General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

Then the world oil price topped $50 a barrel and President Olusegun Obasanjo flew Asari to Abuja for emergency talks...

Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo gave Taylor refuge in Calabar Nigeria on condition that he didn't engage in politics...

Abuja's diplomats arguing that its oil and gas resources together with the threat of Islamist infiltration across the Sahel qualify Nigeria as a strategic state are winning support as President Olusegun Obasanjo pursues an increasingly high-profile but still selective campaign against corruption...

Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo's plan for a unity government was a non-starter...

President Olusegun Obasanjo hosted Faure Gnassingbé and opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio in Abuja on 25 April to encourage their commitment to the creation of a government of national unity...

Côte d'Ivoire's Foreign Ministry has sent furious letters to the Egyptian government and we hear the matter has been raised in private discussions between Mubarak and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo who has supported Ekra...

Another ADB Vice-President Nigeria's Olabisi Ogunjobi has full personal and political backing from President Olusegun Obasanjo which counts for a lot...

Regional leaders including African Union Chairman Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Niger's Mamadou Tandja swiftly condemned the constitutional coup attempted in the name of Faure Gnassingbé the old dictator's son; Ghana kept quiet...

Calming Nigeria's murderous ethnic tensions and reducing its chronic corruption are the chief declared aims of President Olusegun Obasanjo half way through his second and last term...

The sudden sacking on 22 March of Education Minister Fabian Osuji was well timed to show Nigeria's creditors that President Olusegun Obasanjo's anti-corruption policy is working...