A 9 February summit decided to send a heavyweight mission of five Presidents - new ECOWAS leader President Mamadou Tandja of Niger Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria) Amadou Toumani Touré (Mali) John Agyekum Kufuor (Ghana) and Mathieu Kérékou (Benin)...
The opposition to Jammeh emerged in the closed-door sessions of the summit and was led by Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo who has a strong aversion to coup-making lieutenants...
President Olusegun Obasanjo is due to step down when his term ends in 2007...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Côte d'Ivoire may have to be dragged to the polls under threat of United Nations sanctions while in Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has a last chance to initiate some real reforms ahead of the elections in 2007...
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria as Chairman of the African Union organised a meeting with Kabila and Kagame who proposed lending Rwandan troops to help Kabila eliminate the Hutu bases; Kabila's Foreign Minister Raymond Ramazani Baya said this amounted to a declaration of war...
Mujahid Dokubo Asari's 'Operation Locust Feast' was supposed to begin on Independence Day 1 October and was effectively a declaration of war on President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and oil companies working in Nigeria (AC Vol 45 Nos 18 & 19)...
Although President Olusegun Obasanjo didn't endorse that move on 20 September he announced a ban on new government contracts for a subsidiary Halliburton Energy Services accusing it of 'failing to cooperate' in resolving the disappearance of radioactive materials from Nigeria in 2002...
Asari claims that President Olusegun Obasanjo's PDP backs the Ateke Tom group and that PDP Governor Odili directly supports Tom...
That contract is now at risk industry sources told Africa Confidential although the final decision on whether to cancel the latest Halliburton contract rests with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo...
They have therefore asked Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to help bring about 'reconciliation' between Mwanawasa and Chiluba...