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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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Missing airline

President Olusegun Obasanjo's government isn't rushing into action...


Marching to Masvingo

Concern for his international standing has led Mugabe to pressure Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to lift the ban on him attending the Commonwealth summit in Abuja Nigeria on 5-8 December (see Pointer)...


Don't RSVP

President Olusegun Obasanjo doesn't have much choice: it would be unprecedented and damaging for a summit host to back the undermining of a serving secretary general...


Politics get crude

Ghana's allocation from NNPC is widely regarded as a political favour from President Olusegun Obasanjo to his friend Kufuor (AC Vol 44 No 14); military regimes in Nigeria long used allocations of crude to fellow African states as a form of oil-fired diplomacy...


Gaius says goodbye

President Olusegun Obasanjo carpeted Obaseki over the award of new lifting contracts in Nigeria under which it was claimed NNPC gave Sahara preferential treatment...


Taylor's shadow

Taylor's current host President Olusegun Obasanjo warned him to keep out of Liberian politics; security officers had reported that Taylor was giving orders from Nigeria to militiamen within Liberia...


Roll out the barrel

The government's latest bid to liberalise (and inevitably raise) fuel prices has united traders trades unionists and state governors against President Olusegun Obasanjo's new economic team...


No end to the affair

Allegations by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nassir el-Rufai that two senators had solicited a 54 million naira (US$420 000) bribe for approving his appointment are set to cause more trouble for President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...


So, farewell then

Rilwanu Lukman's sudden resignation on 7 October as Special Advisor on Oil to Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is likely to trigger other high-level departures as the crisis in the oil sector mounts...


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