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Aviation, House, Legislature, Presidency
Sunday, November 10th, 2013
The embattled Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah and President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan and the House of Representatives may clash over the probe into the purchase of two bulletproof cars for the Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that Jonathan had no intention […]
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Africa & World Politics, Presidency, United Nations
Sunday, November 10th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan and his Gambian counterpart, Yahya Jammeh, on Saturday in Banjul re-stated Africa’s demand for the urgent reformation of the United Nations Organisation. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said the presidents made the call in a joint communiqué issued at the end […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Thursday, November 7th, 2013

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Nov. 7, 2013 – President Jonathan announced on October 1, 2013 his intention to convoke a national conference at which there would be no issues excluded from discussion. He then inaugurated on October 7, 2013 a committee he charged to come up with a framework for the […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Rivers, State News
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak The Presidency on Wednesday said Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was at liberty to dump the ruling Peoples Democratic Party for the opposition All Progressive Congress. Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, said this in an interview […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan | credits: File copy The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), on Wednesday met behind closed-doors with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Dasuki is a member of the three-man administrative panel set up by Jonathan to probe the Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, over the N255m […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) A former Head of State,Maj.- Gen.Muhammadu Buhari, (retd) has said that the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government has institutionalised corruption in Nigeria. Buhari spoke in Ilorin on Wednesday when leaders of the All Progressives Congress stormed Kwara State to woo members of the Kwara State chapter of the PDP […]
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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, National Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday admitted that despite the efforts of the nation’s security agencies targeted at curtailing the activities of members of the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, his administration could not be said to have won the war against terror. But he ruled out compensation for victims […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, State News
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi | credits: File copy A former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and ex-Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday renewed their calls on Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi to join the All Progressives Congress. Buhari and Tinubu, who led a team of top APC […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File copy THE recent pilgrimage jamboree embarked on by President Goodluck Jonathan and some governors is a sad reminder that our public officials are not ready to push religion into the private sphere where it rightly belongs. It is also another high point of an unwarranted waste […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
Former President Olusegun | credits: File copy Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said he would respond to the claims made by his erstwhile deputy, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on their political relationship, in his soon-to-be published book. Abubakar had, in an interview published in Hausa language by a newspaper, disclosed that he “blasted” Obasanjo […]