Former President Goodluck Jonathan has been nominated as the winner of the 2025 Founders Sunhak Peace Award. Mr Ikechukwu Eze, Special Adviser to Jonathan disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Eze said that the award would be presented to the former president by Sunhak Peace Prize Foundation in Seoul, South Korea on […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday explained why his administration did not implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. He made this known when he joined former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to pay a condolence visit to the family of late Afenifere Leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos. Jonathan said the political situation in Nigeria […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand of three Lagos State House of Assembly workers in Department of State Security Services (DSS) custody over alleged assault. The defendants, Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle, and Fatimoh Adetola, were named in charge No. FHC/L/273C/2025, dated Feb. 24, 2025. The DSS accused them and others […]
Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has declared that the military should be excused from getting involved in election security as well as the day-to-day management of elections as is done in other parts of the world, particularly developed countries Speaking at the official launch of two books, Selected Readings in Internal Security and Selected Readings […]
The death of Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the prominent leader of the Yoruba socio-political group Afenifere, has sparked a wave of tributes from across Nigeria. Adebanjo, who passed away at his residence in Lekki, Lagos, on February 14, 2025, at the age of 96, was remembered for his decades of unwavering commitment to federalism, democracy, and […]
The All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, distanced itself again from an alleged splinter group, Team New Nigeria, after the group flooded Kano metropolis with the campaign posters of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The ruling party insisted the group did not emanate from its fold and were not known members at any level of the APC. […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara to remain steadfast in the face of opposition, saying that challenges are essential for growth. Jonathan made this statement on Sunday at the first Etche Festival of Food, Art, and Culture held in Nihi community, Etche LGA. “I know you (Governor Fubara) are passing […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the greatest problem confronting Nigeria from a political perspective is its lack of unity, adding that genuine development will remain elusive until this issue is resolved. Jonathan, speaking yesterday in Effurun, Delta State, as chairman of the Wellmann Group Colloquium, said Nigerians should have recognised the benefits of unity […]
The Commonwealth has appointed former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as the head of its Election Observation Mission to Pakistan’s general election scheduled for February 8, 2024. Jonathan will be leading a group of multidisciplinary experts from across the Commonwealth nations to observe the elections in Pakistan and offer an independent and comprehensive assessment […]
Former Nigerian president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has said that he owed no one apologies for supporting the re-election of Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, in the November 11, 2023 off-cycle governorship poll in the state. Jonathan, also said it was the right thing to do as Diri had the support of majority of the […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan said he would have relocated his mother to Abuja if Governor Douye Diri, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP had lost. Jonathan stated this when he visited Diri in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on Friday. “I was saying before this election that if Diri loses this election, I would […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the National Assembly (NASS) to make laws that prohibit off-season elections in Nigeria. The ex-Nigerian leader spoke on Saturday after he cast his vote in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll at Ward 13, Polling Unit 39, at Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Like […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has visited President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The visit comes 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld Tinubu’s election in the keenly contested February 25, 2023 presidential poll. After the meeting, he reminded Nigerians that elections were over and that it was time for […]
President Bola Tinubu receives former President Goodluck Jonathan at the state house.
Former First Lady Patience Jonathan, on Wednesday, paid what she termed “ a solidarity visit” to Oluremi Tinubu, the incumbent first lady, at the State House, Abuja. Mrs Jonathan, during the visit, thanked Mrs Tinubu for how she has impacted the lives of Nigerian women so far. She said it is imperative for her as […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan said his visits to President Bola Tinubu have been misinterpreted by politicians. Jonathan in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Ikechukwu Eze, said the visits were intended to brief Tinubu, who has just been elected as the Chairman of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, on […]
Some elders from the Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have risen in opposition to what they described as “relentless attempts” by former President Goodluck Jonathan to take the state’s ministerial slot in President Bola Tinubu’s yet-to-be formed cabinet. The stakeholders under the auspices of the Bayelsa APC Elders Council accused Jonathan […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about USD$5 billion Abacha loot recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. The court ordered the government of President Bola Tinubu to “disclose the exact amount of money stolen by […]
The Head of the West African Elders Forum (WAEF) 2023 Election Mission to Sierra Leone, former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday arrived Freetown ahead of the Saturday’s general election in the country. The Communications Officer, Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF), Wealth Ominabo, stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja. Ominabo said that […]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu welcomed former President Goodluck Jonathan to a meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday. Jonathan visited the Aso Rock Villa to provide Tinubu with updates on important political developments in West Africa and other regions of the continent. Dr. Jonathan is the Special Envoy of the Economic Community of […]
