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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Date of Birth: 16 August 1951
Place of Birth: Katsina State, Nigeria
Died: 5 May 2010


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Among the survivors

After months of speculation President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has sacked half his cabinet but retained several of his old associates and surprisingly kept on a few of the worst-performing ministers presumably for political reasons...


Economy: Trouble in the markets

Watching oil prices fall from US$147 a barrel to $57 over the past month and listening to endless media speculation about his health must have been disconcerting for President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua...


The storm before the storm

Things are clearly not well with Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s presidency: political opponents and plotters are capitalising on the mysteries about his health – and speculation that the Supreme Court could still rule against the legitimacy of his election...


Two virgins

Yet since last year's election Yuguda is no longer at the Aviation Ministry (he is now Bauchi State Governor) and President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government has set to work re-evaluating a raft of deals struck with foreign companies...


Unhealthy talk

The rumours of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s demise reverberating around Nigeria’s mobile phone networks over the past week were assuredly exaggerated a combination of misinformation and idle political banter...


Wasteful wars, foreign friends

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua reacted a little more diplomatically and thanked Sarkozy and Brown for their concern...


Service shuffle

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's appointment of new service chiefs and a new Chief of Defence Staff on 20 August will further reduce the political power of former President Olusegun Obasanjo...


Yar'Adua's judges on trial

Since President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua came to power after a widely-criticised election and started extolling the rule of law much has changed...


Bogged down

In a letter to Cameroonian daily Le Messager the rebels said that they want Presidents Paul Biya of Cameroon and Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria to discuss Bakassi's future...


The neighbours start to turn

Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Nigeria and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana also recently censured the regime’s economic and political tactics...


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