Browsing: President Goodluck Jonathan

In a recent episode published as an interview he is yet to retract, he reminded Nigerians that our democracy is a hand-out by the kind grace of the President whom he said we are lucky to have. This President, he thundered, “has the power of life and death” but that because he is a good man, he uses only 40 per cent of those powers

If the scale and intensity of the public condemnation of this pardon, at home and abroad is anything to go by, the silliness of this decision can only compare in political terms to the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa by the late General Sani Abacha regime

Abati added in the statement: “With Cardinal Bergoglio’s glowing antecedents as a great scholar, teacher, Catholic philosopher and very humane leader of the Church, President Jonathan welcomes his election as successor to Pope Benedict XVI as a divinely inspired choice by the College of Cardinals and an unequivocal testimony of God’s abiding presence in His Church and the world

The committee, in its report submitted to the President at the State House on Tuesday, indicted the NDDC management of complicity in the issue of abandoned projects, failure to recover funds using appropriate government agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission

President Jonathan, who was represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo, said that the university has every cause to celebrate its golden jubilee for in the last 50 years it has graduated hundreds of thousands of Nigerians and foreigners who today occupy various positions in the country

Speaking at the City Hall after being presented with the keys to the city by its Mayor, Konan Ouanigbe Jean, President Jonathan said that African leaders must carry on doing their best to foster greater political stability and accelerate economic growth within their countries and across the continent as no significant progress can be attained without stable governance structures and stronger national economies