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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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Darfur's turning point

Attempting to win Khartoum around to the principle of an African monitoring force Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has suggested its primary role would be to monitor the cantonment of the rebel forces and the Janjaweed militias (apparently without putting pressure on the government's formal military forces)...


Accra ahead

Nigeria's ADB Vice-President Bisi Ogunjobi has already declared that his bid for the Bank presidency is backed by President Olusegun Obasanjo's government which will host its annual meeting in Abuja next May...


Deaths mount, time passes

On 1 August in Khartoum Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo played down talk of an African peacekeeping force for Darfur saying that 'for now' the African force protecting AU monitors would be just 300 strong...


Delta damages

President Olusegun Obasanjo's government refused sparking the violence and an Ijaw boycott of state gubernatorial and national elections in April 2003...


Chirac's man

This public humiliation of Gbagbo in front of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo earned Bongo attacks in the rabidly nationalist Ivorian press and he threatened to pull out of Accra at which point the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles threatened not to go either...


No peace without justice

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says he would hand him over if asked but the head of the transitional government Charles Gyude Bryant says that Taylor's presence in Nigeria is part of the peace process...


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No preference

Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos did not attend; Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was busy in Abuja trying to reconcile Congo-Kinshasa President Joseph Kabila and Rwandan President Paul Kagame...


Gas leak

from Sherwood Petroleum in February 1999 just prior to the national elections that returned Nigeria to civil rule under President Olusegun Obasanjo...


No turning back

President Olusegun Obasanjo's suspension of Plateau State Governor Joshua Ariye and the State House of Assembly points to a growing constitutional crisis...


Rough diamonds

Odinga worked closely with Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo on his Leadership Forum project and the two men have stayed close something that might help Teixeira's Nigerian ambitions...


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