General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

China raised its profile in the final years of Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency (1999-2007)...

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government is reviewing the award to Korean National Oil Company of Oil Prospecting Licences 321 and 323 in a bid to wipe out controversial contracts signed under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo...

The complaint about the Chinese contracts was on the list of eight issues Nkunda wanted to discuss with the government that was given to United Nations Special Envoy former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo In mid-October the subject was broached again but unresolved in Washington with the Congolese authorities...

On 16 November his Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) led by Serge Kambasu Ngeze demanded in the presence of the UN’s Special Representative in Congo Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo that Kinshasa stop supporting rival militias such as the Patriotes Résistants Congolais (Pareco) who are Hutu or Nandé...

It is also an indication of the state of political reform in Africa that it was President Bouteflika who together with Nigeria’s then President Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa’s then President Thabo Mbeki led the moves to found the African Union in 2002 with its commitment to accountable government measured by a system of peer review...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s team of technocrats – including current World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bank Vice-President Obiageli Ezekwesili – are out of the running and Yar’Adua’s pool of talent is under pressure politically and physically...

Abubakar's old rival ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has extended an olive branch and the two are 'in communication'...

Others see Soludo as a leftover from the era of President Olusegun Obasanjo who cannot be trusted...

The two sides' accusations should be subject to a 'verification mechanism' presided over by Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki with ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania as 'facilitators'...

Freewheeling capitalism marked President Olusegun Obasanjo’s rule making fortunes for a clique of bankers and industrialists...