Senator Oluremi Tinubu (née Adesina, born 21 September 1960 at Ogun Waterside, Ogun State) became Hon. First Lady of the Federal Republic on 29 May 2023 — the only Nigerian First Lady to have served three terms in the National Assembly (Senator for Lagos Central, 11 June 2011 – 11 June 2023) before entering Aso Rock. Educated at Methodist Girls' High School, Yaba (1976) and the University of Ife (BA Education, 1981), she trained as a Cordon Bleu chef in London and ran the Lagoon Restaurant on Victoria Island in the 1980s before turning to politics. She married Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 1987; the marriage produced their children Folashade, Habibat, Olayinka and Seyi Tinubu (the eldest of the Tinubu-Loni children of Bola Tinubu's first marriage are her step-children).
She is the most political First Lady the Republic has ever seated. As Senator for Lagos Central (2011–23) she chaired the Senate Committee on Environment and was a member of the Constitution Review Committee in three successive Assemblies. Her sponsored legislation included the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council (Amendment) Act 2017 and the National Environmental Standards & Regulations Enforcement Agency Act amendments. She was the longest-serving female Senator from any South-Western state. The shift from Senate floor to Aso Rock was characterised by her as a 'continuation, not a beginning' — a framing without precedent in the post-1985 record.
As Hon. First Lady she has formalised the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) — a federally funded portfolio of women-and-children programmes encompassing the RHI Empowerment Scheme (cash transfers and SME grants), the RHI Mental Health Awareness Campaign, the RHI Cancer Care Initiative, and the Women in Politics Forum. The RHI Secretariat at Aso Rock — operating from the State House Annexe — has reproduced and in some respects extended the Patience-Jonathan-era institutional footprint, with a Permanent Secretary and a separate budget line. Her Lagos pastorate (Senior Pastor, New Covenant Church, Ikoyi) continues from Aso Rock; she leads a Sunday service when in Abuja and a weekly Bible study for First Ladies of Africa.
Her tenure has spanned the most economically tumultuous period in Fourth Republic history: the fuel-subsidy removal of 29 May 2023, the naira float of June 2023, the cumulative collapse of urban real wages, the #EndBadGovernance protests of August 2024, and the food-inflation crisis through 2025. Her public posture has been steady support for the President's reform agenda combined with RHI-mediated 'soft-power' palliative distribution. Her son Seyi Tinubu is widely understood to operate as a parallel political-business arm of the household, with significant business interests in oil services, telecoms and procurement contracting.