Obasanjo leaves Nigeria uncertain future
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When Olusegun Obasanjo was elected Nigeria's president in 1999, Nigerians hoped long years of military misrule were behind them and stable democracy was ahead.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo visited the southern oil-rich but troubled Ogoniland and called on local people to embrace peace and reconciliation.
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Vice-President Atiku Abubakar will not be running for president for Nigeria's ruling party next April.
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ABUJA  - Nigeria braced for a nationwide strike as the country&#39;s top union leader emerged from secret police custody determined to pursue labour&#39;s opposition to President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s economic reforms.
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MARABA, Nigeria  - A short drive away from Nigeria's capital Abuja, with its air-conditioned villas and ministers in luxury cars, life for many in the town of Maraba is a daily struggle to eat.
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A sudden aviation fuel shortage grounds domestic and international flights out of Nigeria's commercial centre.
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Nigeria's parliamentary speaker resigns after weeks of stalemate over a report into alleged graft.
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Umaru Yar'Adua will be sworn in as Nigeria's new president, after the outgoing head made a final speech to the nation.
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Nigeria will not pour more cash into power, having spent $10 billion in the last seven years with little to show for it, until it has a clear idea of how to revamp the sector, President Umaru Yar'Adua said on Monday.
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Nigerian rebel leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari said he arrived in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo after his group threatened a new offensive against troops in the oil-producing Niger delta and threatened to target oil workers.
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The election of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is upheld in a court ruling ending more than a year of uncertainty.
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Lagos - Nigeria&#39;s main umbrella union would go ahead with a general strike today amid confusion over the whereabouts of its leader following his detention by security agents, the blue-collar Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said yesterday.
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IN what is becoming clearer by the day, the reform agenda of President Olusegun Obasanjo is set for a destructive course as he continues with his rambunctious approach to governance.
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The Nigerian government cancels another sale of a state company carried out under former President Obasanjo.
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Umaru Yar&#39;Adua takes office as president  of Nigeria on Tuesday, inheriting a catalogue of crises  compounded by doubts over his own legitimacy after a flawed  election.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa faced deep uncertainty on Wednesday after the greatest political shake-up since the end of apartheid set populist Jacob Zuma on the road to the state presidency.
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The head of a separatist movement in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil-rich Niger Delta has announced that he intends to meet President Olusegun Obasanjo.