(May 22, 2003) President Olusegun Obasanjo’s position that dubious foreign debts owed by Nigeria and other African or Third World countries should be cancelled has been commended by the African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (ANEEJ).

(May 10, 2003) A subsidiary of controversial US oil services giant Halliburton paid a Nigerian tax official $US2.4 million ($A3.75 million) in bribes to get favourable tax treatment, the company has admitted.

(August 8, 2002) Abia state governor has urged the federal government to reschedule the payment of all the loans owed by state governments in the country in order to reduce the sufferings of the masses.

(August 7, 2002) What I am saying is that we will look into that case and all other cases which has to do with government officials borrowing monies and making the poor taxpayers of Nigeria responsible for their personal borrowings.

(July 31, 2002) Commodore O.T.I. Alibo, (rtd) has advised Nigerian leaders to learn from the difficulties being experienced by the family of late Head of State, General Sanni Abacha, and be upright.

(July 30, 2002) The policy on open, liberal economy, privatisation of public utilities and devaluation of the local currency prescribed for Nigeria by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been identified harmful to the country’s economic development.

(July 29, 2002) Efforts to reduce the nation’s stock of external debt received a boost last week, as the two participating investors offered an unprecedented discount of 25.5 pence on each dollar of debt instrument purchased.

(July 26, 2002) “From April 1999, I went round the countries in Europe, twice over, I went to Japan, to America, to Canada and got good words . . . but no action at all.”

(July 22, 2002) Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said the ongoing privatization programme is increasingly unfolding a different President Olusegun Obasanjo from the nationalist Obasanjo they knew before he became president.