Two of Nigeria’s opposition parties, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) agreed Saturday to merge into an electoral behemoth, the All Progressives Congress(APC), which they vowed would defeat President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2015 polls. The two parties approved the move in separate [...]
It is sad that more than two years to the presidential election in 2015, governance has been largely abandoned by the Goodluck Jonathan administration for politicking. In fact, governance has taken a flight for political squabbles towards 2015 elections to dominate our airwave. Rather than face the task of providing effective governance for the people, [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan will on May 7 pay a state visit to South Africa and two days after, move into Namibia. Amb. Sonni Yusuf, the Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa said that the president would be received in Cape Town by his South African counterpart, President Jacob Zuma. “The visit is aimed at broadening [...]
Ayo Oluokun/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has described claims that his administration is dogged by massive corruption in a report by the United States Government as untrue as “over-amplified’, though he agree that there are ‘issues of corruption in the country’. Speaking at the signing ceremony of power reforms transactions held at the Banquet Hall of [...]
Past and present efforts to reconcile Boko Haram with the Federal Government remain a mirage Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in January this year, challenged the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, to reach out to the Boko Haram sect. He told the Cable News Network: “To deal with a group like that, you need a carrot and [...]
In yet another of the many missteps that have become the hallmark of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the police, acting on a presidential order, on Monday detained four journalists with the Abuja-based Leadership newspapers. Their arrest came after their newspaper published a story, on 3 April, that President Jonathan had, in a leaked memo, issued [...]
The Presidency has re-affirmed that there is no truth in media publications that President Goodluck Jonathan has issued certain directives concerning the business interests of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader of Action Congress of Nigeria and the new party being formed by leading opposition parties, All Progressives Alliance, APC. In a statement on Wednesday, [...]
