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...
Diplomats thought he looked better than for some time when he met Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on 3 April in Abuja to settle the maritime boundary between the two countries...
Hamidu's helping hand Hamidu claims to have introduced Kufuor to Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo who helped the NPP to its electoral victory; he had hoped to be Kufuor's running mate in the 2000 elections when his rivals were Wayo Seini the Andani family spokesman and Alieu Mahama now Vice-President...
Mugabe's position weakened after Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo backed the suspension of Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth on 19 March...
Brokered by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo the deal proposes: a coalition government with ministers from all parties and some non-partisan figures; a review of recent oppressive laws on public assembly and the media; full implementation of the Abuja agreement stipulating orderly land redistribution to be financed by Britain and international financial institutions...
Vol 43 No 6 |
- OIL AND GAS
There is less pressure to reform the oil business in Nigeria especially since President Olusegun Obasanjo's government suspended cooperation with the IMF (AC Vol 43 No 5)...
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has led a diplomatic push to clarify maritime borders in the Gulf of Guinea...
President Olusegun Obasanjo wants a stronger currency: it wins votes...
Vol 43 No 4 |
- AFRICA
- THE WEST
France's President Jacques Chirac hosted 13 African leaders in Paris on 8 February; British Prime Minister Tony Blair met Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo John Kufuor Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Abdoulaye Wade on his 6-10 February whirl through Nigeria Ghana Sierra Leone and Senegal; United States President George W...
The NePAD implementation committee headed by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika are designing an African contract on codes and standards of both economic and political governance legal guarantees on property free and fair elections...
If the deal collapses it will cripple President Olusegun Obasanjo's economic programme...