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Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo GCFR (/ oʊ ˈ b ɑː s ən dʒ oʊ / ⓘ oh-BAH-sən-joh; Yoruba: Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́ [olúʃɛ́ɡũ ɔbásanɟɔ] ⓘ; born c. 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian retired military officer and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007.
Headquarters. Nation Centre, Kimathi Street, Central Nairobi. Products. Newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations. Number of employees. 1,400 (2004) Website. www .nationmedia .com. Nation Media Group ( NMG ), formerly East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group listed based in Kenya and listed on ...
Odi massacre. The Odi massacre [1] [2] was an attack carried out on November 20, 1999, by the Nigerian Armed Forces against the predominantly Ijaw town of Odi in Bayelsa State. [3] The attack came in the context of an ongoing conflict in the Niger Delta [4] over indigenous rights to oil resources and environmental protection. [5]
The Cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo was formed after President Olusegun Obasanjo took office in May 1999 after the return to democracy with the Nigerian Fourth Republic. Obasanjo made frequent changes to his cabinet of Federal Ministers and Ministers of State during his two terms of office, and periodically split or combined ministries.
Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. / 7.126024306081321; 3.364701179964038. The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library is a library owned by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former President of Nigeria. [3] It is a historic, tourist and academic centre established as a national archive for the preservation of documents and materials used by the ...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala GCON (/ ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ k oʊ n dʒ oʊ ɪ ˈ w eɪ l ə / ⓘ; born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian-American economist, who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021.
Atiku Abubakar was born on 25 November 1946 in Jada, [14] a village which was then under the administration of the British Cameroons – the territory later joined with the Federation of Nigeria in the 1961 British Cameroons referendum. His father, Garba Abubakar was a Fulani trader and farmer, and his mother was Aisha Kande.
Olusegun Obasanjo served as president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. On 29 May 1999, Abubakar handed over power to the winner of the 1999 presidential election, former military ruler General Olusegun Obasanjo, as President of Nigeria. Obasanjo had been in prison under the dictatorship of Abacha.