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August 18, 2013

Heavy security presence as Patience Jonathan arrives Rivers

The nation’s First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan arrived Port Harcourt Sunday afternoon for a three day visit. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Angela Agabe who confirmed the…

August 17, 2013

Abuja rally tragedy: 1 dies, 5 injured in Lagos PDP women car crash

by Oge Okonkwo A motor accident involving some female members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who took part in “Nigerian Women Rally for Peace and Empowerment” organised by the…

August 6, 2013

Opinion: Why I reject local government autonomy

by Ochereome Nnanna If you grant financial autonomy to local councils, the chairmen will turn into 774 demons and tin gods, just as we have 36 of them in the…

August 3, 2013

Rivers crisis: Amaechi opens up on rift with Patience Jonathan, Wike

by Akan Ido Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has shed more light into the political friction between him and the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Amaechi who continued to profess…

July 26, 2013

First lady Dame Patience Jonathan arrived Abuja Wednesday night from Switzerland after the death of her step-mother

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN (M) WITH HIS MOTHER, MRS EUNICE JONATHAN (L) WELCOMING THE FIRST LADY, DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN FROM SWITZERLAND AFTER THE DEATH OF HER STEP-MOTHER. Nigeria's first lady,Dame Patience…

July 25, 2013

Patience Jonathan returns home from Geneva following news of mother’s death

by Rachel Ogbu The First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has returned home from a three-day trip to Geneva to mourn her late mother, Charity Oba. Patience was said to…

July 23, 2013

#ChildNotBride: SK Johnson – Stella Damasus, I’m sorry, I just can’t take you seriously

by SK Johnson See that? That face up there? That is the face of fury. At least that's what Stella Damasus expects us to believe. Two days ago the singer/actress…

July 23, 2013

Report: Patience Jonathan’s mother dies in a car crash

by Isi Esene There are reports that the mother of the First Lady, Patience Jonathan has lost her mother in a motor accident on Monday. The accident was said to…

July 21, 2013

Opinion: Wole Soyinka and his army of nay-sayers

by Obi Nwakanma But to demean her, and to ask the president to “call his wife to order” without as much as understanding the intricate issues behind the Rivers situation…

July 21, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: The Patience we really need

by Tunde Fagbenle You exasperate me with your nonsense ‘patience’. I don’t think we need ‘patience’ any less than we need poison. It is time to let her know where…

July 20, 2013

Opinion: Rivers crisis – Why the situation may not get better

by Bisi Lawrence We have had wives of politicians who were overt participants in politics in support of their husbands before now, like Madam Hannah Awolowo, whose decent reputation remained…

July 19, 2013

Chido Onumah: So, who killed Kudirat Abiola?

by Chido Onumah If al-Mustapha didn’t kill Kudirat Abiola or order her assassination, it would be nice to know what al-Mustapha and the regime he served so faithfully did to…

July 16, 2013

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…

July 15, 2013

Opinion: Now that Dame Patience Jonathan is ‘Jesus Christ’

by Wale Odunsi ....the gait of the Madam First Lady is now fully understood. Who wouldn't lock down federating states for days, when some people regard him/her as Jesus Christ? The lingering…

July 12, 2013

Rivers crisis: “Too much is too much” – Soyinka, Falana blame Jonathan, wife

by Isi Esene Internationally renowned playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka has flayed President Goodluck Jonathan over his suspicious posturing regarding the crisis presently rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly. Soyinka…

June 20, 2013

Cold war: Amaechi shuns Patience Jonathan’s Port Harcourt event

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his wife, Judith, on Wednesday shunned the inauguration of the South-South Zonal Secretariat of the Women for Change and Development Initiative by the wife…

June 17, 2013

My presence in Rivers is not to unseat Amaechi – Patience Jonathan

by Rachel Ogbu First lady, Patience Jonathan has found herself in the middle of the crises rocking the Nigeria Governors Forum. On Sunday she explained that her visit to Port…

June 6, 2013

Not approved: Senate drops N4 billion first ladies’ mission house project

by Akan Ido The Senate on Wednesday approved the N259.65bn budget of the Federal Capital Territory for the 2013 fiscal year but not without removing the N4bn voted for the…

May 3, 2013

Why we seized Turai Yar’Adua’s land – FCT minister

The Federal Capital Authority sought to underplay a stinging legal defeat it suffered Thursday on land dispute between first lady, Patience Jonathan, and her predecessor, Turai Yar’Adua, accusing Mrs. Yar’Adua…

May 2, 2013

Battle of the first ladies: Turai Yar’Adua defeats Patience Jonathan in court

by Hauwa Gambo The battle between present First Lady, Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Turai Yar'Adua seems to have come to a head as, this afternoon, Justice Peter Affren of…

May 1, 2013

“A creation of the wicked expectations of Sahara Reporters” – Spokesman says Patience Jonathan is not sick again

by Rachel Ogbu Photo: Topchronicles The First Lady, Patience Jonathan is not sick, the Presidency insists. On Tuesday, her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu described a media report that she was sick…

April 24, 2013

“Fear God!” – Labaran Maku is warning all you Twitter & Facebook activists

by Hauwa Gambo That hot new breed of troublemakers called social media activists have been making life unberable for information minister, Labaran Maku, and he just can't take it anymore!…

April 12, 2013

She’s back: Patience Jonathan makes first public appearance after trip abroad

by Isi Esene First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday, made her first public appearance after briefly leaving the country allegedly on a medical trip to Germany. Mrs. Jonathan who was…

March 3, 2013

APC governors donate mattress, pillows to Aso Rock… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt

by Stanley Azuakola He said "for instance, Sarah Jubril, the Mama One Vote herself, is the president's special adviser on ethics. I laugh in dollars. Please what is the actual…

March 2, 2013

Dele Momodu: Now that our President can sleep well

by Dele Momodu An insomniac President would always make costly mistakes. In this case, this is not even a regular case of inability to sleep. There are traces of paranoia,…

February 27, 2013

Sabella Abidde: Why can’t President Jonathan control the Dame?

by Sabella Abidde ...it is hard, very hard to have compassion for someone – anyone for that matter– who is noted for being unkind and insensitive to the poor and…

February 26, 2013

Opinion: Patience Jonathan as a metaphor

by Theophilus Ilevbare To an international audience, Mr Jonathan tried to pull a fast one but he ended up pulling the rug where it hurt most on the failure of…

February 18, 2013

How I died for a week and woke up – Patience Jonathan

by Isi Esene In what sounded like a narration of how she spent her 'moment's rest', Dame Patience Jonathan yesterday, at the Presidential Villa chapel opened up on her experience…

February 16, 2013

Opinion: Dame Patience and the Peace Mission complex – Enough of the propaganda

by Taofeek Adio The charges trumped upon the First Lady are same, as usual: The office of the First Lady is unconstitutional, the AFLPM is a non-governmental organization, the budget…

February 10, 2013

Presidents Goodluck Jonathan, John Mahama, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & Yayi Boni at Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation in London (PHOTOS)

On Friday February8, 2013 dignitaries including President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience Jonathan, President John Mahama of Ghana, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, President of Benin Republic, Yayi Boni and Governor Adams Oshiomhole gathered at…

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