However, as time when on and I grew older, things started to naturally fall into place. I started to see them as person and sometimes I wondered why I had placed these people in so high a position before. To worsen things, I enrolled for a programme in law where the mortality of lawyers became clearer to me
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Jonathan said: “We all appreciate that throughout the congresses where primary elections were conducted, there have been some outstanding issues
According to the former governor, the accomplishments of the transformation agenda is visible in all sectors of the Nigerian economy
Receiving the report of the committee, which was headed by former Head of Service, Alhaji Mahmud Yayale Ahmed, President Jonathan said that the Federal Government will review the report immediately with a view to issuing a white paper on it and begin the implementation of its accepted recommendations early next year
The statement said: “On behalf of the government and people of Nigeria, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan extends heartfelt condolences to the government and people of Pakistan on the loss of over 140 lives in yesterday’s terrorist attack on Peshawar
The youth group under the aegis on the United Middle-Belt Youth Movement, has expressed worries over the increased starvation and mass exodus of citizens out of their ancestral homes due to the activities of the dreaded sect, the Boko Haram, in Nigeria
Rather, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will present 2015 budget proposal to both House of Representatives and Senate on Wednesday
An FCT High Court presided by Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi had dismissed the substantive suit brought by Cyriacus Njoku, another PDP chieftain, challenging Jonathan’s re-election bid
Ojewusi said in Nigeria today, anyone could criticise President Jonathan without fear of reprisal as he had refused to use his enormous power to muffle public opinion or attack human freedom
Speaking at the launch on Tuesday at the State House Banquet Hall, Jonathan said his government foresaw the drop in crude oil price, hence the launch of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda three years ago aimed at diversifying the country’s economy
The plaintiffs had urged the court to determine whether the President was constitutionally eligible to seek re-election, having participated as candidate and emerged winner in two previous presidential elections
Metuh said: “We declare that the APC can put forth its two frontline aspirants in one bunch, namely Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as joint presidential candidates with their collective credentials and followership to face our candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan
Oyetunde, who emerged as a consensus candidate for the Ekiti Central 11 Federal Constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress during the party’s primaries on Sunday, told newsmen in Aramoko-Ekiti that his colleagues had signed Jonathan’s impeachment notice “because they were furious with the harassment from security operatives at the gate of the Green Chamber that day”
In a statement on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti, the minister described the opposition to the Yoruba Progress Summit held in Ile-Ife, Osun State, by a group claiming to be Afenifere, as a fraud
We aver that Chief Obasanjo’s comments are untrue, misleading and clearly do not tally with the facts on the ground. We therefore wish to assert without equivocation that in terms of performance and achievements, no administration since 1960 when Nigeria gained independence from Britain, has done as much as that of President Jonathan. Every discerning and unbiased Nigerian will definitely attest to this fact as the evidence stare all of us in the face….”
Jonathan remains for me a phenomenal of different cast that needs to be understudied; different to other dictators in living history, both death or alive. His ability to wreck havocs and turn away smoothly without tracing them to him has become an artful logic would-be dictators should learn. It is not for nothing that all along he maintained sly and serpentine disposition. Even though President Jonathan has been seen as being inferior in reasoning, dull in imagination, tasteless in statecraft and anomalous in orientation, his sudden acquisition of tyrannical war chest speaks volume
This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of its Rapid Response Committee meeting in Kaduna on Wednesday
Abati, who spoke on Dateline Abuja, a Channels Television programme monitored by our correspondent, said the Boko Haram insurgency has been a challenge for the Federal Government, but hastened to assure that the President will not give up on it
President Jonathan commended the Central Bank of Nigeria for coming up with the commemorative note, recalling that the N50 notes were introduced to mark the nation’s 50th independence anniversary
In his remark, the Ona of Abaji, Alhaji Baba Yunusa, commended the Jonathan administration for its numerous development projects and programmes in the FCT
Yunusa assured the President of 100 per cent support of Abuja royal fathers and thanked him for appointing Bala Mohammed as the FCT Minister.