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)...
Since South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka met Mugabe and Vice-President Joyce Mujuru on 12 July there have been hints that Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo will use economic leverage to force a political settlement...
Basking in the glory of securing a two-thirds cut in Nigeria's US$34 billion foreign debt and the more ambiguous achievement of being British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new best friend in Africa President Olusegun Obasanjo is being forced to take a reality check back home...
Wabara was in charge of Nigeria's second chamber last year when attempts to impeach President Olusegun Obasanjo were thwarted...
Hilary Benn Britain's Secretary for International Development passed through Abuja to see President Olusegun Obasanjo on G8 summit business during the ADB meeting then jetted off to open a project in the northern city of Kano as the ADB voting was starting...
Then the world oil price topped $50 a barrel and President Olusegun Obasanjo flew Asari to Abuja for emergency talks...
Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo gave Taylor refuge in Calabar Nigeria on condition that he didn't engage in politics...
Vol 46 No 10 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Abuja's diplomats arguing that its oil and gas resources together with the threat of Islamist infiltration across the Sahel qualify Nigeria as a strategic state are winning support as President Olusegun Obasanjo pursues an increasingly high-profile but still selective campaign against corruption...
Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo's plan for a unity government was a non-starter...
President Olusegun Obasanjo hosted Faure Gnassingbé and opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio in Abuja on 25 April to encourage their commitment to the creation of a government of national unity...