Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Some of the wildest theories are in play: the most intriguing is that the Avengers are a mercenary army financed by wealthy and discredited politicians from President Goodluck Jonathan's ousted government...

Its targets are the government and the older generation of militants such as High Chief Government Ekpemupolo ('Tompolo') who were well rewarded by President Goodluck Jonathan's government for joining the amnesty programme...

The Oil Minister in the Goodluck Jonathan government Diezani Allison-Madueke is accused of presiding over $24 bn...

A cash-for-immunity deal brokered in 2014 by Swiss lawyers between the then President Goodluck Jonathan's government and two sons of the late General Sani Abacha Mohammed and Abba is soon expected to pay off again (AC Vol 50 No 24 Rogues and rackets on trial & Vol 55 No 13 The trade-off)...

Some ask more searching questions about where the cash is coming from: several emigrés from Nigeria close friends of its former President Goodluck Jonathan and Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke have pitched camp in Ghana...

The money was allocated to securing the Niger Delta's waterways under Buhari's predecessor Goodluck Jonathan an Ijaw man like Tompolo...

Led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo officials set out the country's predicament to Lagarde: a crashing oil price had combined with five years of rampant state theft under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government to cause a chronic shortage of foreign exchange...

The same goes for politicians such as Olisa Metuh National Publicity Secretary of the People's Democratic Party under former President Goodluck Jonathan...

When the PDP holds its convention in March its unity will come under huge pressure as rival groups vie to replace the remnants of Goodluck Jonathan's leadership team...

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...