A warning from the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, one of the pre-eminent leaders in the North, to First Lady Oluremi Tinubu that she should tell her husband about economic hardships on the ground was widely reported on 14 February...
The Tinubu administration at first tried to shield Edu, given her closeness to the President's wife, Oluremi Tinubu, and Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, who had stood as her referee during her screening at the Senate...
Insiders say the minister has grown frustrated because her job has been taken over by the First Lady Remi Tinubu...
Insiders told Africa Confidential how Tinubu vacillated over his selections many of whom had been picked by backroom operators like his wife Remi Tinubu a former senator Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila and Brian Browne Tinubu's consigliere for more than a decade who is said to be working from the president's Lagos office...
' First Lady Oluremi Tinubu also inserted two names of two youthful women onto the ministerial list: Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu – an ambitious protégé of former Cross River State governor Benedict Ayade who as APC National Women Leader during the 2023 election rubbed elbows with the First Lady; and Minister of State for Police Affairs Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim a former Mary Kay cosmetics salesperson whom Buhari appointed to run Nigeria's anti-people trafficking agency despite her lack of relevant experience...
In April his wife Oluremi Tinubu was elected to the Senate at the National Assembly a daughter was elected to the state legislature and a son-in-law to the Federal House of Representatives...
A showdown is expected in the Lagos Central senatorial race between Oluremi Tinubu wife of ACN baron Bola Tinubu and Yemisi Ransome-Kuti the late Fela Kuti’s cousin and matriarch of the Kuti family who is standing on the ticket of the Social Democratic Mega Party...
