Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

To those who know both men President Goodluck Jonathan's appointment of veteran spymaster General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau as Defence Minister on 5 March may be a case of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'...

Plain speaking combative and ubiquitous Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi was never going to work well with the taciturn and cautious President Goodluck Jonathan...

8 billion: that was the oil sales revenue between January 2012 and June 2013 that should have been transferred to the federation account said a letter written by Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to President Goodluck Jonathan last September (AC Vol 54 No 25 Presidential letter bombs)...

Initially supportive of South Africa's plan President Goodluck Jonathan changed tack and called for tight controls by the AU Peace and Security Council on the force's deployment and mandate...

At face value the Davos reception made sense: Mahama sat alongside Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan at a forum on Africa...

Conveniently for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan 2014 is the year the country can claim to be Africa's biggest economy even though it will remain a less advanced one than South Africa...

President Goodluck Jonathan is at war with his own People's Democratic Party: five state governors have defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) as have 37 members of parliament depriving the PDP of a majority (AC Vol 54 No 25 Presidential letter bombs and Vol 55 No 1 Goodluck Jonathan loses the numbers game)...

This year started with a row between President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo; and it is ending with a second and bigger row between the two...

The leaking this week of two damning letters to President Goodluck Jonathan was surely no coincidence and fires a powerful broadside against his government and his plans to run for a second term...

Now President Goodluck Jonathan (from Bayelsa State in the Delta) and Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke (from neighbouring Rivers State) are struggling to limit the damage of catastrophic revenue losses in the industry which generates 90% of foreign exchange earnings...