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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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A victory for the generals

The incumbent and former military head of state Olusegun Obasanjo is a proselytising evangelical Christian from the south-west...


Fradique's new front

Fradique reckons President Olusegun Obasanjo's government has paid less than half of Nigeria's own estimate of the due compensation...


From crisis to crisis

President Olusegun Obasanjo secured nomination on 5 January as the People's Democratic Party candidate for the April presidential election...


Election year

The two main candidates for the PDP nomination will be the incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo 65 whose running-mate will be the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Vice-President from the Second Republic Alex Ekwueme 70 a respected Igbo elder statesman...


Ugly contest

Ahmed Makarfi Governor of Kaduna State and ally of President Olusegun Obasanjo had Secretary General of the Sharia Council Nafiu Baba Ahmed briefly arrested after police linked him to the crisis...


Peering in

After a meeting of the NePAD Implementation Committee in Nigeria this week President Olusegun Obasanjo claimed 12 countries had signed up to the Declaration on Peer Review Mechanism although five including Botswana wanted more time...


Trouble in oil

The Nigeria-São Tomé e Príncipe Joint Development Zone (JDZ) a symbol of regional cooperation that Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Fradique de Menezes launched only in January looks close to collapse...


Scrambling for Africa

In Nigeria on the recommendation of President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation advisor Eskom has a contract with the federal government worth $164...


Impeachment

Two weeks ago President Olusegun Obasanjo considered threats by the House of Representatives to impeach him if he didn't resign as 'a joke carried too far' by a group of politicians primarily interested in lining their pockets...


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