Street fighting over control of a local market in the old capital Lagos in late November in which over 100 people have died started just as President Olusegun Obasanjo's government was threatening another dissident area (in the poverty-stricken oil-producing states) with martial law...
Recent high-level visitors to Abuja have left apparently convinced that President Olusegun Obasanjo is reversing 20 years of corruption and mismanagement in Nigeria's oil industry the heart of its economy (AC Vol 21 Nos 12 & 19)...
In just three months President Olusegun Obasanjo's whisk broom of reform has swept away the notoriously parasitical middlemen from crude oil sales last-minute prospecting licences farmed out to cronies of General Abdulsalami Abubakar's government and a billion dollars' worth of miscellaneous contracts awarded in the last five months of military rule (AC Vol 40 No 12)...
Three months on the economic policy of General Olusegun Obasanjo's government remains opaque...
Vol 40 No 16 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Guests included Kabbah and his Finance Minister James Jonah; Nigeria's new President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Director of Washington's West Africa department Ambassador Howard Jater...
Zambia's President Frederick Chiluba flew off to Congo-K to persuade the quarrelling rebel factions to sign the 10 July Lusaka peace accord; Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo flew to meet embattled President José Eduardo dos Santos in Luanda; United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan flew back to New York (via Slovakia) with proposals for UN help in peacemaking in Congo Sierra Leone and Eritrea-Ethiopia...
An ATT campaign would flatten any competition: he is in a similar position (via a different route) to the recently elected Nigerian head of state Olusegun Obasanjo whom he knows well (along with US ex-President Jimmy Carter)...
Lissouba met President Olusegun Obasanjo in London last year and believes Abuja's new stand against military governments might help him...
Government business took off at a frenetic pace after the 29 May inauguration of President Olusegun Obasanjo...
On 29 May more than 30 heads of state ex-heads of state and international dignitaries - including President Nelson Mandela Britain's Prince Charles and Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt - journeyed to Abuja to see military leader General Abdulsalami Abubakar hand power to retired General and now civilian President Olusegun Obasanjo...