In a bid to drum home our unflinching support for Goodluck Jonathan come 2011, the United Nigerian Youths is to hold a one million youth mass rally in Lagos and Abuja in November 2010. for participation and inquiry, please contact the following phone numbers 07065573544, 07060924980.
UP Jonathan!!!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
United Nigerian Youths To Hold Rally In London
In a bid to gather support from Nigerian youths in the diaspora for Goodluck Jonathan 2011, we will be in London(UK) as we prepare for the first Nigerian carnival in UK(London) we wish to use the forum to drum home support for our able president Goodluck Jonathan. the carnival is coming up on the 7th of August 2010. for participation and more details: please send intentions to youths4jonathan2011@yahoo.com
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Goodluck Jonathan's Profile.
As his name suggests, Nigeria's new President Goodluck Jonathan has a habit of being in the right place at the right time.
Until November 2009, he was serving out his time as a low-key deputy to a low-key president.
But then, President Umaru Yar'Adua was taken to hospital in Saudi Arabia and was not seen in public until he died on 5 May 2010.
Step forward, Mr Jonathan. After months of political wrangling, Nigeria's elite finally accepted him as acting leader in February when the ailing president returned home, but remained too ill to govern.
Barely 12 hours after Mr Yar'Adua's death, Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as the new president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Africa's most populous nation - one of its most fractious democracies.
Not bad for a man who has never been elected to major public office in his own right.
Hand-picked deputy
Born in 1957 in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, Mr Jonathan is a Christian from the Ijaw ethnic group.
His family's trade was canoe-making, but he studied zoology at university.
He worked as an education inspector, lecturer and environmental protection officer before going into politics in 1998.
Just as his rapid rise to power in the federal government owed a lot to luck, so too did his promotion to state governor.
Elected as deputy governor for his home state, Bayelsa, in 1999, he was once again serving his time without particular distinction.
Until, that is, his boss was impeached on corruption charges.
Mr Jonathan took over as governor and two years later was hand-picked by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to run on the ruling PDP's ticket as vice-presidential candidate in 2007.
The BBC's Fidelis Mbah says insiders regard him as a politician without a political base - and more of an administrator than a leader.
It has been suggested that Nigeria's many groups of power-brokers agreed to let him formally become acting president only because he was not seen as a threat - and crucially would not seek to contest the election due in 2011.
But there can be no doubting the speed and relative smoothness of his assumption of power.
"There has not been any rise that's been so meteoric in Nigeria," analyst Charles Dokubo said in February.
On the relevance of the acting president's name, he said: "What is luck? Luck is when you can take advantage of an opportunity. He was in the right place at the right time."
Journalist Ben Shemang is among the many Nigerians who believe Mr Jonathan's name has given him an advantage.
He told the BBC's World Today programme that Mr Jonathan was doubly lucky as his other given name is equally propitious - Ebele, which means God's wish.
"That tells you that it was the wish of the parents for him to be successful," he said.
Excerpt from BBC website
Until November 2009, he was serving out his time as a low-key deputy to a low-key president.
But then, President Umaru Yar'Adua was taken to hospital in Saudi Arabia and was not seen in public until he died on 5 May 2010.
Step forward, Mr Jonathan. After months of political wrangling, Nigeria's elite finally accepted him as acting leader in February when the ailing president returned home, but remained too ill to govern.
Barely 12 hours after Mr Yar'Adua's death, Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as the new president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Africa's most populous nation - one of its most fractious democracies.
Not bad for a man who has never been elected to major public office in his own right.
Hand-picked deputy
Born in 1957 in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, Mr Jonathan is a Christian from the Ijaw ethnic group.
His family's trade was canoe-making, but he studied zoology at university.
 |  There has not been any rise that's been so meteoric in Nigeria Analyst Charles Dokubo |
Just as his rapid rise to power in the federal government owed a lot to luck, so too did his promotion to state governor.
Elected as deputy governor for his home state, Bayelsa, in 1999, he was once again serving his time without particular distinction.
Until, that is, his boss was impeached on corruption charges.
Mr Jonathan took over as governor and two years later was hand-picked by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to run on the ruling PDP's ticket as vice-presidential candidate in 2007.
The BBC's Fidelis Mbah says insiders regard him as a politician without a political base - and more of an administrator than a leader.
It has been suggested that Nigeria's many groups of power-brokers agreed to let him formally become acting president only because he was not seen as a threat - and crucially would not seek to contest the election due in 2011.
But there can be no doubting the speed and relative smoothness of his assumption of power.
"There has not been any rise that's been so meteoric in Nigeria," analyst Charles Dokubo said in February.
On the relevance of the acting president's name, he said: "What is luck? Luck is when you can take advantage of an opportunity. He was in the right place at the right time."
Journalist Ben Shemang is among the many Nigerians who believe Mr Jonathan's name has given him an advantage.
He told the BBC's World Today programme that Mr Jonathan was doubly lucky as his other given name is equally propitious - Ebele, which means God's wish.
"That tells you that it was the wish of the parents for him to be successful," he said.
Excerpt from BBC website
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