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Nigeria

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

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


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Turning security upside down

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...


Fuel fraud fans public anger

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...


Star-struck James Ibori

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...


The President tightens up

At last his successor President Goodluck Jonathan has started to use his enormous powers to hunt down perceived enemies...


The people who run the PDP show

• 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...


Oil cuts as Delta erupts

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...


How terror came to Kano

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...


Jobs for the boys

President Goodluck Jonathan tried to crack the whip at a top-level meeting last October and speed up the post-Gbeho transition...


How the fuel row caught fire

Nobody in government least of all President Goodluck Jonathan seemed prepared for the torrent of opposition excited by the decision to end fuel subsidies...


A year of living dangerously

First came President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency enforced by further deployments of soldiers in several northern states and closure of the borders with Niger and Chad in the wake of more bombings and shootings by northern-based insurgents...


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