It is also an indication of the state of political reform in Africa that it was President Bouteflika who together with Nigeria’s then President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa’s then President Thabo Mbeki led the moves to found the African Union in 2002 with its commitment to accountable government measured by a system of peer review...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s team of technocrats – including current World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bank Vice-President Obiageli Ezekwesili – are out of the running and Yar’Adua’s pool of talent is under pressure politically and physically...
Abubakar's old rival ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has extended an olive branch and the two are 'in communication'...
Others see Soludo as a leftover from the era of President Olusegun Obasanjo who cannot be trusted...
The two sides' accusations should be subject to a 'verification mechanism' presided over by Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki with ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania as 'facilitators'...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- NIGERIA
- ECONOMY
Freewheeling capitalism marked President Olusegun Obasanjo’s rule making fortunes for a clique of bankers and industrialists...
Yar’Adua was imposed on Nigerians by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo who also picked Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan a political novice...
A former special assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo Andy Uba has been widely accused of fraud theft and money laundering...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo announced an extensive road-building programme for the Delta...
Dele Cole a former advisor to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and founding member of the People's Democratic Party recently called for 'private security operatives to guard the oil from extraction to export' with the companies being offered a fixed percentage of the oil they are able to rescue from thieves...