Word: obasanjo
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...Some 1,000,000 census takers set off around the country on Tuesday and will knock on doors through Saturday asking how many people live in each house. There is no mention of religion and ethnicity on the census forms and President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to treat the national tally as an act of citizenship rather than politics. "Census-taking is not politics and should therefore not be a contest for political supremacy," Obasanjo said in a national television and radio broadcast. "We need accurate data for a planned and progressive society, so as to be able...
...tougher. In the wake of the first African summit on HIV/AIDS, which took place in Nigeria in late 2000, Nigeria's President, Olusegun Obasanjo, held photo ops in which he hugged HIV-positive people, one of whom was Ishaya. Weeks later, she was horrified when posters, newspaper ads and giant billboards appeared all over the country, showing her embracing the President. A rumor began circulating that he had given her half a million dollars--not entirely preposterous, given the corruption in Nigeria's government. Beggars besieged her, and relatives, among them those who had shunned her, began demanding help, even...
...DIED. STELLA OBASANJO, 59, wife of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo; after cosmetic surgery at a Spanish clinic; in Marbella. The flamboyant first lady reportedly had an operation to reduce her body fat but died following complications that are now being investigated. Her death occurred just a few hours after a domestic plane crash claimed 117 victims, leading the President to declare a national day of mourning...
...Sierra Leone court, Western governments and human-rights groups are cranking up pressure on Nigeria to hand Taylor, who faces 17 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the brutal conflict in Sierra Leone, over to the court for prosecution. But Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says that, short of "irrefutable evidence" that Taylor has committed crimes from Nigeria, he will extradite Taylor only to Liberia. "The President keeps asking to see the evidence," says Obasanjo spokeswoman Remi Oyo, who points out that Nigeria agreed to grant Taylor asylum under pressure from Western nations...
...challenging Abacha, whom Soyinka calls a “murderer with other nasty habits,” he fought to overthrow Idi Amin, Uganda’s cruel military dictator, and this past May he participated in a rally demanding the resignation of Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, whose re-election is said to have been tainted by vote fraud...