At face value the declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan’s government dominated by appointees from the oil-rich Niger Delta of a state of emergency in north-east Nigeria and plans to defeat the Boko Haram insurgents there looks like a reversal of the political clashes in the 1990s...
Vol 54 No 10 |
- KENYA
- BRITAIN
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan expressed sympathy for Kenya’s position at the ICC adding that Nigeria would stand behind Kenya as an African partner backing the first argument...
Several days of fierce fighting between troops and Boko Haram militants followed efforts by President Goodluck Jonathan’s government to negotiate an amnesty deal with the Islamist militia...
Gates had been scheduled to meet President Goodluck Jonathan but in one of the most maladroit moves of his presidency Jonathan had just pardoned his friend and predecessor as Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha...
It doesn’t look good for President Goodluck Jonathan as he prepares his campaign for a second term in the 2015 elections...
Glitz levels at the party were high enough to draw the Lagos business elite and even President Goodluck Jonathan who delivered a keynote speech...
Vol 54 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Nigeria whose President Goodluck Jonathan was a ubiquitous figure at the summit’s key meetings will send another $7...
The growing seriousness of the disputes between the Khartoum and Juba governments was clear at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa when Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan convened an impromptu meeting on the crisis on 27 January...
Boko Haram the main foe at home for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s government has been reinforcing its links with foreign Islamist groups such as Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Al Shabaab in Somalia...
Election billboards in the business district of Abuja calling for President Goodluck Jonathan to stand for election again in 2015 opened the political season of the New Year...