Although President Olusegun Obasanjo didn't endorse that move on 20 September he announced a ban on new government contracts for a subsidiary Halliburton Energy Services accusing it of 'failing to cooperate' in resolving the disappearance of radioactive materials from Nigeria in 2002...
Asari claims that President Olusegun Obasanjo's PDP backs the Ateke Tom group and that PDP Governor Odili directly supports Tom...
That contract is now at risk industry sources told Africa Confidential although the final decision on whether to cancel the latest Halliburton contract rests with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo...
They have therefore asked Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to help bring about 'reconciliation' between Mwanawasa and Chiluba...
Attempting to win Khartoum around to the principle of an African monitoring force Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has suggested its primary role would be to monitor the cantonment of the rebel forces and the Janjaweed militias (apparently without putting pressure on the government's formal military forces)...
Nigeria's ADB Vice-President Bisi Ogunjobi has already declared that his bid for the Bank presidency is backed by President Olusegun Obasanjo's government which will host its annual meeting in Abuja next May...
On 1 August in Khartoum Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo played down talk of an African peacekeeping force for Darfur saying that 'for now' the African force protecting AU monitors would be just 300 strong...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's government refused sparking the violence and an Ijaw boycott of state gubernatorial and national elections in April 2003...
Vol 45 No 15 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
This public humiliation of Gbagbo in front of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo earned Bongo attacks in the rabidly nationalist Ivorian press and he threatened to pull out of Accra at which point the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles threatened not to go either...
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says he would hand him over if asked but the head of the transitional government Charles Gyude Bryant says that Taylor's presence in Nigeria is part of the peace process...