The President made the call while declaring open this year’s edition of the prestigious Africa International Film Festival, which is holding in Calabar, Cross River State. Speaking through the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, High Chief Edem Duke, Jonathan commended the film makers for not only using their crafts to reposition the place of the black people in the comity of nation, but also for ensuring that the rest of the world see Africa truly in the light that is appropriate for the continent
Browsing: Goodluck Jonathan
The President formally declared his intention before a mammoth crowd made up of pro- Jonathan support groups, stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, market women and Civil Society Organisations at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Tuesday
According to the Nigeria Police, members of the public should make use of alternative routes on Tuesday
Speaking at an audience with Angola’s new Ambassador to Nigeria, Eustaquio Janeiero Quibato, President Jonathan said that African oil producing countries particularly needed to come together and strategize on the best ways of protecting their domestic economies from the vagaries of fluctuating oil prices
Assisted by two serving Presidents – Ghana’s John Dramani Mahama and Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Drmane Ouattara – as well as former President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, Jonathan declared the edifice open at 6:15pm
Ardo, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party from Adamawa State, had brought the application for joinder in a suit filed by Cyriacus Njoku, who is challenging Jonathan’s eligibility to seek re-election in 2015
The emergency summit, which will also be attended by representatives of the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, will seek greater international support and collaboration for the containment of the Ebola outbreak
Senegalese President, Macky Sall, arrived on Wednesday, followed by Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan and Ghana’s John Mahama, who held the rotating presidency of the Economic Community of West African States
Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama, the current chairman of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS, met briefly behind closed doors with Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, who was appointed as interim head of state by the army on Saturday
Former Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, and the Senate President, David Mark, were also in the meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
The president made the appeal at Otuabula 2, the headquarters of Ward 13 in Ogbia, while monitoring the conduct of the Peoples Democratic Party’s congress in Bayelsa State
The President collected the nomination and EOI forms at about 2.20pm from the National Organising Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha
Jonathan also thanked the members of the PDP, especially the National Executive Committee for giving him the right of first refusal in the countdown to the 2015 presidential election
President Jonathan will be received at the PDP Headquarters by the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu; its National Organising Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha; and other members of the PDP National Working Committee
The order, according to an impeccable source, was issued during a meeting Jonathan had with the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday night
A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, quoted the President as making the remark when the Foreign Ministers of Germany and France visited him at the Presidential Villa
A statement on Monday by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, added: “As President Rousseff prepares to begin a new term of office on January 1, 2015, Nigeria looks forward to working with her government to expand and further enhance existing relation with Brazil, especially in the area of trade and economic relations, for the mutual benefit of the people of both countries
“It appears from the Governor’s completely unfounded and off-the-mark allegations that he had totally lost all sense of propriety, decorum and responsible political behaviour and resorted to unacceptable demagoguery, libel, blackmail and incitement of public disorder
Jonathan stated this at a three-day International Workshop on Civil Military Cooperation organized by the Office of the National Security Adviser and the European Union
In that wise, Jonathan moved the Minister of State II for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, to the Ministry of Information as the Supervising Minister