By Deji Elumoye
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday reiterated the federal government’s commitment to continue to empower women to enable them to excel in their various callings.
The duo at separate functions in Abuja yesterday pledged their readiness to ensure that women are encouraged to showcase their ability to perform like their male counterparts.
Buhari, while receiving in audience the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Mrs. Winnie Byanyima, said in Abuja that women held strategic positions in his administration.
“The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning is headed by a woman. The civil service of the federation is headed by a woman. And many others like that. We will continue to do our best to empower our women,” he stated.
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed his belief that ensuring the education of women and empowering them is an existential issue for Nigeria and the
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School feeding injects N450m monthly into Abia economy ― Govt source
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By Steve Oko – Aba
At least N450 million is injected into the Abia State economy monthly through the school feeding programme,
VANGUARDcan authoritatively report.
It was also gathered that all pupils in public primary schools in the state benefit from the free school feeding jointly bankrolled by the State and Federal Government.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Social Investment, Mr Chinenye Nwaogu, who disclosed this weekend during the distribution of N20,000 cash to Abia rural women by the Federal Government, said the school feeding programme had been a huge success in the state.