Inauguration of Goodluck Jonathan may refer to:
The president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari, and was the first incumbent president in Nigerian history to concede defeat in an election.
The Fourth Republic is the current republican government of Nigeria. Since 1999, it has governed the country according to the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the Second Republic, which was in place between 1979 and 1983 and suffers many of the same problems, such as multiple ministries which made policy planning difficult. Nigeria adopted the constitution of the Fourth Republic on 29 May 1999.
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Timipre Marlin Sylva is a Nigerian politician who served as the minister of state for Petroleum Resources of Nigeria from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as governor of Bayelsa State from 2007 to 2012.
Israel–Nigeria relations refers to the bilateral relations between the State of Israel and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Nigerian ambassador to Israel is David Oladipo Obasa. The Nigerian government is in collaboration with the Israeli government to bring science, technology and innovation (STI) to the youth of Nigeria in other to reduce the rate of unemployment amongst youth in the nation.
Fidelia Akuabata Njeze is a Nigerian politician and diplomat. She was a former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Njeze was previously appointed Nigerian minister of Aviation on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet. Before that appointment, she served as Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources and also Minister of State for Defence in the cabinet of late President Umaru Yar'Adua.
Bello Jibrin Gada is a Nigerian politician who was Senator for Sokoto East from May 1999 to May 2003. He was appointed Minister of Culture & Tourism on 17 December 2008 after a cabinet reshuffle by President Umaru Yar'Adua. He left office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet.
Femi Okurounmu was elected Senator for the Ogun Central constituency of Ogun State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He held office from 3 June 1999 to 3 June 2003.
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 16 April 2011, postponed from 9 April 2011. The election followed controversy as to whether a northerner or southerner should be allowed to become president given the tradition of rotating the top office between the north and the south after the death of Umaru Yar'Adua, a northerner, when Goodluck Jonathan, another southerner assumed the interim presidency.
The Cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan was appointed by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria a few weeks after he took office during the terminal illness of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
The May 2011 northern Nigeria bombings happened in several towns in northern Nigeria on 29 May 2011. The blasts happened just a few hours after Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as Nigeria's president. Boko Haram was suspected in the attacks.
The 2014 National Conference was inaugurated by the Nigerian President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on 17 March 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. There were about 492 delegates that represented a cross-section of Nigerians including the professional bodies group. The Conference was headed by retired Chief Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi. Following a plenary session that lasted for weeks, the Conference was broken into 20 committees that included Public Finance and Revenue among others. Mr Johnson Oludeinde Oluata FCNA is among the delegates, he represents Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) in the professional bodies group Meanwhile, all 20 committees have submitted their reports to be deliberated upon at the next plenary session.
General elections were held in Nigeria on 28 and 29 March 2015, the fifth quadrennial election to be held since the end of military rule in 1999. Voters elected the President and members to the House of Representatives and the Senate. The incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, sought his second and final term.
Jones Oladeinde Arogbofa is a retired Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army who served as Chief of Staff to former President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan.
Armed Forces Radio is a Nigerian military radio station owned by the Nigerian Armed Forces. The station is located at Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja and broadcasts on 107.7 FM.
The second inauguration of Goodluck Jonathan as the 14th president of Nigeria, and 3rd in the fourth republic was held on Sunday, 29 May 2011, marking the start of the second and only full term of Goodluck Jonathan as president and Namadi Sambo as vice president. It was the 6th presidential inauguration in Nigeria, and 4th in the fourth republic.
The first inauguration of Goodluck Jonathan as the 14th president of Nigeria, and 3rd in the fourth republic was held on Thursday, 6 May 2010 in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua the night before. Jonathan had been acting as president since 9 February 2010, 86 days before the inauguration. The inauguration – the first non-scheduled, extraordinary inauguration to ever take place – marked the commencement of the first term of Goodluck Jonathan as president. Chief Justice Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu administered the oath of office. Jonathan was the first vice president to succeed to the presidency intra-term, and he remains the only one to do so, as of 2023.
The inauguration of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as the 13th president of Nigeria, and 2nd in the fourth republic was held on Tuesday, 29 May 2007, marking the commencement of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's and Goodluck Jonathan's only term as president and vice president. It was the 5th presidential inauguration in Nigeria, the 3rd in the fourth republic and the first successful transition of power, from one democratically elected leader to another in Nigeria. Yar'Adua died 2 years, 341 days into this term, and Jonathan succeeded to the presidency.