Vol 50 No 24 |
- COMMONWEALTH
Despite the best efforts of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki the Commonwealth suspended Zimbabwe and Mugabe took his country out after the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Abuja in 2003...
To balance the ticket Atiku a Muslim from the North recruited Olusegun Obasanjo a Christian from the South to run as presidential candidate...
Vol 50 No 23 |
- NIGERIA
- CHINA
China has seen the reversal of most of the oil-for-infrastructure deals it signed in the last days of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...
This is not surprising as MEND and its affiliates grew out of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force of Mujahid Dokubo-Asari who had cut his own amnesty deal with President Olusegun Obasanjo...
The LRA says it wants a fresh mediator; Spokesman David Matasanga said Kony would prefer Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo...
The list includes more than 200 individuals including two of Nigeria's much-fêted dollar billionaires - Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola - as well as high profile companies such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo's pet business project Transcorp Ltd...
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo a fundamentalist Christian paid little attention until a campaign for full Sharia (Islamic law) including huddud punishments such as amputations and stoning started up in several northern states...
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo would occasionally pull rank on Jammeh whom he regarded as a very junior officer he mediated in judiciary problems in 2005 but President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has shown little interest...
His protector President Olusegun Obasanjo was in Washington DC at the time...