Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The doctrine of necessity Whatever the constitutional doubts that remain the 9 February resolution by the National Assembly citing the ‘doctrine of necessity’ to recognise Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President was warmly welcomed by Nigerians who had watched the country teeter for over 70 days...

Now a man in a hurry Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has to stamp his authority on Abuja and quickly decide which ministers and officials can help him and which to drop...

On 16 January the Vice-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan began to sound like a Nigerian President...

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to build a broad consensus across political parties and ethnic regions with advisors outside party and government circles who are mostly from Bayelsa...

A settlement in the Niger Delta would help production to recover from the 2009 lows but that is far from certain amid rows about the claim to the presidency of Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...

Some back a compromise which would allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to hold the presidency until the 2011 elections...

However many would oppose such a coup which would be seen as the northern-dominated military blocking the presidency of the Niger Delta’s Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...

In a 30 August memo Aganda said that President Goodluck Jonathan had ‘approved’ that the $500 mn...

President Goodluck Jonathan’s plans to privatise the electricity sector have attracted interest from China India Russia and elsewhere...

The deal resembles the oil-for-infrastructure contracts signed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo just before the 2007 elections although President Goodluck Jonathan wants to avoid too close an association with his recent predecessors...