Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that Nigerians are united whilst overseas but are “something else” when they return, tasking them to embrace unity and togetherness both at home and abroad. Obasanjo made this disclosure on behalf of a delegation of eminent traditional leaders and academics that included the Olowu of Owu Kingdom, Oba (Prof.) Saka Matemilola at an evening …

Obiageli Ezekwesili is like a daughter to me. Even when she was a minister, I treated her the same way I treated my biological daughters. She was a dynamic young woman, who is competent, reliable and very enterprising. As she, therefore, clocks 60 today, I cannot but thank God for her life, as I wish her more fulfilling and glorious …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the United Kingdom court that found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking. In the letter addressed to the Chief Clerk, the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey in London, the former President urged the Clerk to intervene and ensure the UK government tempered justice with mercy …

The last thing he wants to hear is that he desires anything other than what is good for Nigeria. Hero of Nigeria’s civil war; former military president who supervised the first-post war transition to civilian rule; two-term civilian president; and a much sought-after African leader, Olusegun Obasanjo considers it beneath his status to suggest he can sometimes be wrong about …

One read with bewilderment, even a sense of dark foreboding, the statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo the other day calling for the cancellation “of all elections that do not pass the credibility and transparency test” during the Saturday (25 February) presidential elections. We have always known Chief Obasanjo to harbour anti-democratic proclivities. But never did one anticipate this effrontery, …

As part of events to honor the school’s 100th-anniversary festivities, former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo led present and former students of Baptist Boys High School (BBHS), Abeokuta, on a Monday 18-kilometre walk across the city. While on the walk, Obasanjo entertained locals, drivers, and passersby while accompanied by the old boys association’s leadership, led by National President Prof. Kayode Oyesiku. …

I have deliberately elected not to comment frontally on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s New Year letter to Nigerian youth – of all segments of Nigeria’s population – because the writer behaves like Satan preaching Christ to unbelievers! I think that is why many have chosen to allude to the dichotomy between the message and the messenger or the baby and …

My friend sent me a WhatsApp chat shortly after President Olusegun Obasanjo announced his endorsement of Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. “What does the Obasanjo endorsement mean?” he asked. I smiled to myself and replied: “It means he is bored!” Like him or hate him, Obasanjo is a headline maker any day. With him, downtimes …

I’m sure he expected the firestorm. As is his custom, he primed and released it to explode at his own time and season. If the letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsing Labour Party’s Peter Obi had gone unnoticed, uncriticised, and un-replied, then it would not have been Obasanjo’s letter. The letter had barely landed when the ruling All Progressives …

From time, I had never been excited about General Olusegun Obasanjo’s personality and his letters. I am very conversant with the fact that, besides training in the handling of weapons, military generals are deft contrivers of lies, propaganda, decoy and deception with which they can win wars by simply confusing and creating disaffection across lines even before firing a shot. …