Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

On 16 January the Vice-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan began to sound like a Nigerian President...

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to build a broad consensus across political parties and ethnic regions with advisors outside party and government circles who are mostly from Bayelsa...

A settlement in the Niger Delta would help production to recover from the 2009 lows but that is far from certain amid rows about the claim to the presidency of Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...

Some back a compromise which would allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to hold the presidency until the 2011 elections...

However many would oppose such a coup which would be seen as the northern-dominated military blocking the presidency of the Niger Delta’s Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...

In a 30 August memo Aganda said that President Goodluck Jonathan had ‘approved’ that the $500 mn...

President Goodluck Jonathan’s plans to privatise the electricity sector have attracted interest from China India Russia and elsewhere...

The deal resembles the oil-for-infrastructure contracts signed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo just before the 2007 elections although President Goodluck Jonathan wants to avoid too close an association with his recent predecessors...

Following this row President Goodluck Jonathan suspended BPE Director General Christopher Anyanwu in March...

With newly inaugurated President Goodluck Jonathan stamping his authority on Abuja and the sacking of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) director the deal could meet the same fate as the oil-for-infrastructure pacts signed under former President Olusegun Obasanjo (AAC Vol 2 No 6)...