More sober sources in the Senate believe mid-year is realistic – if Senate President Ahmed Lawan a close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari is able to see off any late attempt to sink the legislation...
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Fellow oil producer Nigeria whose President Muhammadu Buhari also attended the US climate summit faces competing pressures on the green transition...
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Centre's gripSupport is growing for a constitutional change to allow state police forces as in many other federal systems such as the United States and Germany but President Muhammadu Buhari is said to be wary of the move as are many of the officials around him...
Vol 62 No 8 |
- NIGERIA
- ECONOMY
President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's economy policymakers will certainly welcome the modest improvement in the country's economic outlook...
Frontiers is owned by one of Nigeria's more colourful oil magnates Benedict Peters who has been based in Ghana after leaving Nigeria after Muhammadu Buhari's election in 2015 (AC Vol 58 No 7 The great oil chase & Vol 59 No 4 'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US)...
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Last week President Muhammadu Buhari rejected both ideas but promised a more targeted approach by the armed forces adding that he expected the management of educational institutions to bolster local security arrangements...
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President Muhammadu Buhari appointed the powerful Ogoni Senator Magnus Abe to the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 2020 and the Delta's Rivers State government recently took over the strategically important Oil Mining Licence 11 (OML 11) in Ogoniland – a move that Shell is challenging through Nigeria's courts...
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It's not clear from where United States-based Kanu gets his funding but he's paying $80 000 a month to lobbyists Mercury Public Affairs in Washington DC to proselytise against President Muhammadu Buhari's government and call for the break-up of Nigeria...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Matters were made worse by President Muhammadu Buhari's closure of the country's land borders to trade which was lifted late last year...
Insiders at Aso Rock in Abuja were saying that was precisely why President Muhammadu Buhari who prides himself on his resilience to outside pressure would never do it...