A 200-bed hotel owned by former first lady, Patience Jonathan, will be converted into a COVID-19 isolation and treatment centre. The hotel, is said to be worth about N2 billion and currently under interim forfeiture by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2018. The Nation reports that Patience struck the deal with First […]
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The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ordered the permanent forfeiture of the sums of N9.2bn and $8.4m recovered from wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun ordered that the funds should be forfeited to the Federal Government. The judgment followed an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, October 29, 2018 moved an application seeking the final forfeiture of the sums of $8, 435, 788.84 and N9.2bn linked to Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The application was supported with an affidavit , two exhibits and a written address. Moving […]
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The Presiding Judge at a federal high court in Abuja, Nnamdi Dimgba, has ordered an interim forfeiture of two houses allegedly linked to Patience Jonathan, former first lady. He dismissed Jonathan’s objection to the application for lacking in merit. Situated at Plot No. 1960, Cadastral Zone A05, Maitama District, and Plot No. 1350, Cadastral Zone […]
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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, Patience Jonathan and six others. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun struck out the […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has reportedly rejected a request by Patience Jonathan, former first lady, to settle out of court in a case involving her and the agency. The agency has asked her to rather come before a court by entering into a plea bargain “in line with the laws of the […]
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After six months of tussle, an Abuja federal high court presided over by Binta Nyako, has ordered that 16 frozen bank accounts belonging to former first lady, Patience Jonathan be unfrozen. The presiding judge, gave the order on Tuesday – having frozen the accounts on May 30. The accounts were frozen on account of a […]
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A former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has described the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan as “arrogant”, “flamboyant” and “widely disliked”. Campbell aired his opinion in a piece he wrote on Friday, titled ‘Nigerian President Buhari’s Sisyphean Efforts’, which he posted on Council on Foreign Relations’ website. “Patience Jonathan as the first […]
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The house of representatives committee on public petitions has issued an arrest warrant on Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The lawmakers took this action after Ibrahim Magu failed to appear before them on different occasions. The committee is hearing a petition filed by Patience Jonathan, former first lady. […]
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A federal high court in Lagos has unfrozen the Skye bank account of Patience Jonathan containing $5.8 million. The order of the court was sequel to an application argued by Adedayo Adedipe, counsel to the former first lady. Adedipe urged the court to unfreeze the account on the grounds that Jonathan was not a party […]
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