First Lady Remi Tinubu Meets Wives Of 36 State Governors In Abuja (See Details)

The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu on Monday, met with the wives of the 36 state governors in the country.

The meeting, which was held in the Aso Rock Villa, discussed ways for intervention in agriculture, health, education and empowerment in 2024.

Naija News reports during the meeting, which was attended by 25 wives of Governors, Mrs Tinubu, who hosted the meeting under the umbrella of the Renewed Hope Initiative, charged them to remain steadfast and supportive of one another.

The First Lady, while commending them for their efforts in their various states, especially to ameliorate the hardships occasioned by the removal of the fuel subsidy, appealed to them to intensify their efforts.

She said: “As we all know, the Mission of the Renewed Hope Initiative which is driven by my office, to complement the efforts of the administration of our President and Commander-in-Chief, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR is “Towards a Better Life for Families.”

She disclosed that there would be the launch of the We Are Equal, We Are the Same Campaign, an initiative of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development, OAFLAD geared towards women empowerment, promoting economic growth and advance gender equity.

A raffle was conducted where Osun State was picked as the place where the campaign would be flagged off.

“I will be re-introducing the Alternative High School for Girls. It will interest you to know that some States already have similar programmes named ‘second chance schools.

“We are going to reach out to the Federal Ministry of education to help us harmonise and restructure these special intervention schools,” she added.

The school, Senator Oluremi Tinubu explained, will give girls who had dropped out of school due to pregnancy, domestic violence, child trafficking, drug addiction and other reasons the opportunity to return to the classroom and eke a living for themselves.

Public Schools To Get Free Books

The First Lady, during the meeting, disclosed that the Renewed Hope Initiative RHI will be distributing One Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand (1,950,000) Exercise Books to Public Primary and Junior Secondary Schools across the Nation.

She said the exercise books which are already being produced will be given to each State through the RHI Coordinator/First Lady of the state to the SUBEB Chairmen for distribution to the students through the Local Government Education Authority.

Lagos and Kano will be getting 100,000 exercise books each, while 50,000 exercise books will be given to other States and FCT.

Mrs Tinubu revealed that the RHI will flag off the “Renewed Hope Initiative Women Agricultural Support Programmes (WASP) in Imo State on the 28th of February, 2024.

The First Lady explained that women farmers would get N500,000.00 each, and a total draft of Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000) would be given to five (5) RHI State Coordinators/First Ladies, as the case may be.

In addition, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority, (NALDA) in partnership with the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) will support additional eighty (80) women farmers from each State with the provision of training and capacity building, agricultural inputs and buy off all produce from the farms after harvest.

The meeting was the first between the First Lady of Nigeria and the wives of State Governors in 2024.