This is the arena in which struggles between the periphery and centre are played out especially in the ruling PDP where the state governors looked set to rebel against President Olusegun Obasanjo at the PDP convention in January and vote instead for Alex Ekwueme as their flagbearer...
The incumbent and former military head of state Olusegun Obasanjo is a proselytising evangelical Christian from the south-west...
Fradique reckons President Olusegun Obasanjo's government has paid less than half of Nigeria's own estimate of the due compensation...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
President Olusegun Obasanjo secured nomination on 5 January as the People's Democratic Party candidate for the April presidential election...
The two main candidates for the PDP nomination will be the incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo 65 whose running-mate will be the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Vice-President from the Second Republic Alex Ekwueme 70 a respected Igbo elder statesman...
Ahmed Makarfi Governor of Kaduna State and ally of President Olusegun Obasanjo had Secretary General of the Sharia Council Nafiu Baba Ahmed briefly arrested after police linked him to the crisis...
Vol 43 No 22 |
- AFRICAN UNION
After a meeting of the NePAD Implementation Committee in Nigeria this week President Olusegun Obasanjo claimed 12 countries had signed up to the Declaration on Peer Review Mechanism although five including Botswana wanted more time...
The Nigeria-São Tomé e Príncipe Joint Development Zone (JDZ) a symbol of regional cooperation that Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Fradique de Menezes launched only in January looks close to collapse...
Vol 43 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In Nigeria on the recommendation of President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation advisor Eskom has a contract with the federal government worth $164...
Iraq could yet rescue President Olusegun Obasanjo...