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  • Adeleke’s wife gives RHI’s N25m to traders

    Osun State governor’s wife, Mrs Titilola Adeleke, has distributed N25 million business grant of First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) to traders, in a move aimed at boosting small-scale businesses, strengthening economic empowerment and supporting petty traders to expand their livelihood.

    She distributed the money yesterday to 500 traders drawn across the state, at Osun State Government House, Oke-Fia, Osogbo.

    Mrs Adeleke hailed Senator Tinubu for supporting women at the grassroots, to boost their means of livelihood and improve their standard of living.

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    She advised the beneficiaries to utilise the grant and warned against spending the money on frivolities.

    The governor’s wife said if the grant was properly harnessed, it would boost their profits, make life bearable and enable them contribute meaningful to the economy and society’s development.

    Wife of the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Dr Adenike Adeleke, lauded the First Lady for prioritising the well-being of women, children, girls, the aged, widows, among others.

    The Head of market women in Osun State, Iyaloja-General Chief Mary Oyebode, pledged on behalf of the beneficiaries to use the grant for the intended purposes.

  • On Titilola Adeleke’s many silent wins

    On Titilola Adeleke’s many silent wins

    Her Excellency, Chief (Mrs.) Titilola Adeleke, is the wife of the Governor of Osun State, His Excellency Ademola Jackson Adeleke.

    Chief Adeleke, unknown to many, is one of the pillars of support behind Governor Adeleke. Aside from being a dutiful woman with so much devotion to family and philanthropy, this trained sociologist and Yeyeluwa Soludero Of Oke-Ila, has achieved so many things without attracting attention to herself.

    Not many knew her impact on many lives in the areas of primary health, childbirth and women empowerment before emerging as the first lady of Osun State. Her philanthropic and several kind-hearted gestures have mostly gone unnoticed by the public because she would prefer to impact without attracting so much attention to such activities.

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    It was not until she emerged the 2023 Net Ambassador award as conferred on her by the State Ministry of Health in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Health, Development Partners, Society for Family Health, and Catholic Relief Service, that many got wind of her philanthropic gestures.

    The Osun first lady’s speech at the event earlier in the year was the first pointer of her numerous humanitarian deeds.

    Recently, she was in the news for leading a walk in solidarity against women and children violence in Osun state. The 16-day activism campaign saw many praising the mother and grand-mother, who doubles as a first lady.

    This coming few weeks after she was decorated as the Grand Matron of Osun Babes football club, attended the official launch of 2023 womanity Index Gender-based Violence and led delegates from Osun to attend the fourth Annual Conference of the Nigeria Governors’ Spouses Forum in Abuja.