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Articles, Columnists, First Ladies, NNP Columnists, Patience Jonathan, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Monday, October 15th, 2012
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | October 15, 2012 – It is a well known fact that Africans guard the individual self (problem) jealously with most matters of the heart not known to be spoken with even family members, unless perhaps such matters had gotten out of hand. It is therefore, understandable why the […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
October 11, 2012 by Abimbola Adelakun (aa_adelakun@utexas.edu) Since the news broke that Mrs. Patience Jonathan was hospitalised, there has been a systematic repetition of history. I take that back, history doesn’t repeat itself; such linguistic constructions in the intransitive mode shrewdly obscure the oft-unpleasant reality that the actors of history are active agents of concomitant […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Patience Jonathan has been scheduled to return to the country today (Thursday) after about six of undergoing treatment abroad, Saharareporters, reported. The report said a presidential jet was scheduled to fly out of Abuja on Wednesday night to bring back President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife home. Saharareporters quoted presidency sources on Wednesday as saying that the […]
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First Ladies, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Patience Jonathan, Presidency
Monday, October 8th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan paid a secret visit to his sick wife, Patience, in Germany on Saturday. A short news item aired on the Nigerian Television Authority at 9pm showed the President’s visit to his wife, who is reported to be sick of an undisclosed ailment in Germany. The news item was accompanied by a short […]
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Articles, Columnists, First Ladies, NNP Columnists, Patience Jonathan, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 26, 2012 – It is a classic case of ‘One Week, One Controversy’! And the inimitable Dame, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has been in the news again. She hardly disappoints. Perhaps, before your read this piece, Mrs. Jonathan would have returned from Germany where she had gone “to […]
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First Ladies, General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Patience Jonathan, Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, September 15th, 2012
By Soni Daniel, Abuja and Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin Perturbed by the continued absence of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, from the country as a result of ill-heath, the Presidency has resorted to prayers to quicken her recovery and return to the country. Dame Jonathan, a serving Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa, her home state, was […]
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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 […]
