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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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A more perfect union

Despite his links to President Olusegun Obasanjo's Transcorp chaebol Kkaf Chairman Kola Adun has been fighting a losing battle since January 2006 against the Sirleaf Johnson government's determination to reopen the bidding for the Bong Mines...


What's yours is mine and...

' Several major contracts awarded under Olusegun Obasanjo's government (1999-2007) in oil refining power steel and transport have been reviewed criticised and sometimes revoked since Umaru Musa Yar'Adua became President in May 2007...


Nkunda's anti-Beijing card

Nkunda and his Rebel Conseil National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) have demanded the cancellation of all China contracts signed by Kinshasa as one of their key conditions in talks with the United Nations Special Representative and mediator former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Governor of North Kivu Julien Paluku...


The honeymoon is over

China raised its profile in the final years of Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency (1999-2007)...


Seoul search in Africa

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government is reviewing the award to Korean National Oil Company of Oil Prospecting Licences 321 and 323 in a bid to wipe out controversial contracts signed under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo...


Washington wants the details

The complaint about the Chinese contracts was on the list of eight issues Nkunda wanted to discuss with the government that was given to United Nations Special Envoy former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo In mid-October the subject was broached again but unresolved in Washington with the Congolese authorities...


Nkunda wants the whole deal

On 16 November his Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) led by Serge Kambasu Ngeze demanded in the presence of the UN’s Special Representative in Congo Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo that Kinshasa stop supporting rival militias such as the Patriotes Résistants Congolais (Pareco) who are Hutu or Nandé...


Boutef, the Life President

It is also an indication of the state of political reform in Africa that it was President Bouteflika who together with Nigeria’s then President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa’s then President Thabo Mbeki led the moves to found the African Union in 2002 with its commitment to accountable government measured by a system of peer review...


A message from our sponsors

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s team of technocrats – including current World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bank Vice-President Obiageli Ezekwesili – are out of the running and Yar’Adua’s pool of talent is under pressure politically and physically...


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