General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

On 29 May more than 30 heads of state ex-heads of state and international dignitaries - including President Nelson Mandela Britain's Prince Charles and Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt - journeyed to Abuja to see military leader General Abdulsalami Abubakar hand power to retired General and now civilian President Olusegun Obasanjo...

' asked one senator on seeing President Olusegun Obasanjo's list of 42 ministerial nominees...

After Nigerian President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo's 3 May visit to the ADB they expect Nigeria to fall into line as Egypt now seems to be doing...

It's now clear that President Olusegun Obasanjo's incoming civilian government will face a major financial crisis when it takes office on 29 May...

Olusegun Obasanjo's election campaign...

While the Nigerian government cannot bid for the title two of President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo's closest aides are former editors Ad'Obe Obe and Onyema Uguchukwu...

General Olusegun Obasanjo the choice of most army officers and the Western powers was dubbed PDP (Pre-Determined President) - the acronym of his People’s Democratic Party...

Election monitors coined a phrase for General Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidential victory on 27 February: the result was not ‘free and fair’ but ‘generally reflects the will of the people’...

Britain is ahead of other Western powers in calling for support for General Olusegun Obasanjo's new government which will inherit a shattered economy and a fragile political system...

General Olusegun Obasanjo's newly elected government starts work on 29 May...

These moves together with Clinton’s Africa trip (he may also be going to Nigeria for Olusegun Obasanjo’s inauguration) have raised the continent’s profile and made Washington’s departmental officials more Africa-literate but leave out central questions about conflict and instability...