The federal government has played politics with the Boko Haram insurgency using it to silence opposition from northern politicians who claim that President Goodluck Jonathan has broken the rotation of power between north and south...
If the government fails to act on the report which is due to be sent to President Goodluck Jonathan on 2 November it will further undermine reformers such as Economy Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi...
A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report which President Goodluck Jonathan’s government endorsed has set the cost of cleaning up in Ogoni at about $1 billion with Shell expected to chip in...
As President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to read the 2013 budget in the National Assembly on 11 October which estimates state spending of 4 929 billion naira (US$31...
A score of Nigerian civil society organisations petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene because two Nigerians are still on death row...
Ecowas Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has taken this as a slight despite their previously warm relations because he had already tasked Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan with this job...
Most regional heads of state – Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Benin's Thomas Yayi Boni (who currently chairs the African Union) – will attend...
Vol 53 No 16 |
- WEST AFRICA
Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré the official mediator has been dealing with Iyad ag Ghali's Ansar Eddine while contacts with the Mouvement pour l'unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest (MUJAO) are handled by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria whom Ouattara values highly as a regional partner...
Ping’s main Anglophone backers – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi – were absent (see Pointer The missing host)...
President Goodluck Jonathan’s preferred candidate to head the board is Stanbic IBTC Bank Chairman Atedo Peterside we hear...