We hear that President Olusegun Obasanjo has told his party ally Rivers State Governor Peter Odili to get a grip on crime and dissent or suffer the political consequences...
' Two months earlier the then military ruler Sani Abacha had shown some leniency to a group of alleged coup plotters including the current head of state Olusegun Obasanjo...
Hopes of a ceasefire or even a deal between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have evaporated despite high level attempts at reconciliation (AC Vol 46 No 18)...
Vol 46 No 20 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as African Union Chairman had asked South African President Thabo Mbeki to take on the mediation hoping to benefit from South Africa's moral authority and geographical distance...
Vol 46 No 19 |
- UNITED NATIONS
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was more inclined to negotiate on the basis of the G-4 proposal (with or without veto) in the belief that the principle of two permanent UNSC seats for Africa would then have been established for any future negotiation...
Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is urged to hand him over but on 17 September at the United Nations General Assembly Obasanjo offered no prospect of that but he said Taylor should be kept away from Liberia during the election period...
The diplomacy of the Review Panel chaired by Senegal's Marie-Angélique Savane will be stretched when it assesses Nigeria whose President Olusegun Obasanjo chairs the AU...
Locked in a deadly embrace President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar look like two men struggling on a cliff edge as they try to hurl each other into the ravine below...
If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar is fired by the presidential race in 2007 what will happen if neither of them runs...
Nigeria's biggest ever oil licensing round this weekend will test President Olusegun Obasanjo's bold promises to fight corruption which helped to secure a massive write-off on the country's US$35 billion foreign debt in July (AC Vol 46 Nos 14 & 15)...