{"id":75581,"date":"2025-09-23T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75581"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:39:29","slug":"oluremi-tinubu-raises-n20bn-for-national-library-obi-faults-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/23\/oluremi-tinubu-raises-n20bn-for-national-library-obi-faults-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Oluremi Tinubu Raises N20bn for National Library, Obi Faults Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adeola Samuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First Lady Oluremi Tinubu says her Oluremi @65 Education Fund has raised over N20.4 billion for the completion of the National Library in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a birthday lunch with State House correspondents, Mrs. Tinubu said she chose the project as her legacy gift to the nation instead of cakes or adverts.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that libraries shaped her life, citing her 12 years on the Senate Committee on Education, and described education as central to national development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to clear the air about some people saying it has a political undertone. What is wrong in doing well?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, former Anambra governor and Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, commended her gesture but faulted the government for relying on donations to complete such a critical institution.<\/p>\n<p>He said neglecting the education sector while wasting resources on frivolities reflects \u201ca deep national failure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adeola Samuel &nbsp; First Lady Oluremi Tinubu says her Oluremi @65 Education Fund has raised over N20.4 billion for the completion of the National Library in Abuja. Speaking at a birthday lunch with State House correspondents, Mrs. Tinubu said she chose the project as her legacy gift to the nation instead of cakes or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75581","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=75581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75583,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75581\/revisions\/75583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}