Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Rivalry between two former loyalists of President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party in his home state of Bayelsa presages fierce confrontations before April's elections...

President Goodluck Jonathan clinched the presidential nomination of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on 14 January with an unexpected 77% of the votes...

Goodluck Jonathan has yet to persuade Nigeria that he is a national rather than a Niger Delta leader...

Within hours of the Ivorian Conseil Constitutionnel (led by Gbagbo’s allies) overturning the results issued by the Commission Electorale Indépendante (CEI dominated by oppositionists) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan convened an emergency meeting of West African heads of state at Abuja airport to agree a strategy...

President Goodluck Jonathan from Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta faces a strong challenge from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar the consummate political networker whose collaboration with the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in the 1990s laid the foundations of the PDP...

Singh in person to deliver an invitation to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia to the India-Africa summit...

Ajumogobia was expected to take the energy portfolio in Goodluck Jonathan’s government but the job went to former Shell executive Diezani Allison-Madueke...

Togo’s faction declared it was quitting the amnesty deal on 15 November creating an international news story that displeased President Goodluck Jonathan...

Strategists around President Goodluck Jonathan want time for him to win over his divided party and the country at large...

Within the governing People's Democratic Party President Goodluck Jonathan has to show his competitors for the presidential nomination that he can control his Delta base the source of 95% of Nigeria's export revenue...

A new coalition of fighters in the Niger Delta has emerged to oppose President Goodluck Jonathan’s amnesty and has launched a new round of violence...