General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

A group of middle-ranking officers passing through London and Washington last month confirmed that the military was in restive mood and unhappy with its lot under President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...

If President Olusegun Obasanjo's government does sell its state-owned oil refineries and perseveres with deregulating fuel prices the economics of Niger supplying oil to the Kaduna refinery in northern Nigeria look more attractive...

Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo sees Jammeh as a jumped up lieutenant putschist and friend of Obasanjo's gaoler the late General Sani Abacha...

And Wade is liable to make foreign policy gaffes; within months of winning the presidency last March he had managed to offend the governments of both Guinea Bissau and Mauritania and has since picked a fight with Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo...

It was only after intervention by Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo that Konaré switched sides and supported sanctions albeit with a two-month grace period for Taylor to comply with demands that he end moral and military support for the RUF...

Absentees included Presidents John Kufuor Thabo Mbeki Benjamin Mkapa Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Olusegun Obasanjo...

Other alleged contributors to NPP funds were Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré - both as keen to see the back of Rawlings as Eyadéma albeit for different reasons...

Africa could see some positive results if the Organisation of African Unity's leadership triumvirate - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki - can tap into such connections on issues such as tariffs debt and drug prices...

Nor is Ouattara a slouch at African diplomacy: he has strong ties with both Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria...

If President Olusegun Obasanjo's government can meet the IMF's none-too-exacting benchmarks it should be able to face down the Paris Club...