Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Within hours of the Ivorian Conseil Constitutionnel (led by Gbagbo’s allies) overturning the results issued by the Commission Electorale Indépendante (CEI dominated by oppositionists) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan convened an emergency meeting of West African heads of state at Abuja airport to agree a strategy...

President Goodluck Jonathan from Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta faces a strong challenge from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar the consummate political networker whose collaboration with the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in the 1990s laid the foundations of the PDP...

Singh in person to deliver an invitation to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia to the India-Africa summit...

Ajumogobia was expected to take the energy portfolio in Goodluck Jonathan’s government but the job went to former Shell executive Diezani Allison-Madueke...

Togo’s faction declared it was quitting the amnesty deal on 15 November creating an international news story that displeased President Goodluck Jonathan...

Strategists around President Goodluck Jonathan want time for him to win over his divided party and the country at large...

Within the governing People's Democratic Party President Goodluck Jonathan has to show his competitors for the presidential nomination that he can control his Delta base the source of 95% of Nigeria's export revenue...

A new coalition of fighters in the Niger Delta has emerged to oppose President Goodluck Jonathan’s amnesty and has launched a new round of violence...

President Goodluck Jonathan who is from the Delta faces calls for his impeachment from northern rivals for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential nomination...

Fourteen of his ex-commanders have written to President Goodluck Jonathan complaining that he profits from money meant for rehabilitating militants...