Although Emefiele is extremely unpopular with Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) – because of his closeness to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan – there is little they can do overtly to get him out of the job...
Nigerian journalists delighted in reporting Buhari's displeasure on encountering Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia two leading bankers seen as close to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government (AC Vol 55 No 19 The fire this century)...
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In a move reminiscent of the ‘rise without trace' in 2010 of Nigeria's ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010 Tanzania's governing party Chama cha Mapinduzi has nominated a virtual unknown to carry it into the presidential election...
Both sides are keen to revive the bilateral commission which lapsed as relations faltered under President Goodluck Jonathan...
' He thanked Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for having proposed him and Ghana's Finance Minister Seth Terkper for seconding him thanked Uganda and then embraced Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria's outgoing Finance Minister...
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Popular expectations of new President Muhammadu Buhari were stratospherically high before his 29 May inauguration in Abuja – all the more so because chronic fuel shortages increasing power cuts billowing state debts and mounting pay arrears have haunted the final weeks of outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan's government...
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Together with the South-East the Delta remains the surviving bastion of outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (AC Vol 56 No 8 Mending fences)...
The agreement which has just been published in the Nigerian media was commissioned by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's Attorney General Mohammed Adoke the man who signed up the OPL 245 deal on behalf of Abuja (AC Vol 55 No 7 There will be blood… and oil)...
At the same time Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was becoming increasingly worried by the growing public support for the opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari and he decided to regain the initiative by postponing the elections and using the intervening period to try to end the attacks in the north-east (AC Vol 56 No 4 Democracy delayed)...
Outgoing Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan quickly understood the potency of King Mohammed's spiritual reach when in March he made what many felt was an ill-judged attempt to appeal to Muslim voters during the presidential election campaign...