In the early 2000s vice-president Yemi Osinbajo played a pivotal role as Lagos attorney general in securing a legal victory for the state over the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency to have more autonomy over allocations to local councils...

The following day President Buhari flanked by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Washington should consider moving its Africa Command (Africom) from Stuttgart Germany to Africa 'closer to the theatre of operations'...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo continues to champion the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan introduced last year to respond to coronavirus-driven disruption and promises targeted policy to guide the economy in the longer term...

As Tinubu tries to recover ground the technocratic Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo a former protégé of Tinubu's like most politicians from the south-west is also a contender but may have to mend some fences in the party and with Buhari if he is to consolidate his claim...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo remains publicly optimistic that the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan (NESP) he champions will speed Nigeria's return from recession to growth...

August 2018: Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo during President Muhammadu Buhari's medical leave in London orders the 'immediate overhaul' of SARS after a succession of well documented reports of abuses...

Now the race for the APC presidential nomination looks more open with several candidates from the South-West near the top of the list: Tinubu Fayemi Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo...

The modest impact so far of stimulus and related policy measures championed by the finance ministry Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo's Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan (NESP) is accompanied by fears over fast-rising public debt and fiscal deficits...