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Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

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


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The usual suspects

President Goodluck Jonathan shows little desire to impose himself on the country as the 36 state governors and the National Assembly jockey to push their nominees into the cabinet...


Ministers old and new

President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet was not complete when we went to press...


Boko Haram declares war

Few seem convinced by President Goodluck Jonathan’s assurances that the security situation is under control following the bombing on 16 June of Louis Edet House the national police headquarters in Abuja...


Power to the people, profits to the chiefs

Among the militant leaders a fight is brewing over the presidency of the powerful IYC with President Goodluck Jonathan’s amnesty boss Kingsley Kuku acting as kingmaker...


Reports of Mugabe’s demise

He then went to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s contested inauguration and also took in Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s in Abuja...


Two leaders, two parties

While fanfares sounded and banners flew at Kololo airstrip with heads of state Robert Mugabe Goodluck Jonathan Mwai Kibaki and Joseph Kabila in attendance a massive welcoming party was under way on the other side of town for Kizza Besigye...


Better elections, dangerous politics

The bloody aftermath of Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the 16 April presidential election will require decisive action from his new government to prevent a dangerous and widening gulf between north and south...


Governors, godfathers and guts

The most celebrated godfather and Governor James Ibori of Delta State won a privileged position for bankrolling Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s presidential victory in 2007 but fled to Dubai when Goodluck Jonathan took over the presidency last May...


A trap for the juggernaut

The presidential poll is on 16 April but many who voted against the PDP in the legislative elections may still vote for PDP candidate Goodluck Jonathan according to independent opinion polls which forecast that the President should get about 60% of the national vote...


A resolution in Abidjan

It was Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s insistence as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) that Gbagbo would have to leave power – by the use of ‘legitimate force’ if necessary – that laid the groundwork for the denouement in Abidjan on 11 April...


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