President Olusegun Obasanjo's government isn't rushing into action...
Concern for his international standing has led Mugabe to pressure Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to lift the ban on him attending the Commonwealth summit in Abuja Nigeria on 5-8 December (see Pointer)...
Vol 44 No 23 |
- COMMONWEALTH
President Olusegun Obasanjo doesn't have much choice: it would be unprecedented and damaging for a summit host to back the undermining of a serving secretary general...
Ghana's allocation from NNPC is widely regarded as a political favour from President Olusegun Obasanjo to his friend Kufuor (AC Vol 44 No 14); military regimes in Nigeria long used allocations of crude to fellow African states as a form of oil-fired diplomacy...
Vol 44 No 22 |
- GHANA
- NIGERIA
President Olusegun Obasanjo carpeted Obaseki over the award of new lifting contracts in Nigeria under which it was claimed NNPC gave Sahara preferential treatment...
Taylor's current host President Olusegun Obasanjo warned him to keep out of Liberian politics; security officers had reported that Taylor was giving orders from Nigeria to militiamen within Liberia...
The government's latest bid to liberalise (and inevitably raise) fuel prices has united traders trades unionists and state governors against President Olusegun Obasanjo's new economic team...
Allegations by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nassir el-Rufai that two senators had solicited a 54 million naira (US$420 000) bribe for approving his appointment are set to cause more trouble for President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...
Rilwanu Lukman's sudden resignation on 7 October as Special Advisor on Oil to Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is likely to trigger other high-level departures as the crisis in the oil sector mounts...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's commitment to fighting oil sector corruption (AC Vol 44 No 18) is being severely tested on the one hand by a Federal Government probe of deals by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and on the other by the recent suspension or cancellation of nearly all crude and product sales contracts...
