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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Presidency
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
SIGNALS that President Goodluck Jonathan has started plotting how to grab the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2015 election emerged on Monday with the President reaching out to respective former governors of Zamfara and Borno states, Ahmed Yerima and Ali Modu-Sheriff. Our correspondent learnt that the President wanted the two influential […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), National Politics, Nigerian Police, Presidency, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, January 19th, 2013
By Jide Ajani Apparently embarrassed by what he saw at Nigeria’s Police College, on last Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan could not but lament openly, asking why people were being subjected to a treatment fit for chickens in the poultry. The unscheduled visit by Jonathan was a rare one and it afforded the nation’s number one […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, January 18th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday admitted that Nigeria, and indeed, the world needed to do more to end terrorism and its impact on global peace. Jonathan spoke while receiving the new British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Andrew Pocock, who was in the Presidential Villa, Abuja to present his letter of credence. “The whole world […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Presidents do not lose battles. They win, all the time. It is a reason the office remains ever attractive. What with so much resources at a president’s disposal; and the uncountable number of canny men to carry out his or her instructions. So, why does getting whatever he or she wants, as the case of […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
From ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has commenced moves to replace former defence minister, Haliru Bello Mohammed and former minister of power, Barth Nnaji in the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The president had forwarded the nomination of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (Kebbi) and Prof. Chinedu Nebo (Enugu) as ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan, ex-Ghanaian President John Kufuor and some governors are scheduled to attend a civic reception in honour of former President Olusegun Obasanjo following his voluntary retirement from office as Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party. The two-day event billed for the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, from January 18 to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Philip Amiola, Presidency
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
By Philip Amiola / NNP / Jan. 13, 2013 – I have observed with some degree of amusement, the wave of criticism and outrage that greeted the ill-timed ignition of President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 political campaign machinery. The campaign message – One good term deserves another – is especially humorous. Although Mr President has dissociated […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
BY SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin City Apostle Johnson Suleman is the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, one of the leading new generation churches in the country today. The church located along the Auchi-Abuja road in Auchi, Edo state is another Mecca in Nigeria as people from all over the world throng the giant edifice to […]
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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said more could be done to reach out to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram to find out what leads it to carry out acts of violence. Obasanjo who spoke in an interview with CNN, suggested the current government should adopt a dual-track approach rather than just cracking down on […]
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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said the President Goodluck Jonathan administration had not been reaching out enough to the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and canvassed what he described as a “carrot-and-stick” strategy to address the sect’s menace. Obasanjo told the CNN in an interview that Jonathan had been applying less of dialogue and […]
