Failing a cataclysmic reversal in the next week President Olusegun Obasanjo's governing People's Democratic Party is likely to chalk up another victory at the state and federal elections due on 14 and 21 April respectively...
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was busy with his election campaign so Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo suggested a mediator - Nigerian ex-President Ibrahim Babangida with whom Conté shared a common enemy the Liberian warlord Charles Taylor...
Behind that campaign is President Olusegun Obasanjo according to Abubakar...
This was reported to President Olusegun Obasanjo on 24 August...
Vol 48 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
There was praise too for Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo's term as AU Chairman from former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori...
The party faithful ask what role retiring President Olusegun Obasanjo will play after he has handed over power on 31 May...
At the heart of policy-making for much of President Olusegun Obasanjo's two terms the reform team of Nigerian technocrats is breaking up raising doubts about the continuity of economic policy after the elections...
Olusegun Obasanjo Buhari wants sweeping reforms to the federal system such as cutting the number of states from 36 to 15...
He believed that only by direct involvement in the political process could he salvage what he regarded as the values and achievements of the military regime in which as Chief of Staff of Supreme Military Headquarters and served as de facto number two to Olusegun Obasanjo in the late 1970s...
It is a selection that seems certain to raise tensions in the region as Ude is a supporter of controversial power broker Chris Uba who is now estranged from his brother Andy Uba formerly a close aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo and now running for state governor...