Vol 39 No 22 |
- UNITED NATIONS
Annan is set to appoint a high-profile special envoy to Congo - someone of the stature of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo or Nyerere (both of whom are otherwise engaged currently)...
Former military leader General Olusegun Obasanjo's bid for the Presidency in February's elections has attracted a strange coalition of supporters: genuine patriots fearful of the breakup of the country rank opportunists who want to buy into the new order and protect their ill gotten gains his many Western admirers and the merely nostalgic who remember that Nigeria under Obasanjo's first term (1976-79) was richer more united and taken more seriously in the world...
Olusegun Obasanjo is openly touted as one of the few Nigerians who could run a ‘coup-proof' and ‘secession-proof' government...
Olusegun Obasanjo and Brigadier Gen...
Olusegun Obasanjo or Dr...
The last official trip by a US President was Jimmy Carter's stopover in Liberia and Nigeria in March 1978; in Lagos Carter was hosted by then Head of State General Olusegun Obasanjo who is reported to be critically ill having been gaoled by Gen...
Vol 39 No 5 |
- WEST AFRICA
Abacha's domestic political platform and to boost Nigeria's African standing which has waned since the Murtala Mohammed-Olusegun Obasanjo governments substantially backed liberation movements in Angola Mozambique Namibia and South Africa in the 1970s...
Olusegun Obasanjo Yar'Adua and human rights activist Beko Ransome-Kuti...