{"id":3958,"date":"2015-01-09T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2015-01-09T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:28:12","slug":"why-i-named-him-goodluck-jonathans-mother-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Why I Named Him &#8216;Goodluck&#8217; &#8211; Jonathan&#8217;s Mother Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mother of the Nigerian President, Madam Eunice Aye Jonathan, in an authorized biography quoted by City People magazine, explained the backstory behind naming President Jonathan &#8216;Goodluck. Read below :\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadam Eunice recalls that there was nothing special about the day on which Goodluck was born in Otuoke. His birth was however very easy compared to her other experiences with childbirth. She recalled, \u201cI often had prolonged labour during childbirth, sometimes for up to a wee, and because of this, I usually had still-births. But when it was the turn of Goodluck, I delivered him the very day I started having labour pains. This surprised me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from this, Eunice, did not regard the day as extraordinary. According to her, the people of Otuoke went about their duties as usual. No dramatic event occurred. Perhaps, the fact that nothing special happened was indeed significant and the truly important event was his birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiving his reason for naming his son Goodluck, his father said: \u201c I called him Goodluck because although life was hard for me when he was born, I had this feeling that this boy would bring me good luck.\u201d His paternal grandmother, Sarah, also declared that her grandson, in his adulthood, would shake the world the same way \u2018king\u2019 Azikiwe was doing at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: City People Magazine Online<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/goodluck-and-mother.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3959\" alt=\"goodluck and mother\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/goodluck-and-mother-300x149.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/goodluck-and-mother-300x149.png 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/goodluck-and-mother.png 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother of the Nigerian President, Madam Eunice Aye Jonathan, in an authorized biography quoted by City People magazine, explained the backstory behind naming President Jonathan &#8216;Goodluck. Read below :\u00a0 \u201cMadam Eunice recalls that there was nothing special about the day on which Goodluck was born in Otuoke. 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