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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Messier! That aptly captures the feud between President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Both leaders went deeper into the trenches in their battle for the soul of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the weekend. While Jonathan moved to consolidate his grip on the party which, on Friday, sacked Obasanjo’s loyalists, from the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI & BEN AGANDE ABUJA—The Presidency yesterday pushed the case for the dismissal of the Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, to the Head of Civil Service, saying it is the only constitutional body that could handle the case of discipline of civil servants. Special Adviser to the President […]
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Articles, Columnists, Frisky Larr, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
By Frisky Larr / NNP / Feb.13′ 2013 – For us in the communication and media business, the nuts and bolts of success in positions of public exposure are basically the ability to communicate and connect with target audiences. In today’s world of modern communication media, hardly any public office survives the demands of public […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Presidency
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
• Mass redeployment of states’ security chiefs likely By CHUKS AKUNNA, Abuja and NDUBUISI ORJI, Lagos Ahead of the formal declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 election, there are strong indications that a major security shake-up may take place in states that are considered unfriendly to the Presidency. A very reliable source told […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Saturday, February 9th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the killing of nine health workers by gunmen in Kano on Friday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President promised that the death would not be in vain as his government would intensify efforts to eradicate polio in the country. He […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Party Politics, Presidency
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described incompetence, cluelessness and inconsistency as the hallmark of the Jonathan administration, contrary to the futile attempt by presidential aide, Doyin Okupe to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians through a pedestrian play on semantics. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity […]
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Budget, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
From Iheanacho Nwosu, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has told the leadership of the National Assembly that he will not sign the 2013 budget, Daily Sun learnt yesterday, even as the leadership of the Senate, that of House of Representatives and officials of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government (MDAs) will meet at 2pm today to […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Niger Delta, Presidency
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
About 30,000 former militants are currently enjoying the Nigerian amnesty programme The Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Kingsley Kuku, has called on security agencies to arrest any militant group found surrendering arms in Niger Delta. Mr. Kuku gave the directive on Tuesday in Abuja at a news briefing he addressed […]
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American Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
Nigerians, disgruntled by President Goodluck Jonathan’s last CNN interview claim of improved electricity, seized on Sunday’s U.S. Super bowl power outage, to issue a fierce rebuttal, stirring intense debate on the social media on Monday and Tuesday. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who interviewed the president a fortnight ago, said she received torrents of tweets from Nigerians […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan’s penchant for foreign media has fetched him criticism, with citizens often bashing him for what they consider his unpresidential poise and bad grammar. As the dust over President Goodluck Jonathan’s embarrassing outing in a recent CNN interview is yet to settle, PREMIUM TIMES can report that the presidency actually spends thousands of […]
