Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The speculation about changing the date of the election was serious enough to persuade President Goodluck Jonathan to delay his departure for the United Nations’ development summit in New York on 21-22 September...

After a precipitate launching of his campaign on Facebook’s social networking site on 14 September (pre-empting General Ibrahim Babangida’s more formal announcement) President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan announced he would seek the PDP presidential nomination at a rally in Abuja on 18 September...

Certainly the tighter timetable helps incumbent Goodluck Jonathan as it gives his rivals less time to organise...

Just weeks earlier opposition groups had threatened mass protests if President Goodluck Jonathan’s government tried to extend its term in office...

* 17 September: The favoured date for Goodluck Jonathan to declare that he will seek the presidential nomination for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)...

The arithmetic is not right yet but Goodluck Jonathan is making steady progress in his bid for the candidacy of his party in next year's presidential elections...

The plans of President Goodluck Jonathan an indigene of Bayelsa State to run for the presidency in January 2011 have raised expectations of substantive improvements in the Delta...

This week President Goodluck Jonathan asked the National Assembly to approve a supplementary budget of 89...

President Goodluck Jonathan's government is taking on the United States' oil services giant Halliburton and its Nigerian associates for organising bribes to secure contracts for the $6 billion liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island from 1995 to 2005...

Officials in the office of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper say the dispute will be raised both in the G-8 leaders’ meetings with African leaders such as Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan and South Africa’s Jacob Zuma and in the G-20 meetings with officials from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...

British police hope Nigeria’s new government under President Goodluck Jonathan will process their extradition requests for the former governors of Plateau and Bayelsa states Joshua Dariye and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha...