Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Boko Haram the main foe at home for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s government has been reinforcing its links with foreign Islamist groups such as Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Al Shabaab in Somalia...

Election billboards in the business district of Abuja calling for President Goodluck Jonathan to stand for election again in 2015 opened the political season of the New Year...

President Goodluck Jonathan's state visit to China delivered much-needed finance for infrastructure projects but the final amount was rather less than his officials had originally envisaged...

In an interview in July before Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan went to China (see Feature) Beijing's Ambassador to Nigeria Deng Boqing fielded questions about substandard and counterfeit goods sold by Chinese manufacturers...

With Indonesia’s commerce and investment in Africa on the rise SBY and his Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa spent two days in Nigeria where they met President Goodluck Jonathan and Foreign Minister Joy Ogwu to talk about the growing trade in illicit drugs between the two countries...

Muhammad Ashraf Saleem Pakistan’s Ambassador to Nigeria echoed that message at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry in November the same month that Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan was attending the D8 Summit in the capital city...

Two new large dams will be built before President Goodluck Jonathan’s first presidential term expires in 2015 according to the government...

In 2010 President Goodluck Jonathan appointed her Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs where she remained until October 2012 when Jonathan swapped her portfolio with that of Power Minister Darius Dickson Ishaku...

• France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Mali’s President Dioncounda Traoré Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (who chairs the Economic Community of West African States) want the Security Council to approve a single resolution endorsing an internationally backed military force before the end of December...

Nigeria's regional strategy On 5 November President Goodluck Jonathan’s National Security Advisor retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki warned that Boko Haram had growing ties with other African extremist groups (AC Vol 53 No 14 Turning security upside down)...