President Muhammadu Buhari who controlled the oil portfolio in his first term alongside the deputy minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu is due to announce a new cabinet for his second term in the coming weeks...
He is also from Katsina State home state of Yar'Adua and President Muhammadu Buhari...
Outgoing Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara who both crossed over to the opposition halfway into their tenure were at constant loggerheads with the APC leadership and President Muhammadu Buhari who tried but failed to remove them...
It may have been lack-lustre economy or the deepening national security crisis but President Muhammadu Buhari's swearing-in on 29 May was a morose affair...
A new claim for damages by the Federal Republic of Nigeria linked to a historic scandal over the controversial award of the OPL 245 oil licence is set to further embarrass two high-profile ministers as President Muhammadu Buhari ponders a reshuffle ahead of his inauguration for a second four-year term on 29 May...
Vol 60 No 9 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Nigeria's economic policies are unlikely to change significantly in the short term following the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in February even with likely ministerial changes and the anticipated exit of Central Bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefiele...
READ FOR FREE
He is spending $30 000 on Washington DC lobbyists Fein and DelValle to try to persuade United States President Donald Trump's administration and the US Congress not to recognise President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election victory...
Re-elected as President last month Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress has now ordered the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to take over Oil Mining Lease (OML) 11 in Ogoni from Shell Petroleum Development Company no later than 30 April...
Promising to call evidence from forensic scientists statisticians and psephologists the People's Democratic Party presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar filed his petition challenging the official results of the 23 February election that gave Muhammadu Buhari another term in the presidency (AC Vol 60 No 5 The stayaway election)...
Although Muhammadu Buhari comfortably defeated his main challenger Atiku Abubakar in presidential elections on 23 February voter turnout was just 35...
Having said he was deeply disappointed by the postponement President Muhammadu Buhari later let fly threats against would-be vote riggers saying that he had instructed the security forces to deal harshly with them warning it would be their ‘last act on earth'...
Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari on 25 January is fighting for his professional life in a partisan battle that casts a shadow over presidential elections due on 16 February and state elections next month...