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“My office under-funded” – Remi Tinubu laments, seeks direct funding
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Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Nigeria’s First Lady, has appealed to the National Assembly to make direct financial provisions for the Office of the First Lady, citing the absence of budgetary support from the federal government.
Speaking on Monday at the second quarterly meeting of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Tinubu said the lack of funding limits her office’s capacity to implement impactful social projects.
She called on her former colleagues in the Senate to provide legislative and financial support for her office, independent of the ministry of women affairs.
Her words: “Most of the resources I used to work are just given to me by well-meaning Nigerians.
“It is whatever they give to me that I have to distribute to the First Ladies of various states. It’s difficult. So the government doesn’t run my office. I do a lot of collaboration, which you will see.”
She said the office of the First Lady should be empowered to execute at least one impactful project annually, structured like zonal intervention programmes.
She said: “I’m not going to go through the ministry of women affairs, because they used to put money there in the day, but like they do in the states, I’m going to the Senate.
“Even if it is N500 million or N1 billion, then we are going to use it for this, and then we can be accountable. It should be with the First Lady who wants to do work. She shouldn’t be restricted.”
Tinubu insisted the office should not be ceremonial, saying she is committed to returning to society as someone who made a difference.
“The point for me is this — after this place, I’m going to go back into society. I want to see what I can do to make society better,” she stated.
She said her motivation, and that of other governors’ wives, is to help their husbands succeed and provide a voice for the vulnerable.
“We are wives. Whatever name we call ourselves, either a domestic engineer or whatever, we want to see our husbands succeed.
“Because you see, they are the trees and that tree has to stand strong… we can do more if the resources are there,” she said.
She criticised the contrast between Nigeria’s poverty rates and its culture of lavish spending.
“If you see the way we have parties in Nigeria, you wonder, is this a poor nation? We have parties for a whole week… we have to be mindful.”
The First Lady also unveiled a major environmental project, the RHI Green Nigeria Challenge. a tree-planting competition targeting desert encroachment in the North.
She also launched the NITDA-RHI Women’s ICT Training Programme for 2025, which will train 240 women, 40 from each geopolitical zone, and equip them with digital kits and N80,000 grants, which she said may be increased to N100,000.
A helicopter crash in Saudi Arabia killed 14 Saudi citizens on Sunday, the kingdom’s official press agency reported, adding that the aircraft belonged to state oil giant Aramco.
The Saudi Press Agency, citing an official at the energy ministry, reported the helicopter crashed in Ras Tanura in the country’s east.
“The accident claimed the lives of all 14 passengers, all Saudi citizens,” the agency said, adding that an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the crash.
Aramco says it operates more than 60 aircraft, including helicopters serving more than 300 heliports in Saudi Arabia, making it one of the largest corporate fleets in the region.
The deadly accident comes as oil-rich Gulf nations seek to ramp up their output following Iranian attacks and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for the export of oil and gas.
The Gulf monarchy did not indicate the incident was in any way connected to a hostile attack.
During the Middle East war, Iranian attacks had targeted energy facilities in the Gulf.
Ras Tanura is home to one of the largest refineries in the Middle East, with a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day, and is critical to Saudi Arabia’s energy sector.
The refinery has been targeted several times, notably during an Iranian drone attack at the beginning of the conflict, which caused a fire and forced a partial shutdown.
Riyadh said in April that the weeks-long attacks had disrupted several production operations at key facilities, with refineries in Ras Tanura as well as Jubail, Yanbu and Riyadh targeted.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading crude exporter, produces a little over 10 million bpd.
AFP
An Improvised Explosive Device, IED, planted by alleged bandits along the Kurawa–Sabon Birni road in Sokoto State on Sunday hit a vehicle, killing one person and injuring many passengers.
The incident raised fresh concerns over the growing use of explosive devices by criminal groups operating in parts of the North-West.
The vehicle was said to be conveying passengers from surrounding communities to Sabon Birni when it ran over the explosive device, triggering a blast that severely damaged the vehicle and left several occupants injured.
A security analyst based in the area, Bashir Guyawa, disclosed the incident in a post on his Facebook page.
Guyawa described the incident as another reminder of the persistent security challenges confronting communities along the border axis.
He said the vehicle was on a routine passenger trip when the explosion occurred.
“The vehicle was conveying passengers early this morning on their way to Sabon Birni when the unfortunate incident happened,” he wrote.
Twelve people were injured in a clash between farmers from Larabar Gadan Sarki and herders from the communities of Majawa and Karade in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State.
The chairman of Warawa Local Government, Lamido Sunusi Ahmad, disclosed this in a statement issued by his media aide, Musleem Garindau.
The statement said the council chairman visited the injured victims at Wudil General Hospital and directed that the local government should cover the cost of their treatment until they had fully recovered.
He also commended community leaders and security personnel for their swift intervention, noting that calm had been restored to the affected communities.
The chairman urged residents to refrain from spreading rumours or engaging in any act capable of escalating tensions and instead embrace dialogue to promote peaceful coexistence.
Speaking further, the Vice Chairman of Warawa Local Government, Hon. Ibrahim Abdu Madari, explained that the conflict involved residents of the communities, all of whom are indigenous to the area.
He said reports indicated that the violence began after a cow strayed into a farmer’s field and ate some crops. The farmer allegedly beat the cow, prompting its owner to assault the farmer, and the disagreement later escalated into a wider clash.
He also reiterated his appeal to residents to live peacefully and resolve disputes through dialogue and mutual understanding.
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