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...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- NIGERIA
- ECONOMY
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua reacted a little more diplomatically and thanked Sarkozy and Brown for their concern...
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...
Since President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua came to power after a widely-criticised election and started extolling the rule of law much has changed...
Vol 49 No 16 |
- CAMEROON
- NIGERIA
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...
Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Nigeria and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana also recently censured the regime’s economic and political tactics...