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Nigeria

General Abdulsalami Abubakar

Date of Birth: 13 June 1942
Place of Birth: Minna, Niger State


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Power and greed

He worked on public sector reform under Obasanjo's predecessor General Abdulsalami Abubakar and was reluctant to stay in government service...


A losing gamble

Friends of former Nigerian head of state and newly appointed UN envoy to Congo-Kinshasa General Abdulsalami Abubakar suggest it was Nigeria's negotiating prowess that helped convince Kabila...


Transparency test

Abdulsalami Abubakar; and for 244 Brigadier Anthony Ukpo head of Abubakar's Policy Committee...


Brave new century

Nigeria's General Abdulsalami Abubakar came to power after a 'cardiac coup' against Gen...


Cleaning up oil

The ending of the scandalous domestic fuel shortages has helped the government's credibility even if much of the groundwork for improving distribution was laid under General Abdulsalami Abubakar's military government...


Obasanjo's one hundred days

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)...


Exeunt sojas

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...


New team, old players

Abdulsalami Abubakar's government last year to rationalise the host of competing security organisations set up by Abacha...


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