Browsing: President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

It said the Channels TV’s plan, to catalyze a public-private partnership on the issue, remains the way to go, since even a government with the very best of intentions lacks the resources to embark on all the necessary development projects before it

I marvelled at what reputational capital this man has built for himself with just one action and just wished that the President would go on in that light. I hoped that he would realise that a lot of time, public perception is shaped by this kind of action, which I assumed; he took without any serious promoting or indeed need

Jonathan told the gathering that his Administration was wholly committed to a government-enabled, private sector driven transformation of the nation’s agricultural sector

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said instead of using the occasion to tell Nigerians what his administration will do to uplift the training institution and many of its likes across the country, the President chose to berate imaginary enemies who are bent on embarrassing his administration, and also questioned how Channels Television managed to film the rot in the college

President Jonathan will at a meeting with an Eminent Persons Group on Nigeria’s Transformation Agenda in Geneva on Tuesday lead a drive to attract greater foreign expertise and capital to boost the Federal Government’s efforts to rapidly modernize and positively transform Nigeria’s agricultural sector

“We will continue to meticulously and painstakingly pursue well-conceived and action-oriented policies and programmes that will enjoy the test of time whose foundation are laid by former President Olusegun Obasanjo

Jonathan, who spoke after an unscheduled visit to the 75-year-old police training institution on Friday, wondered why the report was allowed in the first place

Jonathan, who was on his way to Abidjan, Cote d”ivoire for the Heads of State summit of the Economic Community of West African States, was said to have made the stopover without informing his aides earlier

In the letter, President Jonathan praised the elder statesman and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth for his tireless service to the nation

Speaking after reviewing recent terrorism-related events in Algeria and Northern Mali with the new British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew John Pocock, President Jonathan said that the whole world clearly needed to unite and do much more than is presently being done to contain terrorism with its very negative impact on global peace and security

Speaking at an audience with the World Bank’s Vice President for Africa, Mr. Mouktar Diop, Jonathan said that although it was not easy to undertake certain reforms in an intensely political environment, the Federal Government under his leadership will continue to evolve and implement policies that will assure sustainable development and the long-term well-being of the nation

Kalu also advised the government to seize the opportunity to heal wounds across the land in the spirit of reconciliation

Among those who refused to adopt the consensus option were a former National Chairman of the party and candidate of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Ahmadu Ali; former Minister of Works and candidate of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Chief Tony Anenih; and Chief Abiola Oyedokun

Obasanjo said President Goodluck Jonathan was “just using the stick” in his efforts

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN said the paranoia over the merger plans has driven the PDP-led Federal Government to resort to imprudent and crude tactics aimed at tarnishing the image of key opposition leaders, especially its National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his Congress for Progressive Change counterpart, General Muhammadu Buhari

Nigerians are indeed a special breed of people. We have seen so much gloom and doom that we have learnt to see the humour in every situation, regardless of how bad it is

SERAP said dismantling high-level official corruption, ending impunity and turning around the country as a whole requires more than Jonathan making mere promises and preaching of decency

Jonathan, who spoke at a New Year Service on Tuesday, said that the country’s security agencies have risen to the challenge posed by terrorists

In a New Year message issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999, the year 2012 ranked among the worst years for Nigerians, even by the very low standard of a non-performing and profligate administration like President Jonathan’s

The party said only a government that swims in corruption and lacks self-respect and decency can pick as its spokesperson a man who has been shown to be an epitome of corruption by collecting funds for contracts that were not executed