It was the threat of sanctions by the FATF that persuaded President Olusegun Obasanjo's government two decades ago to set up the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which has become far more politicised under subsequent presidencies...

In the best case he observes the two former Lagos State commissioners can work together as effectively as former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former CBN governor Charles Soludo did during much of Olusegun Obasanjo's second (2004-07) presidential term...

He ran the privatisation of state assets under President Olusegun Obasanjo and then took on the federal capital ruthlessly demolishing structures listed as 'illegal'...

Jaal Maarroo insists the United States must be involved in this process while AU Horn of Africa envoy Olusegun Obasanjo may also play a role...

His allies say that as Vice-President he greatly assisted President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007) to achieve several debt cancellations as part of a process that reduced Nigeria's debt stock by around US$30 billion...

WarningsThe AU's chief negotiator former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo – who commanded troops in his own country's war against Biafran secessionists over 50 years ago – warned that the agreement was 'not the end of this process but the beginning of it...

As the battle raged on multiple fronts Tigray's leaders stepped up their diplomatic game welcoming an African Union-led peace process after previously upsetting the continental bloc by saying that its envoy ex-Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo was biased towards Abiy (AC Vol 63 No 14 Rivals differ over talks location)...

A tycoon and former head of customs from Adamawa state Atiku was number two to President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007) and has dominated the PDP for the last four years...