As President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to read the 2013 budget in the National Assembly on 11 October which estimates state spending of 4 929 billion naira (US$31...
A score of Nigerian civil society organisations petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene because two Nigerians are still on death row...
Ecowas Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has taken this as a slight despite their previously warm relations because he had already tasked Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan with this job...
Most regional heads of state – Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Benin's Thomas Yayi Boni (who currently chairs the African Union) – will attend...
Vol 53 No 16 |
- WEST AFRICA
Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré the official mediator has been dealing with Iyad ag Ghali's Ansar Eddine while contacts with the Mouvement pour l'unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest (MUJAO) are handled by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria whom Ouattara values highly as a regional partner...
Ping’s main Anglophone backers – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi – were absent (see Pointer The missing host)...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s preferred candidate to head the board is Stanbic IBTC Bank Chairman Atedo Peterside we hear...
The latest wave of attacks on churches police stations and even building workers across northern Nigeria seems to be the insurgents’ response to President Goodluck Jonathan’s sacking of his security team last month...
The belated announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan on 22 May that he wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to act on the US$6...
His plan we hear was to replace Goodluck Jonathan as Vice-President at the end of Yar’Adua’s first term and use the post as a base for his own presidential bid...