Goodluck Jonathan
11 Apr
Former President Goodluck Jonathan and elder statesman, Edwin Clark, will be among the top dignitaries expected at the night of tribute for the late Dr. Cairo Ojuogboh.
10 Apr
Sir: Lest we forget, this year, 2024 marks the 25th of Nigeria’s unbroken democratic governance, outside the iron-grip of military despotism.
9 Apr
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, has dared President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to disclose the full cost of the Lagos-Calabar highway project. Atiku said in a statement on Tuesday that the Tinubu administration could not continue to keep silent on how much of public funds would…
22 Mar
Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, lawyer Femi Falana and others, have suggested solutions to Nigeria’s democracy. Mutfwang said that Nigeria must ensure that true winners of elections emerge before swearing-in. They spoke at the Haske Satumari Foundation annual colloquium with the theme: ‘Electoral And Judicial Reforms: The…
22 Mar
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has led the West African Elders Forum (WAEF) to Senegal on a mediation mission ahead of the country’s presidential election tomorrow.
15 Mar
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday said the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) is not obligated to disclose former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari's assets declaration forms. The plaintiffs had also sought the release of assets declaration information of former Vice-Presidents Namadi Sambo and Yemi Osinbajo as well as other serving and…
11 Mar
Today, my focus is on the adoption of Steve Oronsaye Report on the restructuring and rationalisation of the federal bureaucracy comprising agencies, parastatals, and commissions by the Executive Council of the Federation on February 26.
6 Mar
In a previous incarnation, I worked in government, advising democratically elected ministers of different political hues, extensively on wide-ranging domestic and international policies, traversing business process re-engineering....
5 Mar
I was one of the delegates nominated by the Akwa Ibom State Government to attend the 2014 National Conference convoked by President Goodluck Jonathan.
25 Jan
His stance was completely demonstrated for all to see when he refused to be bullied by the then Government of President Goodluck Jonathan.
16 Jan
United States (US) authorities will return $8.9million looted by state officials to acquire property in 2014 to the Nigerian government. Royal Court in the US last Friday granted forfeiture of a "tainted property deposited into a Jersey bank account by Nigerian companies in 2014", according to court documents. "The Attorney General successfully demonstrated that the…
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Nigerian chess master and founder, ‘Chess in Slums Africa’, Tunde Onakoya has returned to Nigeria after he broke the Guinness World Record for the longest time playing chess without losing a game. Onakoya broke the record of Norwegian players, Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad, who played for 56-hour, 9-minute in 2018. He made his…
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The Rivers Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Isaac Kamalu, resigned his appointment on Wednesday. He is the second commissioner to resign from the cabinet on Wednesday after Gov. Siminialaye Fubara, announced a slight cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. The first to resign was Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice. In the cabinet reshuffle, the governor…
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In furtherance of efforts to sanitize the mining sector, the federal government has revoked 924 dormant licences spanning exploration, mining, small-scale mining, and quarrying Licenses, six months after revoking 1,663 licences. The revocation licences include 528 exploration licenses; 20 mining licences; 101 quarry licenses, and 273 Small Scale Mining Licenses (SSML). Minister of Solid Minerals…
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Donning hijabs and floor-length abaya gowns over shorts and tank tops, Chinese students at an e-commerce school perform into a smartphone camera as they learn how to sell the clothes to overseas TikTok users. It is the final day of a two-week course on selling products abroad via the short video app -- which despite…
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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) said over 2.5 million Nigerian students have so far enrolled on its Tertiary Education, Research, Applications and Services (TERAS) platform. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Arc. Sonny Echono stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at the Second Registrar's workshop and 75th business meeting of the Association of Registrars of…
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Manchester City's Premier League title bid suffered a blow after Norway striker Erling Haaland was ruled out of Thursday's crucial clash at Brighton. Haaland missed City's 1-0 win over Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Saturday due to a muscle injury sustained in the Champions League quarter-final exit against Real Madrid last…
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Palestinian militant group Hamas released on Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza and seen alive in the footage. Israeli media identified him as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas attack on October 7. "I went to hang out with my…
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said that a father has been arrested alongside his son who is a candidate by the Police for impersonating his son during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede disclosed this while on an inspection tour of the UTME centres in…