Dame Patience Jonathan is the wife of Goodluck Jonathan , the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. She was born in the year 1957 to Chief Lazarus Iwari-Oba in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State
Nigeria.
Dame Patience Jonathan concluded her primary education in 1976, and obtained her West African Senior School Certificate in 1980. She proceeded to the Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Port Harcourt and obtained the National Certificate of Education (NCE) in Mathematics and Biology in 1989. After that, Dame Patience Jonathan gained admission into the University of Port Harcourt where she studied Biology and Psychology.
Patience Jonathan, after her graduation was employed to teach at the Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt. Dame patience Jonathan latter got a job to be an administrator at Sports Institute Isake. After some time, she left the education and sporting sector for the banking industry.
In 1997, Dame Patience Jonathan established Akpo Community Bank, the first community bank to be established in PortHarcourt. After working for some time in the bank, Dame Patience Jonathan went back to the school where she taught for some time before she was transferred to the Bayelsa State Ministry of Education, where she worked before her husband became the Deputy Governor of the state in the year 1999.
she however became the first lady of Bayelsa State from 2005 to 2007 when her hausband became the Governor. Again her husband became the Vice president of Nigeria and subsequently the President, when President Umaru Musa Yar'adua died. This however made her the first lady of the federal republic of Nigeria, a position she held until the 2015 elections when her husband, the incumbent President lost the election to President
Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress.
Nigeria.
Dame Patience Jonathan concluded her primary education in 1976, and obtained her West African Senior School Certificate in 1980. She proceeded to the Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Port Harcourt and obtained the National Certificate of Education (NCE) in Mathematics and Biology in 1989. After that, Dame Patience Jonathan gained admission into the University of Port Harcourt where she studied Biology and Psychology.
Patience Jonathan, after her graduation was employed to teach at the Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt. Dame patience Jonathan latter got a job to be an administrator at Sports Institute Isake. After some time, she left the education and sporting sector for the banking industry.
In 1997, Dame Patience Jonathan established Akpo Community Bank, the first community bank to be established in PortHarcourt. After working for some time in the bank, Dame Patience Jonathan went back to the school where she taught for some time before she was transferred to the Bayelsa State Ministry of Education, where she worked before her husband became the Deputy Governor of the state in the year 1999.
she however became the first lady of Bayelsa State from 2005 to 2007 when her hausband became the Governor. Again her husband became the Vice president of Nigeria and subsequently the President, when President Umaru Musa Yar'adua died. This however made her the first lady of the federal republic of Nigeria, a position she held until the 2015 elections when her husband, the incumbent President lost the election to President
Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress.
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