Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Three days earlier Acting President Goodluck Jonathan had tried to address the crisis by appointing a 26-member Presidential Advisory Council to speed up the implementation of government policy on key issues: the amnesty in the Niger Delta rehabilitation of the electric power grid electoral reform and stronger anti-corruption measures...

The doctrine of necessity Whatever the constitutional doubts that remain the 9 February resolution by the National Assembly citing the ‘doctrine of necessity’ to recognise Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President was warmly welcomed by Nigerians who had watched the country teeter for over 70 days...

Now a man in a hurry Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has to stamp his authority on Abuja and quickly decide which ministers and officials can help him and which to drop...

On 16 January the Vice-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan began to sound like a Nigerian President...

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to build a broad consensus across political parties and ethnic regions with advisors outside party and government circles who are mostly from Bayelsa...

A settlement in the Niger Delta would help production to recover from the 2009 lows but that is far from certain amid rows about the claim to the presidency of Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...

Some back a compromise which would allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to hold the presidency until the 2011 elections...

However many would oppose such a coup which would be seen as the northern-dominated military blocking the presidency of the Niger Delta’s Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...

In a 30 August memo Aganda said that President Goodluck Jonathan had ‘approved’ that the $500 mn...

President Goodluck Jonathan’s plans to privatise the electricity sector have attracted interest from China India Russia and elsewhere...