{"id":67091,"date":"2025-06-02T06:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67091"},"modified":"2025-06-02T06:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:27:20","slug":"patience-jonathan-bags-phd-inspires-lifelong-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/02\/patience-jonathan-bags-phd-inspires-lifelong-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience Jonathan Bags PhD, Inspires Lifelong Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, has added a new academic feather to her cap, earning a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), in Psychology, Guidance, and Counselling from Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on Sunday in a statement by her media aide, Chris Okeke, following her official conferment at the university\u2019s 43rd Postgraduate Convocation Ceremony on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the gathering, Dame Jonathan underscored the power of lifelong learning, declaring that age should never be a limitation to pursuing education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo age is too late to achieve your academic dreams,\u201d she said. \u201cEven in retirement, you are not too old to go back to school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She dedicated her PhD to Nigerian women, using the occasion to reaffirm her longstanding advocacy for women, children, and youth empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>She pledged to continue championing education and social justice, especially for the vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Grateful for the support of her family, she offered special appreciation to her husband, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for his encouragement throughout her academic journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe saw me through the programme with his support and useful suggestions,\u201d she said, beaming with pride. \u201cIf I can do it, anyone can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Former First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, has added a new academic feather to her cap, earning a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), in Psychology, Guidance, and Counselling from Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State. The announcement was made on Sunday in a statement by her media aide, Chris Okeke, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67093,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091\/revisions\/67093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}