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...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...
...body is its capital. When I read about the regeneration, development, changes and specialties of the cities in your stories, I discovered that the people who successfully transformed the unheralded places you described used their heads to combat complacency. What a great way to use the human mind. Mamora Olusegun Victor Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria Follow the Money The ratio of eyewitnesses who support John Kerry's Vietnam War record to those who do not can only be described as overwhelming. Yet your Notebook report "Kerry in Combat: Setting the Record Straight" [Aug. 30] allowed baseless accusations to be elevated...
...killing somewhere between 67 (the police estimate) and 630 (the Red Cross figure). "If you hear the sound of their guns you will think the heavens want to fall," says Mallam Mohamed Ahmed, 33, who fled on his motorbike. With the violence spreading to other states last week, President Olusegun Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Plateau, suspended the elected governor and appointed a retired army general in his place. These steps, which were later ratified by the National Assembly, were necessary "to stem the tide of what has become near mutual genocide," according to Obasanjo. The state...
...OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, President of Nigeria