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Listen to both interviews…

• January 2010 interview (latest)


• then listen to the October 2007 interview…
  

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The Nigerian President has been away for months receiving medical treatment abroad. His critics say his absence is crippling day to day government and business activity. Following a foiled terrorist attack on an American passenger plane by one of his citizens, the country is now being penalised. In a BBC HARDTALK interview on Friday 22nd January 2010 Jonathan Charles asks Nigeria’s foreign minister Ojo Maduekwe what measures are being put in place by the government to prevent any further attacks.

Broadcast on: BBC News Channel, Friday 22nd January 2010 (Duration: 30 minutes)

Click here to listen to … Hard Talk: Chief Ojo Maduekwe Nigerian Foreign Minister

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BONUS interview from 2007


In a Hardtalk programme first broadcast on Monday 8th October 2007, Stephen Sackur talks to Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Ojo Maduekwe.

BONUS October 2007 Interview



Discusses how… Nigeria’s new government has ambitions to become a global economic and diplomatic power.

Its soldiers and diplomats are already playing a significant role in Darfur.

How can Africa’s most populous country fulfill its regional potential when it is dogged by political and economic corruption at home?

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Some More… Interview with Sahara reporters