Tag: Goodluck Jonathan
Nigeria gobbles up half its annual borrowing allowance
ABUJA - Nigeria has already used half the borrowing allowance it has budgeted for and has not released any funds for capital expenditure so...
Ship owners commend FG for directive on Cabotage law implementation
Lagos - The Nigerian Ship Owners Association (NISA) on Monday commended the Federal Government for giving a directive for the full implementation of the...
Civil society congratulates new Acting I-GP
Lagos, -The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), an NGO, has congratulated Mr Solomon Arase on his appointment as the new acting Inspector-General...
Abubakar Umar says he remains loyal to Jonathan
Former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, has restated his loyalty to President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the president's handling of the...
Nigeria’s oil delta quiet as militants weigh options after Jonathan defeat
By Julia Payne
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - The militant leaders who once wrought havoc in the Niger Delta oil industry have suddenly gone quiet following...
Nigeria just threw the world a curveball
By Karen Attiah
For months, there were doubts that Nigeria would survive 2015. Headlines fixated on the winds of Boko Haram’s terrorism combining with the...
Nigeria’s oil delta quiet as militants weigh options after Jonathan defeat
PORT HARCOURT - The militant leaders who once wrought havoc in the Niger Delta oil industry have suddenly gone quiet following the defeat of...
Buhari win means Nigeria, not Chad, to lead Boko Haram fight
By Daniel Flynn
DAKAR - When Chadian troops occupied parts of northern Nigeria in the 1980s, Nigerian Major-General Muhammadu Buhari chased them back across the...
Nigeria’s Buhari heading for victory with two states left
ABUJA - Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari was heading for a win against President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday, with 14.6 million votes to Jonathan's...
TABLE-Nigerian presidential election results so far
ABUJA - Nigerian opposition contender
Muhammadu Buhari held a sizeable lead as counting in the
country's election resumed on Tuesday, raising the prospect of a
stunning ballot...
Nigerian court leaves challenger Buhari free to run in presidential race
ABUJA - A Nigerian court on Wednesday effectively blocked an attempt to bar the main opposition candidate from running in what looks set to...
Why Buhari will not agree to a debate with Jonathan
By Femi Aribisala
IN all my years of studying elections, I have never seen a campaign as bogus as that of Muhammadu Buhari. It is...
The Real Buhari: Between Passion and Sense, By Damola Awoyokun
On Thursday February 26, 2015, above the entrance, the blue Chatham House flag swayed calmly from side to side as the gentle morning wind...
Jonathan urges politicians to keep country together
Lagos, Feb. 19, 2015 (NAN) President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday appealed to politicians to do all they could to preserve the country's unity.
The president...
2015 elections: SDP to support Jonathan
ABUJA - The Social Democratic Party (SDP) says it will support President Goodluck Jonathan during presidential election in 2015 because of his performance in...
FG completes 6 erosion projects in South East
ABUJA - The Presidential Technical Committee set up by Goodluck Jonathan to assess Federal Government’s erosion projects in the South East said the government...
Shekarau becomes education minister
President Goodluck Jonathan has sworn-in the four new ministers whose nomination was approved by the National Assembly last week just before the beginning of...