{"id":17385,"date":"2025-10-01T09:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=17385"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:33:56","slug":"first-lady-oluremi-tinubu-urges-nigerians-to-work-together-for-a-greater-nation-at-65th-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/first-lady-oluremi-tinubu-urges-nigerians-to-work-together-for-a-greater-nation-at-65th-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Oluremi Tinubu Urges Nigerians to Work Together for a Greater Nation at 65th Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON, has called on Nigerians to unite and contribute selflessly toward building the nation of their dreams as the country marks its 65th Independence Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In her Independence message titled <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u201cNigeria at 65: All Hands on Deck for a Greater Nation,\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> the First Lady drew inspiration from timeless words of thought leaders and global figures, stressing the need for sacrifice and patriotism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Quoting Gebran Kalil Gebran\u2019s 1925 essay <\/span><span class=\"s3\">The New Frontier<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, she noted:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cAre you a politician, asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one, asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">She also referenced former United States President John F. Kennedy\u2019s famous inaugural address of January 20, 1961:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cMy fellow citizens, ask not what your country can do for you \u2014 ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Senator Tinubu urged Nigerians to imbibe this spirit of collective responsibility and remain steadfast in contributing positively to national development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cLet us all play our part to build a Nigeria we all want to see. Your sacrifice will never be in vain. Happy 65th Independence Anniversary,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON, has called on Nigerians to unite and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17385\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}