South East political leaders , Saturday met in Enugu to map out reception plans for President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the funeral of the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe next week. Jonathan has confirmed his decision to attend the funeral which will take place at Ogidi, Anambra state. Chairman of South East Governor’s forum, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State told reporters that the meeting foc ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday described the death of his younger brother, Chief Meni Jonathan, as painful. ...

Despite opposition from certain quarters, Jonathan would not shy away from contesting in the 2015 election, as allowed in the Constitution. ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said he would neither resign nor convert to Islam as demanded by the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as a condition to ceasefire. Jonathan, who spoke through his spokesperson, Reuben Abati, on a day that fivesoldiers died in an attack on a security patrol team in Damaturu, Yobe State, by a suspected Boko Haram bomber, described the call as “rude and a mere blackmail.” ...

The Peoples Democratic Party is to speak on the move by the House of Representatives to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday (today). The party took the decision after the meeting of its National Working Committee, which was held at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday. ...

Fears have gripped ministers over President Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to reshuffle his cabinet and drop three members of the Federal Executive Council. Investigations in Abuja showed that the ministers and some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party have been pressurising the president since they got the information about the planned cabinet reshuffle. ...

The monetary value of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNMA) has been increased from N5 million to N10 million with effect from 2010. President Jonathan announced the 100 per cent increase at the investiture ceremony for the conferment of the awards for 2010 and 2011 on Thursday in Abuja. The first beneficiaries of the increment will be Professor Andrew Jonathan Nok and Professor Isidore Okpewho who received the NNMA awards for 2010 as well as Professor Ebiegberi Alagoa, Professor Francis Idachaba and Dr. Effiong Ibok Etukudo who received the awards for 2011. ...

Presiding officers of the National Assembly met with President Goodluck Jonathan and the Coordinating Minister in charge of the economy, Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in Abuja on Monday,where they deliberated on the modalities and framework for the 2012 budget. ...

President Goodluck Jonathan informed the National Assembly on Tuesday of his plan to begin the removal of fuel subsidy next year. Jonathan told the National Assembly in a letter conveying his administration’s Medium Term Expenditure Framework and a N4.8tn budget for the 2012 fiscal year. ...

President Goodluck Jonathan, during his Independence Day speech to the nation, has vowed to make Nigeria secure. Below is the full text of the speech: ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has restored the one year compulsory residency training abroad for Nigerian resident doctors in the bid to produce quality resident doctors and grow the healthcare ...

Some unemployed graduates from the Nigerian Army Military School, Zaria, have dragged President Goodluck Jonathan and the Nigerian Army Council (NAC) to court, challenging their plans to "demilitarize" the school. ...

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has assured that his administration would do all that it could to ensure that the country attained uninterrupted power supply in Nigeria before the end of its tenure in 2015. ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the newly sworn-in Minister of Finance, Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and other professionals in his cabinet pulled from the Diaspora will not be paid in foreign currencies, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. ...

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has pledged cooperation to fight terrorism during talks with Niger’s leader, his office said, amid concern over Islamist extremists in the region. During talks with Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou in Abuja, Jonathan, the current chairman of the 15-nation West African bloc ECOWAS, also condemned an alleged coup attempt in the neighbouring country last month. Jonathan ...