Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The leak from an Italian government investigation of ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi) reveals that ENI officials made direct contact with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his then Oil and Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke to break the logjam over the contentious OPL 245...

South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo are working behind the scenes to try to reconcile Presidents Jacob Zuma and Goodluck Jonathan Africa Confidential understands...

In turn the APC accuses the PDP government and President Goodluck Jonathan of serial incompetence and disregard for northern Nigerians...

Above all else opposition politicians insist that President Goodluck Jonathan and the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) have been misusing state oil revenue for political campaigning...

However part of President Goodluck Jonathan's credo and reason for his elevation to the vice-presidency in 2007 is that as a Delta politician he understood the region's troubles and had a solution...

MEND threatened to continue the attacks against oil installations because it regarded the amnesty as a fraud 'to line the pockets of Goodluck Jonathan his wife Patience and members of the Amnesty Committee whose sudden wealth remains unchallenged by the Nigerian media...

Despite a security crisis and a poor public image President Goodluck Jonathan's People's Democratic Party has engineered a startling political recovery...

Richard Konteh the State House Chief of Staff supposedly fired for corruption is claiming that he was in fact the fall guy for President Ernest Bai Koroma's inadvertent angering of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (AC Vol 55 No 12 Koroma sacks top aide)...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan attended the Elysée summit and in May asked Hollande to host a regional summit on tackling the Islamist militia Boko Haram...

It is also the first major reverse for the opposition alliance this year in its battle against President Goodluck Jonathan's government which has been in retreat as criticism mounted of its handling of the security crisis in the north...

From any angle the appointment of Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi as the 57th Emir of Kano is bad news for President Goodluck Jonathan and his government...