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...
Under the notorious arrangement brokered by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's Attorney General Mohammed Adoke Shell and ENI paid $1...
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)...
Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (Kano) who has a British doctorate in criminology was Chief of Army Staff during the delicate presidential transition from Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to Goodluck Jonathan...
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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...
Nigerian journalists delighted in reporting Buhari's displeasure on encountering Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia two leading bankers seen as close to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government (AC Vol 55 No 19 The fire this century)...
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In a move reminiscent of the ‘rise without trace' in 2010 of Nigeria's ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010 Tanzania's governing party Chama cha Mapinduzi has nominated a virtual unknown to carry it into the presidential election...
Both sides are keen to revive the bilateral commission which lapsed as relations faltered under President Goodluck Jonathan...
' He thanked Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for having proposed him and Ghana's Finance Minister Seth Terkper for seconding him thanked Uganda and then embraced Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria's outgoing Finance Minister...
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Popular expectations of new President Muhammadu Buhari were stratospherically high before his 29 May inauguration in Abuja – all the more so because chronic fuel shortages increasing power cuts billowing state debts and mounting pay arrears have haunted the final weeks of outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan's government...
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