Two more ideas were unveiled by President Olusegun Obasanjo on 18 July: his 'Gulf of Guinea initiative' to deal with the rising tide of attacks in the oil-producing creeks; and an investment plan and report from the United Nations Development Programme...
As concerns mount over the durability of the government's economic reforms and the management of public finances ahead of next year's election President Olusegun Obasanjo quietly reshuffled his reform team on 21 June...
Vol 47 No 12 |
- NIGERIA
- ISRAEL
The row over a US$200 million contract won by Israel's Aeronautics Ventures to supply aerial drones for use in the Niger Delta coincides with last week's sacking of National Security Advisor General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau by President Olusegun Obasanjo...
The attempt to change the constitution allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to stand for a third term in 2007 has failed defeated in a Senate vote...
A decade later it backed the re-election ticket of President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar because of 'the need for continuity' according to Nigerian Stock Exchange Director General Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke...
Zoellick and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Northern Nigeria's political elite flocked to Abuja on 20 April to launch the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) which aims to block a constitutional change allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to stand for a third term...
The top managers of the new Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) are Lawal Kaita (former Kaduna State Governor under President Shehu Shagari); Ghali Na'abba (Speaker of the House of Representatives in President Olusegun Obasanjo's first term); Abubakar Rimi (Kano Governor under Shagari); and Audu Ogbeh ousted as the People's Democratic Party (PDP) national Chairman (AC Vol 46 No 18)...
Escape to Biyaland On the previous Saturday Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo had announced that he would meet a request from Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to transfer Taylor to the Special Court...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's advisors openly demanded the immediate resignation of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar after he publicly opposed the campaign to change the constitution to allow Obasanjo to stand for a third term in the national elections in 2007...
