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Nigeria

General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

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


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Brave new century

Close to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo TI has helped his ministers draft anti-corruption laws at federal and state level...


More rumblings

The latest scares in Nigeria about a new French-built military base in Cameroon are overdone but Biya and President Olusegun Obasanjo don't get on well...


Reverse roles

The upturn in oil and gas prices Nigeria's huge reserves and President Olusegun Obasanjo's reformist policies are stirring new interest among traders and investors who have kept away from Africa's biggest market for the past two decades...


Postponing the new order

An alternative African-Asian bloc emerged when both India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo called for maximum measures against Pakistan short of immediate expulsion...


Obiang's heritage

When President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo met his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo on 4 December officials were shocked at his obvious decline...


The blue helmets return

The 6 000 blue-helmeted UN troops are heading for Sierra Leone partly because Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo wants to withdraw its soldiers who have spent the last three years propping up President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah...


Lousy legacies

Street fighting over control of a local market in the old capital Lagos in late November in which over 100 people have died started just as President Olusegun Obasanjo's government was threatening another dissident area (in the poverty-stricken oil-producing states) with martial law...


Cleaning up oil

Recent high-level visitors to Abuja have left apparently convinced that President Olusegun Obasanjo is reversing 20 years of corruption and mismanagement in Nigeria's oil industry the heart of its economy (AC Vol 21 Nos 12 & 19)...


Obasanjo's one hundred days

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)...


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