Olusegun Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Islamic Cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, have called on the Federal Government to establish a special court to prosecute bandits and kidnappers across the country.

The Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Sunday, met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son, Olujunwo Obasanjo has called on Nigerians to support Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi in the governor’s desire to become Nigeria’s president in 2023.

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Kalu, says he is grateful to God for allowing him to go to prison and come...

The second edition of Onitsha City Marathon, OCM, has been scheduled to hold on September 25 at Onitsha in Anambra, an official said on Monday in Awka.

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the occasion of his 84th birthday. The president’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement...

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, says it paid gratuity and pension arrears to 414 Association of Retired War Affected Police Officers, ARWAPO, amounting to over N954 million.

The Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, was introduced in 2004 by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration in order to address the problems of late payment of pensions and gratuities to retirees. The CPS established via Pension Reform Act, 2004, covered both the public and private sector workers.

John Abebe, a businessman and the brother-in-law of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that his trial for forgery was witch-hunting.

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, the global financial watchdog, is projecting that Nigeria's Dangote Refinery would provide an elixir for the country's economy when it is completed and start production by 2022.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has dismissed a $2million money laundering charge against Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, a lawyer to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.

Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo is travelling to Ethiopia to try and start negotiations between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, TPLF, the AFP news agency reports.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met behind closed doors with former Minister of Defence, retired Gen. T. Y. Danjuma, at the State House, Abuja.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over a crucial virtual meeting with former Nigerian leaders at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has broken silence on the ongoing protest against the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and the attendant violence that visited the mass action across the country.

A pro-democracy group, Citizens Action for Good Governance, has faulted former President Olusegun Obasanjo as well as the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka over their claim that Nigeria was fast disintegrating under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has backed former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s claims on how Nigeria is becoming a failed state under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has felicitated with former President Olusegun Obasanjo as he attained the age of 83, saying Mr Obasanjo’s democratic finger print on the African continent is indelible.

The Northern Governors Forum, NGF, on Wednesday, extended their warm felicitations to Nigeria's former President, Olusegun Obasanjo on his 83rd birthday which is coming up on Thursday, March, 5.

The reported new editorial policy of the Punch Newspapers to address President Muhammadu Buhari as Major General in his official title and refer to...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for the Kogi West senatorial rerun election, Senator Dino Melaye, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to exclude any polling centre affected by violence and disruption in the November 16 rerun, from the rescheduled supplementary rerun slated for Saturday, November 30.

A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Bashir Mohammed has told the Federal High Court in Lagos that Abdullahi Babalele, a son-in-law of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, allegedly gave former President Olusegun Obasanjo the naira equivalent of $140,000 in a build-up to the last general election.

The 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, recently told a moving story of how a mother watched her sick child die while waiting to...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC traced N50million to the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library belonging to his son-in-law, Babalele Abdullahi.