Presidency Reportedly Begins Probe Of Jonathan, Wife, Over Alleged Link To Niger Delta Bombings.

The Nigerian presidency has ordered a discreet investigation of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, and his wife, Patience, over the spate of bombings of oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta, Premium Times has learnt.read more

Benue First Lady Yemisi Suswam Attend Send Forth Party For Dame Patience Jonathan With Wives Of Suswam's Aides.Watch The Video.

Mrs Suswam joined Wives of Nigerian Governors on Monday evening for a send forth party they threw for Dame Patience Jonathan, Nigeria's first lady. Some wives of Governor Suswam's aides attended the event too.see more pictures here.read more

Dame Patience Jonathan Set To Step Aside As President Of African First Ladies Peace Mission.

Following her husband's defeat at the recently held presidential election, Mrs Patience Jonathan has called for an emergency meeting of the African First Ladies Peace Mission where she has served as President since July 2012. Mrs Jonathan was elected President of the group in July 2012 and was expected to do two year term but with the exit of her husband from office, she will have to handover as President to someone else. Read the letter calling for the emergency meeting after the cut...
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US Government To Impose Visa Ban On Patience Jonathan,Godsday Orubebe,Ibrahim Shettima & Others Over Election Violence.

According to a report from The Nation Newspaper, The United States government said on Monday it will impose visa restrictions on the wife of Nigeria’s president, Patience Jonathan, a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, the governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, and several others for inciting violence and interfering with the country’s electoral process.
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Patience Jonathan has been reported to the ICC for Action

 


 The politics of who occupies Aso Rock from May 29, 2015, is not a child's play hence the leading opposition party is not leaving anything to chance. The presidential campaign organisation of the All Progressives Congress has reported the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, to the International Criminal Court.
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Bayelsa Youths Are Planning Disgrace Dame Patience.

Some Bayelsa State youths have issued a stern warning to the wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, not to visit the state during the Peoples Democratic Party presidential rally on February 5.read more

Nigeria's FirstLady Hosts Children ,Says She Can't Deliver Their LetterTo Boko Haram.

According to reports from The Nation,Some children have written a letter to Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau demanding the release of over 200 secondary school girls abducted in Chibok, Borno State.

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan received the letter from the children while hosting them for this year’s children’s day celebration at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja.

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Prof Wole Soyinka Denies Calling Dame Patience Jonathan An Illiterate.

Prof Wole Soyinka has denied calling Patience Jonathan an illiterate, after the infamous video where the first lady was weeping over the missing Chibok girls went viral. A statement attributed to Wole Soyinka read

‘When you marry an illiterate woman as a wife, you will definitely make stupid decisions like Jonathan'

In a new release by him, he says he never said anything like that: Read his new statement after cut

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Patience Jonathan Lights The Nigerian National Christmas Tree In Abuja .

 

The nation’s First Lady, Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan finally lights up the first ever Nigerian National Christmas Tree, tagged “Let there be light” in Abuja on Saturday. She sought for peace, unity and love during this festive season among every ethnic group and religion.Mrs Jonathan said, “We are witnessing the making of history. Its significance will best be appreciated when we take into account the fact that Christmas is a season of peace, love and hope.
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Aso Ebi For Dame Patience Jonathan's Mother's Burial Out.

Are you going for mama's burial.her aso ebi is out oh,ahead of the burial on the 1 Nov 2013,the family aso ebi is out Mama Charity died in a tragic motor accident along Bayelsa road on 22 july 2013.
She will be buried in Okiri on Nov 1 2013.

Hansei University South Korean Awards Dame Patience Jonathan An Honorary Doctorate Degree.

Nigeria’s first lady Mrs Patience Jonathan on Thursday October 10th bagged her fourth Honorary Doctorate degree since becoming Nigeria’s First Lady. She got her latest honorary degree from the Hansei University in South Korean (pictured above with the president and Chancellor of the university, Sung-Hae Kim).

The university said they honoured The FirstLady  because she had worked ‘hard for many good causes’.“She’s a humanitarian who has dedicated her life to working for the less privileged in Nigeria and Africa especially for women and children. Her vision as the defender of the poor in Nigeria fits into Hansei University’s motto of a practising Christian. Now she’s part of our community.” The university chancellor Sung-Hae Kim, said

“I was surprised that she travelled here for the Church Growth International conference years back to pray for Nigeria. For her selfless work, Hansei University confers this degree on her,”

Yonggi Cho, co-founder of the Hansei University, said

“I was just doing my own thing not knowing that in far away Asia everything was being noted. I want to assure you all that with God’s help I will do more. My grandma used to say: `Whatever little you have, share; If you have a thousand and you can’t share, you won’t share a million if you have’.”

Mrs. Jonathan said, thanking the Koreans.

African First Ladies Peace Mission donates relief materials to Mali.

The relief materials include food items, clothing, drugs, beddings and other essential items.
The African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) has donated 16 plane-load of relief materials to victims of violent conflict in Mali.
A statement signed by Ayo Osinlu, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Nigerian First Lady, Patience Jonathan, stated that the aid, which included food items, clothing, drugs, beddings and other essential items, were received at a brief ceremony in the Malian capital, Bamako.

Mrs. Jonathan, the President of the AFLPM, who was represented by the Minister of State for Abuja, Jumoke Akinjide, presented the aid to the First Lady of Mali, Mintou Traore.

“In fulfilment of the resolve of First Ladies of Africa to contribute their quota to checking the wind of violence spreading across Africa, the Mission has taken its peace advocacy to Mali where several insurgent groups have been fighting the Malian government for independence or greater autonomy,” Mrs. Jonathan said. “We reiterate our appeal for all countries to embrace a peaceful means of resolving differences in our various societies and work more to prevent violence and war.”

The president’s wife stressed the urgent need to change the image of wars and violence with which Africa is portrayed to that of a peaceful, stable and developing continent who settle scores by dialogue.

“I express the commitment of African First Ladies to contributing to peace efforts in the areas of advocacy, capacity building, negotiation, reconciliation, provision of relief materials and involvement in the rehabilitation of victims of conflicts,” she said.

The ceremony, according to the statement, was also witnessed by the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Sia Koroma.

(NAN)