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Jonathan Returns From South Africa After Zuma’s Inauguration

President Goodluck Jonathan has returned from South Africa after attending the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma for another term as president. The President said attending … Continue reading Jonathan Returns From South Africa After Zuma’s Inauguration


jonathan-and-zumaPresident Goodluck Jonathan has returned from South Africa after attending the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma for another term as president.

The President said attending President Zuma’s inauguration was meant to discuss ways of tackling militancy across the continent with African heads of state there.

Those expectant of an open discussion were however disappointed as the African leaders kept a sealed lip throughout the event.

President Jonathan was among more than 20 heads of state gathered for the event.

The South African government had said on Saturday that African leaders in Pretoria for President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration would hold informal talks on the security situation in Nigeria.

Government spokesman, Clayson Monyela, said they would meet to discuss security in Nigeria, where the kidnapping of over 270 schoolgirls had laid bare the government’s inability to tackle an insurgency by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The talks follow a spate of attacks in Nigeria, which is under growing international pressure to tackle the increasingly bloody uprising.

Some West African leaders had held a meeting in France sponsored by French President Francois Hollande last week to seek collaboration in the fight against terrorism seen as a threat to countries  in West Africa.

President Jonathan was also at the meeting where the leaders concluded that an attack on one is an attack on others. They pledged to work together to end the increasing attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Nigeria Republic.