Court dismisses EFFC’s suit against Patience Jonathan

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has struck out a suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), freezing the sum of $5.3 billion. The money is domiciled in a bank account and linked to the wife of the former President, Mrs Patience Jonathan and six others.

EFCC Discovers Patience Jonathan's N6bn Abuja Plaza

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discovered an uncompleted eight-storey building in a prime area of Abuja allegedly belonging to Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The building, which has been described by the EFCC as a ‘magnificent architectural edifice,’ has not yet been valued by the commission.

EFCC Probes Okonjo-Iweala, Fayose, Akpabio, Ali Modu-Sherriff, Patience Jonathan...See Latest Details

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen; Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State; his predecessor and the current Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; and the immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are among high-profile personalities currently under its investigation.

The names are contained in the list of high-profile cases involving over 100 politically-exposed persons and top-ranking public officers still being investigated by the EFCC as of August 2017, The Punch reliably learnt on Monday.

GEJ & Wife Receive Heroic Welcome in Bayelsa

Bayelsa State lit up when former President Goodluck Jonathan and wife landed from Portharcourt. Different groups both youth & women groups positioned themselves along the road to welcome their beloved son GEJ. See that after the cut.

PATIENCE JONATHAN , ORUBEBE, OTHERS TO BE SANCTIONED BY US

America is not ready to joke with trouble makers in Nigeria. First, it was the extradition of PDP Ogun central senator-elect Buruji Kashamu to the United States but gradually the flood light of the US seems to beam on wife of the President, Patience Jonathan and others who attempted to disrupt the just concluded elections or instigated violence against innocent Nigerians. Along with Patience Jonathan, ex-Niger Delta minister, Godsday Orubebe and governor of Katsina state, Ibrahim Shema are going to be sanctioned by America.

Abuja Women Scramble for Patience Jonathan's Rice & Money

The first lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan, has been sharing gifts of rice and money to Nigerian women. According to sources, two days before Christmas, she sent trailer loads of rice to Bayelsa state.

How my 21-year marriage to pres. Jonathan has survived- Patience Jonathan

Speaking on how they first met while they were at the Rivers state College of Education where she was pursuing her Nigerian Certificate of Education (NCE) and B.Ed while he was a lecture at the department of Biological science, First Lady Patience Jonathan said what attracted him to her was his religious background, and good looks..

"Nigerian Women Please Vote For My Husband In 2015"-Patience Jonathan Begs

The wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Monday pleaded with Nigerian women to vote for her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential election. She said only Jonathan can protect and defend their rights among all the aspirants seeking for the seat. Asking the electorate not to yield to the advances of other aspirants, saying they could not guarantee their freedom, she said, "I want to once again, urge you to continue to give support to our dear President, who has shown that he is not only gender sensitive but believes in the power and capacity of women to bring about change in society. He has been doing his best to promote the interest of women in Nigeria. It is now time for us to show him our appreciation for all he has been doing as he seeks re-election."

Wait A Sec! Patience Jonathan Gives Bayelsa Women Expired Rice?

Even at this, dame won't go to the market herself nah.....first lady, Patience Jonathan visited Bayelsa yesterday to distribute empowerment materials and items to women. The visit not only caused a heavy traffic but also paralyzed social and commercial activities on the Yenagoa Mbiama Road.

Patience Goodluck is still marketable – Charlyboy

Maverick entertainer and social crusader, Charlyboy, is clearly up to something at the presidency. This time, the Son of the famous Justice Oputa had an amazing moment at an event with the First Lady, Patience Jonathan.

Funny Video: Watch Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon reacts to Patience Jonathan ‘There is God o’

 

This is very hilarious...naija guys are so crazy...Chai! Watch the video below:

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First Lady Patience Jonathan Dances Kukere With Iyanya, LOL (Photos)

While Wizkid entertained Atiku Abubakar and his guests at his son's wedding in Dubai yesterday, Iyanya took care of President Goodluck Jonathan and his guests at his daughter's wedding in Bayelsa. And here's a video from the wedding's after party. Watch First Lady Patience Jonathan, Mrs Namadi Sambo (wife of the current Vice-President of Nigeria) and Mrs Obioma Imoke, Wife of the Governor of Cross River State, take the dance floor with Iyanya.

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Nigerian President And His First Lady Meet Pope Francis

Nigerian President and his first lady Dame Patience alongside his entourage arrived the Vatican last night. Until this morning when they met the Pope. Scroll down....

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Patience Jonathan’s Influential Pastor Goes To Jail

In October 2011, First Lady Patience Jonathan, was in South Korea as a participant in an international summit on church growth organised by Yoido Full Gospel Church, the largest Pentecostal church in the world. The photo-op that accompanied the report captured Dame Jonathan kneeling before the founder of the church, Pastor David Yonggi Cho; her bejewelled hands in his hands.

The First Lady was enacting what has come to be recognised as what she and her husband do best since they got to office – a public display of godliness that turns every church pulpit into a soap box. In the photo with Cho, she cut the perfect image of piety and religious devotion, but only if you didn’t know better.

Fast forward to two years later...

She returned to South Korea to collect an honorary doctorate from Hansei University. The university said it honoured her for her “many good causes” and that she was a “defender of the poor” in Nigeria.

In her citation, they see her as “a humanitarian who has dedicated her life to working for the less privileged in Nigeria and Africa especially for women and children.” The irony of celebrating her philanthropic activities does not factor into account that as First Lady she had no business doing what the state is mandated to do for its citizens, let alone being honoured for the same. The entire affair would have been just laughable if it were not curious that her other side, the political part of hers, which has earned her opprobrium, is not available on the Internet for any and everyone to read.

Dame Jonathan, on her part, received the “award” with “surprise.” She said she was just “doing her own thing” in Nigeria not knowing someone faraway in Asia noticed. She promised to do more good works with God’s help.

The interesting part of Dame Jonathan’s honorary doctorate was that the awarding institution is co-founded by Pastor Cho, the same man of God she visited two years earlier. Cho is even the Chancellor of Hansei. He described her as “selfless” in order to justify the honorary doctorate.

But recently, Cho was, wait for it, sentenced to jail for corruption. And that was when some things about the award and the way they showered her with empty praises began to make sense.

To say every man has a price is jaded philosophising. What is news here is that for 14 years, an elder in Yoido Church said he beseeched Cho to end his unethical practices. Despite praying for many nations and individuals, Cho could not do the needful for his own salvation.

Cho, 78, has been a pastor far longer than Nigeria has been an independent country. He started his church in 1958 in the midst of an economic crisis. Both the country and the church rose to prosperity together. His church boasts some one million members/attendees. Cho is a prosperity preacher who took his own message too seriously.

Now, he has been convicted of financial misappropriation to the tune of $12m and directed to pay back $4.6m. He was also stamped with racketeering and tax evasion, and subsequently sentenced to three years imprisonment. He should be going to jail with his first son, Cho Hee-Jun, a mini-Cho whose list of sexual scandals and financial impropriety is longer than a leg but his sentence is suspended.

Three losers here: Nigeria for wasted resources devoted to the “prayer” photo-op; Dame Jonathan for being a dupe and, Cho for his crimes.

South Korea, in this story, is clearly a winner.
It takes moral courage to “touch the Lord’s Anointed”, especially one that has become a cultural icon like Cho. Who would have dared that in Nigeria? Cho says he has learnt that the pursuit of materialism is useless. Quite a humbling experience for a man who has spent decades preaching about God but the takeaway is that he was taught this lesson. He will hopefully spend the rest of his life learning that being called by God does not immune one from responsibility. 

If he were a Nigerian, this might be a needless lesson because here, pastors get away with non-accountability and even boast about it. Last year, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA church, Abuja, was accused of marital infidelity. This alone should be enough for the church to investigate him to demonstrate moral standards existed in their church.

What did Fatoyinbo do when the story broke? He trivialised the allegation and fibbed during a church service. In one breath, he said God told him not to respond. Moments later, he said he was packaging a “robust reply”. Since then, he has not deemed it fit to tell us whether he had séx with his church member or not. He continues to pastor his church to the background song of devoted worshippers who throw around Bible verses about not judging another man’s servant. 

The point, however, lingers: If we fail to question our pastors’ excesses, we will carry over the same attitude to our political leaders.

People try to draw a line between the two vocations saying pastors are called by God, not elected by people. What they forget is that we carry over attitudes from spiritual spaces to the secular. By the way, since pastors/churches have become a huge part of Nigeria’s political culture, they are no longer sacrosanct. Who holds them to account on issues of corruption?

It is bad enough that Nigerian churches and mosques do not pay taxes, they still get import waivers thereby denying the country revenue. Who says because they preach against sin they cannot be corrupt? Cho has pastored for longer than half of the world’s population has existed, yet he still used the devil (or the devil used him, whatever!). Who still thinks that “anointed-ness” immunes you against your own human failings?

The family that established global televangelism through satellite station, Trinity Broadcasting Network, racked up a massive corruption record that would make even the devil quake with envy. We know these things because they live in relatively accountable societies. In Nigeria where pastors are never pressured for their “robust reply,” how do you keep them in line? 

And which agency can develop the balls to start scrutinising the activities of these “men of God” when the Oga at the top, President Jonathan and his wife openly fraternise with them?

Written BY ABIMBOLA ADELAKUN

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“My Name is No More Patience Jonathan but now Mama Peace" - First Lady Of the Federation Reveals!

On Friday, while inauguration the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Maternal and Child Health otherwise known as MAMA Project, The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan said she should no longer be called Patience but "Mama Peace."
According to her, "My name is no more Patience but now Mama Peace because I believe that without peace, there will be no more women, no more children and no more health sector. Without peace, the international community will be afraid to come and invest in our country. Peace is from the heart and not from the tongue or lips; not what you say but what is in you. We pray for genuine peace because peace is the key to our arriving at our desired destination as a nation".
- Mama Peace