Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan who is Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States sent an aircraft to Monrovia to bring Tubman and running mate George Weah to Abuja for talks to resolve the crisis on 3 November...
Seeing the threat to national earnings Benin’s President Thomas Yayi Boni met Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on 16 October and agreed on joint naval patrols around their countries’ maritime zone...
President Goodluck Jonathan promised to provide 600 police officers to help to maintain order during polling...
With President Goodluck Jonathan in power the ceasefire declared by the Delta militants appeared to be holding yet some have stayed in business albeit outside their home region...
Although the African Union condemned Gbagbo’s refusal to leave power after the election results Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos and South African President Jacob Zuma were his strongest defenders in the AU panel on the Ivorian crisis where they frequently clashed with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré (AC Vol 52 No 4 Democracy standoff and The financial sanctions tighten)...
A group of power-brokers and fortune-seekers is taking shape around President Goodluck Jonathan...
One of her business partners is said to be the First Lady Patience Goodluck Jonathan...
On the same day as the London High Court settlement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan a much wider-ranging assessment of the ecological crisis in Ogoniland criticising both Shell and successive Nigerian governments and estimating that the clean-up would cost over a billion dollars...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s committee to respond to the UNEP report is due to report back before the end of August...
Vol 52 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Indeed Zuma and Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos rounded on Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan at the African Union summit for backing the use of ‘legitimate force’ to depose Gbagbo after United Nations monitors judged that he had lost the election...
The presidency had had enough of him and was supporting the rise to power of his Deputy Governor Goodluck Jonathan now President (AC Vol 52 No 14 Ministers old and new & AC Vol 52 No 15 Maiduguri's terror crisis)...