General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

It is a selection that seems certain to raise tensions in the region as Ude is a supporter of controversial power broker Chris Uba who is now estranged from his brother Andy Uba formerly a close aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo and now running for state governor...

He did not know if Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Chair of NePAD's top-level Implementation Committee or Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso Chair of the AU would take up his proposal...

Yet the key focus will be on the presidency with three leading contenders: from Katsina in the far north Umaru Yar’Adua who stands for the governing People’s Democratic Party; Muhammadu Buhari for the All Nigeria People’s Party; Atiku Abubakar President Olusegun Obasanjo’s estranged deputy and like his rivals a Muslim northerner picked up the Action Congress nomination in late December...

President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria had already brokered an agreement but details remain vague and Wade is impatient...

Vice-President Atiku Abubakar launched his campaign for the presidency in Abuja on 25 November insisting that he could win elections due next April despite the open hostility of the incumbent Olusegun Obasanjo his suspension from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and pending corruption charges...

President Olusegun Obasanjo has established a tight grip over the PDP hierarchy and most of the key governors...

With President Olusegun Obasanjo's sacking of Transport Minister Abiye Sekibo on 6 October the row over the 215 million euro (US$275...

On 11 October President Olusegun Obasanjo presented the biggest federal budget ever of 2...

On 18 September President Olusegun Obasanjo opened an African Union conference on security the day after a Dornier 228 military aircraft crashed killing 13 officers including ten generals...

As the net closes in on those state governors accused of corruption and fraud President Olusegun Obasanjo's position has strengthened markedly against his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and most other would-be presidential candidates in next year's national elections...