A holdover from the Goodluck Jonathan era Emefiele has become the main cheerleader for Buhari-nomics: defending the naira and multiple exchange rates using reserves if necessary keeping the IMF at a distance cajoling banks to lend to productive farms and factories and banning the use of foreign exchange at the lower official rates for imports of food grown in Nigeria (AC Vol 60 No 13 The rise of Godwin Emefiele)...
Malami is also at the centre of a second legal drama as prosecutors in Milan wind up their case against Shell ENI and a string of executives accused of colluding with officials and using corrupt methods under the Goodluck Jonathan government to acquire OPL245 the licence to exploit one of Africa's richest oil fields...
CA/SCL worked for Jubilee ahead of the 2013 elections and for Nigerian ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2007 and 2015 (AC Vol 58 No 12 Here come the data-miners)...
Instead President Goodluck Jonathan's administration chose to establish the agency under the Ministry of Petroleum...
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With the publication of the UNEP report in 2011 then-President Goodluck Jonathan set HYPREP up in 2012 at the Ministry of Petroleum Resources under Diezani Allison-Madueke...
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Military ruler General Yakubu Gowon under whom Buhari served during the civil war attended the swearing-in but Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan two former presidents who back the opposition People's Democratic Party were absent (AC Vol 52 No 8 A trap for the juggernaut)...
Nigeria argues that the agreement (and original award in 1998) was corrupt claiming that those who benefited from improper payments from 2011 included the then President Goodluck Jonathan Attorney-General Mohammed Adoke Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and National Security Adviser Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (AC Vol 58 No 16 Trading places and faces)...
MOSOP is thought to be close to the PDP; MOSOP's ex-president Ledum Mitee accepted an appointment from Goodluck Jonathan when he was president...
Bala Mohammed is widely seen as having been one of the most corrupt ministers in President Goodluck Jonathan government and is currently facing corruption charges stemming from his time as Minister for the Federal Capital Territory...
The corrosive qualities of the OPL 245 saga dripped across three People's Democratic Party administrations from Olusegun Obasanjo through Umaru Musa Yar'Adua – who was lukewarm on all the proposed resolutions – and Goodluck Jonathan...
They feel marginalised and threatened by Buhari's transition agenda but have yet to demonstrate that they can turn out voters in greater numbers than when Goodluck Jonathan led the party four years ago...