Tag: Jonathan
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Alleged $40m fraud: Jonathan’s cousin knows fate March 29
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, will on March 29 decide whether or not Robert Azibaola, a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has case to answer in the 7-count charge of money laundering and criminal breach of trust preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mr. Azibaola…
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Dapchi girls: Jonathan didn’t attend society wedding like you did, ex-presidential aide blasts Buhari
…Says Buhari didn’t handle Dapchi abduction better than Jonathan did Chibok A former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s claims in Damaturu, Yobe, that he handled the recent abduction of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls ‘much better’ than Mr. Jonathan treated a similar incident in Chibok in 2014 is false. Reno Omokri in…
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Chibok/Dapchi girls comparison: Jonathan calls Lai Mohammed ‘notorious liar’
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has rubbished a statement credited to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed that his administration delayed in responding to the abduction of Chibok girls. Mohammed, while speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the Editors’ plaza championed by the Nigerian Guild of Editors, said, “Now, don’t compare orange with…
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Jonathan congratulates Shagari at 93
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has felicitated with former President Shehu Shagari who clocked 93 years on Sunday. The former Nigerian leader said Shagari is a humble leader who set standards in selfless service. A statement by Jonathan’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Eze, quoted the former president as describing Mr. Shagari as an elder statesman whose conduct in and…
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Just in: IBB, Jonathan absent at Buhari’s Council of State meeting
President Muhammadu Buhari is, at present, presiding over a meeting of the Council of State. Former leaders absent are Ibrahim Badamasi Babamgida, Goodluck Jonathan, Shehu Shagari and Earnest Shomekan are absent. Although, all living past Presidents and Heads of Government are members of the Council, former President Goodluck Jonathan, former President Shehu Shagari and former…
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Jonathan’s ex-finance minister, Okonjo-Iweala gets Commonwealth appointment
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed into a High Level Group on Governance of the Commonwealth Secretariat. Prof. Ben Maloney, Communications Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat, said in a statement that the High Level Group would make recommendations on governance of the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Commonwealth, however, denied that the group was…
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‘Jonathan, wife ordered me to convert dollars to naira,’ Dudafa tells court
Former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Jonathan, Waripamo Dudafa, yesterday told the Federal High Court in Lagos that all the foreign currencies he gave to a Bureau De Change operator to convert to naira were given to him by his bosses. Testifying during a hearing on a suit filed by Mrs Jonathan, Dudafa…
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2019: Obasanjo preaches tolerance, reconcilliation as he worships with Jonathan in Bayelsa
It was a celebratory mood at the St. Stephen Anglican Church, Otuoke Diocese, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday worshiped side by side with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. The church service, which was carnival like, had in attendance Governor Seriake Dickson; his deputy, Rear Admiral John Jonah…
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Jonathan backs NASS decision to reorder 2019 polls
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed his support on the National Assembly’s proposed decision to re-order the sequence of the 2019 elections. Jonathan said the new arrangement was in order and would go a long way in ensuring that more quality people are elected at all levels. Majority of the members of the two chambers…