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Buhari is today known for this crisis; there even is a famine in the east of Niger that have been named "El Buhari". [69] His regime drew criticism from many, including Nigeria's first Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, who, in 2007, wrote a piece called "The Crimes of Buhari" [70] which outlined many of the abuses conducted under his military rule.
In 2016, Buhari was reportedly presented with evidence that his chief of staff, Abba Kyari, took a N500 million bribe from MTN to help it slash the $5 billion dollar fine slammed against it for violation of Nigeria telecommunications regulations bothering on national security. [81] [82] MTN fired the staff involved in the bribery scandal. [82]
Tinubu's cabinet is bigger than that of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who had 36 ministers in his first terms and 43 in his second term in office. Under the law, the president must include a ...
A political leader in Plateau State, Elkanah Garang, called for the immediate release of some suspects, as they had been pardoned by Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari earlier in the year. [14] Buhari had claimed to release a detailed report on the attack in November, although this did not happen.
Muhammadu Buhari's tenure as the 15th president of Nigeria began with his first inauguration on 29 May 2015, and ended on 29 May 2023. A retired general and member of the All Progressives Congress from Katsina State, he previously served as military head-of-state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, when he was deposed in a military coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida.
The main opposition Goodluck Jonathan faced was from Muhammadu Buhari of the APC. While inaugurating a 250-bed Orthopaedic Hospital in Wamakko, Buhari said: "We will stop corruption and make the ordinary people, the weak and the vulnerable our top priority". [28] General Muhammadu Buhari holding a broom at a campaign rally.
Sambo Dasuki, the National Security Adviser who allegedly masterminded the $2 billions arms deal. On 3 June 2015, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, the former governor of Borno State was arrested by the anti-graft agency, EFCC on alleged misappropriation of 300 billion naira received from the federation account during his tenure as governor of Borno State, between 2003 and 2011. [27]
UnitedHealth Group held its first earnings call since the shooting of its insurance executive last month.UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed outside of an investor day meeting in New ...