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Nigeria

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Date of Birth: 20 November 1957
Place of Birth: Bayelsa


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Bringing it all back home

Both Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and South Africa’s Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana Mashabane emphasised that the AU was not considering a mass withdrawal from the ICC at this time...


Blocking the great reform bill

Uncertainty about the oil and gas reforms has also undermined President Goodluck Jonathan’s attempts to fix the legendarily inefficient electric power sector...


An insurgency without the oil

At face value the declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan’s government dominated by appointees from the oil-rich Niger Delta of a state of emergency in north-east Nigeria and plans to defeat the Boko Haram insurgents there looks like a reversal of the political clashes in the 1990s...


Diplomatic diversions

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan expressed sympathy for Kenya’s position at the ICC adding that Nigeria would stand behind Kenya as an African partner backing the first argument...


Opposition on all fronts

Several days of fierce fighting between troops and Boko Haram militants followed efforts by President Goodluck Jonathan’s government to negotiate an amnesty deal with the Islamist militia...


Beggar your pardon

Gates had been scheduled to meet President Goodluck Jonathan but in one of the most maladroit moves of his presidency Jonathan had just pardoned his friend and predecessor as Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha...


No visible means of support

It doesn’t look good for President Goodluck Jonathan as he prepares his campaign for a second term in the 2015 elections...


Eko Atlantic arises from the sea bed

Glitz levels at the party were high enough to draw the Lagos business elite and even President Goodluck Jonathan who delivered a keynote speech...


Losing ground at the AU

The growing seriousness of the disputes between the Khartoum and Juba governments was clear at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa when Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan convened an impromptu meeting on the crisis on 27 January...


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