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Nigeria

General Abdulsalami Abubakar

Date of Birth: 13 June 1942
Place of Birth: Minna, Niger State


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New team, old players

Abdulsalami Abubakar's government last year to rationalise the host of competing security organisations set up by Abacha...


Soldier go, soldier come

Like the current head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar Obasanjo may want to pressure the West into providing more financial and logistical support for Nigerian peacekeeping operations as well as press President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah into serious negotiations with the Revolutionary United Front...


Abubakar's offer

A rare visit to Malabo by a Nigerian head of state allowed General Abdulsalami Abubakar to congratulate President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on joining the ranks of Gulf of Guinea oil producers and to discuss the thorny issue of their maritime boundaries...


Muddy waters

Abdulsalami Abubakar to award 11 oil exploration blocks and eight oil lifting contracts to a group of well-connected military officers and local businessmen...


The General's election

Abdulsalami Abubakar and even northern progressives such as the former Kaduna Governor Balarabe Musa and Abubakar Rimi from Kano...


It's the economy

Yet the enlightened within General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s government and those abroad who care fear that Nigeria faces economic collapse which could make the trumpeted return to civil rule a brief one...


Who's counting?

In his 4 January budget Nigeria's head of state General Abdulsalami Abubakar hoped the ailing economy would grow by at least 3 per cent this year despite plunging world oil prices...


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