General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

With newly inaugurated President Goodluck Jonathan stamping his authority on Abuja and the sacking of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) director the deal could meet the same fate as the oil-for-infrastructure pacts signed under former President Olusegun Obasanjo (AAC Vol 2 No 6)...

North African countries have adopted a similar model to that of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government which demanded investment in unattractive downstream projects in return for oil acreage...

Given interim powers by the National Assembly on 9 February Vice-President Jonathan is closer to former President Olusegun Obasanjo than President Yar’Adua and is seen as more sympathetic to Obasanjo’s projects like the railways...

In Nigeria it appears that efforts to patch up relations which had deteriorated since former President Olusegun Obasanjo stepped down are yet to succeed...

The previous government under President Olusegun Obasanjo was giving licences to companies promising to build infrastructure: it awarded OPL 321 and 323 to KNOC after it offered to build gas pipelines and a power station...

Arguably Jonathan has benefited from Ribadu's perseverance on accountability: it was Ribadu's file on Rivers State Governor Peter Odili's financial affairs he says that persuaded President Olusegun Obasanjo to back Jonathan for the vice-presidency in 2006...

In 2006 when President Olusegun Obasanjo was looking for a running mate for Yar'Adua in the presidential elections he picked Jonathan after rejecting Governors James Ibori (Delta State)and Peter Odili (Rivers State)...

He spent much of the 1990s in exile during General Sani Abacha's regime but Mark returned to work when his old friend General Olusegun Obasanjo emerged as President in 1999...

Despite the best efforts of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki the Commonwealth suspended Zimbabwe and Mugabe took his country out after the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Abuja in 2003...

To balance the ticket Atiku a Muslim from the North recruited Olusegun Obasanjo a Christian from the South to run as presidential candidate...

China has seen the reversal of most of the oil-for-infrastructure deals it signed in the last days of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...