President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan today visited the Head quarters of The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministry of Pastor Lazarus Muoka today in Lagos. The President earlier visited Pastor Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) during the holy ghost service in Ogun State as part of his campaign for the upcoming election. [...]
Patoric Nigerians, not Foreign opinion writers will re-elect Pres Jonathan
We have noted with surprise, The Economist’s tongue-in-cheek endorsement of General Muhammadu Buhari in the run-up to Nigeria’s general elections and the international magazine’s baseless, jaundiced and rather malicious vilification of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who retains the trust and confidence of majority of Nigerians as the outcome of the Presidential elections [...]
Ramsey Noah, Ini Edo, Patience Ozonkwor, others storms GEJ campaign in Delta
President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Nnamdi Sambo Campaign rally hit Asaba, Delta state with a rousing reception from the cheering crowd. Nigerian entertainers including Patience Ozokwor, Fred Amata, Ramsey Noah, Omoni Oboli, Ini Edo, Daddy Showkey, Omobabak Kingsley Ogoro, Gordons and others stormed President Jonathan's campaign rally in Delta state earlier today to [...]
Toyin Aimakhu takes a selfie with President Goodluck Jonathan
Popular Yoruba actress Toyin Aimakhu takes a selfie with President Goodluck Jonathan and she shares the picture on her Instagram and captioned it.... Selfie with our president....I love him very humble...fighting ourselves is not the solution. [...]
I’ve fulfilled all my promises –Jonathan
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan, has said that he has fulfilled all the promises he made during his inauguration speech in 2011. He also said the Federal Government would soon come up with an automobile policy that would ensure that vehicles would be assembled in Nigeria. He added that the Federal Government would mandate [...]
Feb.11 fixed for hearing of Jonathan’s disqualification
A fresh suit to disqualify president Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the Feb. 14 presidential election has been filed against him. An A buja Federal High Court on Tuesday has fixed February 11 for the hearing of the suit restraining the president from contesting the scheduled Feb. 14 presidential election in the country. The trial judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, fixed the [...]
Nigeria is safe under Jonathan – IBB
As if sounding it in a more clearer terms, the former military head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida has stated without mincing words that the country would be safer under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, because the young man, according to him, is a dependable leader for the country. This Babangida said when Jonathan and his campaign entourage visited him in [...]
I will do better in my second term – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said that he deserve a second term in order to allow him consolidate on the achievements he has recorded during his first term in office. Speaking with Traditional Rulers in Kogi state before the presidential Rally in Lokoja, President Jonathan said most governments worldwide perform better during the second term of their [...]
President Jonathan mourns Okoya-Thomas, says he left a legacy of great entrepreneurial achievement
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has received with immense sadness, news of the passing away of one Nigeria’s leading entrepreneurs, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas. President Jonathan extends sincere condolences to members of Chief Okoya-Thomas’ family as well as his friends, associates, business partners within and outside Nigeria, and the people of Lagos where he held the [...]
APC Criticism Of Jonathan’s Revolution On Agriculture Wicked – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as highly despicable and deceitful, the attempt by the APC to distort the facts on verifiable achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan in agriculture saying such has “clearly confirmed that the APC is a party of liars, fraudulent and desperate individuals completely averse to the well-being of Nigerians.” PDP National [...]
President Jonathan escape death in Gombe rally
Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president, narrowly avoided a deadly car bomb at a re-election campaign rally in the city of Gombe on Monday. A car bomb exploded in a car park 200 yards outside a stadium just three minutes after Nigeria's president left, witnesses said, killing at least one bystander and wounding seven. One witness who was at the rally in the northeastern [...]
Jonathan Will Beat Buhari In The North’ – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says its Presidential flagbearer, President Goodluck Jonathan will beat the APC candidate, retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari, fair and square in the north, come February14, 2015. The party also said with President Jonathan’s soaring popularity among the voting population across the country, it would win more than two-third of the total [...]
Imoke assures Jonathan of 1.1 million votes
The South-South Coordinator of the PDP, Governor Liyel Imoke of cross River has promised President Goodluck Jonathan of giving him 1.1 million votes in the February 14 polls. He said that Jonathan deserve a second term in office due to his outstanding performances in his first term which some corrupt minded individuals are denying. Imoke promised the president of the said [...]
Murtala Mohammed Foundation, Forbes Africa, Others Organise Presidential Debate, Invites Buhari To Face Jonathan
In a sharp twist of fate, the Murtala Muhammed Foundation has thrown in the challenge to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen Muhammadu Buhari to have debate sessions with his opponents, in particular President Goodluck Jonathan. It will be noted the Foundation instituted its own debate following the withdrawal of Buhari from the presidential debate [...]
Go back home, we have provided enough shoes for you -Tinubu tells Jonathan
The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has advised the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Goodluck Jonathan to return home as the nation has provided enough shoes for him. It would be recalled that President Jonathan had during his campaign in 2011 claimed that due to his poor background, his parents could not [...]
Nigerian stars spearhead Jonathan campaign in Rivers state
Major ex- football stars in Nigeria, in the likes of Austine J.J. Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu and Joseph Yobo were among the sportsmen and women calling for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan as the number one citizen of the country. During Jonathan campaign in Port Harcourt, River state on Wednesday, the presence of the two former Nigerian Super Eagle stars were felt as [...]
Buhari may Die In Office while Jonathan will be disgraced – Celestial Church Leader
The year 2015 has been compounded with lots of predictions and revelations from various men of God.Some of these revelations and predictions are shockingly unbelievable while some of them are targeted at the forthcoming elections. In a new interview with Encomium weekly, the spiritual leader of the Celestial Church of Christ, Elisha Parish, Marcus Korede Tibetan has given made [...]
Jonathan promises to complete Akure Cargo terminal for crop export
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday that he would focus greater attention toward the completion of the Akure Cargo Terminal to enable the rural farmers to export their crops. The president gave the indication when he paid a courtesy visit to the Regent of Akure Kingdom, Oba Adetutu Adesida, in her palace where he also met with the Ondo State Council of Traditional [...]
We don’t have to take power from the younger generation – Jonathan
Speaking at a campaign rally in Lafia, Nasarawa state yesterday, President Goodluck Jonathan said that anyone above 57 years of age would not receive his support in 2019 if he wins this re-election. Jonathan also disowned the governorship aspiration of his former minister of information, Mr. Labaran Maku, saying that he never supported his moves from the Peoples Democratic [...]
Afenifere endorses Jonathan’s second term bid
Akure - Jan 27, (2015) The pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, on Tuesday in Akure endorsed the second term presidential bid of Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic party. The group gave the endorsement at the residence of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, its national leader, where it received President Jonathan and his entourage. In a speech read on his behalf by the National [...]
We are pleased with international community to help fight Boko Haram – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday in Lagos said Nigeria was pleased with the international community’s agreement with it on the multinational task force initiative in fighting the Boko Haram insurgency. This is contained in a statement in Abuja by Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. "We are pleased that the international community is [...]
Anyone telling you Jonathan will not win is sick – Aneni
Chief Tony Aneni, of the PDP's Board of Trustees, has said that anyone nursing the ideas that Goodluck Jonathan would fail in the February 14 polls is sick. ”. He noted that it would be a sad tale for any state in the South-South region to vote for APC candidates, whether in the Houses of Assembly, House of Representatives, Senate , Governorship or Presidential elections, [...]
President Jonathan late Sister to be buried on Friday, January 23, 2015
State House Press release reads below: President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s younger sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei who passed away on Sunday, January 4, 2015 is to be buried tomorrow, Friday, January 23, 2015 in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. According to a burial programme issued on behalf of the Jonathan and Otazi families of Otuoke, Mrs. Jonathan-Olei’s body will leave the [...]
Hold APC responsible if anything happens to Jonathan – PDP
The PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation has described attack on the convoy of President Goodluck Jonathan in Katsina on Jan. 20 by suspected party thugs as barbaric and shameful. Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Director General of the orgnaisation, who stated this at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, added that the development was highly reprehensible. "While going to [...]
South-South group supports Jonathan’s second term
A group of South South Democratic Vanguard for Goodluk Sambo 2015, SSDV, has called on Nigerians to look into Jonathan's performance in such sectors like Aviation, Power, Education, Sports, basic infrastructures and maritime among other sectors that qualifies him for a second term in the office. It appealed to Nigerians to vote him to consolidate the gains already made by his [...]
Fayose death wish on Buhari: Jonathan violates the non-violence pact – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of violating the non-violence pact, signed by him and other presidential candidates in Abuja on Jan. 14th 2015, by acceding to the incendiary, insensitive, reckless and provocative death-wish-for-Buhari advert sponsored in his name by the zany Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, on Monday. ''But for [...]
FG have awarded reconstruction of Sokoto -Yauri-Kontagora in Minna – Jonathan
The Federal Government said it has awarded contract for reconstruction of the 655-kilometre Sokoto-Yauri-Kontagora road. President Goodluck Jonathan, who is also the PDP Presidential Candidate, said this during his campaign in Birnin Kebbi on Monday while addressing a mammoth crowd of the party’s supporters. He said government had released fund for the project and the [...]
My achievements in North has surpassed every other administrations -Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan, has refuted the claims of some people that were calling him enemy of the North. He said that such ones have nothing to offer the region and are liars! He cited the transformations that his administration had brought to the area in terms of education and agricultural sectors as something to be proud of. This the president said during his [...]
Nigeria Economy stronger under Jonathan – Research Group
The Nigeria Posterity Project (NPP) has stated that in spite of the challenges arising from the dwindling global oil prices, Nigeria’s economy remains strong and stable under President Goodluck Jonathan, The NPP, a non-governmental and apolitical organisation, said their findings were based on empirical research into the Nigerian economy between 2010 and 2014. In a press [...]
2nd Niger bridge to be completed in the next 40 months!
En-route to his official presidential campaign yesterday, the number one citizen of the country, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, paid an unscheduled visit to the site of the second Niger bridge project at the Onitsha-Asaba axis of Anambra state. Jonathan also paid a courtesy visit to the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, at his Ime-Obi palace. The president said he visited [...]
Jonathan assures all IDPs in the country of being liberated soon
President Goodluck yesterday paid a surprise visit to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital and assured Nigerians that all the areas currently under the control of the deadly sect would be soon liberated, and for the displaced peoples to come back to their homes. Goodluck made the promise at the camp for the internally displaced people in the Borno state capital. He asked the [...]
President Jonathan visits Borno State
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan undertook a surprise visit to Maiduguri Thursday on the occasion of Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day to meet with officers and men of the Armed Forces currently in the frontline of the war against terrorism and insurgency in the country. Accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs, the National Security Adviser and the [...]
Julius Malema calls President Goodluck “Irresponsible” over his silence on Baga attack
Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema has launched a blistering attack on Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan over his silence on recent Boko Haram attacks in the town of Baga. Malema was Addressing journalists in Johannesburg, where he described Jonathan as an "irresponsible" leader and urged the South African government to intervene and [...]
Choose for yourselves; more prisons or more schools – Jonathan
At the presidential rallies yesterday in Abeokuta, and Ibadan, President Goodluck Jonathan spoke to the hearts of Nigeria citizens as a whole. He promised to create additional eight million jobs for the youths in the next four years, if re-elected. While speaking at both rally venues which was hugely attended, Jonathan called on the youths to be ready to work with him for a [...]
Jonathan and Obasanjo meeting finally took place
Yesterday's meeting between Obasanjo and Jonathan was described as a hide and seek game, though the meeting later took place around 7.30 p.m. The meeting, which was expected to hold earlier did not take place due to some reasons which was not open to the press at the time. The crowd who has gathered to welcome the president were surprised to learn that Obasanjo left in his [...]
Jonathan visits Obasanjo today in Abeokuta
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, is today paying a visit to the former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegu Obasanjo in his Abeokuta residence. This is coming barely 48hours after the former president made a surprise appearance at the wedding of Jonathan's foster daughter, Inebharapu, which took place at the National Christian Centre, Abuja. The have not been seen together in [...]
Jonathan is not an Igbo man – Amaechi tells Ndigbo
The Director General, Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday reminded Ndigbo that President Goodluck Jonathan was not an Igbo man.Amaechi, who spoke at the Michael Okpara venue of the APC’s presidential campaign rally in Enugu said Ndigbo should not be deceived by ‘Ebele and Azikiwe’, attached to President Jonathan’s [...]
Jonathan campaign bus set on fire in Jos by angry youth
Some angry youth on Saturday attacked and set fire on a campaign bus branded with President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign posters at Zololo junction, Bauchi road in Jos North Local Government area of Plateau state. The bus was on fire at the time of filling this report. However, witnesses said the driver of the bus escaped unhurt. A witness whose car was also torched by the [...]
Traditional Rulers in Enugu pledges support for President Goodluck
The traditional rulers in Enugu have backed President Goodluck Jonathan on his re election bid in the forthcoming general elections. With nothing less than 371 traditional rulers in the state, they all expressed their support for the president in Enugu on Friday during a meeting with him on the sides of his campaign rally. The Chairman of the Enugu State Council of [...]
UPN adopts President Goodluck as its Presidential Candidate
The Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) on Friday adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate for the Feb. 14 polls. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the adoption was announced at its first National Convention to elect new officers, which was held in Lagos. NAN recalls that controversy had trailed the UPN leadership but the convention saw Dr [...]