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Apr 23, 2003 · Reluctant president. Born in Abeokuta in 1937, Olusegun Obasanjo, worked his way up through the ranks of the army. He first came to prominence as the soldier who accepted the surrender of Biafran forces after the 1967-70 civil war. MUHAMMADU BUHARI. Military ruler of Nigeria from 1984 to 1985.
Olusegun Obasanjo. Chief Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR, Ph.D. [2] ( / oʊˈbɑːsəndʒoʊ /; Yoruba: Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́ [3] born 5 May 1937) is a Nigerian politician and general. He was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. He was a military ruler from 13 February 1976 to 1 October 1979, and a democratically ...
Apr 18, 2007 · Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general elected president of Nigeria in 1999, is due to step down in May and hand power to the winner of this year’s elections. He steps down ater two four-year ...
Feb 6, 2002 · Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo swept to power in 1999, promising far-reaching democratic reforms in a country devastated by decades of military rule. His answer to the massive communal and religious unrest across the country has been to use the army to control localised disturbances. As a former military ruler himself in the late 1970s ...
Olusegun Obasanjo. President of Nigeria 1999-2007. Date and place of birth: 5 March 1937, Ibogun, Nigeria. Education: At Baptist Boy’s High School (BBHS), Abeokuta (1952-56), he did quite well academically. Although unable to go to university because of his family’s low financial circumstances, he found the Nigerian Army a great institution ...
Jan 1, 2019 · Early Life. Olusegun Obasanjo was born on 5 March 1937 in Abeokuta, in southwest Nigeria. He joined the army in 1958 and received military training both in Nigeria and abroad. During his military career, he served with UN peacekeeping forces and led an army commando division in the 1967–70 Biafran civil war.
Mr. Obasanjo is one of the most distinguished elder statesmen of Africa. He served as President of the Republic of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, and before that as the Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces from 1976 to 1979. Over his long career, Mr. Obasanjo has been involved in ...
