Summit meeting cements Nigeria's return to fold
Riots still flare at times and Nigeria is regularly rated one of the world’s most corrupt nations. Yet Nigerians hope a summit of 52 leaders will cement their nation’s return to the global fold after decades as a pariah.
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government hopes the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will prove the country is making progress on the democratic and economic reforms he promised when he was first elected in 1999, ending decades of military rule in the vast West African nation.
