The former president, Goodluck Jonathan and 43 other eminent Nigerians, will on Friday honoured by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Nigerian president honours the former president with 43 other prominent persons with service awards on Friday. The event which has been scheduled to hold at the Conference room of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, would witness the…
The ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, advised all candidates in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, who included the likes of Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, among other candidates, to work on making their campaigns clean, issue-based, free of violence. Jonathan made this revelation while reading his virtual goodwill message in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The Informant247…
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, warned Nigerians not to vote for those he described as “killers” in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Jonathan disclosed this in Uyo during a special interdenominational service to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the creation of Akwa Ibom State. He said, “In 2023, you must not make the mistake…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has visited the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of 2023 presidential election. Obi revealed that he and the former president exchanged ideas on issues of national significance during the meeting. While sharing photos of the visit via his Twitter handle on Thursday, the…
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. This came following the death of the UK’s longest-serving monarch on Thursday. The Queen, whose reign lasted for 70 years after getting enthroned in 1952, died at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle. The Informant247 had earlier revealed that the eldest…
The All Progressives Congress on Monday, said that the opposition People’s Democratic Party is in a panic following the recent visit of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to former President Goodluck Jonathan. The opposition party, PDP had reacted to the closed-door meeting between the statesmen, saying that the move was a ploy by both…
The former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, on Saturday charged Nigerians to vote for the presidential candidate of any political party that believed in the unity of Nigeria in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Jonathan said this while delivering lectures to mark the 80th birthday of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu in Owerri, with the theme “Igbo…
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has condemned those criticizing ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for welcoming and hosting the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, and the vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima. Ohanaeze has said that the former president deserves respect for welcoming and hosting a man who worked against him in 2015. The…
Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has revealed how his administration resolved a four-month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in one night. He made this disclosure at the 70th birthday celebration of Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, organised by The Kukah Centre, in Abuja on Wednesday. According…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has advised President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to learn from former President Goodluck Jonathan how to resolve the ongoing strike. Lecturers begun the industrial action on February 14, 2022, over the inability of the government to fully address the demands of the union. The strike has now lingered for…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has requested for scholarships for talented African youths with low incomes. The former president made this revelation during the 11th graduation ceremony of the Cavendish University Uganda (CUU), Kampala. The former commander in chief, who is the Chancellor of the University, in his remarks made available to the News Agency of…
An ex national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has accepted that he fought the former president, Goodluck Jonathan, during his administration “because of politics”. The former Governor of Edo State made this revelation at the one-year memorial lecture in honour of the late Captain Hosa Okunbo, in Abuja, the country capital…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has lamented that spirited efforts of past leaders, especially those of the First Republic, to unite Nigerians did not yield positive results. Jonathan said this yesterday in Abuja at the one-year memorial lecture in honour of the late Captain Hosa Okunbo. Despite 29 presidential orders, security forces yet to curb attacks…
The former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that Nigerians don’t appreciate good leaders until they leave office, noting that former President Goodluck Jonathan left enviable legacies behind. The ex-national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) confessed that he fought former President Jonathan out of office due to their differences in political…
The Informant247 reports that the former President Goodluck Jonathan is in Kenya, an African country, where he is supervising a team of observers monitoring the country’s ongoing general election. The former Nigerian leader is serving as the Head of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, which has mobilized…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Africans, especially Nigerians, to eschew division and pursue peace at all time. He said this at a peace summit organised by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) on Tuesday in Abuja. The summit was aimed at analysing and strategising for peace on the Korean Peninsula and its relevance to…
Mike Ogiasa, a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan has begged for his release. Ogiasa served as Bayelsa Commissioner for Special Duties in charge of Federal Projects, and Special Adviser on Power. The engineer was kidnapped at Otuogidi in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa on June 2. Ogiasa was seized and driven away…
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has congratulated the presidential candidates of the different political parties, advising them to avoid divisive campaigns ahead of the 2023 elections. In a congratulatory statement issued on his social media page on Thursday, Jonathan said it was important to avoid acrimonious campaigns so that Nigeria can win. He said, “I congratulate…
The former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was not screened by the presidential screening committee of the ruling, All Progressives Congress, APC. John Odigie Oyegun, the Chairman of the screening committee made this confession on Friday at the secretariat of the party. The Chairman of the seven-man committee revealed this shortly after submitting the report of…
A former Secretary to the Federal Government SGF and a Chieftain of the Yoruba Socio- Political Group, Afenifere, Chief Olu Falae has said that cabals in the Presidency wanted to draft the former President Goodluck Jonathan into the 2023 election. Falae said in Akure that the moves were motivated by an alleged attempt to quickly…
