Dame Patience Jonathan

Die-Put: Why is Diezani preparing for jail time?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Diezani Alison-Madueke, the former strong woman of Nigeria’s oil sector, has a dark cloud of money laundering indictments over her but she’s not afraid of going to jail. In an audio recording obtained by investigators, Alison-Madueke was furious on the apparent sloppiness of her laundering aides, Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore. She... Read More

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December 7, 2016

Patience Jonathan’s $15m a ‘proceed of crime’ – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the $15.5 million that former first lady, Patience Jonathan claims to be hers, is “a proceed of crime”. The agency said this on Wednesday in a counter-affidavit it presented before the Federal High Court Lagos, urging it to dismiss Mrs Jonathan’s suit, The Nation reports. On September 15, four... Read More

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September 25, 2016

$20m frozen funds: EFCC to invite Patience Jonathan

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to invite Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan over the frozen $20m, Punch reports. The anti-graft agency had frozen her personal account with a balance of $5m and four other accounts with a balance of $15m all domiciled at Skye Bank which she... Read More

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September 14, 2016

FG not probing ex-President Jonathan, Patience – Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said the Federal Government, under President Muhammadu Buhari, is not investigating former President, Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience. He said this while speaking to journalists in Oro, Kwara State. The minister said it would be wrong to assume that the Federal Government... Read More

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September 13, 2016

Patience Jonathan may forfeit hotel to FG over $20m probe

If she fails to explain the origin of almost $20m traced to her, Patience Jonathan, wife of the former President Goodluck Jonathan may have to forfeit her alleged N10bn hotel. “This is one of the questions she may have to answer as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission continues investigation into the $20m found in... Read More

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Opinion: 10 reasons why Jonathan lost the election

by Muhammad Malumfashi In summary his 5 years would be remembered as one of the worst in the history of this nation. For ‘Corruption’, ‘Insecurity’, ‘Economy’. Nigerians can’t afford 4 more years of this administration. No way!! Jonathan: The man himself masterminded his own defeat it was clear that the Goodluck in Jonathan Goodluck was... Read More

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Dele Momodu: Dear Patience Jonathan, when did you become Mama War?

by Dele Momodu I have read and heard so much about you as a very powerful First Lady. I know that when you are at that level, not many people can tell you the gospel truth. No one wants to offend those in power. But I have decided to tell you the bitter reality once... Read More

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February 25, 2015

Beware of insincere advisers, Jonathan advises public office holders

by Laila Ibrahim President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said most of those who claim to be advisers and admirers of government are insincere. The President was speaking at the burial of the nine prominent women political leaders, who died of auto crash on East-West road near Ahoada-Mbiama road in Rivers State on their way to... Read More

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February 8, 2015

Mark Amaza: We shall never forget the Chibok girls

by Mark Amaza Contrary to many supporters of this government that insist the protests should be directed at the terrorists, need we remind them that Boko Haram does not owe us anything – it is the government that we elected that owes us everything… Three hundred days ago, about 276 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary... Read More

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October 26, 2014

Stop political rascality and blackmail – Presidency warns Amaechi

by Isi Esene The Presidency has today expressed its displeasure over Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s statements reportedly attacking President Goodluck Jonathan, the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, and the Federal Government describing it as irresponsible political behaviour. In a statement signed by Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President of Media & Publicity, the... Read More

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September 18, 2014

Dickson’s ambition is not a problem as Baylesa deny rift between Patience and state guv

by Godwin Akanfe Contrary to reports concerning a dispute between the First Lady, Patience Jonathan and the Governor of Bayelsa, Seriake Dickson, the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have said that all is well between the Jonathans and Dickson. It was strongly believed that Mrs. Jonathan and Governor Dickson were not on good terms due to... Read More

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Hit or Miss? This is the President’s outfit everyone’s talking about (PHOTOS, TWEETS)

by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan shelved his trademark dark Niger Delta traditional outfit and the classic black bowler hat for something different on Friday on his return trip from Ghana where he attended the 45th Session of ECOWAS Heads of States and Governments meeting in Accra. The President settled for a change of style... Read More

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Sonala Olumhense: Between the insulters and the insultees

by Sonala Olumhense Mrs. Jonathan did not specifically say her husband was coming home in tears every night, but clearly, her appeal was made because the “insults” were inflicting some unhappiness. Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s First Lady, is right. People should not insult her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan. My dictionary defines an insult as “to treat,... Read More

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How the Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents – Borno govt.

by Akan Ido The Borno State government has given its account of what transpired on the night of April 14, 2014 when members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect attacked the school abducting over 230 girls from the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok. While speaking on the breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily on Channels Television, the... Read More

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Garba Shehu: How politics made the abduction of 276 girls possible

by Garba Shehu It is clear from here that the slow reaction to the abductions was simply on account of politics and the desperate greed for power, which was shown by the President scurrying around to secure a further four years in office, adding to the six he has nearly spent without doing the work... Read More

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August 28, 2013

Opinion: Lai Mohammed on Dame Patience Jonathan – Nigerians are not decieved

by Godwin Akpovie Mohammed said 2015 will be issue-based. This is a challenge PDP is glad to accept. But it is not what you say that matters because talk is cheap. It is the facts on ground that count… Lai Mohammed or any of the other wolf’s criers have not faulted the facts contained therein.... Read More

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August 19, 2013

Opinion: On Wole Soyinka’s verbal overreach

by Ebenezer Obadare Yet, for all her innumerable personal flaws, Mrs Jonathan still deserves to be treated with some courtesy. Clearly, Professor Soyinka disagrees, or how else does one explain the shocking intemperateness of his language? Considering its ramifications for the principles of civility and mutual respect in a democratic public sphere, it is quite... Read More

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August 18, 2013

Opinion: That celebration of women in Abuja

by Stellamaries Amuwa Though, what was supposed to be a peace rally, turned into a political campaign as the women drummed up support for the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. The rally, which was tagged, “Celebration of Nigerian women for peace and empowerment,” created serious gridlock… It is undeniable the fact that socio-economic activities in... Read More

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August 15, 2013

Opinion: Are Patience Jonathan & other first ladies a public inconvenience?

by Levi Obijiofor The press and the people have consistently accused Mrs. Jonathan of lack of discretion, relating to inappropriate conduct, improper utterances and involvement in excesses that belittle the high office of president occupied by her husband. True or false, the charges levelled against Mrs. Jonathan constitute the basis of no fewer than three... Read More

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Opinion: Domestic appendage – Wole Soyinka should recede from frontline politics

by Corlenius Segun-Ojo Culturally, it is indisputable that our society does not condone assault of any kind on womanhood. When a family brawls and the elders wade in, the man always take the bashings for being so ‘poor and disgraceful’ to engage the wife in a public ‘show of shame’. As a school boy, I... Read More

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Opinion: Memo to President Jonathan – It’s time to appoint a Pop culture Czar

by Ekerete Udoh If America succeeded in using the awesome power of its pop culture to advance its interests and appeal, we can do same with Nollywood and our music. Let me start first by sending you my heartfelt condolences on the unfortunate passage of your mother-in-law through a ghastly auto crash earlier this week... Read More

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Opinion: As Rotimi Amaechi self-destructs in style…

by Lewis Chukwuma From a synthesis of current political analysis related to the Rivers crisis, political oblivion beckons on Amaechi if he will or cannot drop his current strategy of brinkmanship and quietly seek new accommodation with his party and president. For daring his party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), a scenario at the core... Read More

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Opinion: A female Christ and other miracles of demo(n)cracy

by Ogaga Ifowodo Honourable” Evans Bipi, one of the chief brawlers in the aforementioned incident, is currently the butt of jokes for confessing that he was provoked into violence when a colleague blasphemed Jesus Christ in the person of Mrs Patience Jonathan. The ugly spectacle of the “street fight” that broke out in the Rivers... Read More

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Opinion: Dame Jonathan – A domestic appendage

by Morenike Taire Had Rotimi Amaechi been impeached by the intrigues of the anti-Amaechi segment of the Rivers Assembly, Dame Patience would have gone down in history as the first First Lady to bring down a governor in the Nigerian nation. When Kongi takes on erstwhile occupants of the Nigerian powerhouse, amusement, rather than angst,... Read More

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Opinion: Why we should apologise to Boko Haram

by Segun Ayobolu Is the Boko Haram leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau, reading this? Or can anybody reach him? Please drop your guns. Your point has been effectively made. Make no mistake about it. I totally disagree with their methods. I abhor their violence. I loathe the taking of innocent lives. I detest their bestial, savage,... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Let’s leave Patience Jonathan alone

by Abimbola Adelakun The First Lady’s controversy is however, instructive. In future, when we go to the polls, we should elect people along with their spouses. I do not buy the argument that First Ladies are meant to be separate from their husbands’ offices. The pull-my-lips-I-spit tussle between the First Lady, Patience Jonathan, and Nobel... Read More

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Joe Igbokwe: Please stop this embarrassment called Mrs. Patience Jonathan

by Joe Igbokwe The present unavoidable and unfortunate crisis in Rivers State has also exposed the excesses, recklessness, the timid use of power to achieve diabolical ends. Nigerians must speak out now to stop this embarrassment called Mrs. Patience Jonathan. Those who knew this woman before President Goodluck Jonathan became the President told us that... Read More

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Sam Nda-Isaiah: Soyinka’s counsel to Dame Patience

by Sam Nda-Isaiah My candid advice to our dear first lady is to find a role for herself in furthering the welfare of children, women, or even rehabilitating prostitutes. She should leave politics to politicians and thuggery to thugs. A few weeks ago, this newspaper reported that Dame Patience Jonathan had relocated to Port Harcourt... Read More

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Opinion: In defence of Dame Patience Jonathan

by Gidado Ibrahim The crisis rocking the ruling party and the governors’ forum is a manifestation of those within the power circle who have foolishly picked up arms against the almighty God, thinking they are at war with President Jonathan. Literally, the character of Nigeria’s first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has been cloned to serve... Read More

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