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Nigeria

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Date of Birth: 20 November 1957
Place of Birth: Bayelsa


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Ready for change in the Niger Delta

Fourteen of his ex-commanders have written to President Goodluck Jonathan complaining that he profits from money meant for rehabilitating militants...


The politics takes over again

The brief interest shown by President Goodluck Jonathan's government in economic reform seems to be waning in favour of a concentration on short-term tactics that might help his electoral chances in 2011...


The car bomb whodunit

Whoever was responsible for the car bombs that killed 12 people in Abuja during the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's Independence on 1 October and whatever their motives they have succeeded in weakening President Goodluck Jonathan and sharply ratcheting up tensions between the north and the south...


A false start

The speculation about changing the date of the election was serious enough to persuade President Goodluck Jonathan to delay his departure for the United Nations’ development summit in New York on 21-22 September...


The field gets more crowded

After a precipitate launching of his campaign on Facebook’s social networking site on 14 September (pre-empting General Ibrahim Babangida’s more formal announcement) President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan announced he would seek the PDP presidential nomination at a rally in Abuja on 18 September...


Good man, impossible job

Certainly the tighter timetable helps incumbent Goodluck Jonathan as it gives his rivals less time to organise...


A tight election timetable

Just weeks earlier opposition groups had threatened mass protests if President Goodluck Jonathan’s government tried to extend its term in office...

* 17 September: The favoured date for Goodluck Jonathan to declare that he will seek the presidential nomination for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)...


Goodluck with the numbers

The arithmetic is not right yet but Goodluck Jonathan is making steady progress in his bid for the candidacy of his party in next year's presidential elections...


Political spills

The plans of President Goodluck Jonathan an indigene of Bayelsa State to run for the presidency in January 2011 have raised expectations of substantive improvements in the Delta...


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