By Chioma Okoye
The Director-General of Relax, Tinubu Is Fixing Nigeria (RTIFN), Ahmed Bala, has defended the recent remarks by First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, urging Nigerians to embrace dignity in labour, saying her comments have been misunderstood and unnecessarily politicised.
Bala said the First Lady’s advice encouraging unemployed Nigerians to consider small-scale businesses such as frying akara, roasting corn or producing kulikuli was a call for productivity, entrepreneurship and self-reliance, rather than an attempt to downplay the country’s economic challenges.
Senator Oluremi Tinubu made the remarks while speaking with journalists after the second-quarter meeting of the Renewed Hope Initiative with wives of state governors at the State House, Abuja.
Highlighting the activities of the initiative, the First Lady explained that the programme provides grants—not loans—to vulnerable Nigerians to enable them start small businesses and improve their livelihoods.
