A vehicle in the convoy of wife of the Nigerian president, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has killed a seven years old girl identified as Saratu Lawal in Akure, Ondo State, SaharaReporters has exclusively gathered.
Mrs Tinubu was in Akure on Thursday to flag off the SouthWest leg of the Renewed Hope Initiative to improve the well-being of women and girls across the country and distribute no fewer than 10,000 professional kits – comprising Crocs and scrubs — to nurses and midwives in the South-West region.
Multiple sources told SaharaReporters that a butter coloured hilux in the First Lady’s convoy knocked Saratu around Oba lle while the president’s wife was moving from the airport to the venue of the event.
“A seven years old girl by name Saratu Lawal, and a pupil of Islamiyar Arabic School, Shasha, was knocked down by a butter coloured hilux in the government convoy of her Excellency, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is on official visit to Ondo State,”
the source told SaharaReporters.”The incident occurred today, Thursday 17th April, 2025 in Oba lle, before the Oba lle Central Mosque.”
It claimed the life of the child as every effort to save her could not yield the desired result even when she was rushed to the primary healthcare in Oba lle.”
