Former national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and chairman presidential screening panel of the party, Chief John Oyegun, has confirmed that his Committee did not screen the former President Goodluck Jonathan, contrary to speculation. Oyegun, who just submitted the reports of the screening exercise where 10 aspirants were disqualified, said Jonathan was not on the list of Read More
The Federal High Court in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital has ruled that former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest the 2023 presidential election. The presiding judge, Justice Isa Hamma Dashen, gave the judgement on Friday. Details loading…
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted angrily over the purported purchase of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential nomination forms for the 2023 election, pegged at N100million, describing the move as an insult to his person. The former President, who had been rumoured to be one of the persons being nurtured by some interest groups in the APC, was reacting Read More
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that he was yet to declare for the 2023 presidency. Rather, Jonathan said the process that will determine if he would declare or not was still on. The immediate past of Nigerian spoke on Friday while playing host to a large crowd of supporters, mostly youths and women on solidarity march to his office Read More
Immediate past Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday escaped after cars in convoy were involved in a road crash which reportedly claimed two persons. The two fatalities Blueprint gathered were his aides. The accident which happened in Abuja while the former President was returning from a trip according to eyewitness spared his life. No official confirmation on the latest development.
Following his anticipation to emerge the consensus presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for 2023, former President Goodluck Jonathan has started rallying round his kinsmen in Ogbia Local Government Area (LGA) Bayelsa state. It was gathered that part of his strategies was to get some of his kinsmen and political associates in support of his ambition in Peoples Read More
Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar, Professor Florence Banku Obi, at the weekend disclosed that the institution will award former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, with Honorary Doctorate Degree. Professor Obi dropped this hint when she led principal officers of the university to pay a courtesy visit to the immediate past President. The Vice Chancellor stressed that the roles played by Read More
The immediate past Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has said he has no regret appointing former Senate President, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Jonathan who expressed hope that if given another opportunity, Anyim will do better, commended him for diligent service to Nigeria. Jonathan spoke during his opening remark as the Read More
Following claims that former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan handed over a prosperous economy to incumbent Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, the Special Envoy on Diplomacy & Good Governance of the International Peace Commission of the UN, Amb. Hussaini Coomassie, has come out to debunk the claim. Former aviation minister, Osita Chidoka, had stated that the then President Jonathan handed over a prosperous Read More
Both the President and Deputy President of the Senate , Senators Ahmad Lawan and Ovie Omo – Agege respectively have felicitated with former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 64 birthday anniversary. The two presiding officers of the Senate expressed their felicitations to the former President through separate statements issued on Saturday and signed by their media minders. Lawan in his Read More
The governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) for Anambra state November 6 poll, Dr Akachukwu Nwankpo, has accused the leadership of the state for the past 22 years of wasting over N6.5 trillion. Nwankpo, an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, in a viral video from his campaign office, attributed the ‘waste’ to ‘wickedness,’ not involving the masses in Read More
The lives of important people matter. Here is some evidence. There are 400,000 personnel in the Nigeria Police Force. For a population of 170 million people that works out at one policeman to 425 people. The UN recommendation is one police man to 400 people. As the experts like to say, we are under-policed. We expect one policeman to effectively Read More
Dr. Raymond Anthony Aleogho Dokpesi is a Nigerian media entrepreneur and Founder/Chairman Emeritus Ray Power/ Daar Communications. Ahead of his 70-year anniversary October 25, the trained marine engineer shares the touching story of his life with ABDULRAHMAN A. ABDULRAUF and a few other journalists recently in Abuja. The media owner who couldn’t speak in the early years of his life was already ‘sentenced’ to death by Read More
In 2007 and 2011, Nigeria was practically on the edge of the precipice, due to intense wrangling over zoning of the presidency. While that of 2007 was swiftly nipped in the bud, when then President Olusegun Obasanjo hand-picked late President Umaru Yar’adua as a successor, that of 2011 lingered on and caused some frictions in the then ruling Peoples Democratic Read More
Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Moh Lukman, has said opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others are presenting false narrative to paint President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party in bad light. The PGF boss also described as “politically scandalous” for an APC state like Lagos to Read More
The minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, stepped into the cauldron of controversy this week. At an interview with the Daily Trust, he was quoted as saying no individual could steal public funds openly under Buhari. Said he: “Let us assume we are corrupt, can you openly take money from this government? In the past governments, what happened? You can take Read More
Newly crowned Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwaste lll, received ex-Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, at his palace on Saturday in Warri South council area of Delta state. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, also visited the Warri monarch. The former President visited the palace in the company of HRH King Amalate Turner, Obanema of Opume-Ogbia, Bayelsa Read More
Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Moh Lukman, has faulted the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attairu Jega, for saying the ruling party and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are the same. Jega had in a recent interviews claimed that both the PDP Read More
At last, the tortuous journey to strengthen Nigeria’s oil and gas sector came to an end with President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB thus transforming it to Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. But quite instructively, the spate of reactions that trail this development has diminished the ultimate intentions of the legislation. Nobody seems interested in knowing why, Read More
The South-south Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has told President Muhammadu Buhari and all the Niger Delta leaders to hold former governor Seriaki Dickson responsible in case of any outbreak of violence in the Niger Delta. The forum also described as irresponsible and disgraceful the accusation made against the Minister of State for Petroleum Chief Timipre Sylva by the former governor Read More
… Nigeria bleeding from subsidy payment – Kyari ‘… Irregularities make amount being spent uncertain’ … It’s compounded by politics – Economist ‘…A pro-people policy on crude refining key’ … Ignorance fuelling oppositions – Sylva The issue of fuel subsidy removal remains a thorny one with each administration engrossed in the debate. Notwithstanding Nigeria’s economic realities, its fiscal authorities are Read More
At different times, they served Nigeria meritoriously in various capacities, but many years after their exit from the public scene, nothing has been heard about them again. ELEOJO IDACHABA writes in this piece asks where they could be at the moment. Mohammed Daggash He was twice a lawmaker who was very prominent in the Senate between 1999 and 2007. Senator Read More
A group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of APC Legacy Awareness & Campaign (APC-LAC), said that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration committed more resources to infrastructure than any other administration since 1999. The administrations before President Muhammadu Buhari include former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. In its weekly reports of Buhari’s legacies through a statement Read More
The Gombe state governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has emerged the 2020 Blueprint Newspapers’ Governor of the Year in Health Care Delivery. According to a statement Friday by the director-general (press affairs), Ismaila Uba Misilli, the award was in recognition of Inuwa’s excellent performance and giant strides in the health sector. The governor was presented with the award alongside winners of Read More
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan as chairman of the ECOWAS Council of the Wise. ECOWAS disclosed the appointments in a statement published on its website after a two-day meeting which ended on May 25, 2021, in Ghana. As special envoy, Jonathan had helped ECOWAS to facilitate dialogue with all principal stakeholders in Read More
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