Dele Cole a former advisor to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and founding member of the People's Democratic Party recently called for 'private security operatives to guard the oil from extraction to export' with the companies being offered a fixed percentage of the oil they are able to rescue from thieves...
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's appointment of new service chiefs and a new Chief of Defence Staff on 20 August will further reduce the political power of former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Before the 2007 elections High Court judges made a series of judgements against the interests of then President Olusegun Obasanjo and in favour of his sacked Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
Vol 49 No 13 |
- CAMEROON
- NIGERIA
A meeting between Biya and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo brokered by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan started the handover of parts of the Peninsula to Cameroon in 2006...
Three days later his government announced an audit of the oil block licensing round managed by President Olusegun Obasanjo's government in 2007...
An array of northern interests and supporters of Yar’Adua’s predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo pin their hopes on an appeal to the Supreme Court by the losers of the 2007 presidential election...
The humiliation of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is forging ahead less than a year after he left office...
If nothing else President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has proved wrong those critics who claimed he would be a mere puppet of his predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo...
Diplomats saw Yar'Adua in poor health and beholden to his predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo...
Plots and returns Supporters of President Yar'Adua typically from his native Katsina in the far north remain concerned about speculation of plots by a faction loyal to Yar'Adua's predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007) to influence the legal case...