Tag: Goodluck Jonathan
World leaders pay tribute to Ghanaian leader
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan was among the world leaders that paid tribute Tuesday to the former Ghanaian President John Atta…
Pastor Bakare: Jonathan should just go
David Odey The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare…
Jonathan sets up new NNPC board
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday approved the constitution of a new board of directors for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation…
Who Is Afraid Of Declaration Of Assets?
By Isaac Asabor It is no more news to say that President Goodluck Jonathan’s uncouth response to a question on…
ACN: Media chat exposes Jonathan’s tolerance of graft
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said President Goodluck Jonathan’s comments on key national issues during his Media Chat…
Jonathan: Boko Haram wants to topple government
Updated Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said Islamist group Boko Haram was seeking to destabilise the government and had…
Jonathan On Jamboree In Brazil
Beleaguered Nigerian leader, Goodluck Jonathan embarked on his unpopular trip to the Earth Summit in Rio de janeiro, Brazil with…
Jonathan approves more schools in South-East
President Goodluck Jonathan at the inauguration of the back-to school campaign, directed the Federal Ministry of Education to build additional…
President Goodluck Jonathan visits plane crash site
President Goodluck Jonathan, in company of the Lagos state governor, Raji Fashola, the Inspector General of police, Mohammed Abubakar and…
Nigerian police teargas protesting UNILAG students
Nigerian police fired tear gas on Friday in a bid to disperse student protesters demonstrating over a name change at…
NUC boss defends Jonathan on UNILAG
Professor Julius Okojie, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC on Thursday defended President Goodluck Jonathan’s renaming of…
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…