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Nigeria

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

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


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Slaughter on the border

In the year since the election of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in Nigeria there have been two deadly clashes that could have a bearing on whether Nigeria goes ahead with the handover on 14 August...


Yar'Adua boosts oil production

Nigeria is determined to raise its oil production capacity to four million barrels per day by 2010 President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua told Africa Confidential in Paris on 13 June...


The Ibori test

The couple's fate will be a measure of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's commitment to the rule of law...


Open season on Obasanjo

A few months before the April 2007 elections Obasanjo anointed as his successor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua a relatively little-known state governor from a great family in the Muslim north...


Unhealthy prospects

If nothing else President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has proved wrong those critics who claimed he would be a mere puppet of his predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo...


Nigeria takes on Big Oil

President Umaru Yar'Adua has launched a thorough restructuring of the state-owned energy sector and a review of commercial contracts...


Technical knock-out

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's camp insisted the judgement left little room for interpretation or a different outcome at a higher court...


Judgment day is coming

At stake is the future of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's Presidency as the judges consider the weight of evidence from opposition parties claiming widespread fraud...


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