Power play at Aso Rock: Yar’Adua made me Acting President, say Yayale Ahmed, SGF

As his health failed and he had to be rushed to a Saudi hospital, late president Umaru Yar’Adua illegally bypassed his vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, and handed presidential authority to Yayale Ahmed, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

This unconstitutional act, in November 2009, has now come to light through US diplomatic cables leaked to Wikileaks and made available exclusively to NEXT.

Election 2011 PDP presidential candidacy: President Jonathan says: ” Yes I do”

President Goodluck Jonathan has finally surrendered to the will of his teeming admirers by declaring that he would be putting across his Presidential candidacy in the next general election. His green flag  waved  after emerging from a meeting with PDP state governors on Tuesday. and the waved green flag has put paid to speculations as [...]

Cautious optimism as Jonathan inaugurates new Cabinet

Nigerians across the world have adopted a still ‘wait and see’ and ‘still watching’ attitude as the nation emerges with a new Cabinet, inaugurated by the Acting President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House Abuja on Tuesday.

State of the nation:Jonathan set to revolutionize governance in Nigeria.

A new political direction is imminent as Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is reportedly set for a major overhaul of the nation’s polity.

State of the nation: Jonathan’s New cabinet next week, say govt sources.

Nigeria’s new Cabinet is to be constituted next week as Acting President Goodluck Jonathan will send a list of ministerial nominees for Senate approval by early in the. Week. A source close to the Presidency said it was unlikely many of the fallen Ministers would be reappointed.

A nation fooled at 50: Goodluck sanitizes the cabinet, sacks old ministers.

Nigeria’s acting president dissolved the Cabinet on Wednesday, purging top officials loyal to the nation’s ill president in his first major act since taking over the young democracy’s highest office more than a month ago.