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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. Here, considerations of effectiveness will trump imperatives of regional balance or political preference. Obasanjo's two key northern security chiefs former Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau as National Security Advisor and former head of the National Security Organisation Gen. Abdullahi Mohammed as Chief of Staff are likely to stay put for now....

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Olusegun Obasanjo, Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, Abdullahi Mohammed, Saliu Ibrahim, Yakubu Danjuma, Daisy Danjuma, Ibrahim Ogohi, Alexander Ogomudia, , Martin Akwai, Sierra Leone, Victor Malu, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Jonah Wuyep, Samuel Afolayan, Gabriel Ajayi, Sani Abacha, Uche Okeke

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