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Browsing: President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
On Tuesday, a federal high court in Plateau state convicted Sarah Ochekpe, former minister of water resources under Jonathan, of fraud.
The Special Adviser to Jonathan on Media, Ikechukwu Eze, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
Obi, who was the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, marked his 60th birthday on July 19, 2021.
There is no doubt that his age would be an issue in that election.
The Commander of the 75 Strike Group, Yola, Emmanuel Anebi; Commander, 7 Composite Group, Maiduguri, Nurudeen Balogun; and Commander, 201 Heavy Airlift Group, Ikeja, Christopher Okoye, are among the new AVMs
Speaking to reporters at the Presidential Palace in N’Djamena after a closed-door meeting with his Chadian counterpart, President Idris Deby Itno, Jonathan said their talks focused mainly on security and economic cooperation
Stakeholders in the Labour Sector have been urged to maximise social dialogue as a viable instrument of trade union administration which would yield the benefits of equity, social justice and promotion of business sustainability and competitiveness that would ensure national economic growth.
Speaking at a meeting in the Presidential Villa with parents of the abducted girls, some of the girls who escaped from their abductors and leaders of the community, President Jonathan appealed for their patience, understanding and cooperation
In a letter written to congratulate Senator Mark on the occasion of his 66th birthday, which holds on April 8, 2014, Jonathan also expressed his appreciation of the Senate president’s unflinching support and contributions towards the successful implementation of the Federal Government’s Agenda for National Transformation
Speaking during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 4th European Union-Africa Summit in Brussels, Belgium with the President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, the President also said the time was ripe for the revitalization of the Nigeria-Bulgaria Bi-National Commission, which had its last meeting in 1989
In a statement on Monday by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, Jonathan said on behalf of himself and the Federal Government, he extends sincere condolences to Chief Ajayi’s family, friends, colleagues and associates in the legal profession, and the many Nigerians whose cause and rights he vigorously defended throughout his outstanding career
Delivering Nigeria’s Statement on Peace and Security in Africa at the 22nd Summit of African Union Heads of State and Government, which opened in the Ethiopian capital on THursday, President Jonathan said that while the recent crises in South Sudan and the Central African Republic have reinforced the urgency of establishing the proposed African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises, instruments within the current African Peace and Security Architecture must, in the interim, be activated to prevent the degeneration of conflicts into warfare
Jonathan said in the message he personally signed: “My administration will do all within its powers and abilities to ensure that the representatives of our people assemble for the forthcoming national conference next year
In a statement issued in Oyo on Wednesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said President Jonathan’s decision to grant N2 billion each to 17 states, none of which belongs to the main opposition APC, and all of which are controlled by governors deemed to be Jonathan’s supporters, negates what he should be: The leader of the whole nation!
The President made the disclosure on Saturday in Paris in an interview he granted to the News Agency of Nigeria and France 24 Radio
The President will, in the company of other Heads of State and Government, also pay his last respects to Dr. Mandela at the anti-apartheid hero’s lying-in-state on Wednesday at the Union Building in Pretoria where he served as South Africa’s first democratically-elected president
He said: “President Goodluck Jonathan has shown more than enough commitment to sports in this country
According to him, “it is the constitutional right of the president to seek second term, having only been elected into the office once and it is in the interest of peace, justice and equity that those of us who are advocates of equitable power sharing in Nigeria should support him
Speaking Friday night at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state caucus meeting at the Government House, Yenagoa, the President decried ASUU’s refusal to call of its strike even after he met with them for 13 hours