…donates N50m worth alleviation to vulnerables
Wife of the President, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu on Tuesday launched a Food Outreach Scheme of about N50 million donating food items to vulnerable groups mainly made up of women in Kwara State.
The gesture, under her pet project; the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), a social investment programme was part of her three-day official working visit to the State in.partnership with the wife of the State Governor; Amb. (Prof) Olufolake AbdulRazaq who is the State Coordinator of the programme.
Benefitted from the palliative gesture who were in their hundreds were made up of the physically challenged, the visually impaired and other visibly less-privileged. They were gathered on the grounds of the State Government House, Ilorin to receive the gifts.
Speaking through wife of the Vice President; Hajia Nana Kashim Ibrahim who represented Mrs Tinubu and presented the gifts on her behalf, the President’s wife said the project was aimed at providing succour to the vunerables especially at this austere time food items in particular.
She disclosed that provisions for the scheme were done in partnership with donors among whom were those who chose to remain anonymous.
According to her, the Renewed Hope Initiative had since 2023 opted to give a better life provisions to women and children in particular stressing that the programme was aimed to further compliment the agenda of her husband; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
She commended the Kwara Governor’s wife; Olufolake AbdulRazaq for her dedicated efforts to ensure the success of RHI programmes not only in Kwara, but also across the country.
In her welcome address, Mrs AbdulRazaq appreciated her august guest for blazing the trail in touching the lives of the challenged and less privileged citizens in the country through RHI.
Also speaking, Dr. Ubon Udoh, the Managing Director of AbdulSamadRabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) a partnering body of the initiative canvassed that there was a need to.look inward in Nigeria to solve our problems emphasing that our problems could only and must be solved internally.
