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500 widows trained in poultry production by Edo first lady

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The wife of the Edo state governor, Mrs Besty Obaseki on Tuesday organised a 1-day training programme on poultry production for 500 widows in the state.

Speaking during the training in Benin, the Edo state capital, the first lady said it was geared towards empowering widows and making them independent, as well as providing extra avenues of income for them to take care of their families.

She also revealed that the programme is in collaboration with the Bank of Industry and Bank of Investment Trust Company.

She said, “I do not believe in giving people fish but in teaching them how to fish. We are collaborating with professionals to train 500 widows on poultry production and to teach them how to make money from the poultry business.”

She added, “This programme is a pilot scheme that will be test run in Benin and would be implemented forthwith across the state.”

She said the trainees would be given 40 birds; comprising 20 broilers and 20 layers and feeds to start the poultry production.

 

Source: YNaija

Hoodlums strangle widow to death, steal money, bags of rice.

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Suspected robbers at the weekend reportedly strangled an Enugu State indigene resident in Kwara State.

 

The victim, a widow, identified as Florence Ede, was a food seller when she came to the community in 1985, but became a commercial farmer after the death of her husband.

 

The incident happened on her farm in Chikanda, a border community in Baruten Local Government Area of the state.

 

Speaking on the incident, a member of the Igbo community in Chikanda, Mr. Mayor Akonobi, said the deceased, popularly known as Mama do good was strangled by the assailants, who had trailed her to the farm.

 

Akonobi told the Punch that the robbers also carted away 12 bags of rice harvested from the victim’s farm.

 

“She had a huge amount of money on her and had wanted to pay the labourers before she was killed,” Akonobi added, noting that the only guard at the farm when the incident occurred ran away when the assailants attacked her.

 

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, said the police had commenced investigation into the death of the mother of four.

 

“The guard and the labourers have been arrested. They are helping us with our investigation,” the PPRO stated.

The death of your husband is the will of God – Kogi governor’s wife to Lt. Abu-Ali’s widow

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The wife of Late Lt Col Muhammad Abu Ali, Mrs Abu Ali has been urged to submit to the will of God concerning the loss of her husband.

 

Wife of the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Her Excellency, Mrs Rashida Bello gave the advice during a visit to the wife of Late Lt Col Muhammed today with the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Arike Ayoade and the Honourable Commissioner of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Bolanle Amupitan and wife of the Accountant General of Kogi State, Mrs Momoh.

 

While Mrs Rashida Bello observed with regret that Lt Co Muhammed was still a young man at the time we lost him, she consoled Mrs Abu Ali that the Late Army officer had lived a life of purpose and died for a worthy cause, adding that he is one citizen that Nigerians will never forget as he spent his life time pursuing the safety of the Nigerian citizenry.

 

Mrs Abu Ali who expressed her appreciation to Mrs Rashida Bello, Kogi State government, the people of Kogi State and Nigerians for identifying with her at this trying period, also expressed hope and prayed that the Boko Haram insurgence would soon become a thing of the past.

 

In a related development, Mrs Rashida Bello expressed her condolences to the mother of the slain soldier Hajia Ali, encouraged her to hold unto her faith, and prayed for the protection of God on other members of the family.

 

Mrs Rashida Bello called on family, friends, and relatives to rally round Mrs Abu Ali to help ease the pain of this terrible loss and prayed God to grant Late Col Abu Ali Aljannan Fridaus.

Man Rapes Widow To Death

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A thirty four-year- old widow and mother of four children in Egwudunagu village, Amachi community, in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mrs. Ogodo Egede, has been allegedly raped to death by one Alex Nwabu, a forty-year-old man in the area.

Nwabu, who committed the act at the residence of the deceased in the night, was said to have been having constant affair with the widow, with a threat to kill her if she dares disclose it to anybody.

The poor widow, who depended on artisan work to cater for her children, was seen with bruises all over her motionless body following the incident.

A family source disclosed that when the suspect continued the act, the widow’s daughter, a 13-year-old girl, was forced by Nwabu to leave the house for threatening to expose him.

‘’The girl ran to her grandparents in the night because Nwabu threatened to kill her. She came to greet her mother in the morning only to see that she was dead and was covered with a wrapper.

‘’The girl went and informed the grandfather that her mother is dead. She had told the grandfather the action of Nwabu in the night’’, the source added.

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Ekiti Impeachment Plot: Mother Of Late Olaiya & Widow Seek Justice

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The impeachment plot against Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose assumed a new di­mension yesterday with the governor urging Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba to investigate the killing of a protester, Modupe Olaiya on Tuesday. This is even as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) threw its weight behind Fayose.

Olaiya was killed when Speaker Ad­ewale Omirin, was leading 18 other All Progressives Congress (APC) mem­bers to Ekiti to continue the impeach­ment plot, aborted by Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) loyalists. Mother of the deceased, Mrs Ag­beke Olaiya, yesterday revealed how she lost her 32-year-old son. She is de­manding justice.

She and Olaiya’s widow, Yinka, were at the Government House, Ado- Ekiti, wailing over their loss. Madam Olaiya said: “My son was 32-year-old. It happened at Fabo, at Efon Alaye’s Junction on the way to Ijebu-Ijesha. I was told a serving APC member of the House of Assembly shot him. He is an indigene of Efon.

“They said he was coming with some Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), members from Lagos. They made a de­tour in Osun, but they were coming to Ekiti through Ijebu-Ijesha…”

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Mandela’s Widow says Heart ‘Heavier’ as Anniversary Approaches

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As the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death approaches, his widow Graca Machel said on Tuesday that her heart was growing heavier and that it was still difficult to accept he is gone.

The South African anti-apartheid icon died last December 5 at the age of 95 after a lengthy battle with illness.

“The more we approach the month of December, my heart is getting heavier and heavier,” said Mozambique-born Machel.

“It is still too early to live with the reality that Madiba is no more,” she said referring to the Nobel Peace prize winner by his clan name.

Mandela’s death prompted a week of national mourning in the country he led from the darkness of apartheid to democratic majority rule.

Plans are underway for state events to mark the anniversary of his death.

Machel was speaking at the launch of a Mandela Remembrance Walk that will take place on December 13 in the capital Pretoria.

She said it was important to keep his memory alive for future generations and remind them “there was a time where we had leaders, a collective leadership which went ahead and mobilised all of us… when it comes to fight for freedom.”

South Africa has struggled since Mandela remade his “Rainbow Nation”, battling high unemployment, poor governance as well as endemic crime and poverty.

Credit: Yahoo News