In just three months  President Olusegun Obasanjo's whisk broom of reform has swept away the notoriously parasitical middlemen from crude oil sales  last-minute prospecting licences farmed out to cronies of General Abdulsalami Abubakar's government and a billion dollars' worth of miscellaneous contracts awarded in the last five months of military rule (AC Vol 40 No 12)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Three months on  the economic policy of General Olusegun Obasanjo's government remains opaque...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 40 No 16 | 
            - SIERRA LEONE
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Guests included Kabbah and his Finance Minister  James Jonah; Nigeria's new President  Olusegun Obasanjo  and the Director of Washington's West Africa department  Ambassador Howard Jater...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	       Zambia's President Frederick Chiluba flew off to Congo-K to persuade the quarrelling rebel factions to sign the 10 July Lusaka peace accord; Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo flew to meet embattled President José Eduardo dos Santos in Luanda; United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan flew back to New York (via Slovakia) with proposals for UN help in peacemaking in Congo  Sierra Leone and Eritrea-Ethiopia...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     An ATT campaign would flatten any competition: he is in a similar position (via a different route) to the recently elected Nigerian head of state  Olusegun Obasanjo  whom he knows well (along with US ex-President Jimmy Carter)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Lissouba met President Olusegun Obasanjo in London last year and believes Abuja's new stand against military governments might help him...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Government business took off at a frenetic pace after the 29 May inauguration of President Olusegun Obasanjo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     On 29 May  more than 30 heads of state  ex-heads of state and international dignitaries - including President Nelson Mandela  Britain's Prince Charles and Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt - journeyed to Abuja to see military leader General Abdulsalami Abubakar hand power to retired General and now civilian President Olusegun Obasanjo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    ' asked one senator on seeing President Olusegun Obasanjo's list of 42 ministerial nominees...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      After Nigerian President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo's 3 May visit to the ADB  they expect Nigeria to fall into line  as Egypt now seems to be doing...