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Nigeria:
Mixed Reactions Trail Jonathan's New Year Broadcast
Vanguard, 2 January 2014
MIXED reactions trailed President Goodluck Jonathan's New Year broadcast on his plans for 2014. Read more »
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Nigeria:
2013 - Jonathan's Lows and Highs
Vanguard, 2 January 2014
The leadership of Africa's most populous country is not for the faint hearted. And despite the misgivings of many Nigerians about the capacity and the capability of President… Read more »
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Nigeria:
President Jonathan and the Buzz of 2013
Premium Times, 1 January 2014
The country's heads of security agencies, especially the army, whose troops got more than anyone expected from Boko Haram in Maiduguri, in Damaturu and repeatedly in Bama would… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan Lists Achievements, Pledges to Make Nigeria Greater in 2014
Premium Times, 1 January 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged to build on the achievements recorded by his administration in 2013 to make Nigeria even greater. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan Sets Out Centenary Year Aims
Premium Times, 31 December 2013
Exactly 100 years ago today, on January 1, 1914, the British Colonial authorities amalgamated what was then the separate Protectorates of Southern Nigeria and Northern Nigeria,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Mixed Reactions Greet Rating of Jonathan's Performance
Vanguard, 31 December 2013
MIXED reactions, yesterday, trailed the Presidency's self-assessment of unprecedented success in the outgoing year. Read more »
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Nigeria:
We Have Done Well in 2013 - Jonathan
Leadership, 30 December 2013
As the year 2013 comes to an end, the Presidency yesterday reflected on its achievements so far in the last twelve months and said it had done well. It added that it would be… Read more »
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Nigeria:
2013 in Lagos - Year of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Vanguard, 31 December 2013
In a few hours, residents of Lagos will join the rest of the world to usher in year 2014. This is with hope that the New Year will be better than the outgoing year, 2013, which was… Read more »
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Nigeria:
How Govt Can Revamp the Economy in 2014 - Experts
Leadership, 29 December 2013
As the curtain draws on 2013, financial, economic and the real sector players have postulated measures the federal government should take to revamp the Nigerian economy in 2014.… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Nigerian President Jonathan Takes Aim At Predecessor's Criticisms
VOA, 23 December 2013
A spokesman for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said former President Olusegun Obasanjo should stop trying to 'play God' when it comes to Nigerian politics. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Presidency Claims Nigeria Has Reduced Food Imports By 40 Percent
This Day, 30 December 2013
Nigeria has reduced its food imports by 40 per cent and increased its local production of rice, cassava, sorghum, cotton and cocoa from 25 to 56 per cent in the last two years. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Govt Budgets N5.5 Billion for Sports in 2014
Daily Trust, 30 December 2013
The Federal Government has proposed to spend N5.546 billion on the nation's sport sector in the year 2014. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan Urges Private Support for Nigeria's Infrastructure Development
Premium Times, 30 December 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday urged affluent Nigerians to assist government at all levels to provide basic amenities for the people. Read more »
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Nigeria:
2013 - a Year of Privatised Power Sector
Daily Trust, 31 December 2013
The biggest event that changed the course of the power sector in 2013 was the power assets privatisation culminating in the colourful handover of 10 distribution companies and four… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Elders Told Jonathan of North's Problems but No Action - Ango
Daily Trust, 31 December 2013
Former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria and a respected northern elder, Professor Ango Abdullahi, yesterday said elders in the region wrote a letter to… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan's Approval Rating Falls in South-South
This Day, 6 December 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan's performance rating fell five per cent in November after struggling for months to stay above the middle mark, with the South-South and North west… Read more »