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Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by YemiAlabi: 4:28pm On Feb 23, 2011
Goodluck Ebele Johnathan is the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is the first Bayelsan to hold the office. Johnathan previously served as a Governor/Deputy Govenor from Bayelsa, from 2003 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in 2007.

A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Johnathan is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Johnathan served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid against a Democratic incumbent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2010 Party presidential primaries against Atiku Abubakar, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Yar'adua and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2010.

As president, Johnathan signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in December 2010. Other domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. In foreign policy, Johnathan gradually withdrew combat troops from Iraq, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, and signed an arms control treaty with Russia. In October 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

He was the first person ever to set foot on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Johnathan was in the Nigerian Navy and saw action in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C aircraft, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B-47 Stratojet, KC-135 Stratotanker and Paresev. He graduated from Purdue University and the University of Southern California.

His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, as a 5 year old boy, for which he was the command pilot, becoming one of the first Nigerian civilians to fly in space (Joseph Albert Walker was the first US civilian in space several years earlier).[1][2] On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Johnathan's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this mission, Johnathan and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Johnathan is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by Sparkle777(f): 4:40pm On Feb 23, 2011
Quite a silly joke.
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by buzugee(m): 4:41pm On Feb 23, 2011
a native of honolulu ? lol
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by Chyz2: 4:43pm On Feb 23, 2011
Goodluck Obama LOL grin
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by solihu(m): 4:53pm On Feb 23, 2011
Ha!
Let me quickly get my glasses.

Brb
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by realborn(m): 5:06pm On Feb 23, 2011
shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked
certain humans have their cerebral entity like that of a ram,
sad use of quality time. obvious loss of investment in sending the poster to school
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by againstGEJ(m): 8:43pm On Feb 23, 2011
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by egift(m): 10:48pm On Feb 23, 2011
What will one expect from the supporters of a man that have now achievement on his plate after being in the Presidency for nearly 4years.

@ Everyone:
How long will it take you to get something done if you had the opportunity GEJ had?
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by againstGEJ(m): 3:21am On Feb 24, 2011
YemiAlabi:

Goodluck Ebele Johnathan is the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is the first Bayelsan to hold the office. Johnathan previously served as a Governor/Deputy Govenor from Bayelsa, from 2003 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in 2007.

A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Johnathan is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Johnathan served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid against a Democratic incumbent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2010 Party presidential primaries against Atiku Abubakar, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Yar'adua and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2010.

As president, Johnathan signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in December 2010. Other domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. In foreign policy, Johnathan gradually withdrew combat troops from Iraq, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, and signed an arms control treaty with Russia. In October 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

He was the first person ever to set foot on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Johnathan was in the Nigerian Navy and saw action in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C aircraft, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B-47 Stratojet, KC-135 Stratotanker and Paresev. He graduated from Purdue University and the University of Southern California.

His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, as a 5 year old boy, for which he was the command pilot, becoming one of the first Nigerian civilians to fly in space (Joseph Albert Walker was the first US civilian in space several years earlier).[1][2] On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Johnathan's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this mission, Johnathan and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Johnathan is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Two years you have been trying to run down the original Yemmy Alabi, instead of running him down, he is progressing, who is foolish then? It must be you.
Re: Stunning Biography Of President Goodluck Johnathan by klas(m): 3:42am On Feb 24, 2011
Whoever was responsible for sending the OP to school should be strangled with the intestines of the OP.

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