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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ministries, Presidency
Friday, May 20th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan is to announce his new cabinet immediately after the May 29 inauguration, his spokesman, Mr. Ima Niboro said yesterday. He told correspondents in Abuja, that the President was mindful of how short his new four-year term is and wants to start work with his new team immediately after the inauguration. His words, […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency, South-East
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
ENUGU – Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, said Tuesday, that despite the resentment from the people of the South-East geo-political zone over the position of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, the confidence of Ndigbo in the ability of President Goodluck Jonathan to adequately protect the interest of the zone remains unshaken. President of […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
THE picture and direction of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in the next four years, after his swearing-in on May 29, 2011 in the wake of his electoral triumph, is emerging. The President yesterday gave hints of what he would do in some sectors. For example, Jonathan said his Administration would pay special attention to the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency
Monday, May 16th, 2011
PIQUED by the soaring prices of cement in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan, Monday, summoned the Chairman of Dangote Group, and other cement manufacturers with a directive to crash the prices of the product within 30 days period or face the wrath of the government. Presidential spokesman, Mr Ima Niboro, who announced Jonathan’s decision after […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ministries, Presidency
Monday, May 16th, 2011
Fourteen days to the end of the present administration, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed his ministers to prepare their handover notes. Two ministers, who disclosed this to one of our correspondents in Abuja on Sunday, said all of them had started clearing their tables preparatory to the dissolution of the Federal Executive Council. The […]
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Edo, Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, State News
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Prior to the April 16 presidential election , one of the states President Goodluck Jonathan was not expected to win was Edo State. Though a South- South state, the state was marked an “enemy” territory. The state is ruled by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Consequently, political pundits in various analysis gave the president […]
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
THE Presidency has explained the incident in Uganda, last week, when the convoy of President Goodluck Jonathan who had attended the inauguration for another term, in office, of President Yoweri Museveni was reportedly pelted with stones. While maintaining its earlier position that Jonathan was not stoned, the Presidency, however, conceded that the incident took place […]
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Ugandan police shot at a crowd in the capital Kampala after it attacked a car carrying Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan who had attended President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration, a government spokesman said. At least one person was killed in the incident. “The car belonging to Goodluck Jonathan was stoned by mobs,” said Fred Opolot, director of […]
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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency, South-East
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has thanked the people of the South East for massively voting for him during the just concluded Presidential election.Jonathan, at a one-day rally in Owerri on Friday, however, said the support and votes for him as President cannot be complete if the governors of the zone are not carried along in the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Judiciary, Latest Politics, Presidency
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, CJN The Presidential Election Tribunal will hold its inaugural sitting in Abuja next Tuesday, THISDAY has learnt. A senior counsel, who is one of the lawyers engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said the inaugural sitting should have taken place Wednesday. The shift in the commencement of the tribunal’s sitting […]