President Olusegun Obasanjo visited South Korea in July 2000; President Roh Moo-hyun visited Abuja in March 2006 then Obasanjo visited Seoul again in November 2006...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 4 |
- LIBERIA
- CHINA
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...
' 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...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
- CHINA
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...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 |
- NIGERIA
- CHINA
China raised its profile in the final years of Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency (1999-2007)...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 |
- SOUTH KOREA
- 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...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
- CHINA
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...
Vol 49 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
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...
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...