The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has reiterated the need to use qualitative education to give the girl-child or woman her rights.
Senator Tinubu said this while addressing a quarterly meeting of Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) zonal and state coordinators, who are governors’ wives, yesterday at the State House in Abuja.
The First Lady noted that with education, girls and women would be able to make informed choices about decisions on their health and others.
In a statement by her spokesperson Busola Kukoyi, Mrs. Tinubu announced that the meeting that the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund) would partner the RHI with interventions in infrastructural and human capital development.
“You are to nominate a tertiary institution in your state. It could be federal or state-owned. The first phase of this intervention would be per zone,” she said.
The First Lady urged the governors’ wives to avail their states the opportunity that the RHI programmes provides as the citizens would be the direct beneficiaries.
She also announced that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture would partner the RHI to support 100 farmers in each state.
“They are ready to provide support to 100 farmers. You are to provide the 75 young women and 25 young men who are already into farming or are ready to go into farming. This is to encourage the youth to go into agriculture. This will help them as well help the country,” Mrs. Tinubu said.
The First Lady urged the governors’ wives to encourage the youth in their states to participate in the ongoing Unity Fabric competition, which has a prize money of N25 million.
The meeting discussed the ongoing Every Home A Garden competition where first-time women farmers are encouraged to have a garden in their homes so that the harvest would be enough to feed them and their neighbours.
Mrs. Tinubu said the Women in Agriculture Support Programme (WASP), which has taken off in Imo State in the Southeast Zone, would also hold in the other five geo-political zones with Ogun State’s inauguration coming up on April 16.
The First Lady felicitated all Muslims on the ongoing Ramadan fast, praying for greater peace and growth across the country.
