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Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

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


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Cleared by cash

A cash-for-immunity deal brokered in 2014 by Swiss lawyers between the then President Goodluck Jonathan's government and two sons of the late General Sani Abacha Mohammed and Abba is soon expected to pay off again (AC Vol 50 No 24 Rogues and rackets on trial & Vol 55 No 13 The trade-off)...


A disputed state of the nation

Some ask more searching questions about where the cash is coming from: several emigrés from Nigeria close friends of its former President Goodluck Jonathan and Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke have pitched camp in Ghana...

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The logic of naira nationalism

Led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo officials set out the country's predicament to Lagarde: a crashing oil price had combined with five years of rampant state theft under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government to cause a chronic shortage of foreign exchange...

The same goes for politicians such as Olisa Metuh National Publicity Secretary of the People's Democratic Party under former President Goodluck Jonathan...


Big tests beckon for Buhari

When the PDP holds its convention in March its unity will come under huge pressure as rival groups vie to replace the remnants of Goodluck Jonathan's leadership team...

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Taking down Tompolo

Tompolo's career path from military commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to the boss of security company Global West to which the then President Goodluck Jonathan's government awarded a US$103 million contract made him one of the most powerful figures in the Delta...


The return of OPL 245

Under the notorious arrangement brokered by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's Attorney General Mohammed Adoke Shell and ENI paid $1...


The cauldron boils again

Despite the wider failures of defeated President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party the PDP had managed to keep an ill-fitting lid on the Delta's cauldron of troubles for the last five years (AC Vol 50 No 22 Abuja buys a Delta amnesty & Vol 56 No 8 Mending fences)...


Fighting graft, Buhari-style

Although Emefiele is extremely unpopular with Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) – because of his closeness to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan – there is little they can do overtly to get him out of the job...


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