Tag: Goodluck Jonathan
UNILAG: ACN slams Jonathan, denies link with protests
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has denied the PDP’s accusation that the party was behind the protests by the…
2015 And All That Jazz —Chido Onumah
Shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in on May 29, 2011, I noted that his government should at best…
UNILAG : Jonathan’s Name Change a Gift Horse, says Soyinka
The full text of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka’s response to the changing of the University of Lagos name into…
Northern leaders meet with Jonathan on security
The leadership of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) met with President Goodluck Jonathan late Wednesday night on issues of security…
Abiola’s son shocked by protest over UNILAG honor
The family of the late Chief MKO Abiola, on Tuesday said that they were ecstatic over the renaming of the…
Before Subsidy Scam Report Stirs Controversy —Gbenga Kayode
There is, arguably, no other way the current administration in Nigeria could prove to many anxious Nigerians and members of…
Jonathan opens school for Nigeria’s Street kids
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan said Tuesday in Sokoto that his administration was committed to providing quality education for the 9.5…
The coronation of Tukur as PDP chairman
Ayorinde Oluokun/ abuja Weeks of intrigues within Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP culminated in the expected outcome of the…
Bamanga Tukur Defeated In North East Zonal PDP Congress
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, President Goodluck Jonathan’s anointed and preferred candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairmanship seat suffered a…
Koluama Chevron Gas Explosion: Presidency Faults ACN
The Presidency has described as false claims by the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji…
Qattara to succeed Jonathan as ECOWAS chair
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara is expected to succeed Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan as the ECOWAS chairman in the vote…
Lurid Details From The House Of Reps Probe —Peter Claver Oparah
In the heat of the annoying crisis engendered by the Jonathan administration’s increment of petroleum prices on January 1, I…
Goodluck Jonathan: Nigeria’s Embattled President —Stephanie Busari
He is the son of a canoe-carver, a mild-mannered academic who wears a fedora but eschews the flowing robes and…
Soldiers Leave Lagos Streets
Soldiers who were deployed by President Goodluck Jonathan to crush protests in Lagos against the removal of fuel subsidy have…
Fashola Sad Over Jonathan’s Refusal To Withdraw Soldiers
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State is sad that President Goodluck Jonathan has refused to withdraw soldiers from the streets…
Okonjo-Iweala Assures On Sports Budget For 2012
Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Nigerian economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has assured sports loving Nigerians that the government…
ACN Taunts PDP-Led FG Over Successful Labour Strike
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has said that the massive turn-out of protesting Nigerians against the removal of fuel…
Subsidy protest: Jonathan makes concessions in National broadcast
The Full Text of the broadcast by President Ebele Goodluck Jonathan to Nigerians on Saturday 7 January Dear Compatriots, 1.…
Gaya Slams Jonathan Over Sports Budget
Chairman, House of Representative Committee on Sports, Godfrey Gaiya, has criticised the government of Goodluck Jonathan for not mentioning sports in the…
Boko Haram Beats War Drums; Asks Christians, Southerners To Leave North
The Muslim fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram, has given Christians and southerners living in northern Nigeria, a three-day ultimatum to leave…
Nigeria: Buhari Warns of a Looming Chaos
Ayo Oluokun/Abuja Leading opposition candidate in Nigeria’s last election, General Muhammadu Buhari, has warned about a looming chaos and a…
Jonathan, Atiku salute Nigerians at Xmas
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has seized the occasion of Xmas to thank the vast majority of Nigerians who continue to…
Experts Differ On Jonathan’s 2012 Budget
Some financial experts on Thursday expressed divergent views on the N4.75 trillion budget presented by President Goodluck Jonathan to the…
Lagos PDP Faults ACN; Over Comments On George’s NPC Appointment
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has berated the Action Congress of Nigeria,…
Why We Reject Kogi Gov Poll Results –Melaye
A Chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and former member of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has…
Don’t Embark On Strike, PDP Chieftain Urges ASUU
APeople’s Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Lagos State, Owolabi Salis, has advised members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities,…
President Jonathan Sacks Sports Minister
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has relieved the Minister of Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman of his post with immediate effect to…
“We Will Fight Corruption To A Standstill” – FG
The Federal Government has reiterated its determination to fight corruption to ensure the success of its transformation programme and restore…
Nigeria’s Jonathan Champions Cassava Flour Bread
With loaves of bread made from 40 per cent cassava flour being shared among his ministers in the cozy Aso…
EFCC Boss Farida Waziri Sacked
The big axe of President Goodluck Jonathan this morning fell on Mrs. Farida Waziri, boss of Nigeria’s leading anti corruption…