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General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

Date of Birth: 5 March 1937
Place of Birth: Ogun State


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PF set for victory

In November Africa Confidential reported that major regional business interests including South Africa's Oppenheimer family the Ichikowitz brothers South African arms manufacturers and traders and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo were trying to get the opposition to unite behind a single candidate to defeat the 'anti-business' PF (AC Vol 55 No 23 Foreign boost for opposition)...


The PF picks two candidates

He took part in efforts to form a united front to oppose the PF which were brokered by Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Brenthurst Foundation a think-tank founded by South Africa's Oppenheimer mining dynasty...


After the bombing, Jonathan declares

Yet political veterans such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo have warned that in the current environment a party's candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency cannot be from the same faith group...

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Foreign boost for opposition

Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been chairing meetings for the group which includes Ivor Ichikowitz the Chairman of Paramount Group which specialises in arms and aerospace contracts in Africa...


Follow the money

to a former senior law officer in the government of General Olusegun Obasanjo...


Clash of the Titans

South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo are working behind the scenes to try to reconcile Presidents Jacob Zuma and Goodluck Jonathan Africa Confidential understands...


How terror twists the vote

Davis who has worked for several years with Royal Dutch Shell and with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Britain's Coventry Cathedral on a peace initiative in the Niger Delta knows Nigeria well...

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Calling time on the killing

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo nodded sympathetically as Lieutenant General Salva addressed the Tana Security Forum last week in Bahir Dar Ethiopia...

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