Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s team of technocrats – including current World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bank Vice-President Obiageli Ezekwesili – are out of the running and Yar’Adua’s pool of talent is under pressure politically and physically...
Abubakar's old rival ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has extended an olive branch and the two are 'in communication'...
Others see Soludo as a leftover from the era of President Olusegun Obasanjo who cannot be trusted...
The two sides' accusations should be subject to a 'verification mechanism' presided over by Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki with ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania as 'facilitators'...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- NIGERIA
- ECONOMY
Freewheeling capitalism marked President Olusegun Obasanjo’s rule making fortunes for a clique of bankers and industrialists...
Yar’Adua was imposed on Nigerians by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo who also picked Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan a political novice...
A former special assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo Andy Uba has been widely accused of fraud theft and money laundering...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo announced an extensive road-building programme for the Delta...
Dele Cole a former advisor to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and founding member of the People's Democratic Party recently called for 'private security operatives to guard the oil from extraction to export' with the companies being offered a fixed percentage of the oil they are able to rescue from thieves...
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's appointment of new service chiefs and a new Chief of Defence Staff on 20 August will further reduce the political power of former President Olusegun Obasanjo...