Abdulsalami Abubakar (Niger) Head of State after Abacha's death; handed over to elected President Olusegun Obasanjo on 29 May 1999...
He worked on public sector reform under Obasanjo's predecessor General Abdulsalami Abubakar and was reluctant to stay in government service...
Abdulsalami Abubakar's transition to civilian rule...
Vol 41 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Friends of former Nigerian head of state and newly appointed UN envoy to Congo-Kinshasa General Abdulsalami Abubakar suggest it was Nigeria's negotiating prowess that helped convince Kabila...
Abdulsalami Abubakar; and for 244 Brigadier Anthony Ukpo head of Abubakar's Policy Committee...
Vol 41 No 10 |
- UNITED STATES
Abdulsalami Abubakar in September 1998...
Nigeria's General Abdulsalami Abubakar came to power after a 'cardiac coup' against Gen...
The ending of the scandalous domestic fuel shortages has helped the government's credibility even if much of the groundwork for improving distribution was laid under General Abdulsalami Abubakar's military government...
In just three months President Olusegun Obasanjo's whisk broom of reform has swept away the notoriously parasitical middlemen from crude oil sales last-minute prospecting licences farmed out to cronies of General Abdulsalami Abubakar's government and a billion dollars' worth of miscellaneous contracts awarded in the last five months of military rule (AC Vol 40 No 12)...
On 29 May more than 30 heads of state ex-heads of state and international dignitaries - including President Nelson Mandela Britain's Prince Charles and Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt - journeyed to Abuja to see military leader General Abdulsalami Abubakar hand power to retired General and now civilian President Olusegun Obasanjo...