{"id":70288,"date":"2025-07-11T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70288"},"modified":"2025-07-11T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:53:49","slug":"ikoyi-obalende-council-unveils-health-centre-named-after-remi-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/11\/ikoyi-obalende-council-unveils-health-centre-named-after-remi-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikoyi-Obalende Council Unveils Health Centre Named After Remi Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA), on Wednesday commissioned a state-of-the-art primary healthcare centre named after Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Represented by the wife of the Vice President, Hajiya Nana Shettima, the First Lady expressed her admiration for the project and commended the LCDA Chairman, Fuad Atanda-Lawal, for his people-focused leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the inauguration, Hajiya Shettima described the new facility as a model of responsive governance.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized that progress begins when healthcare is seen as a right, not a privilege.<\/p>\n<p>The new Senator Oluremi Tinubu Health Care Centre replaces a previously rehabilitated temporary structure and is equipped with digital health systems, electronic medical records, and modern facilities to deliver quality and affordable healthcare to residents.<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the event was the wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, who represented Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.<\/p>\n<p>She praised the project as a symbol of the gains of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s local government autonomy initiative.<\/p>\n<p>She also announced an increase in doctors\u2019 salaries to \u20a6800,000 monthly starting June 2025, aimed at attracting top medical professionals to the centre.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sanwo-Olu noted that the project reflects the government\u2019s commitment to inclusive healthcare, with residents already accessing free screenings for cancer, HIV, malaria, and eye care.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Chairman Fuad Atanda-Lawal credited local government autonomy and ongoing federal economic reforms for enabling the timely delivery of the health centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA), on Wednesday commissioned a state-of-the-art primary healthcare centre named after Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu. Represented by the wife of the Vice President, Hajiya Nana Shettima, the First Lady expressed her admiration for the project and commended the LCDA Chairman, Fuad Atanda-Lawal, for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70288","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70290,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70288\/revisions\/70290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}