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Preparing the ground for a major onslaught on Iran.

Tanker Drivers Party; very powerful

Nearly 30 years after Britain foiled an attempt to kidnap Second Republic Minister of Transport, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, an eyewitness has opened up onhow he prevented the influential politician, accused of stealing $1billion of public funds, from being crated to Nigeria.
British Customs officer, Charles David Morrow, recently told the BBC World Service Witness programme what transpired on that day in 1984 at the Stansted Airport where a Nigeria Airways plane was waiting to freight Dikko.
The former National Party of Nigeria (NPN) chieftain had beendrugged and stuffed into a crate for transportation home, preparatory to facing trial for corruption.
Although the then Federal Military Government, headed by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, had denied involvement in the botched kidnap bid, there were telltale signs of the Buhari junta’s complicity in the kidnap attempt.
Dikko was plucked off the street as he stepped out of his home inan upscale London neighbourhood by a team of Nigerians and Israelis who attempted to kidnap and repatriate him.
The former minister, regarded asone of the most influential members of the cabinet of President Shehu Shagari of the NPN, had fled to Britain in the wake of the military coup, led byBuhari that ousted the administration on New Year's Eve in 1983.
Labelled “Nigeria's most wanted man”, a plot was hatched to get both him and the $1 billion he was accused of embezzling, despite his denial, back.
The plan was to kidnap Dikko, drug him, stick him into a specially made crate and put him on a plane back to Nigeria - alive.
An alleged former MOSSAD agent from Israel, Alexander Barak, was recruited to lead the kidnap team. It included a Nigerian intelligence officer, Major Mohammed Yusufu, and Israeli nationals Felix Abitbol andDr. Lev-Arie Shapiro, who were to inject Dikko with an anaesthetic.
On a summer's day in 1984, Dikko walked out of his front door in Bayswater, London, and within seconds, he was grabbed by two men and bundled into theback of a transit van.
“I remember the very violent way in which I was grabbed and hurled into a van, with a huge fellow sitting on my head - and the way in which they immediately put on me handcuffs and chains on my legs,” he told the BBC a year later.
The kidnappers switched vehicles in a car park by London Zoo and headed towards Stansted Airport where a NigeriaAirways plane was waiting. They injected Dikko and laid him, unconscious, in a crate.
The Israeli anaesthetist climbed into the crate as well, carrying medical equipment to make sureDikko did not die en route to Nigeria. Barak and Abitbol got into a second crate. Both boxes were then sealed.
At the cargo terminal of StanstedAirport, a Nigerian diplomat was anxiously waiting for the crates to arrive. Also on duty that day was Morrow.
“The day had gone fairly normally until about 3 pm. Then we had the handling agents come through and say that therewas a cargo due to go on a Nigeria Airways 707, but the people delivering it didn't want itmanifested,” Morrow said. “I went downstairs to see who theywere and what was happening. I met a guy who turned out to be a Nigerian diplomat called Mr. Edet. He showed me his passport and said it was diplomatic cargo. Being ignorant of such matters, I asked him what it was, and he told me it was just documents and things.”
No one on duty at Stansted had dealt with a diplomatic baggage before and Morrow went to check the procedure.
Just then, a colleague returned from the passenger terminal with some startling news. There was an All Ports Bulletin from Scotland Yard saying that a Nigerian had been kidnapped and it was suspected he would be smuggled out of the country.
The police had been alerted by Dikko's secretary who had witnessed his abduction from a window in the house.
Hearing the news, Morrow realised he had a problem on hishands.
“I just put two and two together.The classic customs approach is not to look for the goods, you look for the space,” he said.
“So I am looking out of the window and I can see the space which is these two crates, clearlybig enough to get a man inside. We've got a Nigeria Airways 707,which we don't normally see. They don't want the crates manifested, so there would be no record of them having gone through. And there was very little other cargo going on board the aircraft.
“If you want to hide a tree, you hide it in the forest. You don't stick it out in the middle of Essex,” he added
But any cargo designated as a diplomatic bag is protected by the Vienna Convention from being opened by customs officers. So, Morrow got on the phone to the British Foreign Office.
“To qualify as a ‘diplomatic bag’ they clearly had to be marked with the words ‘Diplomatic Bag’ and they had to be accompaniedby an accredited courier with theappropriate documentation.
“It was fair to say they had a Nigerian diplomat - I'd seen his passport - but they didn't have the right paperwork and they weren't marked ‘Diplomatic Bag’,” he said.
The decision was taken that the crates could be opened - but it would be done by the book. Thatrequired the presence of a Nigerian diplomat, but as Morrow pointed out, one was already on hand. By now, the crates were up on special trolleys ready to be loaded on to the plane.
“Peter, the cargo manager, hit the lid on the bottom and lifted it. And as he lifted it, the Nigerian diplomat, who was standing next to me, took off likea startled rabbit across the tarmac,” Morrow said. “You haveto remember we are on an airfield which is square miles of nothing. He ran about five yards (4.5m), realised no one was chasing him and then stopped. Peter looked into the crate and said: ‘There are bodies inside!’”
He parked a forklift truck so its tines lay across the top of the crate so it couldn't be opened. Morrow dialled the emergency number 999.
“My name's Morrow, from Customs at Stansted. We've got some bodies in a crate. Do you think you can send someone over,” he recalled saying.
“They said: ‘Alive or Dead?’
“I said: ‘That's a very good point.I don't know.’
“They said: ‘We'll send an ambulance as well.’”
After half an hour, police started to arrive, and they opened the second crate. Inside they found an unconscious Dikko, and a very much awake Israeli anaesthetist. Dikko was lying on his back in the corner of the crate.
“He had no shirt on, he had a heart monitor on him, and he had a tube in his throat to keep his airway open. No shoes and socks and handcuffs around his ankles. The Israeli anaesthetist was in there, clearly to keep himalive,” recalled Morrow.
The kidnappers in the other crate were unrepentant. They said Dikko was the biggest crookin the world.
The Nigerian intelligence officer and the three Israelis all received prison sentences in the UK.
Diplomatic relations between theUK and Nigeria broke down and were only fully restored two years later.
Dikko was to later return to Nigeria years later and the allegation against him has neverbeen revisited.
Morrow, on the other hand, was commended for actions that day by the head of UK Customs, who described the incident as a “verytricky situation”.

http://channelkoos.com/index.php/news/3009-how-umaru-dikkos-kidnap-bid-was-foiled-british-customs-official

I de laugh

Is there empirical evidence to support this figure?

Wayo don enter church

Billyonaire: Private jet ownership is a guarantee for every smart working Nigerian and its a definition of class. There is too much money in this country and we are a Tax Heaven. Congrats MOG! We are witnessing transformations and prosperity. FGN is bringing in 30 planes for the aviation industry. But I have to start with Executive helicopter next couple of years!

Your hallucinations distorts you sense of reality. Wake up bro!

Criminals in Cassock

Politicians where never comfortable with Christ in their midst, fast forward to 2000 yrs after, pastors and politicians are now members of the same party.

Sani Mohammed's colleagues in the force must have helped him with the escape.

[quote author=~Bluetooth]fish brain[/quote]Shame! You can't even tolerate contrary opinion.

begwong: shebi our prophet marry his iyawo wwhen she was just 9years

I no go de surprise if na prophet people do this kind thing cos dem no de take eye see small small kpekus

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly taking part in the lynching of five suspected armed robbers in Mushin Area of the state on Saturday.
Police Public Relations Officer ofthe command, Ngozi Braide, said on Tuesday that the suspects were arrested as part of the ongoing investigation intothe incident.
She said, “A full investigation has commenced into the incident, I cannot give details about the involvement of the arrested suspects for now.
“We have also invited the community leaders of the area where the incident took place. The police will surely get to the root of the matter.”
Braide, however, declined to give the names of the arrested men.
The lynching of the armed robbery suspects came weeks after a similar lynching of four students of the University of Port Harcourt in controversial circumstances.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the fivesuspected robbers were caught on Saturday evening and beaten by a mob that consisted of residents and area boys in Mushin.
The suspected robbers were setablaze and burnt beyond recognition.
When our correspondent visitedthe area on Tuesday, some residents were reluctant to speak on the incident for fear ofbeing arrested by the police.
But a trader on Vono Street, where the incident took place, told our correspondent that some armed robbers had been terrorising residents of the area in recent time.
The trader, who pleaded anonymity, said, “The people of this area just took their anger on the (suspected) robbers. I don’t really know how they were caught. I think they were said to have broken into a shop.
“I heard somebody raised the alarm and residents quickly reinforced and rounded up the suspects. Nobody really knows the true story because people are afraid of talking about the incident.”
It was learnt that while the suspects were being beaten, residents cheered and took photographs while policemen were not in sight to stop the lynching even though there were some police stations in thearea.
Police were said to have arrivedthe scene after the suspects had been burnt and the crowd had dispersed.


http://www.punchng.com/metro/three-arrested-for-lynching-suspected-robbers-in-lagos/

Poor men de very fertile

joangirl: When I get a job I would get married,I cannot get married without a job so I can take care of my kids incase hussy fuckss up

Taaah! You think se time de wait for you?

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State hassaid that two death row convicts in the state deserveto die, saying he owes no apology over his stance which he said was in exercise of his duty as governor.
In a robust defence of his position, Oshiomhole, in an interview, said that even though he had the choice of exercising the prerogative of mercy on the convicts, hehad chosen not to do so, given the nature of the offence of the two men whose convictions were upheld by the Supreme Court.
He said: “God can have mercy on them, but I am unable having regard to the overall circumstances of the case, namely, killing and dismembering the body of your victim and wanting to sell some of the parts and you ask me in the name of human rights, let him live.”
Oshiomhole
The two death row convicts, Daniel Nsofor and Osayinwinde Agbomien, are presently at the centre of aninternational human rights campaign to be freed from execution following the governor’s assent to their execution following the affirmation of their guilt by the Supreme Court.
Nsofor was convicted on June 19, 1996 for torturing his female victim and killing her while Agbomien was found guilty of robbing, killing and dismembering the body parts of his own victim.
Oshiomhole noted: “I am convinced that those peopleneed to die. In the interest of society they need to die under the law. The rule of law is different from resolutions by some NGOs and nations are not governed by NGO resolutions.
“As a governor, I subscribedto an oath of office which says that I shall obey the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, including all laws without fear or favour. I cannot be afraid to sign the death warrant of a man who has been found guilty of murder.
“I have no apologies, I didn’tsentence them to death. I am not the one who accusedthem, they were accused bythose they harassed. They have been tried, they have taken advantage of the appellate courts all the way to the Supreme Court of the land and they were found guilty. The law also says that having been found guilty and sentenced to death, the governor could exercise prerogative of mercy, but I say that I have no mercy on those who kill. Why should you compel me to have mercy on those whokill?”
“We must have a balanced view of human rights in which the rights, not only of the man they killed, but the right of his relations and much more importantly, to send a clear message to would be murderers, that when you kill a human beingand you are caught, you arelikely to die. If you don’t want to die, then abstain from killing. If criminals abstain from killing, fewer people would be killed by robbers and other murderers and that is the truth.
“If you tell me that the man killed and has a right to life, I refuse that. Amnesty should not be hypocritical about it, we have the records worldwide. Nations are governed by their national values and it is debatable whether those who excuse murderers in the eyes of God whether they are better human beings than those who insistthat ‘if you kill that you too should be killed if found guilty of killing’.
“The second person was a man who killed a woman. Herobbed the woman, raped the woman and killed her. And then he was found guilty of this offence by the Supreme Court of Nigeria and you tell me, though he has killed, let him live. I say no. If he has killed, let him die too. I am not the one who says he should die, it is the law.
All I have done is that the law says I should sign and I have obeyed the law by signing because even the government is under the law.”
Governor Oshiomhole, however, said that he had inthe recent past also exercised the prerogative ofmercy on some other convicts who did not kill in the course of their activities.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/death-row-convicts-must-die-oshiomhole/

[quote author=mallam_musa]everybody knows that the Igbo people still hold grudges against northerners that were very instrumental in the civil war.[/quote]Anuofia

Callotti: Hope nor be 'ritual' o?
R.I.P
The will of GOD again!
Praise his HOLY NAME!
What a MARCIFOO GOD!!!!

Must you comment?

From my dealings with them I have come to realise that apart from their physical attributes, that they can be reliable.

Good

The management of the TV station is yet to give official reason for the abrupt terminationof the broadcast
The management of Bayelsa State Television, on Tuesday, stopped a live programme after the invited guests berated the state government’s handling of the victims of flood disaster.
The one hour long programme at the state owned television station, called Gloryland Television , was terminated after 25 minutes when Tamarakuro Oweifie, the General Manager, directed the programme’s anchorto draw the curtains.
Mr. Oweifie told PREMIUM TIMES he would explain the reasons for the abrupt end of the programmeafter “he finishes with his investigations.”
Subsequent enquiries were not responded to.
End of discussion
Morris Alagoa, one of the invited guests at the programme said that he was surprised at the sudden decision to end their discussion.
“We have not even attacked the state government, just saying it the way we saw things in our impacted communities and administration of the relief camps,” said Mr. Alagoa, an environmental activist.
Mr. Alagoa and Godwin Ebbeli, another activist, were billed to speak on the flood situation that has ravaged several communitiesacross the Niger Delta region.
While Mr. Alagoa, who had visitedseveral of the communities, spoke on the impact of the flood on the people; Mr. Ebbeli focusedon the state government’s handling of the situation, especially the funds released for the victims.
“He (the general manager) thought we will speak like government officials,” Mr. Alagoasaid.
In addition to the N500 million provided by the Federal Government to mitigate the disaster, the Bayelsa State Government had approved N1.5 billion from the state’s coffers, according to Mr. Ebbeli.
The state’s House of Assembly had also approved a supplementary budget of N16 billion in the aftermath of the disaster.
Mr. Ebbeli questioned the government’s handling of the funds, adding that it had not reached the real victims of the flood.
That was when the TV station’s management felt they had gone too far.
“First of all they stopped the program as if it was the usual breaks for commercials.
“Then a staff came into the studio and told us, especially my fellow guest, Sir. Godwin Ebbeli that the GM (General Manager) isnot comfortable with some statements we were making about the government,” Mr. Alagoa said.
After the commercial break, the programme resumed.
However, a few minutes into the segment, a hand written signal appeared through a glass screen directing the moderator, Joyce Ogiowon, to end the programme.
“When we came out of the studio, some of those watching it from outside expressed surprise too; why the programme ended the way it did,” Mr. Alagoa added.
It was not exactly clear why the programme was ended abruptly but there were indications that Mr. Oweifie acted on orders from above to secure his job .
While he apologized to the guestsover the incident, the general manager did not give reasons for his action, which also reportedly angered other members of staff.
“Be rest assured that the programme will take place on a day we all agree,” Mr. Oweifie, a former staff of the Nigeria Television Authority, said in response to PREMIUM TIMES’ enquiry.

http://premiumtimesng.com/regional/105458-bayelsa-tv-abruptly-ends-live-programme-after-guests-criticised-governments-inefficiency.html

Aboki handiwork

mmmustapha: U invited war wit ur hand n u will c d consequences, if u r rili men y nt invade iran? n c wat will happen to u, coward.

Israel has what it takes to hit Iran, they are just waiting for the right window to do that.

Blood thirsty religion

salam001: Great!!! ALLAH'S signature on a goat?!,allahu akbar,why Goat why not camel,i thought mohammed loves camel ?

Them de show them self one by one

Mrs. Georgina Ahamefule, is an indigene of Imo State who tested positive to Human Immuno Deficiency Virus while working as an auxiliary nurse at a certain Medical Centre in Lagos. At first, due to her naivety, shefound the whole world crashing on her, no thanks to her employer, Dr Molokwu, the Chief Medical Director of the Medical Centre who terminated her employment which began in1989 and advised her to go back to her village and die since she had but little time.
A lot happened to this woman, as she shares her traumatic experiences during a tumultuous journeyto victory. The high point of her account is that her fighting spirit is backed by God and the Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC).
She won a N7-million lawsuitagainst Dr Molokwu. It was alandmark judgment for FelixMorka, the executive Director of SERAC who described the judge’s decision as representing a major victory for Georgina and all those living with theHIV virus in the country.
Dr Morka also disclosed during a press conference that the judgment was the first-ever judicial pronouncement on the unlawfulness of HIV-based discrimination and therefore, significant in holding that conducting HIV test without the individual’s consent is tantamount to unlawful battery… Read on.
I joined a certain Medical Centre as an auxiliary nursein 1989. In 1995, while I waspregnant, I had boils on my skin and I went to my employer for treatment. He carried out medical examinations and diagnostictests without disclosing the nature and outcome of the tests to me. My employer later referred me for further tests at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital with a note in a sealed envelope.
The doctor at LUTH on his own part carried out varioustests without also disclosing the nature of those tests to me. I was subsequently informed that I had tested positive to the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV). I was never provided any form of counseling before or after the tests were carried out as requiredby medical ethics and the law. In fact, I did not understand what was going on but I remember that I was pregnant at that time. The situation was made worse when my employer advised that I should prepare to die since I had not much time.
He also promptly terminated my employment as an auxiliary nurse at the hospital because of my HIV -positive status. In the termination letter dated October 23, 1995, he explained that the hospital’smanagement could not compromise the facility or its patients by exposing them to risks of being infected with HIV. But surprisingly, he quickly gaveme a letter recommending me for employment in other medical facilities.
Mrs Georgina Ahamefule.
I suffered serious emotional and psychological trauma asa result of the news of my HIV-positive status. This, coupled with the loss of my employment, contributed to a spontaneous miscarriage of my pregnancy. I was further victimized, rejected, humiliated and put at great risk when my employer refused to carry out evacuation of the miscarriedpregnancy which he himself prescribed, on the ground ofmy HIV -positive status. But thank God doctors at another hospital eventually carried out the evacuation procedure for me.
After that, I thought he was stating the fact about my having little or no time to live and so in obedience, I relocated to my home town and there, I waited to die but death never came. While at the village, I ran into someone who asked meto go to LUTH so that I would receive help. I also obeyed.
It was while I visited LUTH that I ran into my god-mother, Mrs Onyewuenyi who listened tomy ordeal and referred me to SERAC. When I visited SERAC, they interviewed meand subsequently, contacted my former employer so as to see if he will do any form of settlement but he ignored SERAC, so, SERAC took the matter to court on my behalf.
The first shocker I got was right in the court. Unfortunately, the unfairness I suffered did not stop at the hands of my employer and his hospital. On July 14, 2000, SERAC filed the lawsuit challenging the termination of my employment as an auxiliary nurse by the Medical Centreand its Chief Medical Director, based on my HIV-positive status.
So, the shocker like I mentioned, happened in 2001. Right there in the court, the then presiding judge in the case, barred me from entering the courtroom because of my HIV -positive status.
The judge further ruled that satisfactory expert evidencemust be presented in court to convince her that the judge and others would not become infected with the HIV virus as a result of my mere physical presence in the courtroom. It was a hugeblow on my devastated life.
SERAC appealed that decision and the Court of Appeal remitted the matter back to the High Court for trial. Thank God I was allowed to testify in my casewithout further restrictions in the court, in the compound, and because I made public my status which I am glad I did. Otherwise, I would have died out of ignorance.
Some illiterate and ignorant neighbours avoided me like plague. It would have been okay by me if they did just that, but they went further to humiliate me and pass silly comments when they see me around and in short, they looked for one excuse or the other to tell me the story of my life. They foughtmy niece who came on holiday, saying she had no mother which was why she can put up with me in my state.
In all this, I am grateful to God for the wonderful husband He gave me. My husband has since then tested negative to the virus and you may be glad to know that I also have a son who is also negative. God has really used Dr Felix Morka and in fact, workers at SERAC who have adoptedme as a part of their family, to bless me and give me reason to live. Indeed, they gave me reason to live to see my dream of being victorious come true.
I have been getting assistance from SERAC in terms of feeding, transportation to Lagos eachtime my case came up because I relocated with my family to Obigbo in Rivers State; they also helped for hospital bills.
On the issue of court case, there was another shocker. As my case progressed, my employer presented false affidavit showing that I had died in my hometown. As you can see, I’m alive and very healthy. So, we discovered that the affidavitwas filed in support of a motion seeking to dismiss my lawsuit against my employer and his hospital. The false declaration was one of my employer’s and his lawyers’ strategies to frustrate my determination to get justice in the matter of the wrongful termination of my employment and other violations.
On getting information about their wicked plan, Dr Felix Morka called me and asked if I was okay to travel to Lagos, I said yes and he asked me to take the next flight to Lagos which I did. When I appeared at the court,my employer and his cohorts were shocked.
Well, to cut the long story short, on Thursday September 27, 2012, Honorable Justice Y.O. Idowuthe judge at the Lagos StateHigh Court Idowu held that the termination of my employment by the hospital where I worked on the ground of my HIV-positive status is illegal, unlawful and actuated by malice and extreme bad faith.
So she gave an order for 5 Million Naira for general damages for the wrongful termination of my employment to be paid to me and 2 Million Naira as compensation for unlawful conduct of HIV testing without my informed consent and also for negligence.
Right now, I feel on top of the world for my victory andin fact that is an understatement because I can’t explain exactly how I feel now. This is a case that seemed impossible and in fact if the matter was left forme or my family to handle, it would have died a natural death because I’m from a poor background.
I appreciate every effort made by Dr Felix Morka and his workers to see me through this victory without collecting a kobo from me. God will bless them. Now I will have enough to sponsor my son who will be in the university next year. I can also start a good business ofmy choice or better still, as part of my own contribution,organize a small group that will help other people living with HIV in my community.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/i-was-told-ill-die-17-yrs-ago-but-hiv-positive-nurse/

overdrive: So what happens to the others. Tot they were five people in d aircraft?

Na me u de ask?

A 12-year-old pupil of a secondary school in Awka, Anambra State, Miss Chidimma Ukachukwu, has died after she was allegedly flogged by her teacher for failing to do her homework.
A reliable source in the school told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Tuesday that the girl died on Thursday last week after she was flogged.
The source explained that the girl fainted after being flogged severally by a female teacher and was subsequently rushed to an undisclosed hospital, where she died.
The source also told NAN that the Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Uju Okeke, then ordered the closure of the school as a result of the incident.
A NAN correspondent, who visited the girl’s family home, soon after she was buried on Tuesday in Awka, reports that the family was in grief.
The girl’s father, Mr. Simeon Ukachukwu, confirmed the incident, saying it was a sad development. He added that it was anact of God.
But when Okeke was contacted, she denied ordering the closure of the school and said that the school was on midterm break.
NAN investigation, however, revealed thatschools in the state were not on midterm break.
This fact was corroborated by an official ofthe Nigerian Union of Teachers in Akwa South Local Government Area.
The Chairperson of the union in the local government, Miss Buife Ndigwe, told NAN that primary and secondary schools in the state would go on midterm break next week.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Mr. Ralph Uzoigwe, said that the matter had not been reported to the police, but promised that it would be investigated.


http://www.nigerianeye.com/2012/10/teacher-flogs-12-year-old-pupil-to.html

Even as Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has been importing pigs into the state, animals in the popular MakurdiZoological Garden are being starved to death.

A lion was reported to have died of starvation in the zoo last week. Sunday Trust gathered that most of the animals kept in the state government-owned zoo located inside the Benue State University are dying due to starvation.

Only two weeks ago, the remaining two cheetahs died, one chimpanzee, a tortoise and others also died reducing the number of animals drastically.
The lioness which finally succumbed to death on Wednesday after battling with severe hunger left alone its male companion in the lair. They were said to be both feeding on 14kg of beef twice or thrice in a week.

“The meal was quite insufficient for them. Our animals are dying unless something urgent is done, the entire creatures will go extinct in this zoo,” a staff who declined to give his name criedout.

Our correspondent, who visitedthe zoo, observed a case of abandonment as the dirt road leading to the place and the so-called gardens meant to house the animals in their different shades are over grown with weeds.

The zoo attendants were unwilling to answer questions. Neither the manager nor any senior official was within the vicinity to say why things are the way they are.

http://sundaytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11761:benue-zoo-starves-lion-other-animals-to-death&catid=41:latest-news&Itemid=26

T he wife of the Nigerian President, Dame Patience Jonathan has arrived the country after being away for about two months.
Mrs Jonathan denied having been hospitalised in Germany.
The First Lady was speaking on her arrival in the country after being away for two months, insisted that there was no truth in the rumour that she was undergoing treatment for an ailment.
The aircraft conveying the first lady landed at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport, Abuja at 3.45 pm, Wednesday evening.
Hundreds of women and members of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were at the airport to welcome the first lady back home.
Mrs Jonathan had travelled out of the country for treatment of an undisclosed illness in Germany about two months agoand series of questions have been raised by civil society and some opposition parties, seeking to know the where about of the president’s wife.
However, while the saga was on, the president briefly visited her in Germany. The Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) had broadcasted a short video clip showing the a smiling Mrs Jonathan receiving her family inGermany.