Some claim northern business people and politicians indignant at the election of southern President Goodluck Jonathan are exploiting the crisis...
Vol 52 No 15 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
The original schedule for Cameron’s first Africa trip included Rwanda (a favourite of International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell) and freshly independent South Sudan but was cut down to a day in South Africa and a stop in Lagos to meet Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan because of the crisis at home with the Murdochs...
President Goodluck Jonathan shows little desire to impose himself on the country as the 36 state governors and the National Assembly jockey to push their nominees into the cabinet...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet was not complete when we went to press...
Few seem convinced by President Goodluck Jonathan’s assurances that the security situation is under control following the bombing on 16 June of Louis Edet House the national police headquarters in Abuja...
Among the militant leaders a fight is brewing over the presidency of the powerful IYC with President Goodluck Jonathan’s amnesty boss Kingsley Kuku acting as kingmaker...
He then went to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s contested inauguration and also took in Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s in Abuja...
While fanfares sounded and banners flew at Kololo airstrip with heads of state Robert Mugabe Goodluck Jonathan Mwai Kibaki and Joseph Kabila in attendance a massive welcoming party was under way on the other side of town for Kizza Besigye...
The bloody aftermath of Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the 16 April presidential election will require decisive action from his new government to prevent a dangerous and widening gulf between north and south...
The most celebrated godfather and Governor James Ibori of Delta State won a privileged position for bankrolling Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s presidential victory in 2007 but fled to Dubai when Goodluck Jonathan took over the presidency last May...