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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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Breaching the peace

Now tipped as a possible Foreign Minister or another senior post in the new Olusegun Obasanjo government Adeniji may be more inclined to leave Freetown...


Leaky and unlucky

Revelations by Royal Dutch/Shell that thefts of crude oil from its operations in the Niger Delta could amount to as much as 100 000 barrels a day have been followed by threats of a tougher security response both from the Nigerian and the United States government which increased military aid to President Olusegun Obasanjo's government after 1999...


What's next?

That is the nightmare that South African President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo want to avoid...


Who's next?

Thabo Mbeki of South Africa Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Bakili Muluzi of Malawi (who was late) failed to persuade Mugabe to say whether or when he intends to step down...


The naira republic wins again

What party barons wanted was an overwhelming victory for their presidential candidate Olusegun Obasanjo and most of their 36 state governorship candidates in the 19 April elections...


Landslide in the Delta

When a senior member of the Commonwealth observer team was told that victorious Rivers Governor Odili was a contender for the presidency after Olusegun Obasanjo he replied: `God help Nigeria...


Generals on the hill

Even if President Olusegun Obasanjo hasn't actively protected Abubakar and Babangida from demands for their investigation and prosecution on charges of misuse of public funds he's done nothing to advance such claims...


The big issues

President Olusegun Obasanjo was elected in 1999 partly in the belief he would tame the military...


North-south divide

Nigeria's elections were pulled back from the brink of collapse on 16 April when leading opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari insisted he would not join a boycott of presidential polls due on 19 April despite claims of massive fraud by supporters of incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo in legislative elections on 12 April...


Catching the flak

Then on 17 March Mbeki along with Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade wrote to the Security Council on behalf of the AU arguing that the threat of force had persuaded Saddam's regime to cooperate with the UN arms inspectors making unnecessary a new military attack on Iraq...


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