By Adegboyega Adeleye
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has asked Nigerians, friends and associates to shun birthday gifts, advertisements and elaborate celebrations as he marks his 60th birthday, urging them instead to channel the money to charities and people in need across the country.
Shettima made the appeal in a post on his official X handle on Tuesday, ahead of his birthday on Wednesday, September 2. The Vice-President, who was born on September 2, 1966, in Maiduguri, Borno State, said reaching 60 had strengthened his resolve to discourage material celebrations in his honour.
He said the milestone should be an opportunity for reflection and giving rather than accumulation, describing 60 as an age when a man should have “exchanged impulse for reflection, vanity for gratitude, and the desire to accumulate for the wisdom to give.”
“It is an age that asks fewer questions about what one has gathered and far more searching questions about what one has contributed,” Shettima said.
