President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The money was allocated to securing the Niger Delta's waterways under Buhari's predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, an Ijaw man like Tompolo...

Led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, officials set out the country's predicament to Lagarde: a crashing oil price had combined with five years of rampant state theft under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government to cause a chronic shortage of foreign exchange...

The same goes for politicians such as Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary of the People's Democratic Party under former President Goodluck Jonathan...

When the PDP holds its convention in March, its unity will come under huge pressure as rival groups vie to replace the remnants of Goodluck Jonathan's leadership team...

Tompolo's career path, from military commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to the boss of security company Global West, to which the then President Goodluck Jonathan's government awarded a US$103 million contract, made him one of the most powerful figures in the Delta...

Under the notorious arrangement brokered by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke, Shell and ENI paid $1...

Despite the wider failures of defeated President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party, the PDP had managed to keep an ill-fitting lid on the Delta's cauldron of troubles for the last five years (AC Vol 50 No 22, Abuja buys a Delta amnesty & Vol 56 No 8, Mending fences)...

Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (Kano), who has a British doctorate in criminology, was Chief of Army Staff during the delicate presidential transition from Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to Goodluck Jonathan...

Although Emefiele is extremely unpopular with Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) – because of his closeness to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan – there is little they can do overtly to get him out of the job...

Nigerian journalists delighted in reporting Buhari’s displeasure on encountering Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia, two leading bankers seen as close to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s government (AC Vol 55 No 19, The fire this century)...

In a move reminiscent of the ‘rise without trace’ in 2010 of Nigeria’s ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010, Tanzania’s governing party, Chama cha Mapinduzi, has nominated a virtual unknown to carry it into the presidential election...