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May 10, 2013

Boko Haram: Do not waste time on amnesty, it won’t work – Oritsejafor tells Jonathan

As controversy continues to trail the proposed amnesty for the Islamic fundamentalists, Boko Haram, respected cleric and President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has advised President Goodluck [...]

2015: There’ll be no crisis if Jonathan loses – Clark

SOUTH-SOUTH leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will win the presidential election in 2015 if he decides to contest based on his achievements, but noted that [...]

May 9, 2013

President Jonathan Initiates Probe Of AGF Mohammed Adoke

By SaharaReporters, New York President Goodluck Jonathan may have taken the first anti-corruption step of his presidency against a highly placed government official: Mohammed Bello Adoke, Minister of Justice and [...]

Jonathan aborts state visit to Namibia over bama, other attacks

Ben Agande, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan has aborted his state visit to Namibia to personally oversee  efforts by security agencies to contain the new security challenge in Borno, Nassarawa and [...]

Nigeria’s Security Situation Forces President Jonathan To Cancel State Visit To Namibia

By SaharaReporters, New York President Goodluck Jonathan's visit to South Africa and Namibia has ended abruptly as the President, and his team cancelled a scheduled state visit to Namibia.  Sources [...]

Opinion: When SaharaReporters’ Sowore met Doyin Okupe on Al Jazeera

by Joe Igbokwe True to the tag he had been bearing since he was recruited to go after the real and perceived enemies of the Jonathan government, Doyin Okupe behaved [...]

May 8, 2013
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Jonathan Deplores Bama Attack, Warns Boko Haram Not To Take Amnesty Offer For Weakness

President Goodluck Jonathan has deplored Tuesday’s attack by armed terrorists on Bama, in Borno State which claimed scores of lives. The Special Adviser to the President Media and Publicity; Dr [...]

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Pictures: Jonathan Meets Blind 12-Year Old Nigerian Author in South Africa

                                  [caption id=”attachment_62372″ align=”alignleft” width=”300″ caption=”President Goodluck Jonathan shaking hands with CEO, NEPAD Planning [...]

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Jonathan Appoints Former IGP Mike Okiro As Chairman, Police Service Commission

President Goodluck Jonathan has nominated former Inspector General of Police; Mr Mike Okiro, as the new chairman of the Police Service Commission. Mr Okiro’s nomination was announced in a letter [...]

Reno Omokri responds to Guardian UK piece on Pres. Jonanthan

Reno Omokri is Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media and below is his response to Remi Adekoya’s article in the UK Guardian I just read Mr. Remi Adekoya’s [...]

Nigeria, S/Africa to give priority to intra-regional trade – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigeria and South Africa must   ority to intra-regional trade and play leading roles in boosting inter-regional trade in the continent. Read full story on author [...]

Elnathan John: 2 reasons I am sad that Goodluck Jonathan posters are out

by Elnathan John I don’t think it is politics at all. They simply asked Amaechi to declare the flight manifest. He refused and they stopped him from flying. Read full [...]

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Reps, Governor Demand Arrest of Asari-Dokubo For Treason

The House of Representatives on Tuesday demanded the arrest of Niger Delta activist, Mujahideen Asari-Dokubo for asserting that there would be mayhem in the country if President Goodluck Jonathan is [...]

Reps, Niger gov want Dokubo-Asari, Kuku arrested

The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to quiz ex-militant, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, over his latest comment that there would be no peace [...]

Africa must raise ICT personnel for devt – President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Africa lacks enough scientists and engineers for the continent to migrate into the emerging global knowledge-based economy. Read full story on author website »

May 7, 2013

Spotted! Aliko Dangote, P-Square, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chinedu “Aki” Ikedieze, Folorunsho Alakija & more Dine at President Jonathan’s Delegates Dinner in Cape Town, SA

Amid the tense bilateral relations between Nigeria & South Africa, the Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, according to Ventures Nigeria, flew out ‘to South Africa to discuss ways to boost trade [...]

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Stop Harassing Amaechi, APC Governors Tells Jonathan

Nine of the progressive state governors in the All Progressive Congress (APC) merger plan, Tuesday rose from a meeting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, condemning the current harassment of [...]

Aki, P-Square On Presidential Trip To South Africa [Pictures]

Nollywood actor, Chinedu Ikedieze and sensational music group, P-Square, were part of the Presidential delegates to South Africa on Monday. The Nigerian stars, accompanied President Goodluck Jonathan to South Africa [...]

FG to curb insurgence with satellite imageries

President Goodluck Jonathan declared Tuesday that the country was prepared to curb insurgency in the country with the use of high resolution imageries to locate any suspicious changes on the [...]

Soldier Attached To Presidential Aide Shoots Youth At Ijaw Youth Congress Gathering

A soldier attached to Kingsley Kuku, an aide of President Goodluck Jonathan and Chairman of Amnesty Implementation Committee on Saturday shot and injured a youth in Yenagoa, again prompting the [...]

Check out this piece on President Jonathan in the UK Guardian

The piece sums up President Goodluck Jonathan’s 3 years in office as president of Nigeria, written by UK Guardian’s Remi Adekoya. See it below… Nigerians had no rational reason to [...]

How the Yoruba will determine who becomes President in 2015

by Azuka Onwuka The voting pattern of the Yoruba people of South-West geopolitical zone in the 2015 presidential election may determine who wins and who loses. In 2011, even though [...]

May 6, 2013

Baga killings: CPC criticize Jonathan for not visiting scene of carnage

The Congress for Progressive Change has castigated President Goodluck Jonathan for not visiting Baga in Borno State, more than two weeks since a fight between the military and the insurgents [...]

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Turn By Turn Nig LTD: Ogun PDP Endorses Jonathan For Second Term

The National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Adewole Adeyanju has belled the cat for President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term in office, claiming the Ogun state chapter of [...]

May 5, 2013

Jonathan administration becoming despotic, says ACN

• Presidency disagrees AN alarm has been raised by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that the President Goodluck Jonathan led-Administration is steadily descending into despotism with a brazen assault [...]

Low blow: “Does Lai Mohammed know the meaning of the word ‘despotism’?” – Presidency fires back

by Isi Esene The presidency has come out all guns blazing against allegations of high-handedness leveled against President Goodluck Jonathan by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). In a statement [...]

Emulate Yar’Adua, Jonathan tells public office holders

By Ben Agande, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians, especially public officials at all levels of government to rededicate themselves to emulating President Umaru  Yar’Adua’s exemplary commitment to upholding [...]

“With an undiminished feeling of great personal loss”: GEJ remembers his late boss, Yar’Adua

by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to emulate the exemplary qualities of his late predecessor, Umar Musa Yar’Adua, who died three year ago after a protracted illness. [...]

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Jonathan To Lead Dangote, Otudeko And Others On Economic Mission

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria will on Monday lead a team of key members of Nigeria’s Economic Management Team to the World Economic Forum on Africa holding in Cape Town, [...]