The Director General of Relax, Tinubu Is Fixing Nigeria, RTIFN, Ahmed Bala, has defended the recent remarks by the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, urging Nigerians to embrace dignity in labour, insisting that her comments have been misunderstood and unnecessarily politicised.
Mrs Tinubu made the remarks while speaking with correspondents following the second-quarter meeting of the Renewed Hope Initiative with wives of state governors at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday.
Speaking on the activities of the Renewed Hope Initiative, the First Lady said the programme had been providing grants, rather than loans, to vulnerable Nigerians to help them start businesses and improve their livelihoods.
“We’re trying to give hope, and to start Akara business doesn’t take a lot of money. To start roasting corn, or somebody even said kuli kuli doesn’t take much. We didn’t give them a loan; we gave it to them as
