As he celebrated his 60th birthday in Saudi Arabia on 17 August many northern Nigerians were asking him to run for the national leadership to reverse what they see as the region's marginalisation under the southern President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Privatisation and liberalisation under President Olusegun Obasanjo - a southerner elected with northern votes - reinforce that dominance...
In Nigeria where such a commission has provided fascinating testimony but not much truth or reconciliation President Olusegun Obasanjo's government agreed to go back to Nigeria's first military government in 1966...
President Olusegun Obasanjo is cautious about all this...
The PDP's main parliamentary challenger in 1999 was the APP an odd amalgam of Abacha-era politicians and radical opponents of President Olusegun Obasanjo...
It was set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo's government to investigate human rights abuses by past military regimes under the chairmanship of a former Supreme Court Judge Justice Chukwudifu Oputa and is inevitably known as the Oputa Panel...
Abdulsalami Abubakar (Niger) Head of State after Abacha's death; handed over to elected President Olusegun Obasanjo on 29 May 1999...
Presidents Thabo Mbeki Olusegun Obasanjo and Abdelaziz Bouteflika will present the plan to the G8 summit in Genoa Italy on 21-22 July...
Two years ago in Algeria when Gadaffi attended his first OAU summit for 15 years Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo told him he had evidence that Libyan money was financing at least ten insurrections in Africa...
Vol 42 No 14 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Gbagbo had successively lobbied a number of Anglophone leaders including Ghana's John Kuffuor and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo...