General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

At January's AU summit, its Peace and Security Council (PSC) decided to 'defer consideration' and the COI Chairman, Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, was not given an opportunity to present the report as expected...

There is widespread anger at the African Union's decision to block publication indefinitely of an investigation headed by Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo that found that fighters on both sides were guilty of serious human rights abuses...

Just over a year ago, General Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a highly critical letter to Jonathan urging him not to stand for another term...

In November Africa Confidential reported that major regional business interests, including South Africa's Oppenheimer family, the Ichikowitz brothers, South African arms manufacturers and traders, and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, were trying to get the opposition to unite behind a single candidate to defeat the 'anti-business' PF (AC Vol 55 No 23, Foreign boost for opposition)...

He took part in efforts to form a united front to oppose the PF, which were brokered by Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Brenthurst Foundation, a think-tank founded by South Africa's Oppenheimer mining dynasty...

Yet political veterans such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo have warned that in the current environment, a party's candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency cannot be from the same faith group...

Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been chairing meetings for the group which includes Ivor Ichikowitz, the Chairman of Paramount Group which specialises in arms and aerospace contracts in Africa...

to a former senior law officer in the government of General Olusegun Obasanjo...

South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo are working behind the scenes to try to reconcile Presidents Jacob Zuma and Goodluck Jonathan, Africa Confidential understands...

Davis, who has worked for several years with Royal Dutch Shell and with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Britain's Coventry Cathedral on a peace initiative in the Niger Delta, knows Nigeria well...