Much was hoped for from President Olusegun Obasanjo's new government: the election albeit a disputed one was going to stabilise Nigeria giving a reform-minded government the mandate to quickly liberalise the economy clean up corruption reach an accord with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and negotiate a substantial reduction in the US$34 billion foreign debt...
The determination of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government to probe the financial management of its military predecessors is to be tested by soccer star John Fashanu...
Last December Museveni and Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed a peace agreement in Nairobi under the auspices of ex-United States President Jimmy Carter (and behind-the-scenes pressure from Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's envoy ex-President Ibrahim Babangida)...
The response by President Olusegun Obasanjo a born-again Christian and Vice-President Abubakar a Sunni Muslim opposed to the Sharia plans has been inadequate...
Close to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo TI has helped his ministers draft anti-corruption laws at federal and state level...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
The latest scares in Nigeria about a new French-built military base in Cameroon are overdone but Biya and President Olusegun Obasanjo don't get on well...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The upturn in oil and gas prices Nigeria's huge reserves and President Olusegun Obasanjo's reformist policies are stirring new interest among traders and investors who have kept away from Africa's biggest market for the past two decades...
Vol 40 No 23 |
- COMMONWEALTH
An alternative African-Asian bloc emerged when both India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo called for maximum measures against Pakistan short of immediate expulsion...
Officials in President Olusegun Obasanjo's government notably National Security Advisor Gen...
When President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo met his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo on 4 December officials were shocked at his obvious decline...