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After Odinga declared his interest in the job as a press conference at his Nairobi home on 16 February in the presence of his friend Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo Kenya's political establishment has moved quickly to support him...
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TINUBU'S ECONOMIC TOP TABLE Following in the tradition of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari Bola Ahmed Tinubu is both Commander-in-Chief and Oil and Gas Minister...
Vol 64 No 24 |
- AFRICA
- FINANCE
It was the threat of sanctions by the FATF that persuaded President Olusegun Obasanjo's government two decades ago to set up the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which has become far more politicised under subsequent presidencies...
In the best case he observes the two former Lagos State commissioners can work together as effectively as former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former CBN governor Charles Soludo did during much of Olusegun Obasanjo's second (2004-07) presidential term...
He ran the privatisation of state assets under President Olusegun Obasanjo and then took on the federal capital ruthlessly demolishing structures listed as 'illegal'...
Jaal Maarroo insists the United States must be involved in this process while AU Horn of Africa envoy Olusegun Obasanjo may also play a role...
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On 27 February former President Olusegun Obasanjo a keen supporter of Peter Obi said that INEC should not accept any results without digital verification as this would contravene electoral law...
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His allies say that as Vice-President he greatly assisted President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007) to achieve several debt cancellations as part of a process that reduced Nigeria's debt stock by around US$30 billion...
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WarningsThe AU's chief negotiator former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo – who commanded troops in his own country's war against Biafran secessionists over 50 years ago – warned that the agreement was 'not the end of this process but the beginning of it...
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The African Union whose Horn of Africa envoy ex-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo supported by South Africa's former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta is supposed to mediate the talks but has not released details about plans for the talks...
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