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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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Northern Lights

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...


Shariacracy on trial

Privatisation and liberalisation under President Olusegun Obasanjo - a southerner elected with northern votes - reinforce that dominance...


Reality checks

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...


Politics dead or alive

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...


Murder, pillage, scandal

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...


Who's who in the military plots

Abdulsalami Abubakar (Niger) Head of State after Abacha's death; handed over to elected President Olusegun Obasanjo on 29 May 1999...


Gadaffi's big tent

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...


Conditionally yours

Gbagbo had successively lobbied a number of Anglophone leaders including Ghana's John Kuffuor and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo...


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