- Cheques of ₦500k was presented to 20 women
The Renewed Hope Initiative of the wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has dolled out ₦10m to 20 female farmers in Rivers State to boost agriculture productivity in the state.
The initiative aims to ensure the availability of food items at cheaper rates to mitigate the high inflation rate in the country.
The cheques of ₦500, 000 was presented to each of the 20 women by the wife of the Rivers State Governor, Lady Valerie Fubara, on behalf of the wife of the president at an event at the government house in Port Harcourt.
Mrs. Fubara encouraged the women, to use the donation to expand their existing farms to meet the target of the nation’s first lady.
She reminded the beneficiaries that the money given to them now may not represent all they needed to boost their investments in the sector. Still, she added that it represented the efforts of a genuinely caring mother who did not want to sit back and allow her children to suffer.
She said, “It is a seed investment in your agricultural businesses that is backed by the prayers of the founder for you to succeed. So, I urge you to make the best use of it”.
Lady Fubara further said: “You owe it as a sacred duty to ensure that these investments lead to increased and improved harvests from our farms in the next few months.
“I urge you to be frugal in the use of this seed money, and see it as a call from the Wife of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to assist in building a strong support base for the agricultural revolution in Nigeria.”
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