General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

In 2004 Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo had to do without bonuses in order to entice Asian companies which in 2000 had shown no interest in marginal fields...

One weakness according to insiders is Jonathan's frequent consulting of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who has lost much of the support that propelled him to power in 1999 and is seen as a liability in the north...

In 2007 then President Olusegun Obasanjo backed Yar’Adua rather than Makarfi who is seen by some as a closet Islamist and whose health is in doubt; he was flown abroad late last year for three months of treatment...

Nnamani the former Senate President and Masari former Speaker of the House of Representatives both opposed ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s bid to fiddle the constitution and run for a third term...

After some delay the inaugural ribbon was cut on 3 April by Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo who asserted that the statue belonged not just to Senegal but to all Africa and its diaspora so many of whom made the terrible journey from there to the Americas...

Nigeria’s Acting President Goodluck Jonathan gave his blessing and former President Olusegun Obasanjo Chairman of the African Union Observer Mission visited the main opposition candidate Fabre at his home to persuade him to accept the result...

Others said Danjuma has his own constituency in the military and is independent of groups backed by General Ibrahim Babangida and former President Olusegun Obasanjo...

Since the exit of President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 Nigerian diplomacy has had a diminishing impact on the continent; last month Nigerian diplomats at the African Union summit reported the most common greeting was a sympathetic nod...

A decade ago Mbeki and the then Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo helped to launch the New Partnership for Africa’s Development which envisaged spending some $80 billion a year on infrastructure to boost African economies...

Established in Bayelsa as a safe pair of hands outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo and his putative successor Yar'Adua picked him as the party's vice-presidential candidate in 2007...