Tag: Patience Jonathan
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Patience Jonathan loses bid to unfreeze account
Former first lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, yesterday lost the bid to get her account unfrozen by the Federal High Court, Lagos.The account has in it $15.591 million. Justice Mohammed Idris ordered parties to file pleading since issues have been joined as to the money’s ownership.The judge said all the defendants formulated different issues from that…
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UPDATED: Lagos court orders interim forfeiture of Patience Jonathan’s $5.8m
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered a temporal forfeiture of $5.8 million belonging to a former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, to the Federal Government. The order followed the ex parte application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking the forfeiture of the amount to government, pending the determination of…
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Why I withdrew $100,000 from my account – Patience Jonathan
Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan yesterday explained that she withdrew $100,000 from her unblocked Skye Bank account for medical treatment. Speaking through her solicitor, Barrister Charles Ogboli, the former first lady, said she never wanted to withdraw all the money, but just to ensure compliance to the order of court. “She wanted to withdraw $5…
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$5.9M Defreeze Accounts: Patience Jonathan visits Skyebank
Following a Federal High Court judgement ordering the unfreezing of former first lady Patience Jonathan’s account containing $5.9m, the former first Lady on Monday visited the Maitama branch of Skyebank in Abuja. TheNewsGuru.com gathered that she went to the bank at 10:00 a.m. and had a closed-door meeting with an Executive Director of the bank.…
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BREAKING: Court orders EFCC to defreeze Patience Jonathan’s $5.9m account
A Federal High Court in Lagos has unfrozen former first lady Patience Jonathan’s account containing $5.9m. Recall that the account titled ‘Patience Ibifaka Jonathan’, which is domiciled in Skye Bank Plc. was frozen by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission last year. As part of investigations into alleged diversion against a former Special Adviser to ex-President…
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Frozen $15m: Court adjoins till March 6 for hearing in Patience Jonathan’s suit
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed March 6 for further hearing in a suit filed by former first lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, against the EFCC. Patience , in the fundamental rights enforcement suit, is seeking the order of the court to de-freeze her $15.5 million domiciled with Skye Bank. TheNewsGuru.com reports that…
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$15m Alleged Scam: Patience Jonathan withdraws libel suit against SERAP
A Lagos Federal High Court has struck out a suit former First Lady, Patience Jonathan and her group, Union of Niger Delta Youth Organisation for Equity, Justice and Good Governance brought against a civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP. TheNewsGuru.com recalls that Mrs Jonathan and her group had sued SERAP in suit…
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Court orders freezing of Patience Jonathan’s multiple accounts
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the freezing of Ex-First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s multiple accounts over suspected proceeds from crime. One of the account, domiciled with Skye Bank plc, has a balance of $5,316.66. The presiding judge, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, while granting the order freezing the accounts ordered the anti-graft agency, the…
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Patience Jonathan petitions Nat’l Assembly
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, received a petition from former first lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In the petition presented to the House by Lovette Idisi, the former first lady alleged that she was being “incessantly harassed” by the anti-graft agency. Commenting on the petition, Idisi said…