PRESIDENT JONATHAN AND THE FIRST LADY JET OFF TO THE CARRIBEAN

President Jonathan and the First lady Patience Jonathan will leave Abuja today for the Carribean to attend the Trinidad and Tobago emancipation day and Jamaica's Independence anniversary celebration. The President and First lady will will participate in Emancipation day activities and will be hosted to a state banquet by the President. The First couple will depart Trinidad for Jamaica on Thursday where they will be hosted by the Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson-Miller. They are expected back in Abuja on Saturday.
I don't blame them! If you have a fleet of ten private jets at your disposal, who would want to stay in Nigeria???

PATIENCE JONATHAN RE-ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF AFRICAN FIRST LADIES PEACE MISSION

Nigeria's First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has been re-elected as the President of The African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM). Mrs Jonathan was unanimously re-elected alongside all other regional heads of the organisation.
Dame Patience is expected to oversee the affairs of the mission in West Africa. In her acceptance speech the First lady thanked all the members of the mission for the confidence reposed in her and members of her team. She said ''it is a great honour for me and our country Nigeria,. This new mandate would strengthen our resolve to laying a solid foundation for our great organisation.''
''....let me appeal to you my dear sisters that all of us owe our spouses support in ensuring that peace, security and total development is achieved in Africa''.

PATIENCE JONATHAN ASKS FOR OFFICE OF FIRST LADY TO BE RECOGNISED IN THE CONSTITUTION

The First lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan has campaigned for the inclusion of the role of first ladies in the Nigerian constitution to enable them get retirement benefits along with their husbands when they retire.
Dame Patience who arrived two hours late for her swearing in ceremony as a permanent secretary in the Bayelsa state civil service made the suggestion in a chat with journalists shortly after the event.
Mrs Jonathan painfully recalled a situation when Governor Fashola of Lagos prevailed on the President to call her to order because the role of the First lady was not in the constitution.
The First lady tasked the Constitution Amendment committee to look into the issue with a view to including it in the next constitution.
When pigs fly.

ABUJA ROAD NAMED AFTER PATIENCE JONATHAN

A road in the Federal capital territory, linking the Police officers wives association (DEPOWA) office with the Shehu Musa Yar'adua Barracks in Abuja has been named after Dame Patience Jonathan.
The road was constructed by the association to ameliorate the hardship caused to the occupants of the Barracks by the bad condition of the road. Mrs Jonathan commissioned the road and lauded the members of the association saying ''the gesture will provide an evidence of the capability of our women to initiate and execute projects and programmes critical and beneficial to the well-being of our nation''.

SCRAP OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY!

The presidential committee on the review of outstanding issues headed by former Chief Justice of Nigeria Alfa Belgore has recommended that the office of the first lady should be scrapped. The committee reasoned that since the office was not recognized by the Nigerian constitution, why should it exist?
The office of the first lady though not recognised by law, has always been a platform for the incumbent first lady to display her sense of style and jewellery to an impoverished citizenry. It also functions as a means for whoever is occupying the position to reap financial benefits from political jobbers seeking favour from the president.
Another excellent reason for scrapping the office will be to save Nigerians from Patience and her verbal gunshots!!!