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...
Press reports on the audit followed soon after a letter from Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to Australian Prime Minister John Howard proposing that Commonwealth sanctions should not be renewed because human rights abuses were declining and land reform was working better...
The most serious is whether the 18 April presidential election can be held within President Olusegun Obasanjo's mandate...
This is the arena in which struggles between the periphery and centre are played out especially in the ruling PDP where the state governors looked set to rebel against President Olusegun Obasanjo at the PDP convention in January and vote instead for Alex Ekwueme as their flagbearer...
The incumbent and former military head of state Olusegun Obasanjo is a proselytising evangelical Christian from the south-west...
Fradique reckons President Olusegun Obasanjo's government has paid less than half of Nigeria's own estimate of the due compensation...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
President Olusegun Obasanjo secured nomination on 5 January as the People's Democratic Party candidate for the April presidential election...
The two main candidates for the PDP nomination will be the incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo 65 whose running-mate will be the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Vice-President from the Second Republic Alex Ekwueme 70 a respected Igbo elder statesman...
Ahmed Makarfi Governor of Kaduna State and ally of President Olusegun Obasanjo had Secretary General of the Sharia Council Nafiu Baba Ahmed briefly arrested after police linked him to the crisis...
Vol 43 No 22 |
- AFRICAN UNION
After a meeting of the NePAD Implementation Committee in Nigeria this week President Olusegun Obasanjo claimed 12 countries had signed up to the Declaration on Peer Review Mechanism although five including Botswana wanted more time...