Although President and retired General Olusegun Obasanjo's economic and diplomatic judgements are frequently under fire few question his knowledge of and standing within the military...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's security structure works as follows: 1...
Vol 41 No 19 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Seven heads of state including the heavyweights Thabo Mbeki Olusegun Obasanjo Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Abdoulaye Wade arrived in Abidjan on 24 September while the affair of the sacked generals was at its height...
Eventually President Olusegun Obasanjo had to intervene personally...
President Olusegun Obasanjo ended his first year in office on 29 May much as he arrived struggling on several fronts against outbreaks of ethnic regional and religious violence that have their roots in the deepening impoverishment of Nigeria's 118 million people...
He has renewed his friendship with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo for whom he petitioned while he was in gaol...
Much was hoped for from President Olusegun Obasanjo's new government: the election albeit a disputed one was going to stabilise Nigeria giving a reform-minded government the mandate to quickly liberalise the economy clean up corruption reach an accord with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and negotiate a substantial reduction in the US$34 billion foreign debt...
The determination of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government to probe the financial management of its military predecessors is to be tested by soccer star John Fashanu...
Last December Museveni and Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed a peace agreement in Nairobi under the auspices of ex-United States President Jimmy Carter (and behind-the-scenes pressure from Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's envoy ex-President Ibrahim Babangida)...
The response by President Olusegun Obasanjo a born-again Christian and Vice-President Abubakar a Sunni Muslim opposed to the Sharia plans has been inadequate...