{"id":68520,"date":"2025-06-19T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68520"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:43:01","slug":"first-lady-pledges-stronger-support-for-womens-health-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/19\/first-lady-pledges-stronger-support-for-womens-health-education\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Pledges Stronger Support for Women\u2019s Health, Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has reaffirmed her commitment to advancing women and girls\u2019 health and education through national programmes and her Renewed Hope Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 7th MERCK Foundation First Ladies Initiative Summit in Dubai, Mrs. Tinubu praised the Foundation for training over 2,270 medical professionals across 52 countries and empowering girls through education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis programme benefits our country immensely. I\u2019m committed to expanding its reach to empower more Nigerian doctors and improve healthcare,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also lauded the Foundation\u2019s scholarships and awareness campaigns targeting infertility stigma, domestic violence, and chronic illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>First Ladies from 13 other nations also pledged to strengthen partnerships with MERCK Foundation to advance healthcare and education for women and girls across Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has reaffirmed her commitment to advancing women and girls\u2019 health and education through national programmes and her Renewed Hope Initiative. Speaking at the 7th MERCK Foundation First Ladies Initiative Summit in Dubai, Mrs. Tinubu praised the Foundation for training over 2,270 medical professionals across 52 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68522,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520\/revisions\/68522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}