David Mark Biography

Quick Facts

 

Name

David Mark

Occupation 

Nigeria Military Governor, Senate President.

Birth Date

August 04, 1948.

 

Home Town

Otukpe, Nigeria.

Place of Birth 

Otukpe, Benue State, Nigeria

Full name 

David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark

 

 
David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark (born April 1948) is the President of the Senate of Nigeria and Senator for the Benue State constituency. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Prior to his senatorial career, Mark was a military governor of Niger State, he was then a Brigadier General.

Early life and education

Mark was born in Otukpo in April 1948. He attended St. Francis Catholic Practicing School before attending the Nigerian Military School then he attended the Nigerian Defence Academy NDA.

Senate of Nigeria

Mark was elected to his position as President of the Senate of Nigeria on June 6, 2007.

David Mark ran for re-election to the Senate for Benue South in April 2011 and was elected for a fourth term. David Mark noted that the polls pointed to his decisive victory, and called for his opponents to work together to improve Nigeria.

When leading the review of the Constitution, Mark reportedly urged his colleagues to set their personal interests and focus on the interests of the Nigerian people. After the UK criticized Nigeria's Prohibition of Same-Sex Marriage bill, threatening to pull their foreign aid, Mark responded that they "should keep [their] aid."^[10] Mark called Nigeria's National Football Federation the "centre of corruption in the country", suggesting that they may need to temporarily disband to allow for reconstruction.

Personal life

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Mark and his wife Mrs Hellen Mark have children. He enjoys golf, tennis, and squash. He is an Idoma Christian.

Goodluck Jonathan Biography

Quick Facts

Name

Goodluck Jonathan

Occupation 

Nigeria Governor, Vice President, President.

Birth Date

November 20, 1957.

 

Home Town

Otuoke, Nigeria.

Place of Birth 

Bayelsa, Nigeria

Full name 

GoodLuck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan

Synopsis
Born on November 20, 1957, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,currently is the President of Nigeria. He is a former zoologist who became Nigeria’s vice-president in the year 2007. He was the Governor of Bayelsa State from Dec 9, 2005 to May 28, 2007, and was sworn in as the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29 May 07. He became the official President of Nigeria in May 6,year 2010,This comes as the nation prepares to bury its former leader Umaru Yar’Adua who died on the 5th of May 2010, after a prolonged illness that saw his Vice-President stepped in to his shoes as Acting President. There had been tension in the country as rival political groups fight to assert authority in what was seen as a power vacuum during the period of the illness of Yar’Adua.

Early Life
Jonathan, of the Ijo (Ijaw) ethnic group and a devoted Christian, he was born and raised in Niger delta which is now Bayelsa state. He went to Christian primary and secondary schools in the area and later attended the University of Port Harcourt.
He graduated with a B.S. in zoology in 1981, an M.S. in hydrobiology and fisheries biology (1985), and a Ph.D. in zoology (1995). During his university education, he also taught at Rivers State College of Education from 1983 until 1993. He then served as an assistant director at the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission, a now defunct government agency, from 1993 until 1998.

Political Career
Jonathan Goodluck’s political career began when he became involved with the nascent People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the late 1990s. He was elected deputy governor of Bayelsa state in 1999 under the party’s banner. He served in the position until year 2005, when he was elevated to the governorship after the incumbent was charged with corruption and impeached. In 2007 he was selected to be the vice presidential running mate of the PDP’s presidential candidate, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. He and Yar’Adua were elected in April and inaugurated in May. He became vice-president of Nigeria in the year 2007.
On Sunday 29th of May 2011, Goodluck Jonathan Ebele Officially sworn in as the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria'

He contested and lost the 2015 General election to APC candidate Muhammadu Buhari,
making him the first ever Nigeria incumbent President to have ever loosed an election.

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Personal Life
He is happily married to Patience Jonathan and has 2 children.