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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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Saharan desserts

President Olusegun Obasanjo's commitment to fighting oil sector corruption (AC Vol 44 No 18) is being severely tested on the one hand by a Federal Government probe of deals by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and on the other by the recent suspension or cancellation of nearly all crude and product sales contracts...


Delta force

Governor James Ibori a member of President Olusegun Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party moved to Warri from the state capital Asaba in early July to boost attempts to restore peace...


Mob rule

The kidnapping of Anambra State Governor Chris Ngige and the subsequent impunity of those involved have dealt another blow to the credibility of President Olusegun Obasanjo's post-election government (AC Vol 44 No 13)...


Fighting on

When Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo visited Conakry on 13 July he had to be met at the airport by the Minister for Territorial Administration and Decentralisation Moussa Solano...


Meltdown in Monrovia

Bush's 26 June address to the Corporate Council on Africa's US-Africa Business Summit in the run-up to the trip was very idealistic and not the practical speech that the business audience expected so he may be receptive to grand ideas and principles of the sort that a leader such as Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo can undoubtedly conjure up...


Atlantic crossing

Promising that his second-term government would be based on merit not party allegiance President Olusegun Obasanjo said the focus would be on economic growth and job creation as details about his cabinet trickle out...


Security blanket

A new security team is emerging to take on rising crime threats of terrorism and political unrest in the Niger Delta as President Olusegun Obasanjo consolidates power...


Breaching the peace

Now tipped as a possible Foreign Minister or another senior post in the new Olusegun Obasanjo government Adeniji may be more inclined to leave Freetown...


Leaky and unlucky

Revelations by Royal Dutch/Shell that thefts of crude oil from its operations in the Niger Delta could amount to as much as 100 000 barrels a day have been followed by threats of a tougher security response both from the Nigerian and the United States government which increased military aid to President Olusegun Obasanjo's government after 1999...


What's next?

That is the nightmare that South African President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo want to avoid...


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