance guard declines to blame President Muhammadu Buhari personally some target his nephew Mamman Daura with his formidable network across the country's political class...
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President Muhammadu Buhari then ruled that all public servants seeking to stand for elected office would have to resign their posts...
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