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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, Reuben Abati
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Sept. 22, 2012 – In the last couple of weeks, the Presidency via its media inner circle has been having it tough with critics, most especially the hard-nut-to-crack opposition parties, the ‘army of sponsored and self-appointed anarchists’ and also ‘the twittering, pinging, Facebook crowd of the new age’. [...]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philips Akpoviri., Reuben Abati
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
By Philip Akpoviri | NNP | Sept. 6, 2012 – Save for President Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, no other serving Nigerian public official, in my reckoning has in the past year attracted more vilification than Dr Reuben Abati, the president’s spokesman. The Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison-Maduekwe comes pretty close, but Abati leads [...]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
By Sunny Chris Okenwa | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | April 12, 2012 – Early January this year as we all ushered in the new year my family and I had attended a church service in town where our pastor whose ecclessiastical radicalism is doubtless preached about the month of January ‘belonging’ to Reuben — biblically [...]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Reuben Abati
Saturday, February 18th, 2012
Some commentators have raised a hue and cry over President Goodluck Jonathan’s reference to “the throwing of stones” during the presentation of the PDP flag to the then PDP Gubernatorial candidate, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson and his then running mate Rear Admiral John Jonah (rtd.) in Bayelsa. These include, among others, Ayodele Akinkuotu, “He who [...]
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Columnists, Headlines, Reuben Abati
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, has dismissed an allegation that he has been sacked by President Goodluck Jonathan. He also denied reports that he had resigned. Abati was alleged to have been sacked due to his poor handling of the President’s image in the face of growing criticism of his boss over security challenges and [...]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati
Friday, July 15th, 2011
By Philips Akpoviri, NNP – July 15, 2011 - In 1985, at the tender age of twenty, he proudly bowed out of the University of Calabar as the overall best graduating student of the University returning to his home in Ogun State with a First Class honours degree in Theatre Arts. Four years later – [...]
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Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Reuben Abati
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
IN what appears to be a confirmation of media reports that the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Guardian Newspapers, Mr Reuben Abati,is to replace the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday asked his spokesman to prepare for a handover to another appointee yet [...]
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Columnists, Latest Politics, Reuben Abati
Friday, July 1st, 2011
ABUJA – THE Presidency, Friday, has distanced itself from reports (not Vanguard) that President Goodluck Jonathan has settled for the appointment of Mr Reuben Abati as his new spokesman, saying that “Mr Niboro’s office is not vacant”. One of the most senior aides in Aso Rock who didn’t accompanied the President to the African Union, [...]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Reuben Abati
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
By Reuben Abati – Lagos, Nigeria – May 28, 2011 -PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan almost ruined his inauguration day address by speaking too much at the May 26 pre-inauguration lecture on the theme: “A Transformational Agenda for Accelerated National Development.” The elections are over, on inauguration day, the President assumes office, a new administration begins and [...]
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Articles, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
IT is difficult to believe the statement allegedly made by the Special Adviser on Youth, Sports and Social Development, Dolapo Badru, to the effect that there is a law in Lagos state which makes the giving of alms to beggars anywhere in the state, an offence punishable by two years imprisonment without an option [...]
