Muhammadu Buhari

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari and Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou who chaired the meeting gathered to try to turn the underfunded understaffed and underwhelming anti-terrorist Force Conjointe du G5 Sahel into a credible fighting machine...

Ten months after its inauguration the new integrated frontier crossing between Nigeria and Benin at Sémé Kraké on the key Lagos-Cotonou corridor was closed to most trade on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari together with all other official crossing points on the 900km land frontier between the two countries...

Unphased by mounting security threats weakening international oil prices and an unresolved US$9 billion judgement debt demand President Muhammadu Buhari's unveiled an ambitious new budget on 8 October confounding analysts who say that the government needs to cut spending...

For pan-African economic alliances and security cooperation much is riding on the summit between Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Muhammadu Buhari due to hold on 3 October in South Africa...

The delays seemed at an end in 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari formally launched the clean-up operation and endorsed the composition of the structures supervising the operations – the Governing Council of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) as well as its board...

Just days after President Muhammadu Buhari allocated the portfolios and swore in his 43 ministers on 21 August regional leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress started staking their claims to the presidential ticket in the 2023 elections...

Of the myriad security threats in Nigeria herder-farmer clashes which have killed more than 4 000 people and seen at least 250 000 chased from their homes in the past three years are the most personal for President Muhammadu Buhari...

With an extra five members stuffed with party loyalists and an average age of 60 President Muhammadu Buhari's new ministerial team cannot be accused of exuding dynamism or imagination...

Royal Dutch Shell was the dominant presence here after oil was first discovered in 1956 but since President Muhammadu Buhari won re-election he has handed the operating licence for Ogoni's 96 oil-wells and 9 oil-fields OML11 to NNPC...

The importance of Godwin Emefiele governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to President Muhammadu Buhari's plans was clear as he set out his agenda for the next five years in Abuja on 24 June...

NNPC chance for reform President Muhammadu Buhari's appointment of Mele Kyari petroleum engineer and former head of marketing as group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is his second major economic appointment a month into his second term...