Dealing with this issue soberly and effectively is perhaps the greatest immediate challenge facing President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...
Vol 47 No 20 |
- EGYPT
- AFRICA
The subsequent dispute has been raised at two meetings between Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and was said to be one reason why the New Partnership for African Development meeting that Egypt hosted last year was poorly attended...
While President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar sling mud at each other the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) an official anti-corruption body led by Nuhu Ribadu has given Nigerians a taste of more to come and of the manner in which the political elite has operated state accounts in recent years...
This rivalry has sharpened since the campaign to win President Olusegun Obasanjo a third term collapsed in May...
Two more ideas were unveiled by President Olusegun Obasanjo on 18 July: his 'Gulf of Guinea initiative' to deal with the rising tide of attacks in the oil-producing creeks; and an investment plan and report from the United Nations Development Programme...
As concerns mount over the durability of the government's economic reforms and the management of public finances ahead of next year's election President Olusegun Obasanjo quietly reshuffled his reform team on 21 June...
Vol 47 No 12 |
- NIGERIA
- ISRAEL
The row over a US$200 million contract won by Israel's Aeronautics Ventures to supply aerial drones for use in the Niger Delta coincides with last week's sacking of National Security Advisor General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau by President Olusegun Obasanjo...
The attempt to change the constitution allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to stand for a third term in 2007 has failed defeated in a Senate vote...
A decade later it backed the re-election ticket of President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar because of 'the need for continuity' according to Nigerian Stock Exchange Director General Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke...
Zoellick and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo...