NIGERIA’S First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has disclosed that donors contributed ₦20.4 billion so far to complete the long-abandoned National Library headquarters in Abuja. She urged her well-wishers to forgo gifts and contribute instead to an “Education Fund” dedicated to finishing the library. “The completion of the National Library would be the best birthday present I could receive. The ICIR reports that the 11-storey National Library complex, first awarded in 2006, has suffered repeated delays and cost revisions. Between 2023 and 2025, budgetary allocations for the National Library have mostly gone to personnel cost, salary and recurrent expenses such as power supply.