{"id":74087,"date":"2025-08-25T06:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74087"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:22:33","slug":"obasa-hails-oluremi-tinubu-leather-hub-as-game-changer-for-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/25\/obasa-hails-oluremi-tinubu-leather-hub-as-game-changer-for-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Obasa Hails Oluremi Tinubu Leather Hub as Game-Changer for Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<strong> Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has described the newly inaugurated Oluremi Tinubu Industrial Leather Hub in Mushin as a transformative project that will position Lagos as a global leader in leather production.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Matori, the state-of-the-art facility is projected to generate over $250 million in annual exports, create 10,000 direct jobs, and train more than 150,000 artisans.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say it will also establish Lagos as the leather logistics capital of West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Equipped with modern machinery for large-scale production of shoes, bags, belts, and other finished goods, the hub was commissioned on Saturday during First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu\u2019s three-day working visit to Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Obasa praised the initiative as a testament to government foresight, saying it reflects \u201cour resolve to harness the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people\u201d while empowering artisans and boosting the economy.<\/p>\n<p>He further commended the decision to name the facility after the First Lady, highlighting her service as a three-term senator, her numerous empowerment programmes, and her current role as wife of the President.<\/p>\n<p>The Oluremi Tinubu Industrial Leather Hub is already being hailed as one of Lagos\u2019 boldest investments in recent years, designed to drive wealth creation and showcase Nigerian craftsmanship on the global stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has described the newly inaugurated Oluremi Tinubu Industrial Leather Hub in Mushin as a transformative project that will position Lagos as a global leader in leather production. Located in Matori, the state-of-the-art facility is projected to generate over $250 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087","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=74087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74089,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087\/revisions\/74089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}