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...pains that Americans want to leave behind and deliver the triumphs they long for. American voters are asking for change, but just what kind of change is unclear to many people of the world. We'll have to wait, watch the model democratic institution at work and learn. Mamora Olusegun Victor Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria...
...touches people," who become Anglicans. The denomination leaped to the forefront of Nigerian Christianity, and Akinola became a civic as well as a religious voice, denouncing the country's plagues of corruption and materialism and, in a brave stance that may have helped preserve Nigerian democracy, opposing current President Olusegun Obasanjo's bid for an extraconstitutional third term...
...rejectionist” demeanor, de Waal says he intercepted the rebel leader. “Literally I grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him through the side door,” de Waal says, adding that the pair then ran into Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.“You let me down,” Obasanjo told Nur, shaking his fist in the rebel leader’s face, de Waal recounts.For the next three hours, they tried to convince Nur to sign the agreement—he refused.The signing proceeded with Minawi as the only rebel signatory.But convinced...
...society has become strengthened during this process. Civil society was really in disarray under the military regime ... I lauded the creation of [two] anticorruption bodies which have made tremendous strides. There is progress in public finances. Accountability has improved. Yet you're very critical of the current Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Why? In his second term, he proved not to have lost his militaristic, antipeople attitudes, so we had to take him on. [an error occurred while processing this directive]Especially when he began to run for an unconstitutional third term, which would have debased the democratic process. His [government...
...most dangerous in the world - and helped push global oil prices past $72 bbl. Nigeria was meant to be part of the solution to the insatiable demands for more oil from the U.S. and fast-growing China and India. When the country returned to civilian rule under President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, it was pumping around 1.8 million bbl. a day. Daily capacity had expanded to 2.5 million bbl. before the recent attacks; Nigeria is now the sixth biggest oil exporter in the world. Western oil companies, eager for a supply from outside the Middle East, want to increase production...