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Nigeria

General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

Date of Birth: 5 March 1937
Place of Birth: Ogun State


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On the knife-edge

Brokered by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo the deal proposes: a coalition government with ministers from all parties and some non-partisan figures; a review of recent oppressive laws on public assembly and the media; full implementation of the Abuja agreement stipulating orderly land redistribution to be financed by Britain and international financial institutions...


Risky money

There is less pressure to reform the oil business in Nigeria especially since President Olusegun Obasanjo's government suspended cooperation with the IMF (AC Vol 43 No 5)...


African energy

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has led a diplomatic push to clarify maritime borders in the Gulf of Guinea...


Blitzing the banks

President Olusegun Obasanjo wants a stronger currency: it wins votes...


Saying yes, saying no

France's President Jacques Chirac hosted 13 African leaders in Paris on 8 February; British Prime Minister Tony Blair met Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo John Kufuor Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Abdoulaye Wade on his 6-10 February whirl through Nigeria Ghana Sierra Leone and Senegal; United States President George W...

The NePAD implementation committee headed by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika are designing an African contract on codes and standards of both economic and political governance ­ legal guarantees on property free and fair elections...


Crossed lines

If the deal collapses it will cripple President Olusegun Obasanjo's economic programme...


Torrents of trouble

If President Olusegun Obasanjo and his allies delay the registration process for new parties several months more Babangida could stand on the ticket of the existing All People's Party which already controls the governorships of several northern states...


New parties, new plots

If President Olusegun Obasanjo and his allies delay the registration process for new parties several months more Babangida could stand on the ticket of the existing All People's Party which already controls the governorships of several northern states...


Designer diplomacy

His critics say that Blair like Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is increasingly interested in foreign affairs at the expense of pressing domestic issues...


Crossing the Limpopo

Both Mbeki and his close colleague Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo insist that the Nepad philosophy and peer pressure work...


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