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First Lady Advocates Balanced Discipline as Nursing Students Face Queries Over Chants

Ihesiulo Grace 29 March 2025 0

The Office of the First Lady of Nigeria has called for fairness and understanding after reports emerged that some students of the Delta State College of Nursing Sciences were issued queries over their chants during the First Lady’s visit to Delta State. During the Renewed Hope Initiative’s

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First Lady Seeks Gender Equality-Promoting Curriculum in Education

Ihesiulo Grace 11 August 2024 0

The First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has emphasised that education plays a pivotal role in influencing the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of children from an early age. The wife of the President, who was speaking against the background of using education to combat child and youth violence in Africa, stressed that it was imperative that Nigerians […]

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Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, meets wives of Governors

Ihesiulo Grace 31 July 2024 0

..Reels Out Various Support Programmes Undertaken by The Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has met with the wives of state governors, who also serve as the state coordinators of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI). At the meeting, which aimed to inform and update them […]

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First Lady tasks women to lead food security campaign

Ihesiulo Grace 7 July 2024 0

The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu says women must be seen at the forefront of the food security campaign in the country. She stated this at the State House Residence while unveiling her vegetable garden which she planted to encourage first time women farmers to join the ongoing Every […]

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Quality healthcare remains fundamental human right, not privilege – First Lady

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By Ukpono Ukpong The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has said that quality healthcare delivery is not a privilege but a fundamental human right. Sen. Tinubu said this in a statement issued to commemorate this year’s World Health Day, with the theme ‘Health for All: Health Equity’. She noted that though significant progress has been […]

History

History: Margaret Shonekan, the short-term First Lady

Ihesiulo Grace 17 September 2020 0

Nigeria’s history has seen First Ladies who shone on their own without the seats of their husbands overshadowing them and Margaret Shonekan is one of such First Ladies. Today, history remembers Margaret Shonekan, a woman who lived for herself and also an inspiration to other people. She was the First Lady of Nigeria for 82 […]

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Lagos First Lady disclaims fake Facebook accounts

Ihesiulo Grace 9 April 2020 0

The Office of First Lady of Lagos State, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, says it has come to its notice of parody Facebook accounts opened in the name of the First Lady. Mrs. Olubukonla Nwonah, Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Office of Lagos State First Lady, said on Thursday that such parody Facebook accounts were being operated by […]

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First Lady solicits stakeholders support to end TB

Ihesiulo Grace 27 February 2020 0

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari on Wednesday solicited for support from development partners and relevant stakeholders to end the spread of tuberculosis in Nigeria. Buhari’s wife made the call in Abuja when she received a delegation from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and members of ”Stop TB Partnership Nigeria” during a stakeholders advocacy meeting to end

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Patience Jonathan: Court reserves ruling over firms’ plea on $15.5m money laundering

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2017 0

Peter Fowoyo A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday reserved ruling in a motion seeking to set aside the guilty plea of four firms allegedly used to launder $15.5million belonging to a former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. The firms; Pluto Property and Investment Company Ltd, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans […]

Opinion

Akpagu: UniCal’s Quintessential Don And Administrator

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2017 0

Former American first lady, Rosalynn Carter once gave a recipe of the outcomes of a good leader. She enunciated that, “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” The emergence of Professor Zana Itiunbe Akpagu as the 10th […]

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I Had 12 Surgeries in One Month, Some Said I Was Dead— Mrs Jonathan

Ihesiulo Grace 18 May 2015 0

  The first lady, Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan, revealed how suffered a particular sickness and had to secretly sneak out of Nigeria to do a surgery until God miraculously healed her. She said that two years ago, a particular illness which she didn’t disclose made her go through operation 12 times in one month and […]

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Mugabe's Wife in Critical Condition, Mujuru Suspected of Using Black Magic.

Ihesiulo Grace 5 April 2015 0

First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s life is now in clear danger, over her worsening medical condition, and she might not make it back home alive from Dubai, where she has reportedly flown to seek emergency treatment. According to a senior Elder of the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) church in the capital, where the first […]

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Dame Jonathan Says APC Is a Party of Saboteurs, Propagandist

Ihesiulo Grace 25 March 2015 0

Nigerian First lady Dame Patience has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a party of propagandists and saboteurs whose principals were busy building prisons while Jonathan’s administration was busy building schools. The First Lady was in Ibadan for the campaign rally ‎in support of the second term for her husband held at the Obafemi […]

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ELECTIONS: Mama Peace and Her Legions

Ihesiulo Grace 17 March 2015 0

  Mama Peace, as Dame Patience Jonathan is fondly called by admirers, remains an enigma due to her passion to canvass for peace across the length and breadth of Africa, in her capacity as the President of African First Ladies Peace Mission, a platform for African First Ladies to propagate peace and national development in […]