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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan
Sunday, September 9th, 2012
Patience Jonathan is expected back in the country before the end of September ahead of Nigeria’s 52nd Independence anniversary. Patience is said to be hospitalised at the Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden, Germany. While a section of the media said she underwent surgery for appendicitis, some others said she was being treated for food poisoning. […]
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First Ladies, National Politics, Patience Jonathan, Top Stories
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
By Clifford Ndujihe, Soni Daniel & Uduma Kalu, with Agency Reports abuja—TO quicken the recovery of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, officials of Horst Schmidt Klinik, the German Hospital where she is receiving medication, yesterday, barred visitors and some top Nigerian officials, who went to see her from, doing so. An official of the […]
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Abuja (FCT), First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Turai Yar'Adua
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
Photo: Sun News Publishing By: FRED ITUA, Abuja Date: Sun, 07/29/2012 – 22:17 Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has defended the action of the FCT administration in revoking the plot of land allocated to the former first lady, Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua’s NGO, ‘Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation (WAYEP).’ The FCT, however, […]
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Abuja (FCT), Action Congress of Nigeria, First Ladies, Party Politics, Patience Jonathan, State News, Top Stories, Turai Yar'Adua, Women Politics
Friday, July 27th, 2012

Action Congress of Nigeria has condemned the legal tussle between Mrs. Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, over a plot of land in Abuja. ACN said, “A study in despicable sycophancy, insider abuse, arbitrariness and manifestation of the culture of impunity all of which have become the hallmarks of the administration of President […]
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Africa & World Politics, First Ladies, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Patience Jonathan, Presidency, Women Politics
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
The Presidency on Wednesday denied a media report (not The PUNCH) that the Federal Government purchased 200 exotic cars for the ongoing African First Ladies Summit being hosted by wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, in Abuja. The government, in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. […]
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Africa & World Politics, First Ladies, General Politics, Patience Jonathan, Top Stories, Women Politics
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

It is expected to be an edifice for peace and conflict resolution in 12 months when it is projected to be completed. However, the foundation for the African First Ladies Peace Centre was laid in the midst of intense security measures and controversy in Abuja on Wednesday by President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience. The atmosphere […]
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Bayelsa, First Ladies, General Politics, Patience Jonathan, State News, Top Stories, Women Politics
Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on Friday inaugurated Patience, the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, as a Permanent Secretary in the state. Mrs. Jonathan was sworn-in alongside 18 other persons amidst tight security in a ceremony that was held at the Banquet Hall in Yenagoa, the state capital. The venue was a beehive as […]
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Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
The Bayelsa State Government has stated that the appointment of the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, is in accordance with ongoing general reforms in the state’s public service. According to the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seriake Dickson on Media and Public Affairs, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the state government believes that the services […]
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Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Friday, July 13th, 2012

By New Nigerian Politics Staff Reporter Information reaching New Nigerian Politics from Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has confirmed that the former First Lady of that state and current First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, had been employed in the State civil service since her husband assumed the deputy governorship in 1999 and […]
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Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News
Friday, July 13th, 2012
July 13, 2012 by Success Nwogu and Mike Odiegwu Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin branch, Mr. Rafiu Balogun, and leader of Committee of Muslim Organisations, Kwara State, Prof. Shehu Jimoh, on Thursday in Ilorin, described the appointment of the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan as one of the 17 new Permanent Secretaries in […]