Northern Nigeria's political elite flocked to Abuja on 20 April to launch the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) which aims to block a constitutional change allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to stand for a third term...
The top managers of the new Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) are Lawal Kaita (former Kaduna State Governor under President Shehu Shagari); Ghali Na'abba (Speaker of the House of Representatives in President Olusegun Obasanjo's first term); Abubakar Rimi (Kano Governor under Shagari); and Audu Ogbeh ousted as the People's Democratic Party (PDP) national Chairman (AC Vol 46 No 18)...
Escape to Biyaland On the previous Saturday Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo had announced that he would meet a request from Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to transfer Taylor to the Special Court...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's advisors openly demanded the immediate resignation of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar after he publicly opposed the campaign to change the constitution to allow Obasanjo to stand for a third term in the national elections in 2007...
Jammeh had to apologise and rescind the ferry charges after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo flew to Banjul to urge him to settle with Wade...
So he shares a language with Nigeria's Yoruba President Olusegun Obasanjo and although from a Muslim family is like Obasanjo an evangelical Christian...
Next week President Olusegun Obasanjo is due in Washington to see President George Bush following the visit of Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf this week...
Vol 47 No 4 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
On the third day of the riots a meeting between Gbagbo UN representative Pierre Schori Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Banny ended with a statement that the IWG did not disband parliament and has no power to do so...
Olusegun Obasanjo who had been accused of coup plotting against Abacha...
President Olusegun Obasanjo had more or less told Elias Zamani head of the federal government's Joint Task Force to take a back seat in favour of negotiations through Ijaw community leaders...