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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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Down with tariffs

Sentiment is downbeat among French businesses in the Comité des Investisseurs en Afrique and the prospect of a Nigerian economic recovery under President Olusegun Obasanjo may attract French investment away from the zone...


The General's election

General Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria’s first military officer to hand power to an elected government looks set - 20 years later - to become the first officer to win a presidential election...


The man who would be king

The local government elections on 5 December were good news for Nigeria and bad news for the presidential frontrunner and former military leader General Olusegun Obasanjo...


Annan and Africa

Annan is set to appoint a high-profile special envoy to Congo - someone of the stature of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo or Nyerere (both of whom are otherwise engaged currently)...


Obasanjo encore

Former military leader General Olusegun Obasanjo's bid for the Presidency in February's elections has attracted a strange coalition of supporters: genuine patriots fearful of the breakup of the country rank opportunists who want to buy into the new order and protect their ill gotten gains his many Western admirers and the merely nostalgic who remember that Nigeria under Obasanjo's first term (1976-79) was richer more united and taken more seriously in the world...


Parties at work

Olusegun Obasanjo is openly touted as one of the few Nigerians who could run a ‘coup-proof' and ‘secession-proof' government...


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