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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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Making haste slowly

Private sector oligarchs favoured by former President Olusegun Obasanjo have been pushed on to the defensive pre-emptively and have withdrawn from the much-criticised plan to privatise oil refineries...


The new man in Abuja

Yar'Adua inherits despite wide-ranging criticism of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government the strongest fiscal position and highest foreign reserves in real terms of any government since Independence in 1960...


Russian roulette

BFI Chief Executive Reuben Jaja then launched legal actions in the USA and Nigeria claiming that officials in President Olusegun Obasanjo's government had acted illegally and intervened in Rusal's favour...


A troubled transition

Many around Yar'Adua disown the elections blaming the outrageous fraud and violence on avaricious state governors and ruling party hacks loyal to outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo...


Giant steps

He was a driving force among the team of reformers during President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term: Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Education Minister Obi Ezekwesili anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu and Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise Irene Chigbue...


The dealmaking begins

His closest aides energetically dismiss the idea that outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo will pull the strings...


Yar'Adua prepares for power

Failing a cataclysmic reversal in the next week President Olusegun Obasanjo's governing People's Democratic Party is likely to chalk up another victory at the state and federal elections due on 14 and 21 April respectively...


Under new management

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was busy with his election campaign so Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo suggested a mediator - Nigerian ex-President Ibrahim Babangida with whom Conté shared a common enemy the Liberian warlord Charles Taylor...


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