General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

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...

Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has long maintained that he should be the natural choice of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) to take over from President Olusegun Obasanjo...

Dealing with this issue soberly and effectively is perhaps the greatest immediate challenge facing President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...

The subsequent dispute has been raised at two meetings between Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and was said to be one reason why the New Partnership for African Development meeting that Egypt hosted last year was poorly attended...

While President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar sling mud at each other the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) an official anti-corruption body led by Nuhu Ribadu has given Nigerians a taste of more to come and of the manner in which the political elite has operated state accounts in recent years...

This rivalry has sharpened since the campaign to win President Olusegun Obasanjo a third term collapsed in May...

Two more ideas were unveiled by President Olusegun Obasanjo on 18 July: his 'Gulf of Guinea initiative' to deal with the rising tide of attacks in the oil-producing creeks; and an investment plan and report from the United Nations Development Programme...

As concerns mount over the durability of the government's economic reforms and the management of public finances ahead of next year's election President Olusegun Obasanjo quietly reshuffled his reform team on 21 June...

The row over a US$200 million contract won by Israel's Aeronautics Ventures to supply aerial drones for use in the Niger Delta coincides with last week's sacking of National Security Advisor General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau by President Olusegun Obasanjo...