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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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What's yours is mine and...

' Several major contracts awarded under Olusegun Obasanjo's government (1999-2007) in oil refining power steel and transport have been reviewed criticised and sometimes revoked since Umaru Musa Yar'Adua became President in May 2007...


Delhi defies the downturn

Emmanuel Egbogah Special Energy Advisor to Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua announced in January that ONGC-Mittal Energy will be unable to access new oil blocks because it has failed to deliver on its $6 bn...


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Tenzin Gyatso

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua scrupulously kept his distance and the only controversial moment came when the Dalai Lama opined that sexual relationships ‘are always full of trouble’...


The honeymoon is over

On 20 November Tanimu Yakubu Chief Economic Advisor to Nigeria’s President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua announced the government may cancel an $8...


Seoul search in Africa

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government is reviewing the award to Korean National Oil Company of Oil Prospecting Licences 321 and 323 in a bid to wipe out controversial contracts signed under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo...


Crisis? What crisis?

On 2 December as President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was reading the 2009 budget in the National Assembly the naira went into free-fall with a decline of about 8% in the week to 5 December while the stock market shed N500 billion (US$3...


A message from our sponsors

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua wants to use the budget to break political inertia so he will preside over the first reading in the National Assembly on 27 November and try to steer it through the two houses by the end of the year...


The waiting game

All stand ready to make their bid should President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua relinquish power before 2011 as many of the capital's pundits confidently predict...


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