'Nigeria’s government should have discerned that Dr Adesina has been a marked man for some time because of his “bad verses” to the superpowers that would like to destroy or take over the bank for Africa’s development.' AfDB Nigeria Africa m_oloja
in power. He was quite controversial, especially to public servants of the time. To some, he is an incorruptible hero that would have, given the time, ridded Nigeria of the scourge of corruption that had then infected the country. To others he is an impetuous and arrogant despot, guilty of war crimes and worse.
…In the circumstance, Mr. Chairman. this Assembly has before it a clear choice. It should endorse the MPLA as the only Government of Angola and invite its President, Dr. Agostinho Neto to take his place of honour among us. The Assembly should call upon the FNLA and UNITA to dissociate themselves from South Africa and lay down their arms and the OAU should use its good offices in consultation with the Angolan Government to effect national reconciliation of all the people of the country.
On that July 31, 1979 dispatch The New York Times used as its page one lead under the headline, B.P.’s Nigerian Oil Nationalized on August 1, 1979, the remarkable story ran thus: Nigeria announced today that it was taking over the British Petroleum Company’s remaining stake in Nigerian oil operations because of Britain’s recent decision to, allow B.P. to sell crude oil to South Africa. A Nigerian Government statement said that the takeover of B.P.’s 20 percent equity interest in the Shell‐B.P.
Even apart from Obasanjo’s strong foreign policy in his second coming then asked Nigeria’s National Assembly to write off $13m of Liberia’s $43m bilateral debt after Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf withdrew her offer to host the new command. That was resourceful shortly after he assumed power. Nigerian officials were not so loud but artful in voicing their concern that Africom could be part of an American effort to exert control on West Africa’s oil-producing countries.
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