Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday, urged Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, not to relent in his drive for infrastructural development in the state. Obasanjo, who spoke at the inauguration of a VIP lodge, an edifice located within the premises of Osun State Government House in Osogbo, recalled a private conversation he had with Adeleke, when he advised him not …

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Saturday played host to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who charged political leaders on sacrifice and selflessness. Obaseki received Obasanjo who was on a courtesy visit at the Government House in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Commending the governor for the warm reception, the former President charged Nigerians not to lose faith in …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the payment of pension to former governors and their deputies as outrageous and a daylight robbery, just as he commended Governor Alex Otti of Abia State for repealing the law backing pension payment for ex-governors and their deputies. Obasanjo spoke on Friday when he paid Otti a visit at his country home in Nvosi, …

The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai on Sunday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State. On his X handle on Sunday, El-Rufai’s media aide, Muyiwa Adekeye posted pictures from the visit, with the caption, “Former President Olusegun Obasanjo today welcomed Malam Nasir #elrufai to his Abeokuta home”. The visit is coming …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo loves to hug the limelight. I was expecting him to write one of the damning  letters he is noted for to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu but he diverted his grouse to democracy. I still expect him to write to Tinubu sooner or later. Penultimate week he came down heavily on democracy, magisterially returning the verdict that …

Generally-speaking, the traditional rulers of today have, in many respects, lost the mystical or spiritual powers associated with their fore-fathers or ancestors. And this is not restricted to traditional rulers; there is hardly anyone, family or institution that has not lost something. We are all not as “powerful” as our forebears. Many families have lost what their families were noted …

Let me begin by making a distinction here. Nigeria’s military acknowledges two Obasanjos in its records. One has been retired for nearly 45 years now, while the other was at best a toddler when the older disengaged from military service. Both of them made it to the uppermost crust of the military, the former rising to the exclusive club of …

The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about US$5 billion funds from Nigeria’s late Head of State, General Sani Abacha (known as Abacha loot) recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari. The Freedom of Information suit, from which the order emerged, was brought …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has dismissed the allegation that he tried to cripple the economy of Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was governor. Last January, Tinubu had recalled how Obasanjo seized the allocations of Lagos State when he was President. He said the seizure of the revenue triggered his intellectual capacity and those of his lieutenants to make Lagos …

Kofo Obasanjo-Blackshire tries to appeal to a global audience in her seminal book, Pillars of Statecraft, which would be presented to the reading public tomorrow in Lagos. This is a book of towering ambition, examining the deeds, and also the misdeeds of men whose actions have had consequences on the fortunes of their nation and also on mankind. A country …