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Nigeria

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Date of Birth: 20 November 1957
Place of Birth: Bayelsa


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The people who run the PDP show

• Chief Mike Oghiadomhe Chief of Staff to the President: as Edo State Deputy Governor he made friends with his opposite number in Bayelsa Goodluck Jonathan...


Oil cuts as Delta erupts

The latest violence there in President Goodluck Jonathan’s political base threatens the government’s amnesty deal with militants and costs the economy as much as a million barrels of oil per day...


How terror came to Kano

The shortcomings of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government have been pointed out by northern grandees such as Generals Muhammadu Buhari Ibrahim Babangida and Aliyu Mohammed Gusau and civilian politicians such as Atiku Abubakar...


Jobs for the boys

President Goodluck Jonathan tried to crack the whip at a top-level meeting last October and speed up the post-Gbeho transition...


How the fuel row caught fire

Nobody in government least of all President Goodluck Jonathan seemed prepared for the torrent of opposition excited by the decision to end fuel subsidies...


A year of living dangerously

First came President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency enforced by further deployments of soldiers in several northern states and closure of the borders with Niger and Chad in the wake of more bombings and shootings by northern-based insurgents...


Smart money, prickly politics

Following Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s strong backing for Ouattara in last year’s election imbroglio the two have become firm friends...


Inside the security hierarchy

Like President Goodluck Jonathan he is an Ijaw from the Niger Delta which has helped secure his job but he gets much of the blame for government failures against Boko Haram...


The unprosecutables

Rumours of Farida Waziri’s imminent demise as head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had been circulating for weeks before President Goodluck Jonathan administered the coup de grâce on 23 November...


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