General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria had already brokered an agreement but details remain vague and Wade is impatient...

Vice-President Atiku Abubakar launched his campaign for the presidency in Abuja on 25 November insisting that he could win elections due next April despite the open hostility of the incumbent Olusegun Obasanjo his suspension from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and pending corruption charges...

President Olusegun Obasanjo has established a tight grip over the PDP hierarchy and most of the key governors...

With President Olusegun Obasanjo's sacking of Transport Minister Abiye Sekibo on 6 October the row over the 215 million euro (US$275...

On 11 October President Olusegun Obasanjo presented the biggest federal budget ever of 2...

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...