General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

President Olusegun Obasanjo's rival in last year's contest retired general and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85) was in London last week for medical treatment and to drum up international support for his continued rejection of last year's elections...

Succession battles will dominate Nigerian politics and distract government from its promised reforms though President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term is barely nine months old...

Very to judge by President Olusegun Obasanjo's new securocracy...

SA President Thabo Mbeki left Abuja frustrated with both Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and the 'old' (i...

President Olusegun Obasanjo's government isn't rushing into action...

Concern for his international standing has led Mugabe to pressure Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to lift the ban on him attending the Commonwealth summit in Abuja Nigeria on 5-8 December (see Pointer)...

President Olusegun Obasanjo doesn't have much choice: it would be unprecedented and damaging for a summit host to back the undermining of a serving secretary general...

Ghana's allocation from NNPC is widely regarded as a political favour from President Olusegun Obasanjo to his friend Kufuor (AC Vol 44 No 14); military regimes in Nigeria long used allocations of crude to fellow African states as a form of oil-fired diplomacy...

President Olusegun Obasanjo carpeted Obaseki over the award of new lifting contracts in Nigeria under which it was claimed NNPC gave Sahara preferential treatment...

Taylor's current host President Olusegun Obasanjo warned him to keep out of Liberian politics; security officers had reported that Taylor was giving orders from Nigeria to militiamen within Liberia...