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...
The latest wave of attacks on churches police stations and even building workers across northern Nigeria seems to be the insurgents’ response to President Goodluck Jonathan’s sacking of his security team last month...
The belated announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan on 22 May that he wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to act on the US$6...
His plan we hear was to replace Goodluck Jonathan as Vice-President at the end of Yar’Adua’s first term and use the post as a base for his own presidential bid...
At last his successor President Goodluck Jonathan has started to use his enormous powers to hunt down perceived enemies...
• Chief Mike Oghiadomhe Chief of Staff to the President: as Edo State Deputy Governor he made friends with his opposite number in Bayelsa Goodluck Jonathan...
The latest violence there in President Goodluck Jonathan’s political base threatens the government’s amnesty deal with militants and costs the economy as much as a million barrels of oil per day...
The shortcomings of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government have been pointed out by northern grandees such as Generals Muhammadu Buhari Ibrahim Babangida and Aliyu Mohammed Gusau and civilian politicians such as Atiku Abubakar...