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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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Pop goes the third term balloon

The attempt to change the constitution allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to stand for a third term in 2007 has failed defeated in a Senate vote...


Business backers

A decade later it backed the re-election ticket of President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar because of 'the need for continuity' according to Nigerian Stock Exchange Director General Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke...


Monster party

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...


Veteran rebels

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)...


Taylor's trajectories

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...


Third term unlucky

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...


The hostile host

Jammeh had to apologise and rescind the ferry charges after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo flew to Banjul to urge him to settle with Wade...


Twilight of the chameleon

So he shares a language with Nigeria's Yoruba President Olusegun Obasanjo and although from a Muslim family is like Obasanjo an evangelical Christian...


Showdown in the Delta

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...


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