In a bid to cushion the effect of the hardship being experienced by the citizens, the Wife of the President, Oluremi Tinubu, has donated N50,000 each to 1,000 less-privileged women in Nasarawa State.
Speaking during the money presentation at the Government House Lafia on Thursday, Tinubu said the gesture was aimed at ameliorating the sufferings of women in the state.
Mrs Tinubu, who was represented by Silifat Abdullahi-Sule, the Wife of the Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, further explained that the beneficiaries were drawn from rural communities across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state.
She said, “Senator Oluremi Tinubu gave us N50,000 for each of the 1,000 of you. The empowerment is particularly for women at the grassroots. It aims to alleviate the suffering of less-privileged women and to boost their economic activities in rural areas.
“The women living in the urban areas are not part of this empowerment programme. As I speak now, the gesture is simultaneously going on across the country.”
She, therefore, called on the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the money to better their lives to justify the efforts of Mrs Tinubu.
Speaking shortly after receiving her money (50,000), Hanatu Luka from Obi LGA thanked Mrs Tinubu for the kind gesture.
She said the monies given to them (beneficiaries) would not only put smiles on their faces but would henceforth boost their economic activities.
Our correspondent reports that Mrs Tinubu had in June distributed food items worth millions of Naira to over 1,200 Internally Displaced Persons, People Living With Disabilities, and other vulnerable residents of Nasarawa to tackle hunger.
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