Muhammadu Buhari

Nigeria
Buhari scuttles Pipeline and Products Marketing Co by splitting it up

Even before Esther Nnamdi Ogbue was named new boss of the Pipeline and Products Marketing Co (PPMC, see AEI 752), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Nigeria
Once an ally, Offor turns into a liability for Addax

A multi-billion dollar, last minute agreement under the previous government could cause serious trouble for China’s Addax. Here’s why.

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Spotlight | Nigeria
Fresh team raring to go on the oil front

President Muhammadu Buhari’s first oil industry appointments in August targeted the management of NNPC and they ought to delight oil companies which had been waiting impatiently for changes at the top. The new executives, picked with their regional origins carefully [.

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.2015

Nigeria
Winners and losers in NNPC swap deals

In step with one of the priorities of Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari, contracts that had allowed for cargoes of crude [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.2015

Benin
Fernand Marcel Ahoussou enters presidential race

Retired general Fernand Marcel Amoussou, who hails from Aplahoue, in the south, is poised to announce that he will run [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.07.2015

Nigeria
Ziakede Akpobolokemi, a new Ijaw fired by Buhari

Members of the Ijaw ethnic community who were appointed under president Goodluck Jonathan (himself a member of the community based [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.2015

Nigeria
MEND’s leaders turn up heat on Buhari

The cancellation of maritime security contracts since Muhammadu Buhari came [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.2015

Nigeria
Helios dips into piggy bank to go shopping

In acquiring the downstream business of Nigeria’s Oando, Helios Investment Partners is pursuing its integration strategy in the oil sector.

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.2015

Nigeria
Buhari puts swap contracts and NNPC under microscope

The new Nigerian president doesn’t trust the audit reports issued by the previous government and wants everybody to know it.

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.2015

Nigeria
Kentebe, ex-president Jonathan’s last Ijaw wild card

A few days before he stood down as Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan made two major appointments in the oil sector. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.2015

Nigeria
The lawmaker who wanted to save Alison-Madueke

Nigerian lawyer Muraina Ajibola, who lost his seat in Nigeria’s parliament for Ibarapa Centre and North (in Oyo state) in [...]