Tag Archives: Goodluck Jonathan

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday said that the federal government, under late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and former President Goodluck Jonathan did not build “a single new road” in the last 10 years. Speaking at the pastors and leaders retreat of the Fountain of Life Church in Ilupeju, Lagos, Osinbajo said corruption in the country was not caused by a few ...

Former Anambra State Governor, Chimwoke Mbadinuju, has urged Nigerian to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war. The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) told journalists in Keffi at the weekend that what the president was doing was cleaning the mess of previous governments. According to him, “It is clear that the president is not the cause of our political ...

Former Nigeri’s President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has denied awarding any  arms procurement contract in the range of $2 billion dollars while in office. Jonathan made this disclosure while reacting to the arms procurement scandal involving the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki at a forum in Washington DC. He said, “I did not award any $2 billion contract for procurement ...

Amid outcry over lean revenue, the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Nigeria’s government is proposing a budget of 7 to 8 trillion Naira for 2016, up from 4.4 trillion in 2015. The proposed budgetary expenditure was contained in a document from the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo seen by Reuters on Friday. The document, used as the basis for ...

As President Muhammadu Buhari inquires into the Boko Haram war expenditures under the last administration, it has emerged that Nigeria’s traditional allies in the West deliberately frustrated former President Goodluck Jonathan’s efforts towards ending terrorists’ activities in the country, Vanguard reports. A security source disclosed in Abuja that Nigeria, under the leadership of Jonathan, wrote 25 letters to the United ...

Nigeria’s former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has embarked on at least three projects following his exit from Aso Rock Villa, Nigeria’s seat of power. A former presidential aide has revealed that the ex president is writing a memoir, which will tell his grass-to-grace story, his political adventures, his experience as Vice-President and President, and the just-concluded general elections in which ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan was said to have met with  President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday night.  The reason for the meeting was not officially announced and it was held without media attention. TheStreetReporters gathered that the meeting was held inside the President’s official residence at the Aso Rock Villa. Details of the top agenda for ...

Contrary to efforts by certain interests to portray the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration in bad light over security spendings, the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has opened up on how the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan facilitated the acquisition of hitherto elusive weaponry in the last one year and recovered many local governments that had ...

Over 12 close aides of former President Goodluck Jonathan have been stripped of their official passports. They include former Special Adviser to the President on Media Reuben Abati, former Chief Security Officer, Gordon Obua, and former Aide-de-Camp, Col. Ojogbane Adegbe. The decision to withdraw the official passports of the former aides of Dr Jonathan was to prevent misuse and conflict ...

Daring Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose has urged former President, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo to stop attacking the immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, saying; “Dr Goodluck Jonathan is no longer the president of Nigeria, he should be allowed to live a private life devoid of mudslinging from elder statesmen like Chief Obasanjo.” Governor Fayose, who was miffed that Obasanjo could choose the ...

“On 16th July, 2015, about 1650 hours, based on credible intelligence linking the immediate past NSA, Mohammed Sambo DASUKI (Col Rtd) with alleged plans to commit treasonable felony against the Nigerian State, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) conducted a search on the properties belonging to the former NSA, Mohammed Sambo DASUKI (Col Rtd). The properties are on ...