Kayode Akinmade: Oluremi Tinubu’s N10m gift and the power of purposeful philanthropy

Sometimes, the aboriginal of a federation does not get with the sound of a expansive ceremony. It announces itself quietly—in a classroom, connected a shot field, wrong a workshop, down a machine surface oregon connected the pages of a child’s sketchbook.

And sometimes, each that aboriginal needs is for idiosyncratic to notice.

The calamity is not ever that endowment is absent. More often, it is that endowment exists but remains unseen, unsupported and yet extinguished by circumstances. This is wherefore the communicative of 12-year-old Ogun State artist, Master Morenikeji Ebunoluwa Joshua, deserves much than passing applause. It deserves to beryllium told, celebrated and, much importantly, understood arsenic a acquisition successful what purposeful philanthropy tin achieve.

On August 18, 2026, astatine the motorboat of the South-West Zonal National Food Bank Programme astatine the Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, young Joshua displayed a representation helium had painstakingly painted of the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.

The coating caught her attention.

But beyond the representation was a kid with an bonzer gift—and the First Lady did thing th...