Yar'Adua inherits despite wide-ranging criticism of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government the strongest fiscal position and highest foreign reserves in real terms of any government since Independence in 1960...
Vol 48 No 12 |
- NIGERIA
- RUSSIA
BFI Chief Executive Reuben Jaja then launched legal actions in the USA and Nigeria claiming that officials in President Olusegun Obasanjo's government had acted illegally and intervened in Rusal's favour...
Many around Yar'Adua disown the elections blaming the outrageous fraud and violence on avaricious state governors and ruling party hacks loyal to outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo...
He was a driving force among the team of reformers during President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term: Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Education Minister Obi Ezekwesili anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu and Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise Irene Chigbue...
Vol 48 No 10 |
- PARLIAMENTS
Parliaments prevented three presidents - Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Zambia's Frederick Chiluba and Malawi's Bakili Muluzi - from fixing constitutions to stand for third terms in office...
His closest aides energetically dismiss the idea that outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo will pull the strings...
Failing a cataclysmic reversal in the next week President Olusegun Obasanjo's governing People's Democratic Party is likely to chalk up another victory at the state and federal elections due on 14 and 21 April respectively...
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was busy with his election campaign so Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo suggested a mediator - Nigerian ex-President Ibrahim Babangida with whom Conté shared a common enemy the Liberian warlord Charles Taylor...
Behind that campaign is President Olusegun Obasanjo according to Abubakar...
This was reported to President Olusegun Obasanjo on 24 August...
