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'Umaru, the rumour here is that you are dead
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Are you dead?'
Pini Jason profiles Nigeria's new president, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has risen to Nigeria's presidency from obscurity to overnight fame. Even as the governor of his home state, Katsina, the most that was known of him was that he was the younger brother of the late Major-Gen Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, Obasanjo's deputy in his first incarnation as military head of state.
Even though he came from a political dynasty (his late father wa...
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'Umaru, the rumour here is that you are dead
New African
; Are you dead?' Pini Jason profiles Nigeria's new president, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has risen to Nigeria's presidency from obscurity to overnight fame. Even as the governor of his home state, Katsina, the most that was known of him was that he was the younger brother
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Yar'Adua's new order
New African
; When he was elected last April, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was seen by many as an Obasanjo recruit. One year on, the quiet man has proved everybody wrong by establishing a new order all of his own. He has even trimmed Obasanjo's influence over the ruling party. Lindsay Barrett reports. In late
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 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Nigeria hopes ascetic Yar'Adua will sweep clean; First university-educated leader since 1975 has to overcome the opportunists, writes Robyn Dixon.(Dispatches)
The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
; Africa's next Big Man likes to pray on the ground under the same tree outside the same local mosque where he has knelt for 15 years. And as governor of Katsina state in northern Nigeria, he has generally driven himself around in a simple car. Umaru Yar'Adua is pious, taciturn and humble, a man of
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Tussle for Obasanjo's SEAT
New African
; ... place in Nigerian politics and history. "Obasanjo appreciates loyalty," said Gbenga Aliu, a Nigerian political commentator after news broke on 16 December that Shehu's brother, Umaru, had been picked by the PDP national convention in Abuja to succeed Obasanjo ...
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Nigeria: Yar'Adua will step down if...
New African
; President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua took office in May this year under the shadow of a disputed election, but after six months in office, the former university don has shown that he is quietly asserting his own authority. But there is a threat hanging over his head. Joseph King reports from Abuja. Umaru
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Nigeria: New wine in old wineskin?
New African
; New wine in old wineskin? Old wine in new wineskin? Old wine in old wineskin? Or new wine in new wineskin? These are the questions that stud the hearts of Nigerians and an expectant international community as Africa's most populous nation once again changes its leader. Ola Sheyin reports. Umaru
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Nigerian Victor A Break With Past; Yar'Adua, an Unassuming Civilian, Has Reputation for Honest Dealing
The Washington Post
; Nigerians are accustomed to certain things from their presidents. Most have been generals, or former generals, with big personalities and reputations for corruption. And those who haven't been installed through coups have come to power in elections so flawed they bore little relationship to popular
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Davos: The Potential For Wealth - Is The African Renaissance For Real? Or Will Development Hopes Again Be Dashed? Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Makes The Positive Case.
The Banker
; Fifty years of post-independence failure in Africa has been a tough but effective school for educating governments on policy reform. That is why experts believe that the mistakes made in the last commodities boom - when much of the revenue was either plundered or squandered - will not be repeated
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Nigerian president's visit brings home awkward similarities to South Africa.(News)
Cape Times (South Africa)
; BYLINE: Hussein Solomoni Nigerian President Alhaji Umari Musa Yar'Adua is on a state visit this week and will be hosted by President Thabo Mbeki in Cape Town. There are some who would argue that such a visit makes sense given the parallels between the two countries. As South Africa is the regional
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 "The Economist (US)")
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New government, old problems; Nigeria.(Nigeria's new government)
The Economist (US)
; Why should the new government do better than its predecessor? EXPECT a different style of leadership but little change in the government's way of working. That, in effect, was the message of Nigeria's outgoing president, Olusegun Obasanjo, to party stalwarts this month before the inauguration of
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