General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

Under pressure from the new President of the Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria Chris Ugwuh (an eastern self-made millionaire whose factories bottle spring water and manufacture toothbrushes) President Olusegun Obasanjo's government has started trying to stimulate smaller-scale industries...

Since the dream of an independent Biafra was crushed in 1970 many Igbo have felt marginalised and say that President Olusegun Obasanjo a south-western Yoruba for whom their region voted in 1999 has kept them on the fringe...

They reject a national government headed by a Christian especially a proselytising Christian like President Olusegun Obasanjo who delayed the announcement of his presidential ambitions for 2003 while waiting for a message from God...

Among the most influential are: Winners Chapel-Faith Tabernacle: Bishop David Oyedepo's chapel near President Olusegun Obasanjo's farm at Otta outside Lagos seats over 50 000 worshippers equivalent to a medium-sized football stadium...

The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...

On 3 June he was visited by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo who advised him to say no more in public about the matter and agreed to review their joint exploration agreement...

President Olusegun Obasanjo backs his 'crusade to cleanse the banking system'...

NePAD's presidential architects - South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika - want African states to agree first on indices of good and representative governance and second on the structure and membership of an institution to monitor good governance...

He's likely to be close to Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo another recycled general...

Among Mbeki's closest cabinet allies Zuma 53 is key to Pretoria's Africa diplomacy: mediator in Congo-Kinshasa's war ally of Rwanda staunch opponent of Sudan's Islamist regime working with Southern African Development Community powers such as Angola and Zambia (Mbeki leads on Zimbabwe and has close ties to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo)...