Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said Nigerian politicians must change their brand of politics and prioritise national interests to allow for development in the country. Jonathan also stated that the country must avoid the “dangerous system” of “over-domesticating” government, but instead ensure that the right persons are put in the right places. The former President made the statements on Tuesday …

Former presidential spokesman, Ima Niboro has dismissed a rehashed 2010 report detailing how former President Goodluck Jonathan rejected the presidential yacht from the Navy, and directed them to use the funds to refurbish their aging fleet. In a statement on Saturday, Niboro pointed out that the story, being bandied as new, was a Daily Trust news report published in 2010, …

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s spokesman, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze has roundly dismissed allegations by the a group known as the “Bayelsa APC Elders Council” that the former president nominated, or was trying to nominate the Bayelsa State ministerial appointee to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The state is among 11 others with a nominee in the list of 28 sent to …

Back in April 2018, I was a guest-by-happenstance of Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Jonathan in his Yenagoa home. My very good friend, one of the most professional and most cultivated police officers I’ve ever known, Don Awunah, invited me and a few of his close friends for a function in his honour. Awunah (sadly now of blessed memory) was being …

The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about US$5 billion funds from Nigeria’s late Head of State, General Sani Abacha (known as Abacha loot) recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari. The Freedom of Information suit, from which the order emerged, was brought …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has paid tributes to his late boss, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, 13 years after his death. Jonathan, who was Yar’Adua‘s deputy, described him as a “great and selfless leader”. In a post shared via his Twitter handle on Friday, Jonathan wrote: “On this day 13 years ago, our nation lost a great and selfless leader, President Umaru …

Former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has urged African leaders to make life easy for their citizens. The former Nigerian leader who spoke at the maiden edition of the African Heritage Concert and Awards in Kigali, Rwanda, on Saturday, said such leaders should be concerned about the legacies they are going leave behind. According to a statement on Monday by …

Former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan; former Tanzanian President, late John Magufuli; and Rwandan President, Paul Kagame and a host of other leaders will be honored at the maiden edition of the African Heritage Concert and Awards, slated for Saturday, 1st April in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The event is organised by Heritage Times, a communications outfit positioned to be …

Supporters of former President Goodluck Jonathan have commenced grassroots mobilisation in the South-East and South-South zones for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The group, under the aegis of Citizens Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPDN) had endorsed Tinubu in November. In a statement issued after the grassroots campaign commencement in Port …

All through the past two decades and half of following the trajectory of former President Goodluck Jonathan, I’ve come to identify him as a gentleman par excellence. He rapidly overcame his erstwhile provincial naivete to become the national leader and global statesman he is today, with his signature bowler hat, an integral component of men’s regalia in his seaward section …