First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, says her focus through her national project, the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), is to make life better for all Nigerians.
The first lady said this on Friday, during a courtesy visit by the Honourable Ministers’ Wives Forum led by its convener, Mrs Susan Lokpobiri, wife of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil).
She further informed the forum with a rundown of the aims and objectives of the initiative, a brief of all the activities it has carried out so far and planned programmes for the future.
“In this Tinubu’s administration, we are all into it, hands are full and I expect you all to be available to assist in all the works we have to do for this country.
“The mission of RHI is a better life for all families, there is no family that will say that they don’t need a better life, A lot of people have been saying different things about the way the fuel subsidy removal affects them but we know those people who their shoes actually pinches.
“These are the people we want to reach out to and see how we can help families, this is the reason why the RHI is focusing on agriculture, education, health, economic empowerment and social investment.
“When we build lives, we are actually building a nation, because if every life is happy, they will be able to contribute meaningfully to the development of the nation and Nigeria has great prospects.’’
According to Mrs Tinubu, the RHI is partnering with other organisations to sponsor people in schools.
“I am more interested in lives than building huge houses.
“Another one that will interest you which everybody can participate in, for agricultural programme in RHI, we are planning that everyone should have a garden to grow food.
“Since President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency on food security, therefore, we are encouraging people to start planting in gardens and we are only going to pick one garden as the winner.
“Therefore, your garden should be able to produce food for you and your neighbour. The best garden will go home with prize money of N20 million for the winner,” she said
