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Nigeria

General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

Date of Birth: 5 March 1937
Place of Birth: Ogun State


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Insecurity council

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was more inclined to negotiate on the basis of the G-4 proposal (with or without veto) in the belief that the principle of two permanent UNSC seats for Africa would then have been established for any future negotiation...


The soccer vote

Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is urged to hand him over but on 17 September at the United Nations General Assembly Obasanjo offered no prospect of that but he said Taylor should be kept away from Liberia during the election period...


A test for the peers

The diplomacy of the Review Panel chaired by Senegal's Marie-Angélique Savane will be stretched when it assesses Nigeria whose President Olusegun Obasanjo chairs the AU...


Power show

Locked in a deadly embrace President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar look like two men struggling on a cliff edge as they try to hurl each other into the ravine below...


Players on parade

If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar is fired by the presidential race in 2007 what will happen if neither of them runs...


Opening the gates

Nigeria's biggest ever oil licensing round this weekend will test President Olusegun Obasanjo's bold promises to fight corruption which helped to secure a massive write-off on the country's US$35 billion foreign debt in July (AC Vol 46 Nos 14 & 15)...


Stalin's textbook

Since South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka met Mugabe and Vice-President Joyce Mujuru on 12 July there have been hints that Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo will use economic leverage to force a political settlement...


Talking it over

Basking in the glory of securing a two-thirds cut in Nigeria's US$34 billion foreign debt and the more ambiguous achievement of being British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new best friend in Africa President Olusegun Obasanjo is being forced to take a reality check back home...


Presidential duel

Hilary Benn Britain's Secretary for International Development passed through Abuja to see President Olusegun Obasanjo on G8 summit business during the ADB meeting then jetted off to open a project in the northern city of Kano as the ADB voting was starting...


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