Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Although President Buhari claims he has introduced reforms to stop the defence procurement scams which thrived under his immediate predecessor President Goodluck Jonathan contracting practices in the army remain unreformed and prone to corruption one senior officer told Africa Confidential...

The south-west has produced every southern president save for five years (2010-15) of Goodluck Jonathan from the south-south...

In Bayelsa former president Goodluck Jonathan junked his PDP membership loyalties and threw his weight behind the ruling APC in the 16 November elections...

The African Union whose mission whose mission was headed by Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan unsurprisingly endorsed the polls...

Once closely linked with the PDP having benefited from contracts under the Goodluck Jonathan government Tompolo takes a pragmatic view of the Buhari government...

A holdover from the Goodluck Jonathan era Emefiele has become the main cheerleader for Buhari-nomics: defending the naira and multiple exchange rates using reserves if necessary keeping the IMF at a distance cajoling banks to lend to productive farms and factories and banning the use of foreign exchange at the lower official rates for imports of food grown in Nigeria (AC Vol 60 No 13 The rise of Godwin Emefiele)...

Malami is also at the centre of a second legal drama as prosecutors in Milan wind up their case against Shell ENI and a string of executives accused of colluding with officials and using corrupt methods under the Goodluck Jonathan government to acquire OPL245 the licence to exploit one of Africa's richest oil fields...

CA/SCL worked for Jubilee ahead of the 2013 elections and for Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2007 and 2015 (AC Vol 58 No 12 Here come the data-miners)...

Instead President Goodluck Jonathan's administration chose to establish the agency under the Ministry of Petroleum...

With the publication of the UNEP report in 2011 then-President Goodluck Jonathan set HYPREP up in 2012 at the Ministry of Petroleum Resources under Diezani Allison-Madueke...

Military ruler General Yakubu Gowon under whom Buhari served during the civil war attended the swearing-in but Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan two former presidents who back the opposition People's Democratic Party were absent (AC Vol 52 No 8 A trap for the juggernaut)...

Nigeria argues that the agreement (and original award in 1998) was corrupt claiming that those who benefited from improper payments from 2011 included the then President Goodluck Jonathan Attorney-General Mohammed Adoke Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and National Security Adviser Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (AC Vol 58 No 16 Trading places and faces)...