The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on Friday described the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration as sick, weak and corrupt. He further said the victory of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2015 presidential election saved the country from total collapse. According to The Nation, Mohammed was in Kano alongside five other ministers for a Town Hall […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed a report that he is on exile in Cote d’Ivoire. The report, published yesterday by a national newspaper, claimed that Dr. Jonathan had been given asylum in that Francophone country. His associates were alarmed at the report. But Dr. Jonathan yesterday said it was all false. He told The […]
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A defence witness, Mr. Anthony Okeke, in the ongoing trial of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s image was battered by the then opposition All Progressives Congress’ “smear campaign”, Punchng report. Okeke is a lawyer and a […]
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A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered former Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government to provide information on how N30 trillion was spent. The cash represents some accruable income to the Federal Government during the last four years of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Justice Ibrahim Buba gave […]
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The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says he divulged a letter which a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor and now Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, wrote to former President Goodluck Jonathan on oil revenue theft in order to check corruption. Amaechi said the claim that he ‘clandestinely’ leaked the letter was not true. […]
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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of favouring state governors elected on the platform of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, during his regime. He specifically accused the former President of doling out N2bn from the Ecological Fund to each of the PDP governors without considering giving same […]
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The United States of America (USA) on Saturday said that it was incapacitated to help Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram earlier than now by the corrupt inclination of the Jonathan Administration. The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power,told reporters in Yola that Washington was uncomfortable with the former administration’s handling of the […]
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The Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman, has returned N23m to the Federal Government, Punchng report. Usman was last Thursday arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly receiving N2.5bn which emanated from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Source at the EFCC told on condition of anonymity that she […]
Read More The immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday said lack of political will to save oil revenue under former President Goodluck Jonathan was responsible for the challenges facing the country presently. She said as a result, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund must seek means to embed savings in national […]
Read More [su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]he umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is laying a foundation for the arrest of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Punchng report. The IYC, however, advised the anti-graft agency to shelve any plan to “persecute” the former President, insisting that such a […]
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[su_dropcap]B[/su_dropcap]orno State Governor Kashim Shettima said yesterday that ex- President Goodluck Jonathan did not call him for 19 days after the abduction of the Chibok girls, almost two years ago. He spoke yesterday when ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is on a two-day visit to the University of Maiduguri, visited him at the Government House. According to […]
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Party’s future uncertain as ex-president backs governors’ choice of chairman. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders remained disunited last night over the choice of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as acting chairman. The choice has pitched President Goodluck Jonathan against members of his former cabinet. Jonathan backed Sheriff but some of his ministers disagreed. The ex-ministers said […]
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