Tag: Goodluck Jonathan
Nigerian commissions new UAV
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has commissioned the country's latest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which will be deployed as an intelligence, surveillance and...
Nigeria’s Boko Haram claims northeast barracks attack
Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram was behind a coordinated attack on military targets this month, the group's leader has said in a...
Benin says frees Nigerian ex-militant after Jonathan intervenes
Benin freed a former militant leader from Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region on Friday after a personal intervention by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan,...
Nigeria extends emergency rule in violence-hit states
Nigeria's house of representatives on Wednesday approved a six month extension of a state of emergency in three northeastern states where the...
Nigeria military says 29 Islamists killed in two battles
Nigerian troops have killed 29 suspected Islamist militants in two days of fighting in the northeast, where President Goodluck Jonathan's forces are...
Nigeria offensive drives 40,000 refugees into Niger
Nigeria's army offensive against Islamist militants has pushed nearly 40,000 refugees over its northern border into Niger, a U.N. agency said, in...
Nigeria says needs Cameroon’s help to fight Boko Haram
Nigeria said it needed help from Cameroon to police their shared border as it seeks to win a drawn-out battle to crush...
Nigerian president seeks state of emergency extension
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan asked the national assembly on Wednesday to extend by six months a state of emergency in three northeastern...
Militants kill 70 in northeast Nigeria attacks
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed 70 people in three attacks in northeastern Nigeria in recent days, officials said on Monday, a...
President pledges national dialogue to heal ‘divided’ Nigeria
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday promised a national dialogue to heal what he said was an ethnically and religiously divided nation,...
Nigeria opens ballistic armour factory; showcases first indigenous APC
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has officially opened a newly established ballistic armour factory and commissioned Nigeria's first locally produced armoured personnel carrier,...
Nigerian Navy commissions first locally built warship NNS Andoni
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has commissioned the NNS Andoni, Nigeria's first locally built warship, and laid the keel for a second Seaward...
Nigeria to eradicate polio within two years: president
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan pledged yesterday to set up a special government team to ensure the eradication of polio from Africa's most...
Nigeria to clean up oil delta agency – president
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan pledged to clean up a government agency tasked with developing the oil-rich Niger Delta region after reports commissioned...
Nigeria says Boko Haram, al Qaeda-link behind UN attack
Nigerian authorities investigating last week's fatal bombing of the UN headquarters arrested two members of Islamist sect Boko Haram a week before...
Nigeria’s report on Islamist sect attacks delayed
A seven-man committee appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to review almost daily attacks by a radical Islamist sect in Nigeria's northeast has...
Nigeria and Benin to fight pirates together
Nigeria and Benin will cooperate to fight the growing threat of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which has seen a number...
Nigerian government to open talks with Islamist sect
President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a committee to negotiate with radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, a group behind almost daily shootings...
Nigeria’s Jonathan wants single, longer presidency term
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he will send a constitutional amendment bill to parliament aimed at changing presidential and state governorship tenures...
Nigerian leader reappoints 12 ministers to old jobs
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan reappointed 12 ministers from the outgoing government to their old jobs following general elections in April, including oil...