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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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Trouble in oil

The Nigeria-São Tomé e Príncipe Joint Development Zone (JDZ) a symbol of regional cooperation that Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Fradique de Menezes launched only in January looks close to collapse...


Scrambling for Africa

In Nigeria on the recommendation of President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation advisor Eskom has a contract with the federal government worth $164...


Impeachment

Two weeks ago President Olusegun Obasanjo considered threats by the House of Representatives to impeach him if he didn't resign as 'a joke carried too far' by a group of politicians primarily interested in lining their pockets...


Peace talk, but is it real?

In April Hitimana persuaded Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo to pledge a loan of US$200 million for energy water and rural development and to repay some $40 mn...


Home made, world class

Under pressure from the new President of the Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria Chris Ugwuh (an eastern self-made millionaire whose factories bottle spring water and manufacture toothbrushes) President Olusegun Obasanjo's government has started trying to stimulate smaller-scale industries...


Eastward Ho!

Since the dream of an independent Biafra was crushed in 1970 many Igbo have felt marginalised and say that President Olusegun Obasanjo a south-western Yoruba for whom their region voted in 1999 has kept them on the fringe...


Beware false profits

They reject a national government headed by a Christian especially a proselytising Christian like President Olusegun Obasanjo who delayed the announcement of his presidential ambitions for 2003 while waiting for a message from God...


Harvesting souls

Among the most influential are: Winners Chapel-Faith Tabernacle: Bishop David Oyedepo's chapel near President Olusegun Obasanjo's farm at Otta outside Lagos seats over 50 000 worshippers equivalent to a medium-sized football stadium...


Part of the union

The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...


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