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Flashback to 2005: When Oluremi Tinubu Marked Her 45th Birthday With Support for Children Living With Sickle Cell


In September 2005, Oluremi Tinubu, then the First Lady of Lagos State, celebrated her 45th birthday in a way that drew public attention for its simplicity and humanitarian focus.

Rather than organizing an extravagant social event, Oluremi Tinubu reportedly chose a modest celebration and redirected attention toward supporting children living with sickle cell disorder. The gesture reflected her growing reputation at the time for social advocacy and community-focused initiatives during the administration of then-Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Life as Lagos State First Lady

Oluremi Tinubu served as the First Lady of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, a period widely regarded as politically transformative for Lagos. During those years, she became actively involved in several social intervention programmes focusing on:

women empowerment,

healthcare,

youth development,

and vulnerable groups.

Her role extended beyond ceremonial appearances, as she increasingly built an independent public identity within Nigeria’s political landscape.
The decision to make her birthday celebration low-key in 2005 was viewed by many observers as a deliberate humanitarian statement, especially because sickle cell disorder remained one of Nigeria’s major public health concerns.

Advocacy for Sickle Cell Awareness

Nigeria has one of the highest rates of sickle cell disorder in the world, affecting thousands of families nationwide. Public figures and advocacy groups have long worked to increase awareness, improve treatment access, and reduce stigma surrounding the condition.
By associating her birthday with support for sickle cell patients, Oluremi Tinubu aligned herself with broader health advocacy efforts that were gaining visibility during the early 2000s.
The move also reflected a trend among Nigerian public officials and political spouses who increasingly used personal celebrations as opportunities for charitable outreach and public engagement.

From Lagos First Lady to National Figure

Following her years in Lagos State Government House, Oluremi Tinubu transitioned fully into elective politics.
She later served as:

Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District,

and became one of the longest-serving female lawmakers in Nigeria’s National Assembly in the Fourth Republic.

Over the years, she became known for her involvement in:

education initiatives,

women-focused legislation,

youth support programmes,

and faith-based humanitarian activities.

As of 2026, she serves as the First Lady of Nigeria following the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

A Moment Preserved in Political History

The 2005 birthday photograph now serves as more than a personal memory. It reflects:

the evolving public role of political spouses in Nigeria,

the growing connection between politics and philanthropy,

and the increasing visibility of humanitarian campaigns tied to public figures.

For many observers, the image also captures an earlier phase in the political journey of a woman who would later become one of Nigeria’s most prominent female political figures.

Sources

State House Nigeria – Official Profile of Oluremi Tinubu

Senator Oluremi Tinubu Official X Page

The good old days of little beginning...

Zechariah 4:10

“For who hath despised the day of small things?”

KJV

Most modern translations say:
“Do not despise these small beginnings”

NIV, ESV, NLT


This expression was used in the bible when Zechariah was encouraging Zerubbabel and the Israelites as they rebuilt the temple after exile. The work looked small and unimpressive compared to Solomon’s temple, but God was saying not to look down on humble beginnings.

Are you a young couple still struggling with your partner to make something meaningful out of life? Don't be worried, there is light after the tunnel. In time, God will make everything beautiful for you. Hang on! Don't lose hope. God is involved!

💪 🙏 💯.

Olofofo247ng:
The good old days of little beginning...

Zechariah 4:10

“For who hath despised the day of small things?”

KJV

Most modern translations say:
“Do not despise these small beginnings”

NIV, ESV, NLT


This expression was used in the bible when Zechariah was encouraging Zerubbabel and the Israelites as they rebuilt the temple after exile. The work looked small and unimpressive compared to Solomon’s temple, but God was saying not to look down on humble beginnings.

Are you a young couple still struggling with your partner to make something meaningful out of life? Don't be worried, there is light after the tunnel. In time, God will make everything beautiful for you. Hang on! Don't lose hope. God is involved!

💪 🙏 💯.

Preach it Pastor! Fire 🔥 on! God will make everything beautiful for me and my family. I receive it!

Itsekiri girl from Delta State

E don tay this woman dey chop money....

Meaning that she became first lady at 39....

Even before then she was enjoying the Chicago money with Jagaban.....

Now at 66, she is undoubtedly the President of Nigeria because Jagaban is the Nigerian version of Paul Biya....

He doesn't look like someone that is aware of the happenings around him...

Congratulations to our own Mugabe's wife....

SlavaUkraini:
Itsekiri girl from Delta State

E don tay this woman dey chop money....

Meaning that she became first lady at 39....

Even before then she was enjoying the Chicago money with Jagaban.....

Now at 66, she is undoubtedly the President of Nigeria because Jagaban is the Nigerian version of Paul Biya....

He doesn't look like someone that is aware of the happenings around him...

Congratulations to our own Mugabe's wife....

You mean to tell me that it was remi that removed fuel subsidy, float the naira, declared state of emergency on River state, imprisoned almost the entire northern leaders?

Is it remi that destroyed the economy?

SlavaUkraini:
Itsekiri girl from Delta State

E don tay this woman dey chop money....

Meaning that she became first lady at 39....

Even before then she was enjoying the Chicago money with Jagaban.....

Now at 66, she is undoubtedly the President of Nigeria because Jagaban is the Nigerian version of Paul Biya....

He doesn't look like someone that is aware of the happenings around him...

Congratulations to our own Mugabe's wife....

Your own "Mugabe" in deed. You people have started again because another election is around the corner. The same way you pushed that he was wearing diaper, he kept falling down, he had Parkinson, bla bla bla...as if all those won't make him win the election. Who cares? The man you all called feeble and aged, eventually won the election outrightly. Shame on you! Then you started wondering if it was magical, you even said he cheated... #Koleyewan

In case you still don't know, I will tell you for free that PBAT remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. You can't call him "clueless" like you tagged GEJ, you can't call him "Baba Go-Slow" like you called PMB, not even "ITooKnow" like you called Obasanjo. He is Asiwaju, the Jagaban of Borgu. Your "Mugabe" still dey learn from where him dey.

Last last e go win the next election and you go get High Blood Pressure untop him matter. You better no just kpai yourself.

Around this time she was actively getting ....... outside right?
Right??
The mind of a Woman.

Let me join them to laugh too.

MrsDaramola:
Your own "Mugabe" in deed. You people have started again because another election is around the corner. The same way you pushed that he was wearing diaper, he kept falling down, he had Parkinson, bla bla bla...as if all those won't make him win the election. Who cares? The man you all called feeble and aged, eventually won the election outrightly. Shame on you! Then you started wondering if it was magical, you even said he cheated... #Koleyewan

In case you still don't know, I will tell you for free that PBAT remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. You can't call him "clueless" like you tagged GEJ, you can't call him "Baba Go-Slow" like you called PMB, not even "ITooKnow" like you called Obasanjo. He is Asiwaju, the Jagaban of Borgu. Your "Mugabe" still dey learn from where him dey.

Last last e go win the next election and you go get High Blood Pressure untop him matter. You better no just kpai yourself.

Sounds like guilty conscience but do whatever makes you happy at night.

MrsDaramola:
Your own "Mugabe" in deed. You people have started again because another election is around the corner. The same way you pushed that he was wearing diaper, he kept falling down, he had Parkinson, bla bla bla...as if all those won't make him win the election. Who cares? The man you all called feeble and aged, eventually won the election outrightly. Shame on you! Then you started wondering if it was magical, you even said he cheated... #Koleyewan

In case you still don't know, I will tell you for free that PBAT remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. You can't call him "clueless" like you tagged GEJ, you can't call him "Baba Go-Slow" like you called PMB, not even "ITooKnow" like you called Obasanjo. He is Asiwaju, the Jagaban of Borgu. Your "Mugabe" still dey learn from where him dey.

Last last e go win the next election and you go get High Blood Pressure untop him matter. You better no just kpai yourself.

But they can call him T-Pain hahahaha. You dey whyne yourself with that "best president ever"

She has really grown

Thank God for change

Because we don't have anything tangible to present for the present day we now resort to presenting the joy of the past? 😲




Tinupoo has made us miss our past terribly but we will correct that.

But how did 2005 picture looks so old and outdated like this. 2005 is just like ystday to me and everything then was a full blown colour

SlavaUkraini:
Itsekiri girl from Delta State

E don tay this woman dey chop money....

Meaning that she became first lady at 39....

Even before then she was enjoying the Chicago money with Jagaban.....

Now at 66, she is undoubtedly the President of Nigeria because Jagaban is the Nigerian version of Paul Biya....

He doesn't look like someone that is aware of the happenings around him...

Congratulations to our own Mugabe's wife....

You really finish work😂😂😂
You must be a good writer

If she likes let her celebrate it on Pluto Nigeria have seen that she and her husband have nothing to offer this agenda no go work
Okay she celebrated it with people with sickle cell now they are in government have the treatment for sickle cell been subsidized how many families with the illness can afford the treatment even for other countries the treatment cost are taken care by the government insurance company
This one all the know is looting builder of Lagos e reach Nigeria turn everywhere blurr

Remi is now 66 and tinubu is now 73 yrs

are you thinking what i am thinking

SlavaUkraini:
Itsekiri girl from Delta State

E don tay this woman dey chop money....

Meaning that she became first lady at 39....

Even before then she was enjoying the Chicago money with Jagaban.....

Now at 66, she is undoubtedly the President of Nigeria because Jagaban is the Nigerian version of Paul Biya....

He doesn't look like someone that is aware of the happenings around him...

Congratulations to our own Mugabe's wife....

Chicago money from the business that Reno talked about in his documentary film

Racoon:
Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.

Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.

His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.

The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993

It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.

Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.

He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.

“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/?.
 
U.S. court judgement indicts Tinubu for drug trafficking

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/amp/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indicts-tinubu-for-drug-trafficking/

US Court Releases Documents Linking Tinubu to Largescale Drug Peddling


https://fij.ng/article/us-court-releases-documents-linking-tinubu-to-largescale-drug-peddling/

She had always been known for that. She identified with the less privileged and the vulnerables. Don't listen to those saying rubbish things about her. She's a carrier of His Grace!

MrsDaramola:
Your own "Mugabe" in deed. You people have started again because another election is around the corner. The same way you pushed that he was wearing diaper, he kept falling down, he had Parkinson, bla bla bla...as if all those won't make him win the election. Who cares? The man you all called feeble and aged, eventually won the election outrightly. Shame on you! Then you started wondering if it was magical, you even said he cheated... #Koleyewan

In case you still don't know, I will tell you for free that PBAT remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. You can't call him "clueless" like you tagged GEJ, you can't call him "Baba Go-Slow" like you called PMB, not even "ITooKnow" like you called Obasanjo. He is Asiwaju, the Jagaban of Borgu. Your "Mugabe" still dey learn from where him dey.

Last last e go win the next election and you go get High Blood Pressure untop him matter. You better no just kpai yourself.

If he's healthy why then does he avoid public scrutiny.

Propaganda in full gear

Propaganda at it finest

Since there's nothing to campaign with,let's get back and scrape whatever we can get to make it a News worthy .

Exactly why I call them......


UNAM -IKOT

vincenteger:
She has really grown

Thank God for change

She has seen better change but she and her husband gave Nigerians APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege, fraudulently packaged as change 11 years ago.

How do we avoid such fraudulent people in our country

BeeBeeOoh:
The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, has urged Nigerian youths to be hard-working, saying, “There is no food for lazy man.”

Mrs Tinubu said this during a courtesy visit to the palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, in Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Thursday.

She noted that while the Tinubu-led administration is working hard to provide sustainable solutions to the current challenges facing the country, Nigerians should also work hard to provide for themselves.

The first lady maintained that the government will do all it takes to ensure that Nigerians are not disappointed and called for patience with Tinubu’s administration.

Mrs Tinubu said: “There is no food for the lazy man; even God worked for six days and rested on the seventh day.

“Nigeria is a land that’s flowing with milk and honey, but we need to sustain it for generations to come.

“God has richly blessed my family before getting to the presidency and we are content with what we have.

“What is happening in the country, we are just two years into our administration, we are not the cause of the current situation. We are trying to fix and secure the future.

“I have embarked on several journeys but it seems that people are not seeing what God is doing in the land. Nations across the globe want to do business with us, legally, on the table. There is a government in power now that they know it is accountable.

“We are trying all our efforts to ensure that the economy is stabilised and the masses are living meaningful lives since the removal of fuel subsidy.”

https://dailypost.ng/2024/10/10/no-food-for-lazy-man-remi-tinubu-urges-nigerians-to-work-hard/

MrsDaramola:
Your own "Mugabe" in deed. You people have started again because another election is around the corner. The same way you pushed that he was wearing diaper, he kept falling down, he had Parkinson, bla bla bla...as if all those won't make him win the election. Who cares? The man you all called feeble and aged, eventually won the election outrightly. Shame on you! Then you started wondering if it was magical, you even said he cheated... #Koleyewan

In case you still don't know, I will tell you for free that PBAT remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. You can't call him "clueless" like you tagged GEJ, you can't call him "Baba Go-Slow" like you called PMB, not even "ITooKnow" like you called Obasanjo. He is Asiwaju, the Jagaban of Borgu. Your "Mugabe" still dey learn from where him dey.

Last last e go win the next election and you go get High Blood Pressure untop him matter. You better no just kpai yourself.

Did he win the election? That's like saying MKO didn't win the 1993 election because it was annulled. The declared outcome is not always the true outcome or Facts.

Democracy was bastardized in 1993 &2023 exactly 30 years after.

SlavaUkraini:
Itsekiri girl from Delta State

E don tay this woman dey chop money....

Meaning that she became first lady at 39....

Even before then she was enjoying the Chicago money with Jagaban.....

Now at 66, she is undoubtedly the President of Nigeria because Jagaban is the Nigerian version of Paul Biya....

He doesn't look like someone that is aware of the happenings around him...

Congratulations to our own Mugabe's wife....

Your mouth no good at all.

How can One be a Pastor and Yet a Tribalistic hateful person

GOD IS TRULY MERCIFUL BEYOND HUMAN IMAGINATION.

Jossyman0007:
Propaganda in full gear

Propaganda at it finest

Since there's nothing to campaign with,let's get back and scrape whatever we can get to make it a News worthy .

Exactly why I call them......


UNAM -IKOT

Make them pack all Her shameful tribalistic hateful comments full Her Face,perharps the shame will lead Her heart back to Christ.

Thats if she still get shame oo,most of this people don throway thier shame for River Niger.

MrsDaramola:
Your own "Mugabe" in deed. You people have started again because another election is around the corner. The same way you pushed that he was wearing diaper, he kept falling down, he had Parkinson, bla bla bla...as if all those won't make him win the election. Who cares? The man you all called feeble and aged, eventually won the election outrightly. Shame on you! Then you started wondering if it was magical, you even said he cheated... #Koleyewan

In case you still don't know, I will tell you for free that PBAT remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. You can't call him "clueless" like you tagged GEJ, you can't call him "Baba Go-Slow" like you called PMB, not even "ITooKnow" like you called Obasanjo. He is Asiwaju, the Jagaban of Borgu. Your "Mugabe" still dey learn from where him dey.

Last last e go win the next election and you go get High Blood Pressure untop him matter. You better no just kpai yourself.

Delusional thinking

I never believed that a president will come and make Nigerians miss Buhari.

MrsDaramola:
Your own "Mugabe" in deed. You people have started again because another election is around the corner. The same way you pushed that he was wearing diaper, he kept falling down, he had Parkinson, bla bla bla...as if all those won't make him win the election. Who cares? The man you all called feeble and aged, eventually won the election outrightly. Shame on you! Then you started wondering if it was magical, you even said he cheated... #Koleyewan

In case you still don't know, I will tell you for free that PBAT remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. You can't call him "clueless" like you tagged GEJ, you can't call him "Baba Go-Slow" like you called PMB, not even "ITooKnow" like you called Obasanjo. He is Asiwaju, the Jagaban of Borgu. Your "Mugabe" still dey learn from where him dey.

Last last e go win the next election and you go get High Blood Pressure untop him matter. You better no just kpai yourself.

All you think is his achievements is far not in comparison with a soul talk less of souls that are being perished every day in the north.

Your argument that those killed and the killer are same religion is baseless. Those killed needs the protection of the government and the killer needs to be brought to book by the same government which your performing president is heading.

I pray the same Nigeria happening to those farmers in the rural north presently happens to you wherever you are in Nigeria.

Paul Biya is even better than what we have now in comparison. At least communities are not being wiped out by bandits in Cameroon due to the activities of foreign mercenaries doing illegal mining of precious mineral resources sponsored by known neo-colonial masters.

What do you call a government whose chunks of lands are arable but chose to import agricultural produce while cost of inputs to farming are skyrocketed just to kill a region of the country

Winning elections is not all. Forming a stable government the citizens could believe in without attempted coup here and there is the 'koko'.