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...
Vol 43 No 14 |
- AFRICAN 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...
On 3 June he was visited by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo who advised him to say no more in public about the matter and agreed to review their joint exploration agreement...
President Olusegun Obasanjo backs his 'crusade to cleanse the banking system'...
Vol 43 No 12 |
- AFRICA
- THE WEST
NePAD's presidential architects - South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika - want African states to agree first on indices of good and representative governance and second on the structure and membership of an institution to monitor good governance...
He's likely to be close to Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo another recycled general...
Vol 43 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Among Mbeki's closest cabinet allies Zuma 53 is key to Pretoria's Africa diplomacy: mediator in Congo-Kinshasa's war ally of Rwanda staunch opponent of Sudan's Islamist regime working with Southern African Development Community powers such as Angola and Zambia (Mbeki leads on Zimbabwe and has close ties to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo)...
It is a measure of Nigeria's political class that in next year's presidential election the two most likely candidates - Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari - are retired generals and former military leaders...
The army is back at the centre of politics three years after it handed over to an elected government whose head President Olusegun Obasanjo is himself a recycled military leader...
It was relieved by the late arrival of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo head of NePAD's implementing committee with a tub-thumping show-stealing cameo but Senegal was embarrassed by the non-appearance of NePAD's co-architects Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria and Mohamed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt...