Photo of the Day: Olusegun Obasanjo as a soldier cadet

Adebayo Onanuga

September 13, 2015

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Trending today is a photograph of a chubby-cheeked Olusegun Obasanjo certainly in 1958, when he joined the Nigerian army. In the photo, posted by Kayode Ogundamisi, Obasanjo, with a rifle slung on his shoulders, shakes hands with a British officer at the Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot England