He is close to President Olusegun Obasanjo and was a confidant of his military predecessor General Sani Abacha for whom he lobbied against sanctions at the Commonwealth Summit in Edinburgh Scotland in 1997...
Amoako who gave a seminar on African economies at Downing Street and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Another round in the battle to liberalise the oil business goes to President Olusegun Obasanjo after the once mighty Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) backed down from its campaign to bring back subsidised domestic fuel prices and called off a national strike due to start on 21 January...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's rival in last year's contest retired general and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85) was in London last week for medical treatment and to drum up international support for his continued rejection of last year's elections...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Succession battles will dominate Nigerian politics and distract government from its promised reforms though President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term is barely nine months old...
Very to judge by President Olusegun Obasanjo's new securocracy...
SA President Thabo Mbeki left Abuja frustrated with both Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and the 'old' (i...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's government isn't rushing into action...
Concern for his international standing has led Mugabe to pressure Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to lift the ban on him attending the Commonwealth summit in Abuja Nigeria on 5-8 December (see Pointer)...
Vol 44 No 23 |
- COMMONWEALTH
President Olusegun Obasanjo doesn't have much choice: it would be unprecedented and damaging for a summit host to back the undermining of a serving secretary general...