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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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Meltdown in Monrovia

Bush's 26 June address to the Corporate Council on Africa's US-Africa Business Summit in the run-up to the trip was very idealistic and not the practical speech that the business audience expected so he may be receptive to grand ideas and principles of the sort that a leader such as Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo can undoubtedly conjure up...


Atlantic crossing

Promising that his second-term government would be based on merit not party allegiance President Olusegun Obasanjo said the focus would be on economic growth and job creation as details about his cabinet trickle out...


Security blanket

A new security team is emerging to take on rising crime threats of terrorism and political unrest in the Niger Delta as President Olusegun Obasanjo consolidates power...


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...


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