amendment to remove term limits; President Obasanjo is prevented from contesting a third term in office. June June 13 - President Olusegun Obasanjo meets with his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya, and UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan in New York City to resolve dispute talks over Bakassi. July July 8 - The Nigerian government announces it will lay off one in five civil servants, amounting to over 33,000 jobs. August August 1 - Nigerian troops begin to pull out of Bakassi; Bakassi becomes Cameroonian territory. September September 30 - The collapse of a dam wall kills forty people in Gusau, Zamfara state. Years of the 21st century in Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria 2000s in Nigeria