VISION
News & Views
March 1999
2020 Vision Committee Member Elected President of Nigeria
Olusegun Obasanjo, a member of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision International Advisory Committee, was elected president of Nigeria on February 27. In 1990 Obasanjo won the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger from The Hunger Project. Obasanjo, who served as president of Nigeria from 1976 to 1979, will assume office on May 29.
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