Patience Jonathan Gets Honorary Doctorate Degree

Last Saturday, Sept 8th, Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, and the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala were awarded honorary doctorate degrees of the Delta State University, Abraka.
Mrs Okonjo-Iweala thanked the Delta State governor, the university authorities and the students for the honour and donated N1 million and N500,000 for the best students of post graduate class and undergraduate respectively.

Mrs. Jonathan, who was absent at the ceremony, for reasons there has been a lot of talk about but no official statement on the state of her health from the presidency so far, was represented by the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Zainab Maina.

Last week, a news report by Sahara Reporters claimed she was receiving treatment in a German hospital for “food poisoning”.

Her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu later debunked the rumours saying she wasn’t ill but was only resting in Germany.

However, another report followed by Premium Times says that she was receiving treatment in Germany for “ruptured appendicitis.”

While Nigerians were still debating on her state of health, Sahara Reporters followed with another report claiming that doctors in a German clinic performed a surgical procedure her to remove “uterine fibroids” which might be cancerous.