Tag: jonathan

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Mazi EmekaJune 4, 2016

Again, Fashola blames Jonathan for bad roads

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Friday, disclosed that the Jonathan administration’s inability to pay contractors ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 4, 2016

Ayiri Emami wants you to know Tompolo is behind Niger Delta Avengers

Former Delta Waterways Security Chairman, Ayiri Emami, appears to believe that a man running from the law is responsible for ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 3, 2016

Buhari, Jonathan discuss Niger Delta militancy behind closed doors

President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, are reported to have held a clandestine meeting on Thursday, at the Presidential ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 3, 2016

EFCC ‘investigating bloggers, reporters’ that took money from Fani-Kayode

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission is reportedly investigating bloggers, newspapers and other journalists allegedly given money by the Director ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 3, 2016

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

Here are your top five stories to monitor today. 1) Niger Delta Avengers strike again Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 3, 2016

Jonathan, our brother, failed to clean-up Niger Delta – Amaechi

Former Governor of Rivers State, now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday, said that his administration did everything, including fasting ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 2, 2016

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

These are the top 5 stories to monitor today 1) The return of Jonathan Former President, Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 2, 2016

Accounts of Fani-Kayode’s ‘Jonathan campaign colleagues’, frozen by EFCC

As part of an investigation into the Goodluck Jonathan 2015 presidential campaign funds, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) ...

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Op-Ed EditorMay 31, 2016

Demola Rewaju: If Jonathan had won in 2015? A reflection… (Y! Politico)

By Demola Rewaju This piece is an email response I sent to one of my twitter friends who asked me the ...

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Op-Ed EditorMay 30, 2016

Opinion: If Lai Mohammed needs more excuses, he can blame Amaechi

By Reno Omokri On January 22, 2016, I tweeted a joke which went viral. I had said that at meetings ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 29, 2016

These are the 20 most impactful photos from the Buhari presidency

Former President Goodluck Jonathan – on this day, one year ago – ceremoniously handed over the mantle of Nigeria’s leadership ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 29, 2016

Metuh’s lawyer says EFCC is playing dirty games

Bën Nwosu, counsel to Olisa Metuh, former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has raised some issues regarding ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 23, 2016

EFCC sneaks Fani-Kayode to Lagos to obtain ‘shady’ remand warrant

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been accused of trampling on the fundamental human rights of detained former ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 23, 2016

‘I did not protest against subsidy removal in 2012’ | Pastor Tunde Bakare has a story to tell you

The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has fautted ...

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Mazi EmekaMay 22, 2016

‘Buhari deserves more time’ | MEND is in full support of this president

Militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), on Sunday, condemned the activities of the Niger ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 22, 2016

Court orders Okonjo-Iweala, Jonathan to account for ‘missing’ N30 trillion

The Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Federal Government are to “provide information on ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 22, 2016

Reuben Abati: Why Niger Delta Avengers strike

Niger Delta Avengers is the name of a new group of militants in the Niger Delta who claim to be ...

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Mazi EmekaMay 20, 2016

Where is Patience Jonathan?

Yesterday, the South-East caucus All Progressives Congress issued a press statement shaming former Nigerian First Lady, Patience Jonathan for doubting ...

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Op-Ed EditorMay 20, 2016

Reuben Abati: What happened under GEJ, when we tried to get rid of subsidy

This thing called democracy, particularly the Nigerian brand, never ceases to throw up new and intriguing lessons about the relationship ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 19, 2016

‘Jonathan told me he ordered N400m to be paid to Metuh’- Doyin Okupe

Former public affairs aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has declared that his former boss authorised the disbursement of ...

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YWriterMay 18, 2016

Japheth Omojuwa: This is why Nigerians aren’t joining this strike like they joined #OccupyNigeria

by Japheth Omojuwa Having spent a whole week in Germany travelling through villages in Lusatia, Brandenburg and attending lectures in ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 16, 2016

“It is nonsensical” | Ijaw Youth Council says Jonathan has nothing to do with Avengers

The Ijaw Youths Council Worldwide has rejected the notion by an ex-militant, Israel Akpodoro, that former President Goodluck Jonathan founded ...

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Mazi EmekaMay 14, 2016

Flashback: 2011, when Lamido Sanusi predicted this turn of events

Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who later became a whistleblower before ascending to the ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 13, 2016

Doyin Okupe reveals what he had to do for Obj’s forgiveness

Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has an interesting story of forgiveness ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 12, 2016

Someone investigated the looting of subsidy funds under Jonathan, and we noted these 12 points

Even as different reactions trail the removal of the subsidy placed on petrol by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoMay 12, 2016

The revolt against #OccupyNigeria: @Chukudebelu’s timeline cries out against hypocrisy

An enormous barrage of reactions has trailed the announcement of the removal of subsidy by the Federal Government. On January ...

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YWriterMay 12, 2016

Joachim Mac-Ebong: Those attacking #OccupyNigeria 2012 protesters are wrong – very wrong

by Joachim Mac-Ebong This is the morning after the evening before, when the government announced an upward review of petrol ...

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Mazi EmekaMay 12, 2016

#OccupyNigeria: 4 reasons Nigerians will (probably) not take to the streets this time

Nigerians had a welcome gift on the first of January 2012: the removal of fuel subsidy. A bold -even for ...

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Mazi EmekaMay 12, 2016

#OccupyNigeria: What Nigerians are saying about fuel subsidy removal

In January 2012, Nigerians, regardless of ethnic or religious affiliation, displayed an uncommon solidarity when they came out in mass ...

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Mazi EmekaMay 7, 2016

‘Jonathan’s govt failed to arrest VVF among women’ | 6 things we learned from Okonjo-Iweala

Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that former president Goodluck Jonathan worked towards ensuring gender parity in Nigeria, ...

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