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...
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...
President Goodluck Jonathan tried to crack the whip at a top-level meeting last October and speed up the post-Gbeho transition...
Nobody in government least of all President Goodluck Jonathan seemed prepared for the torrent of opposition excited by the decision to end fuel subsidies...
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...
This was another reason why President Goodluck Jonathan was in a hurry to cut the fuel subsidies)...
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- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Following Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s strong backing for Ouattara in last year’s election imbroglio the two have become firm friends...
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...
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...
The Deputy National Secretary of the Labour Party Babatunde Aiyelabola a trades unionist claims that the government is sending out contradictory messages to disorientate the public by for example claiming that President Goodluck Jonathan’s main rival in this year’s election Major General Mohammadu Buhari supported the subsidy removal...