{"id":121797,"date":"2025-09-01T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=121797"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:50:16","slug":"first-lady-urges-nigerians-to-support-national-library-project-as-65th-birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/first-lady-urges-nigerians-to-support-national-library-project-as-65th-birthday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Urges Nigerians to Support National Library Project as 65th Birthday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1842073386198966891\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1842073386198966891-header\" class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Tracy Moses<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1842073386198966891-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has called on friends, associates, and well-wishers to channel birthday gestures into donations for the completion of the National Library project.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The First Lady, who clocks 65 on September 21, 2025, said in a video message on Monday, that instead of hosting an elaborate celebration, she has chosen to dedicate the day to God and to a cause dear to her heart.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBy God\u2019s grace, I will be 65 years old on the 21st of September, which falls on a Sunday. I have therefore resolved to mark it quietly by thanking God for His blessings and committing the day to Him,\u201d she stated.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs. Tinubu urged Nigerians to consider contributing to the \u201cOluremi at 65 Education Fund\u201d instead of sending cakes, cards, flowers, or newspaper adverts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI appeal to everyone who may be thinking of sending me birthday cards, gifts, or greetings in the media, to kindly redirect such gestures into donations towards the completion of the National Library. That would be the greatest birthday gift to me,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">She explained that her passion for education inspired the initiative, describing the National Library project as a \u201cworthy cause\u201d that she is committed to seeing through.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to her, the donations are being coordinated by the Federal Ministry of Education through the \u201cOluremi at 65 Education Fund,\u201d domiciled at Zenith Bank Plc, account number 1310314977.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her spokesperson, Bukola Kukoyi, in a post on X, cautioned the public against fraudulent accounts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cImportant announcement from the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria\u2026 Kindly disregard any other account details being circulated,\u201d Kukoyi wrote.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-714644400504981692ymail_android_signature\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tracy Moses Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has called on friends, associates, and well-wishers to channel birthday gestures into donations for the completion of the National Library project.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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